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ArticleProgress in neurobiology2021

Towards a unified neural mechanism for reactive adaptive behaviour.

Giacomo Novembre, Gian Domenico Iannetti

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Article in Progress in neurobiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  8. A Cortical Mechanism Linking Saliency Detection and Motor Reactivity in Rhesus Monkeys.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  11. Enhanced efficiency in visually guided online motor control for actions redirected towards the body midline.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Giacomo NovembreNeuroscience and Behaviour Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Rome, Italy; Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, UK. Electronic address: giacomo.novembre@iit.it.
Gian Domenico IannettiNeuroscience and Behaviour Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Rome, Italy; Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, UK. Electronic address: giandomenico.iannetti@iit.it.

Funding

European Research Council 649020Wellcome Trust 102645
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Surviving in natural environments requires animals to sense sudden events and swiftly adapt behaviour accordingly. The study of such Reactive Adaptive Behaviour (RAB) has been central to a number of research streams, all orbiting around movement science but progressing in parallel, with little cross-field fertilization. We first provide a concise review of these research streams, independently describing four types of RAB: (1) cortico-muscular resonance, (2) stimulus locked response, (3) online motor correction and (4) action stopping. We then highlight remarkable similarities across these four RABs, suggesting that they might be subserved by the same neural mechanism, and propose directions for future research on this topic.

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Adaptation, PsychologicalElectroencephalographyElectroencephalography (EEG)Electromyography (EMG)MovementSaliencySensorimotor processingSurprise

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PMID34175406
PMCPMC7611662

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