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Rhythm and time in the premotor cortex.
- Source :
- PLoS Biology; 6/3/2019, Vol. 17 Issue 6, p1-6, 6p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- RHYTHM
PREMOTOR cortex
ENCODING
ABILITY
MUSIC
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15449173
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- PLoS Biology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 136781445
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000293