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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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  1. Department of Behavioural Brain Sciences, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

    R Christopher Miall

  2. Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, California, USA

    Richard Ivry

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Miall, R., Ivry, R. Moving to a different beat. Nat Neurosci 7, 1025–1026 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1004-1025

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