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M. C. (Marieke) van der Steen, Peter E. Keller
A constantly changing environment requires precise yet flexible timing of movements. Sensorimotor synchronization (SMS)-the temporal coordination of an action with events in a predictable external rhythm-is a fundamental human skill that contributes to optimal sensory-motor control in daily life. A large body of…
Andres von Schnehen, Lise Hobeika, Dominique Huvent-Grelle, Séverine Samson
Sensorimotor synchronization (SMS), the coordination of physical actions in time with a rhythmic sequence, is a skill that is necessary not only for keeping the beat when making music, but in a wide variety of interpersonal contexts. Being able to attend to temporal regularities in the environment is a prerequisite for…
Georgios Michalareas, Matthias Grabenhorst, Yue Sun
Moving in synchrony to external rhythmic stimuli is an elementary function that humans regularly engage in. It is termed “sensorimotor synchronization” and it is governed by two main parameters, the period and the phase of the movement with respect to the external rhythm. There has been an extensive body of research on…
Lauren K. Fink, Prescott C. Alexander, Petr Janata
Synchronization of movement enhances cooperation and trust between people. However, the degree to which individuals can synchronize with each other depends on their ability to perceive the timing of others’ actions and produce movements accordingly. Here, we introduce an assistive device-a multi-person adaptive…
Michelle K. Huntley, An Nguyen, Matthew A. Albrecht, Welber Marinovic
Navigating through our sensory-filled environment often involves little conscious effort. Yet what is occurring in our brains is a complex interplay between sensory and motor processes. This sensory and motor interplay occurs within a millisecond time range (Mauk & Buonomano, ), such that sensory information is…
Yuhan Lu, Yanlin Yu, Xiaosha Wang, Lang Qin + 4 more
Synchronizing motoric responses to metrical sensory rhythms is key to social activities, e.g., group singing and dancing. It remains elusive, however, whether there is a common neural network for motoric synchronization to metrical rhythms from different sensory modalities. Here, we separate sensorimotor responses from…
Berfin Bastug, Yue Sun, Federico Adolfi, Erich Schröger + 1 more
A foundational task for perceptual systems is to identify objects. In hearing, repetition — for example of a feature critical to object identity — is a powerful cue for object formation. The principles governing how repetition may underpin this process are not well understood, particularly for the noisy, approximate…
Alice Tomassini, Francesco Torricelli, Luciano Fadiga, Alessandro D’Ausilio
A central question in sensorimotor neuroscience is how sensory inputs are mapped onto motor outputs to enable swift and accurate responses, even in the face of unexpected environmental changes. In this study, we leverage cortico-motor phase synchronization as a window into the dynamics of sensorimotor loops and explore…
Julien Lagarde
Development and learning in interaction with the environment, including repeated exposure and interaction with patterns determined by culture, constitute an example of very slow changes, on an individual's lifespan scale, that influence rhythmic skills (Cameron et al., 20015; Jacoby & McDermott, 2017). Along this line…
Claudia Gonzalez, Luz Bavassi, Rodrigo Laje
Paced finger tapping is one of the simplest tasks to study sensorimotor synchronization. The subject is instructed to tap in synchrony with a periodic sequence of brief tones, and the time difference (called asynchrony) between each response and the corresponding stimulus is recorded. Despite its simplicity, this task…
Alexander Mörtl, Tamara Lorenz, Sandra Hirche, Eleni Vasilaki
Interactive behavior among humans is governed by the dynamics of movement synchronization in a variety of repetitive tasks. This requires the interaction partners to perform for example rhythmic limb swinging or even goal-directed arm movements. Inspired by that essential feature of human interaction, we present a…
Alice Tomassini, Eric Maris, Pauline Hilt, Luciano Fadiga + 1 more
Movements overtly sample sensory information, making sensory analysis an active-sensing process. In this study, we show that visual information sampling is not just locked to the (overt) movement dynamics, but it is structured by the internal (covert) dynamics of cortico-motor control. We asked human participants to…
Inbal Ravreby, Yoel Shilat, Yaara Yeshurun
Synchronization has been identified as a key aspect of achieving mutual goals and enhancing social bonding. While synchronization could be maximized by increasing the predictability of an interaction, such predictability is in tension with individuals’ level of interest, which is tied to the interaction’s complexity…
Ariel D. Silva, Claudia Gonzalez, Rodrigo Laje
The behavioral description of the sensorimotor synchronization phenomenon in humans is exhaustive, mostly by using variations of the traditional paced finger-tapping task where a participant is instructed to tap along with a periodic sequence of brief tones. This task helps unveil the inner workings of the…
Bahar Tunçgenç, Eoin Travers, Merle T. Fairhurst
In marching bands, sports, dance and virtually all human group behaviour, we coordinate our actions with others. Coordinating actions in time and space can act as a social glue, facilitating bonding among people. However, much of our understanding about coordination dynamics is based on research into dyadic…
Angelo Di Porzio, Etienne Burdet, Marco Coraggio
Synchronization often emerges spontaneously among interacting people, yielding practical benefits for tasks such as sports, physical rehabilitation, and collaborative manufacturing, and fostering a sense of unity and trust. Although visual interaction is typically considered the primary channel for achieving…
Yago Emanoel Ramos, Raphael Silva do Rosário, Adriana de Faria Gehres, Maria João Alves + 5 more
Collective improvisation in dance provides a rich natural laboratory for studying emergent coordination in coupled neuro-motor systems. Here, we investigate how training shapes spontaneous synchronization patterns in both movement dynamics and brain signals during collaborative performance. Using a dual-recording…
Joaquín Rapela
Nature is abundant in oscillatory activity, with oscillators that have the remarkable ability of synchronizing to external events. Using electrocorticographic (ECoG) recordings from a subject rhythmically producing consonant-vowel syllables (CVSs) we show that neural oscillators recorded at individual ECoG electrodes…