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- Title
Rhythm and time in the premotor cortex.
- Authors
Penhune, Virginia B.; Zatorre, Robert J.
- 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.
- Subjects
RHYTHM; PREMOTOR cortex; ENCODING; ABILITY; MUSIC
- Publication
PLoS Biology, 2019, Vol 17, Issue 6, p1
- ISSN
1544-9173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pbio.3000293