ArticleNeuron2020
Propagating Motor Cortical Dynamics Facilitate Movement Initiation.
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- A motor plan is accessible for voluntary initiation and involuntary triggering at similar short latencies.Experimental brain research · 2023Article
- Beta traveling waves in monkey frontal and parietal areas encode recent reward history.Nature communications · 2023Article
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- Propagating motor cortical patterns of excitability are ubiquitous across human and non-human primate movement initiation.iScience · 2023Article
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- Propagating spatiotemporal activity patterns across macaque motor cortex carry kinematic information.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Large-scale all-optical dissection of motor cortex connectivity shows a segregated organization of mouse forelimb representations.Cell reports · 2022Article
- Spontaneous Spiking Is Governed by Broadband Fluctuations.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
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- Erratum issued
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7 authors.
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Abstract
Voluntary movement initiation involves the modulations of large groups of neurons in the primary motor cortex (M1). Yet similar modulations occur during movement planning when no movement occurs. Here, we show that a sequential spatiotemporal pattern of excitability propagates across M1 prior to the movement initiation in one of two oppositely oriented directions along the rostro-caudal axis. Using spatiotemporal patterns of intracortical microstimulation, we find that reaction time increases significantly when stimulation is delivered against, but not with, the natural propagation direction. Functional connections among M1 units emerge at movement that are oriented along the same rostro-caudal axis but not during movement planning. Finally, we show that beta amplitude profiles can more accurately decode muscle activity when they conform to the natural propagating patterns. These findings provide the first causal evidence that large-scale, propagating patterns of cortical excitability are behaviorally relevant and may be a necessary component of movement initiation.
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