Moving to a different beat

Many primitive movements, such as swimming or scratching, are rhythmic. An imaging study now suggests that complex discrete movements may simply be a special case of rhythmic movements, in which they are stopped after only one cycle.

[1]  E. Marder,et al.  Principles of rhythmic motor pattern generation. , 1996, Physiological reviews.

[2]  Zoubin Ghahramani,et al.  Computational principles of movement neuroscience , 2000, Nature Neuroscience.

[3]  Stefan Schaal,et al.  Interaction of rhythmic and discrete pattern generators in single-joint movements , 2000 .

[4]  P. Stroman,et al.  Functional MRI of motor and sensory activation in the human spinal cord. , 2001, Magnetic resonance imaging.

[5]  R E Burke.  The central pattern generator for locomotion in mammals. , 2001, Advances in neurology.

[6]  R. Ivry,et al.  Callosotomy patients exhibit temporal uncoupling during continuous bimanual movements , 2002, Nature Neuroscience.

[7]  R. Miall,et al.  Distinct systems for automatic and cognitively controlled time measurement: evidence from neuroimaging , 2003, Current Opinion in Neurobiology.

[8]  H. Zelaznik,et al.  Disrupted Timing of Discontinuous But Not Continuous Movements by Cerebellar Lesions , 2003, Science.

[9]  D. Sternad,et al.  Interaction between discrete and rhythmic movements: reaction time and phase of discrete movement initiation during oscillatory movements , 2003, Brain Research.

[10]  P. A. Lewis,et al.  Brain activity correlates differentially with increasing temporal complexity of rhythms during initialisation, synchronisation, and continuation phases of paced finger tapping , 2004, Neuropsychologia.

[11]  S. Schaal,et al.  Rhythmic arm movement is not discrete , 2004, Nature Neuroscience.