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Moving to a different beat

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Many primitive movements, such as swimming or scratching, are rhythmic. An imaging study now suggests that complex discrete movements may simply be a special case of rhythmic movements, in which they are stopped after only one cycle.

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Figure 1: Possible models for the control of rhythmic and discrete movements.

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