Navigating the neural space in search of the neural code

M Jazayeri, A Afraz - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
The advent of powerful perturbation tools, such as optogenetics, has created new frontiers
for probing causal dependencies in neural and behavioral states. These approaches have …

Visuo-motor coordination and internal models for object interception

M Zago, J McIntyre, P Senot, F Lacquaniti - Experimental Brain Research, 2009 - Springer
Intercepting and avoiding collisions with moving objects are fundamental skills in daily life.
Anticipatory behavior is required because of significant delays in transforming sensory …

The evolutionary neuroscience of musical beat perception: the Action Simulation for Auditory Prediction (ASAP) hypothesis

AD Patel, JR Iversen - Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Every human culture has some form of music with a beat: a perceived periodic pulse that
structures the perception of musical rhythm and which serves as a framework for …

Interval tuning in the primate medial premotor cortex as a general timing mechanism

H Merchant, O Pérez, W Zarco… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
The precise quantification of time during motor performance is critical for many complex
behaviors, including musical execution, speech articulation, and sports; however, its neural …

Subsecond timing in primates: comparison of interval production between human subjects and rhesus monkeys

W Zarco, H Merchant, L Prado… - Journal of …, 2009 - journals.physiology.org
This study describes the psychometric similarities and differences in motor timing
performance between 20 human subjects and three rhesus monkeys during two timing …

Measuring time with different neural chronometers during a synchronization-continuation task

H Merchant, W Zarco, O Pérez… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Temporal information processing is critical for many complex behaviors including speech
and music cognition, yet its neural substrate remains elusive. We examined the …

Sensorimotor intentionality: The origins of intentionality in prospective agent action

JT Delafield-Butt, N Gangopadhyay - Developmental Review, 2013 - Elsevier
Efficient prospective motor control, evident in human activity from birth, reveals an adaptive
intentionality of a primary, pre-reflective, and pre-conceptual nature that we identify here as …

The neural basis of predictive pursuit

SBM Yoo, JC Tu, ST Piantadosi, BY Hayden - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
It remains unclear whether and, if so, how nonhuman animals make on-the-fly predictions
during pursuit. Here we used a novel laboratory pursuit task that incentivizes the prediction …

Variable-drift diffusion models of pedestrian road-crossing decisions

J Pekkanen, OT Giles, YM Lee, R Madigan… - Computational Brain & …, 2022 - Springer
Human behavior and interaction in road traffic is highly complex, with many open scientific
questions of high applied importance, not least in relation to recent development efforts …

Amodal population clock in the primate medial premotor system for rhythmic tapping

A Betancourt, O Pérez, J Gámez, G Mendoza… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
The neural substrate for beat extraction and response entrainment to rhythms is not fully
understood. Here we analyze the activity of medial premotor neurons in monkeys performing …