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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Motor Control

Background:

  • The brain processes time for memory recall and future planning.
  • It is unknown if motor planning circuits use similar temporal dynamics.
  • Understanding temporal processing in motor planning is crucial.

Conclusions:

  • Neural activity in the frontal motor cortex unfolds across multiple timescales during motor planning.
  • These findings suggest a common neural mechanism for processing temporal information in memory and planning.
  • The brain may utilize shared circuits for encoding the timing of past events and future actions.