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ArticleNature communications2020

A neural circuit model for human sensorimotor timing.

Seth W Egger, Nhat M Le, Mehrdad Jazayeri

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Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Seth W Egger *McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Cambridge, MA, USA. swegger@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3688-7099
Nhat M Le *Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3460-238X
Mehrdad JazayeriMcGovern Institute for Brain Research, Cambridge, MA, USA. mjaz@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9764-6961
McGovern Institute for Brain Research · USMassachusetts Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Neural mechanisms of timing in the oculomotor systemR01NS078127 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI JAZAYERI, MEHRDAD · 2014 to 2018
$1.7M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Humans and animals can effortlessly coordinate their movements with external stimuli. This capacity indicates that sensory inputs can rapidly and flexibly reconfigure the ongoing dynamics in the neural circuits that control movements. Here, we develop a circuit-level model that coordinates movement times with expected and unexpected temporal events. The model consists of two interacting modules, a motor planning module that controls movement times and a sensory anticipation module that anticipates external events. Both modules harbor a reservoir of latent dynamics, and their interaction forms a control system whose output is adjusted adaptively to minimize timing errors. We show that the model's output matches human behavior in a range of tasks including time interval production, periodic production, synchronization/continuation, and Bayesian time interval reproduction. These results demonstrate how recurrent interactions in a simple and modular neural circuit could create the dynamics needed to control timing behavior.

Indexed as

Models, NeurologicalBayes TheoremComputer SimulationFeedback, SensoryHumansMovementNerve NetTime Perception

Identifiers

PMID32770038
PMCPMC7414125
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