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Rhythm and time in the premotor cortex.


ABSTRACT: Many animals can encode temporal intervals and use them to plan their actions, but only humans can flexibly extract a regular beat from complex patterns, such as musical rhythms. Beat-based timing is hypothesized to rely on the integration of sensory information with temporal information encoded in motor regions such as the medial premotor cortex (MPC), but how beat-based timing might be encoded in neuronal populations is mostly unknown. Gámez and colleagues show that the MPC encodes temporal information via a population code visible as circular trajectories in state space; these patterns may represent precursors to more-complex skills such as beat-based timing.

SUBMITTER: Penhune VB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6564023 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Rhythm and time in the premotor cortex.

Penhune Virginia B VB   Zatorre Robert J RJ  

PLoS biology 20190603 6


Many animals can encode temporal intervals and use them to plan their actions, but only humans can flexibly extract a regular beat from complex patterns, such as musical rhythms. Beat-based timing is hypothesized to rely on the integration of sensory information with temporal information encoded in motor regions such as the medial premotor cortex (MPC), but how beat-based timing might be encoded in neuronal populations is mostly unknown. Gámez and colleagues show that the MPC encodes temporal in  ...[more]

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