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  1. No single downbeat: Rethinking criteria for beat synchronization across species

    Article • June 2026, Center for Open Science

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  2. The Origins of Musicality [Response to Ghazanfar & Steingo (2025)]

    Article • April 2026, Center for Open Science

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  3. The Origins of Musicality [Response to Ghazanfar & Steingo (2025)]

    Article • April 2026, Center for Open Science

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  4. Journals can help protect animal welfare—Response

    Article • Science, March 2026, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  5. Finding the groove in neural space

    Article • February 2026, openRxiv

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  6. Preferred tempo influence on learning transfer from perceptual to stepping timing in Parkinson’s disease

    Article • Neuroscience, February 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  7. Converging Notions on the Main Hypotheses Regarding the Origins of Beat Perception and Synchronization: The Key Role of Audiomotor Interactions

    Article • January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  8. Categorical rhythmic priors in macaques

    Article • December 2025, openRxiv

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  9. Monkeys have rhythm

    Article • Science, November 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  10. Manifold properties in the macaque medial premotor cortex during switching from attending to tapping to a metronome

    Article • October 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  11. Flexible tapping synchronization in macaques: dynamic switching of timing strategies within rhythmic sequences

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, August 2025, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  12. Time Varying Encoding of Grasping Type and Force in the Primate Motor Cortex

    Article • eNeuro, April 2025, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  13. Neuronal Sequences and dynamic coding of water-sucrose categorization in rat gustatory cortices

    Article • iScience, December 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  14. Preconfigured cortico-thalamic neural dynamics constrain movement-associated thalamic activity

    Article • Nature Communications, November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  15. Common neural mechanisms supporting time judgements in humans and monkeys

    Article • PeerJ, November 2024, PeerJ

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  16. White matter structural bases for phase accuracy during tapping synchronization

    Article • eLife, September 2024, eLife

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  17. Representation of grasping type and force in the primate motor cortex

    Article • May 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  18. Common neural mechanisms supporting time judgements in humans and monkeys

    Article • April 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  19. Beta-band frequency shifts signal decisions in human prefrontal cortex

    Article • April 2024, Center for Open Science

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  20. Sequential and dynamic coding of water-sucrose categorization in rat gustatory cortices

    Article • April 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  21. Monkeys have rhythm

    Article • March 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  22. Keeping time and rhythm by internal simulation of sensory stimuli and behavioral actions

    Article • Science Advances, January 2024, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  23. A Second Introduction to the Neurobiology of Interval Timing

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  24. Diverse Time Encoding Strategies Within the Medial Premotor Areas of the Primate

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  25. Pre-supplementary motor cortex mediates learning transfer from perceptual to motor timing

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, December 2023, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  26. Amodal population clock in the primate medial premotor system for rhythmic tapping

    Article • Cell Reports, October 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  27. Macaque monkeys and humans sample temporal regularities in the acoustic environment

    Article • Progress in Neurobiology, October 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  28. Preconfigured cortico-thalamic neural dynamics constrain movement-associated thalamic activity

    Article • September 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  29. Rhythmic tapping to a moving beat motion kinematics overrules natural gravity

    Article • iScience, September 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  30. Entre el azar y la necesidad en las neurociencias cognitivas

    Article • August 2023, Center for Open Science

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  31. Distinct beta frequencies reflect categorical decisions

    Article • Nature Communications, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  32. Rhythmic tapping to a moving beat: motion kinematics overrules motion naturalness

    Article • March 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  33. Different time encoding strategies within the medial premotor areas of the primate

    Article • January 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  34. A framework and resource for global collaboration in non-human primate neuroscience

    Article • Current Research in Neurobiology, January 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  35. Macaque Monkeys and Humans Sample Temporal Regularities in the Acoustic Environment

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  36. Distinct beta frequencies reflect categorical decisions

    Article • October 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  37. White matter structural bases for predictive tapping synchronization

