Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

A neural circuit model for human sensorimotor timing

  • Seth W. Egger,
  • Nhat M. Le,
  • Mehrdad Jazayeri

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16999-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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We can flexibly coordinate our movements with external stimuli, but no circuit-level model exists to explain this ability. Inspired by fundamental concepts in control theory, the authors construct a modular neural circuit that captures human behavior in a wide range of temporal coordination tasks.