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ArticlePLoS biology2019

Rhythm and time in the premotor cortex.

Virginia B Penhune, Robert J Zatorre

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Article in PLoS biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Timing Patterns in the Extended Basal Ganglia System.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Virginia B PenhuneDepartment of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9475-5724
Robert J ZatorreLaboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research-BRAMS, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-1730-7423

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

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.

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Motor CortexAnimalsHumansNeuronsReaction TimeTime

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PMID31158227
PMCPMC6564023

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