Movement and the body

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Interval timing

Brains judge durations and time actions over fractions of a second to seconds. How are those intervals represented and flexibly adjusted?

Savings in motor adaptation

Relearning a movement adjustment can be faster than learning it first. Which memories and processes produce that advantage?

Sense of agency

We feel that our actions cause events. How do prediction and observed regularities combine to produce that feeling?

Body ownership

Vision and touch can make a rubber hand feel like your own. Which circuit processes produce this bodily attribution?

Ticklishness

Tickling can produce involuntary laughter and mixed feelings. How human touch processing, context and laughter circuits combine remains incomplete.