ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2021
How Beat Perception Co-opts Motor Neurophysiology.
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109 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Musical rhythm abilities and risk for developmental speech-language problems and disorders: epidemiological and polygenic associations.Nature communications · 2025Pooled it
- Embodying Time in the Brain: A Multi-Dimensional Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis of 95 Duration Processing Studies.Neuropsychology review · 2024Pooled it
- The rediscovered motor-related area 55b emerges as a core hub of music perception.Communications biology · 2022Pooled it
- Identifying a brain network for musical rhythm: A functional neuroimaging meta-analysis and systematic review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2022Pooled it
- A Proof-of-Concept Study of Gamified Rhythmic Training in Preadolescents Who Stutter.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Trial
- 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
- Clinical and mechanistic responses to a music-based intervention for pain in adults with irritable bowel syndrome: Protocol for a single-arm pilot study.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Simulated field potentials capture multiple simultaneous processes underlying human temporal attention.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Reduced Motor Preparation and Altered EEG Signatures of Prediction in Autistic Adults.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- Manifolds in the Medial Premotor Cortex During Switching From Attending to Tapping to a Metronome.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Words and Meters: Neural Evidence for a Connection Between Individual Differences in Statistical Learning and Rhythmic Ability in Infancy.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Continuous Theta Burst to Supplementary Motor Area Modulates Groove.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- From Finger Taps to Footsteps: Gait as a Model for Investigating and Training Rhythmic Abilities.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Review
- Mechanisms of action and advances in application of music therapy in improving cognitive impairment based on the theory of neuroplasticity.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Review
- Body percussion and the biomechanical calibration of musical meter: the somatic externalization of meter hypothesis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Computational modeling of rhythmic expectations: Perspectives, pitfalls, and prospects.PLoS computational biology · 2025Review
- Neural ensembles for music production recruit more language instruments as rhythmic complexity increases.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Eye blinks synchronize with musical beats during music listening.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Manifold properties in the macaque medial premotor cortex during switching from attending to tapping to a metronome.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Beat perception offers cognitive scientists an exciting opportunity to explore how cognition and action are intertwined in the brain even in the absence of movement. Many believe the motor system predicts the timing of beats, yet current models of beat perception do not specify how this is neurally implemented. Drawing on recent insights into the neurocomputational properties of the motor system, we propose that beat anticipation relies on action-like processes consisting of precisely patterned neural time-keeping activity in the supplementary motor area (SMA), orchestrated and sequenced by activity in the dorsal striatum. In addition to synthesizing recent advances in cognitive science and motor neuroscience, our framework provides testable predictions to guide future work.
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