Finding the beat: a neural perspective across humans and non-human primates

H Merchant, J Grahn, L Trainor… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Humans possess an ability to perceive and synchronize movements to the beat in music
('beat perception and synchronization'), and recent neuroscientific data have offered new …

A dynamical systems perspective on flexible motor timing

ED Remington, SW Egger, D Narain, J Wang… - Trends in cognitive …, 2018 - cell.com
A hallmark of higher brain function is the ability to rapidly and flexibly adjust behavioral
responses based on internal and external cues. Here, we examine the computational …

Interpersonal entrainment in music performance: theory, method, and model

M Clayton, K Jakubowski, T Eerola… - Music Perception: An …, 2020 - online.ucpress.edu
Interpersonal musical entrainment—temporal synchronization and coordination between
individuals in musical contexts—is a ubiquitous phenomenon related to music's social …

Keeping time and rhythm by internal simulation of sensory stimuli and behavioral actions

V de Lafuente, M Jazayeri, H Merchant… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Effective behavior often requires synchronizing our actions with changes in the environment.
Rhythmic changes in the environment are easy to predict, and we can readily time our …

[HTML][HTML] Cortico-spinal modularity in the parieto-frontal system: A new perspective on action control

RJ Bufacchi, A Battaglia-Mayer, GD Iannetti… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Classical neurophysiology suggests that the motor cortex (MI) has a unique role in action
control. In contrast, this review presents evidence for multiple parieto-frontal spinal …

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 …

Mapping between sound, brain and behaviour: Four-level framework for understanding rhythm processing in humans and non-human primates

T Lenc, H Merchant, PE Keller… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Humans perceive and spontaneously move to one or several levels of periodic pulses (a
meter, for short) when listening to musical rhythm, even when the sensory input does not …

The amplitude in periodic neural state trajectories underlies the tempo of rhythmic tapping

J Gámez, G Mendoza, L Prado, A Betancourt… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Our motor commands can be exquisitely timed according to the demands of the
environment, and the ability to generate rhythms of different tempos is a hallmark of musical …

Predictive rhythmic tapping to isochronous and tempo changing metronomes in the nonhuman primate

J Gámez, K Yc, YA Ayala, D Dotov… - Annals of the New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Beat entrainment is the ability to entrain one's movements to a perceived periodic stimulus,
such as a metronome or a pulse in music. Humans have a capacity to predictively respond …

Entrainment and maintenance of an internal metronome in supplementary motor area

J Cadena-Valencia, O Garcia-Garibay, H Merchant… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
To prepare timely motor actions, we constantly predict future events. Regularly repeating
events are often perceived as a rhythm to which we can readily synchronize our movements …