Tempo modulates beat perception and involvement of motor areas in timing

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly J. Henry ◽  
Jean Tkach ◽  
J. Devin Mcauley
Keyword(s):  
Motor Areas

Embodied Cognition: Multi-Modal Imagery Generation Activates Pre-Motor Areas

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Palmiero ◽  
Marta Olivetti Belardinelli ◽  
Carlo Sestieri ◽  
Alessandro Londei ◽  
Alessandro d'Ausilio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Motor Areas

scholarly journals Veto and Vacillation: A Neural Precursor of the Decision to Withhold Action

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 296-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erman Misirlisoy ◽  
Patrick Haggard
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Temporal Pattern ◽  
Neural Precursor ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Action Sequences ◽  
Readiness Potentials ◽  
Preparatory Activity ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Motor Areas

The capacity to inhibit a planned action gives human behavior its characteristic flexibility. How this mechanism operates and what factors influence a decision to act or not act remain relatively unexplored. We used EEG readiness potentials (RPs) to examine preparatory activity before each action of an ongoing sequence, in which one action was occasionally omitted. We compared RPs between sequences in which omissions were instructed by a rule (e.g., “omit every fourth action”) and sequences in which the participant themselves freely decided which action to omit. RP amplitude was reduced for actions that immediately preceded a voluntary omission but not a rule-based omission. We also used the regular temporal pattern of the action sequences to explore brain processes linked to omitting an action by time-locking EEG averages to the inferred time when an action would have occurred had it not been omitted. When omissions were instructed by a rule, there was a negative-going trend in the EEG, recalling the rising ramp of an RP. No such component was found for voluntary omissions. The results are consistent with a model in which spontaneously fluctuating activity in motor areas of the brain could bias “free” decisions to act or not.

scholarly journals iTBS-Induced LTP-Like Plasticity Parallels Oscillatory Activity Changes in the Primary Sensory and Motor Areas of Macaque Monkeys

PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. e112504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odysseas Papazachariadis ◽  
Vittorio Dante ◽  
Paul F. M. J. Verschure ◽  
Paolo Del Giudice ◽  
Stefano Ferraina
Keyword(s):  
Oscillatory Activity ◽  
Macaque Monkeys ◽  
Motor Areas

scholarly journals Non-invasive mapping of corticofugal fibres from multiple motor areas—relevance to stroke recovery

Brain ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 129 (7) ◽  
pp. 1844-1858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Newton ◽  
Nick S. Ward ◽  
Geoffrey J. M. Parker ◽  
Ralf Deichmann ◽  
Daniel C. Alexander ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stroke Recovery ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Motor Areas
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