The Cerebellum and Event Timing

@article{Ivry2002TheCA,
  title={The Cerebellum and Event Timing},
  author={Richard B. Ivry and REBECCA M. Spencer and Howard N. Zelaznik and J{\"o}rn Diedrichsen},
  journal={Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences},
  year={2002},
  volume={978}
}
Abstract: Damage to the cerebellum disrupts performance on a range of tasks that require precise timing including the production of skilled movements, eyeblink conditioning, and perceptual tasks such as duration discrimination. We hypothesize that such tasks involve event timing, a form of representation in which the temporal goals are explicitly represented. For example, during finger tapping, the goal to produce evenly paced intervals invokes an explicit temporal representation of the time… 
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