Trial reportNature communications2014
Motor contributions to the temporal precision of auditory attention.
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94 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The rediscovered motor-related area 55b emerges as a core hub of music perception.Communications biology · 2022Pooled it
- Rhythmic oscillations of visual contrast sensitivity synchronized with action.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2015Trial
- Dopamine modulation of motor and implicit learning contributions to auditory temporal attention.iScience · 2026Article
- Cortico-striatal network architecture shapes rhythmic biases in music.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2026Article
- Sensory integration, temporal prediction, and rule discovery reflect interdependent inference processes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Effects of speech periodicity and speech rate on auditory-motor coupling during speech comprehension.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Perceptual punctuation: fixational eye movements reveal segmentation of auditory streams.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Body percussion and the biomechanical calibration of musical meter: the somatic externalization of meter hypothesis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The role of competing grouping patterns and tonal coherence in neural synchronization to musical meter.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
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- Eye blinks synchronize with musical beats during music listening.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Sequential temporal anticipation characterized by neural power modulation and in recurrent neural networks.eLife · 2025Article
- Vertical shifts of visuospatial attention, not (eye) movements, affect auditory pitch discrimination.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Neural encoding of auditory rhythm beyond cortical auditory areas before the age of term.iScience · 2025Article
- Sensory Attenuation of Auditory P2 Responses is Modulated by the Sense of Action Timing Control.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- The influence of vocal expertise on the perception of microrhythm in song and speech.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Musical neurodynamics.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Moving rhythmically can facilitate naturalistic speech perception in a noisy environment.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Beta oscillations predict the envelope sharpness in a rhythmic beat sequence.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
In temporal-or dynamic-attending theory, it is proposed that motor activity helps to synchronize temporal fluctuations of attention with the timing of events in a task-relevant stream, thus facilitating sensory selection. Here we develop a mechanistic behavioural account for this theory by asking human participants to track a slow reference beat, by noiseless finger pressing, while extracting auditory target tones delivered on-beat and interleaved with distractors. We find that overt rhythmic motor activity improves the segmentation of auditory information by enhancing sensitivity to target tones while actively suppressing distractor tones. This effect is triggered by cyclic fluctuations in sensory gain locked to individual motor acts, scales parametrically with the temporal predictability of sensory events and depends on the temporal alignment between motor and attention fluctuations. Together, these findings reveal how top-down influences associated with a rhythmic motor routine sharpen sensory representations, enacting auditory 'active sensing'.
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