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White matter microstructural properties correlate with sensorimotor synchronization abilities

NeuroImage, 2016
Sensorimotor synchronization (SMS) to an external auditory rhythm is a developed ability in humans, particularly evident in dancing and singing. This ability is typically measured in the lab via a simple task of finger tapping to an auditory beat. While simplistic, there is some evidence that poor performance on this task could be related to impaired ...
Tal, Blecher, Idan, Tal, Michal, Ben-Shachar   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
It is widely agreed that language understanding has a distinctive phenomenology, as illustrated by phenomenal contrast cases. Yet it remains unclear how to account for the perceptual phenomenology of language experience. I advance a rhythmic account, which explains this phenomenology in terms of changes in the rhythm of sensory capacities in both ...
Alfredo Vernazzani
wiley   +1 more source

Sensorimotor Frequency Tagging Is Enhanced by Auditory and Audiovisual but Not Visual, Inputs During a Body-Walking Task. [PDF]

Psychophysiology
ABSTRACT Body movements like walking can synchronize with auditory and visual inputs presented within a periodic frequency range, peaking around 2 Hz. Some evidence has shown that the spontaneous tempo of human locomotion is around 2 Hz. The EEG frequency‐tagging approach allows us to capture the coupling of beat perception with neural brain ...
Matamala-Gomez M, Vilà-Balló A, Cucurell D, Tajadura-Jiménez A, Rodriguez-Fornells A.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Relationship between activity in human primary motor cortex during action observation and the mirror neuron system [PDF]

, 2009
The attenuation of the beta cortical oscillations during action observation has been interpreted as evidence of a mirror neuron system (MNS) in humans.
Baune, B., Frith, C.D., Kilner, J.M., Marchant, J.L.   +3 more
core  

An Active Inference Model of Meter Perception and the Urge to Move to Music

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, EarlyView.
Prominent theories suggest that the urge to move along to rhythmic music is driven by precision‐weighted prediction errors. We operationalized this account as a Bayesian model which outputs surprisal as an index of prediction errors based on posterior probabilities calculated over metered and unmetered priors.
Tomas E. Matthews, Peter Vuust, Jonathan Cannon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adults with cerebral palsy exhibit uncharacteristic cortical oscillations during an adaptive sensorimotor control task

Scientific Reports
Prior research has shown that the sensorimotor cortical oscillations are uncharacteristic in persons with cerebral palsy (CP); however, it is unknown if these altered cortical oscillations have an impact on adaptive sensorimotor control.
Erica H. Hinton, Morgan T. Busboom, Christine M. Embury, Rachel K. Spooner, Tony W. Wilson, Max J. Kurz   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effector-specificity of Musical Sensorimotor Synchronization

Synchronizing our bodies to music is natural and ubiquitous, yet the way that it is typically studied – by tapping the index finger on a surface – is not, and its ecological validity is questionable. This registered report aims to determine whether sensorimotor synchronization (SMS) performance differs between the finger and the foot, an effector that ...
Connor Spiech, Valentin Bégel
openaire   +1 more source

Rhythm Processing Across Development: Origins, Links to Language Processing, and Perspectives for Intervention

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A wealth of research has investigated rhythm processing in music and speech, revealing shared cognitive and neural correlates and potential transfer effects, as evidenced by shared benefits and shared processing difficulties, as well as effects of stimulation and training programs.
Barbara Tillmann, Usha Goswami, Sahar Moghimi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Source Detection and Functional Connectivity of the Sensorimotor Cortex during Actual and Imaginary Limb Movement: A Preliminary Study on the Implementation of eConnectome in Motor Imagery Protocols

Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, 2012
Introduction. Sensorimotor cortex is activated similarly during motor execution and motor imagery. The study of functional connectivity networks (FCNs) aims at successfully modeling the dynamics of information flow between cortical areas.
Alkinoos Athanasiou, Chrysa Lithari, Konstantina Kalogianni, Manousos A. Klados, Panagiotis D. Bamidis   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Finger Taps to Footsteps: Gait as a Model for Investigating and Training Rhythmic Abilities

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, EarlyView.
Motor rhythmic abilities, like auditory–motor synchronization, are often assessed using finger‐tapping tasks. Here, we propose gait as a richer, more ecologically valid alternative, which engages the whole body, is continuous, and taps into both automatic and voluntary control.
Clara Ziane, Simone Dalla Bella
wiley   +1 more source