The supplementary motor area in motor and sensory timing: evidence from slow brain potential changes

Macar, Françoise; Vidal, Franck; Casini, Laurence

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“…The putamen has been proposed as the source of the brain's timing signal, possibly as part of a medial-frontal-striatal loop (Macar et al, 1999;Coull et al, 2004). Alternatively, Ivry and Spencer (2004) have proposed that the role of the basal ganglia in timing is to set the threshold for releasing an action or making a decision; in timing tasks, that threshold may be a point in time.…”

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The Cerebellum Predicts the Timing of Perceptual Events

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Mesulam²,

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2008

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Prospective (forward) temporal-spatial models are essential for both action and perception, but the literature on perceptual prediction has primarily been limited to the spatial domain. In this study we asked how the neural systems of perceptual prediction change, when change-over-time must be modeled. We used a naturalistic paradigm in which observers had to extrapolate the trajectory of an occluded moving object to make perceptual judgments based on the spatial (direction) or temporal-spatial (velocity) characteristics of object motion. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging we found that a region in posterior cerebellum (lobule VII crus 1) was engaged specifically when a temporal-spatial model was required (velocity judgment task), suggesting that circuitry involved in motor forwardmodeling may also be engaged in perceptual prediction when a model of change-over-time is required. This cerebellar region appears to supply a temporal signal to cortical networks involved in spatial orienting: a frontal-parietal network associated with attentional orienting was engaged in both (spatial and temporal-spatial) tasks, but functional connectivity between these regions and the posterior cerebellum was enhanced in the temporal-spatial prediction task. In addition to the oculomotor spatial orienting network, regions involved in hand movements (aIP and PMv) were recruited in the temporal-spatial task, suggesting that the nature of perceptual prediction may bias the recruitment of sensory-motor networks in orienting. Finally, in temporal-spatial prediction, functional connectivity was enhanced between the cerebellum and the putamen, a structure which has been proposed to supply the brain's metric of time, in the temporal-spatial prediction task.

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Section: Functional Connectivity Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Cerebellum Predicts the Timing of Perceptual Events

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Mesulam²,

Nobre³

2008

J. Neurosci.

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“…They observed that potential changes (CNVs) were clearly linked with the duration to be judged: Electrical activity returned to its normal level earlier when the comparison interval was shorter rather than when the comparison interval was longer (see also Pfeuty, Ragot, & Pouthas, 2008). Macar, Vidal, and Casini (1999) reported quite similar results with a standard interval lasting 2.5 sec. Although the interval to be judged always lasted 2.5 sec, the CNV amplitude was larger when the interval was judged as being longer (see Figure 5).…”

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Timing and time perception: A review of recent behavioral and neuroscience findings and theoretical directions

Grondin

2010

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

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Suppose someone had to prepare a review article on visual perception, instead of time perception. This individual would probably ask for a series of reviews, with at least one-and probably several-dedicated to color, distance, shape, and motion perception, and maybe to other aspects of visual perception. It would be very difficult to complete the same exercise for time perception since the categories of temporal experiences are not as clearly defined. However, for a reader to understand the scope of a text on time perception, it is essential to develop a representation of what the main research avenues or categories are. The present text should help the reader to grasp the scope of recent literature related to psychological time and time perception.After a brief overview of the various perspectives on what could be meant by psychological time, the review will propose to identify of series of key concepts and empirical findings that should delineate the field of time perception and timing, and will discuss some models of time perception. The article also provides a review of the main recent findings in the field in which a neuroscientific approach to timing is adopted. In this section, the roles of the cerebellum, of the cerebral cortices, and of the basal ganglia in the timing processes are emphasized. Time Perception Beyond the Focus of the Present ReviewThere is a wide range of research on psychological time and temporal processing, mainly because of the ubiquity of time in behavior and the relevance of a temporal perspective in regard to living organisms and events. There is a vast literature in social psychology as to how behavior is shaped by time (see Perret-Clermont, 2005, or Strathman & Joireman, 2005, which includes topics such as time management, time perspective, and time orientation, or the relative value of past and future (Caruso, Gilbert, & Wilson, 2008;Zimbardo & Boyd, 1999). Even within the scope of experimental psychology, some studies have emphasized how the temporal structure of events determines our perception of the world (see the second part of Helfrich, 2003).Some authors who are interested in consciousness have adopted a phenomenological perspective on time (see the first part of Buccheri, Saniga, & Stuckey, 2003). Indeed, time and consciousness have become more closely linked recently with the development of a new area of research on the concept of chronesthesia (awareness of subjective time; Tulving, 2002), as opposed to noetic consciousness (awareness of the world) or autonoetic consciousness (awareness of self in time). Interestingly, there is now evidence that even animals can anticipate the future (Roberts, 2008).There are many psychological time studies related in various ways to memory processes (Block & Zakay, 2008). One research avenue deals with the chronology of events in our lives, particularly the memory of the order of occurrence of these events (Damasio, 2002;Friedman, 1993 The aim of the present review article is to guide the reader through portions of the human time per...

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“…Our observation on the CNV-like negativity was consistent with ERP studies examining CNV elicited during time perception tasks. Macar et al (1999) reported that the CNV amplitude reflected the length of temporal estimates, and/or an index of time-based decision making and response (Macar & Vidal, 2009). As such, our results provide evidence that the CNV-like negativity is associated with error correction (correction of response timing) in our sensorimotor paradigm.…”

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Contingent negative variation (CNV) associated with sensorimotor timing error correction

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Introduction: Detection and subsequent correction of sensorimotor timing errors is fundamental to adaptive behavior. Using scalp-recorded event-related potentials (ERPs), we sought to find ERP components that are predictive of error correction performance during rhythmic movements.Method: Healthy right-handed participants were asked to synchronize their finger taps to a regular tone sequence (every 600 ms), whilst EEG data were continuously recorded. Data from 15 participants were analyzed. Occasional irregularities were built into stimulus presentation timing: 90 ms before (advances: negative shift) or after (delays: positive shift) the expected time point. A tapping condition alternated with a listening condition in which identical stimulus sequence was presented but participants did not tap.Results: Behavioral error correction was observed immediately following a shift, with a degree of over-correction with positive shifts. Our stimulus-locked ERP data analysis revealed, 1) increased auditory N1 amplitude for the positive shift condition and decreased auditory N1 modulation for the negative shift condition; and 2) a second enhanced negativity (N2) in the tapping positive condition, compared with the tapping negative condition. In response-locked epochs, we observed a CNV (contingent negative variation)-like negativity with earlier latency in the tapping negative condition compared with the tapping positive condition. This CNV-like negativity peaked at around the onset of subsequent tapping, with the earlier the peak, the better the error correction performance with the negative shifts while the later the peak, the better the error correction performance with the positive shifts.Discussion: This study showed that the CNV-like negativity was associated with the error correction performance during our sensorimotor synchronization study. Auditory N1 and N2 were differentially involved in negative vs. positive error correction. However, we did not find 3 evidence for their involvement in behavioral error correction. Overall, our study provides the basis from which further research on the role of the CNV in perceptual and motor timing can be developed.

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The supplementary motor area in motor and sensory timing: evidence from slow brain potential changes

Cited by 229 publications

References 45 publications

The Cerebellum Predicts the Timing of Perceptual Events

The Cerebellum Predicts the Timing of Perceptual Events

Timing and time perception: A review of recent behavioral and neuroscience findings and theoretical directions

Contingent negative variation (CNV) associated with sensorimotor timing error correction

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