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Monkeys Share the Human Ability to Internally Maintain a Temporal Rhythm.

Otto García-Garibay¹, Jaime Cadena-Valencia¹, Hugo Merchant¹

¹Instituto de Neurobiología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Querétaro, Mexico.

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Humans and rhesus monkeys share the cognitive ability to perceive and maintain internal rhythms. This rhythm perception and maintenance does not depend on overt motor commands, highlighting shared timing mechanisms.

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Weber fraction model of time perception rhesus rhythm timing

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Cognitive Neuroscience
Comparative Psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience

Background:

Temporal perception and action synchronization are fundamental to behavior.
The neural mechanisms underlying rhythm perception and maintenance in primates are not fully understood.
Existing research often links timing to sensory cues or motor actions.

Purpose of the Study:

To characterize the ability of rhesus monkeys and humans to internally perceive and maintain rhythms.
To investigate rhythm maintenance in the absence of sensory cues or motor actions.
To determine if rhythm perception is a shared cognitive ability between humans and non-human primates.

Main Methods:

A rhythm task involving observation and internal tracking of a periodically moving visual stimulus.
Subjects (rhesus monkeys and humans) maintained visuospatial tempo without overt movements.
Analysis of synchrony probability and timing variability over time, applying the generalized law of Weber.

Main Results:

Synchrony probability decreased and timing variability increased with elapsed time, consistent with the generalized law of Weber.
Human subjects exhibited systematic errors: lagging behind fast rhythms and anticipating slow rhythms.
These findings suggest the incorporation of a mean tempo as prior information in human timing.

Conclusions:

Rhythm perception and maintenance are shared cognitive abilities between humans and rhesus monkeys.
These timing abilities can function independently of overt motor commands.
The study provides insights into the fundamental mechanisms of temporal processing in primates.