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Title
  • en Different contributions of preparatory activity in the basal ganglia and cerebellum for self-timing
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  • NDC 490
Description
  • Abstract en The ability to flexibly adjust movement timing is important for everyday life. Although the basal ganglia and cerebellum have been implicated in monitoring of supra-and sub-second intervals, respectively, the underlying neuronal mechanism remains unclear. Here, we show that in monkeys trained to generate a self-initiated saccade at instructed timing following a visual cue, neurons in the caudate nucleus kept track of passage of time throughout the delay period, while those in the cerebellar dentate nucleus were recruited only during the last part of the delay period. Conversely, neuronal correlates of trial-by-trial variation of self-timing emerged earlier in the cerebellum than the striatum. Local inactivation of respective recording sites confirmed the difference in their relative contributions to supra-and sub-second intervals. These results suggest that the basal ganglia may measure elapsed time relative to the intended interval, while the cerebellum might be responsible for the fine adjustment of self-timing.
Publisher en eLife Sciences Publications
Date
    Issued2018-07-02
Language
  • eng
Resource Type journal article
Version Type VoR
Identifier HDL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/71497
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  • isIdenticalTo DOI https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.35676
Journal
    • PISSN 2050-084X
      • en Elife
      • Volume Number7 Page Starte35676
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Oaidate 2023-07-26