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ArticleThe European journal of neuroscience2025

Stability of Neural Oscillations Supports Auditory-Motor Synchronization.

Rebecca Scheurich, Valentin Bégel, Ella Sahlas, Caroline Palmer

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Article in The European journal of neuroscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors.

Rebecca ScheurichDepartment of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Valentin BégelDepartment of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Ella SahlasDepartment of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Caroline PalmerDepartment of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4816-8067

Funding

Canada Research Chair Tier 1Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council 298173
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous findings suggest that auditory-motor synchronization is supported by increased coactivation of auditory and motor brain networks. Here, we compare synchronization accuracy and consistency with the temporal dynamics of neural signals during auditory-motor synchronization. Recurrence quantification analysis, a nonlinear technique for characterizing the temporal dynamics of complex systems, was applied to participants' neurophysiological activity recorded via electroencephalography (EEG) during an auditory-motor synchronization task. Changes in participants' neural predictability and stability were compared with their behavioral synchronization accuracy and consistency. EEG was recorded while participants produced a familiar melody at a comfortable rate as a measure of optimal temporal stability. Then, participants synchronized their taps with an auditory metronome presented at each participant's optimal rate and at rates 15% and 30% slower. EEG-based outcomes of determinism (predictability) and meanline (stability) were compared with behavioral synchronization measures. Participants showed decreased synchronization accuracy and higher EEG-based determinism at slower rates, consistent with lower flexibility. Furthermore, neural stability measures correlated with synchronization consistency across stimulus rates; as neural stability increased, so did behavioral synchronization consistency. Recurrence-based measures of neural stability may indicate a general mechanism supporting the maintenance of auditory-motor synchronization.

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Auditory PerceptionCortical SynchronizationPsychomotor PerformanceAcoustic StimulationAdultElectroencephalographyFemaleHumansMaleYoung Adultauditory‐motor integrationauditory perceptionneural dynamicsrecurrence quantificationsynchronization

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PMID40320823
PMCPMC12050907

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