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Nature Neuroscience  7, 1025 - 1026 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nn1004-1025

Moving to a different beat

R Christopher Miall1 & Richard Ivry2

1  Chris Miall is in the Department of Behavioural Brain Sciences, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. miall@bham.ac.uk

2  Richard Ivry is in the Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. ivry@socrates.berkeley.edu

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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