ArticleNature communications2018
Flexibility in motor timing constrains the topology and dynamics of pattern generator circuits.
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- Visually-guided compensation of deafening-induced song deterioration.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Recall tempo of Hebbian sequences depends on the interplay of Hebbian kernel with tutor signal timing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Different eigenvalue distributions encode the same temporal tasks in recurrent neural networks.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2023Article
- Learning-induced changes in the neural circuits underlying motor sequence execution.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Temporally precise movement patterns underlie many motor skills and innate actions, yet the flexibility with which the timing of such stereotyped behaviors can be modified is poorly understood. To probe this, we induce adaptive changes to the temporal structure of birdsong. We find that the duration of specific song segments can be modified without affecting the timing in other parts of the song. We derive formal prescriptions for how neural networks can implement such flexible motor timing. We find that randomly connected recurrent networks, a common approximation for how neocortex is wired, do not generally conform to these, though certain implementations can approximate them. We show that feedforward networks, by virtue of their one-to-one mapping between network activity and time, are better suited. Our study provides general prescriptions for pattern generator networks that implement flexible motor timing, an important aspect of many motor skills, including birdsong and human speech.
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