Nature Communications (May 2022)

Neural signals regulating motor synchronization in the primate deep cerebellar nuclei

  • Ken-ichi Okada,
  • Ryuji Takeya,
  • Masaki Tanaka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30246-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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It remains unclear how the brain represents information regarding synchronized movements. Here, the authors investigated the response properties of cerebellar cells in macaques performing a synchronized saccade task and found three groups of cerebellar neurons with distinct peri-saccade response profiles.