    Article • September 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  38. Amodal population clock in the primate medial premotor system for rhythmic tapping

    Article • August 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  39. Keeping time and rhythm by replaying a sensory-motor engram

    Article • January 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  40. Mapping between sound, brain and behaviour: four-level framework for understanding rhythm processing in humans and non-human primates

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  41. Strengths and challenges of longitudinal non-human primate neuroimaging

    Article • NeuroImage, August 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  42. Beyond MRI: on the scientific value of combining non-human primate neuroimaging with metadata

    Article • NeuroImage, March 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  43. A collaborative resource platform for non-human primate neuroimaging

    Article • NeuroImage, February 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  44. PREEMACS: Pipeline for preprocessing and extraction of the macaque brain surface

    Article • NeuroImage, February 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  45. Macaque Monkeys Sense the Subjective Beat

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  46. Neural Encoding and Representation of Time for Sensorimotor Control and Learning

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, December 2020, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  47. The timing network is engaged in the practice of internally driven tapping independently of the learning transfer from perceptual to motor timing

    Article • December 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  48. Estimating time with neural networks

    Article • Nature Machine Intelligence, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  49. A collaborative resource platform for non-human primate neuroimaging

    Article • July 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  50. Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging

    Article • Neuron, February 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  51. TRF2: Having the Time of Our Lives

    Article • Timing & Time Perception, November 2019, De Gruyter

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  52. The amplitude in periodic neural state trajectories underlies the tempo of rhythmic tapping

    Article • PLoS Biology, April 2019, PLOS

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  53. The scalar property during isochronous tapping is disrupted by a D2-like agonist in the nonhuman primate

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, March 2019, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  54. The amplitude in periodic neural state trajectories underlies the tempo of rhythmic tapping

    Article • October 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  55. Entrainment and maintenance of an internal metronome in supplementary motor area

    Article • eLife, October 2018, eLife

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  56. Entrainment and maintenance of an internal metronome in premotor cortex

    Article • August 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  57. Editorial Focus on “Invariant and heritable local cortical organization as revealed by fMRI”

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, August 2018, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  58. Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) Sense Isochrony in Rhythm, but Not the Beat: Additional Support for the Gradual Audiomotor Evolution Hypothesis

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, July 2018, Frontiers

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  59. Predictive rhythmic tapping to isochronous and tempo changing metronomes in the nonhuman primate

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, April 2018, Wiley

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  60. The Synaptic Properties of Cells Define the Hallmarks of Interval Timing in a Recurrent Neural Network

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, April 2018, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  61. Neural basis for categorical boundaries in the primate pre-SMA during relative categorization of time intervals

    Article • Nature Communications, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  62. Monkeys share the neurophysiological basis for encoding sound periodicities captured by the frequency-following response with humans

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  63. Probing the timing network: A continuous theta burst stimulation study of temporal categorization

    Article • Neuroscience, July 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  64. Primate beta oscillations and rhythmic behaviors

    Article • Acta Neurovegetativa, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  65. The Computational and Neural Basis of Rhythmic Timing in Medial Premotor Cortex

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, March 2017, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  66. Editorial: Understanding the Role of the Time Dimension in the Brain Information Processing

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, February 2017, Frontiers

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  67. Monkeys Share the Human Ability to Internally Maintain a Temporal Rhythm

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2016, Frontiers

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  68. Variability of Neuronal Responses: Types and Functional Significance in Neuroplasticity and Neural Darwinism

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, November 2016, Frontiers

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  69. Temporal Processing by Intrinsic Neural Network Dynamics

    Article • Timing & Time Perception, November 2016, Brill

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  70. Recording extracellular neural activity in the behaving monkey using a semichronic and high-density electrode system

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, August 2016, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  71. How the motor system both encodes and influences our sense of time

    Article • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, April 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  72.   Oscillations Are Linked to the Initiation of Sensory-Cued Movement Sequences and the Internal Guidance of Regular Tapping in the Monkey

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, March 2015, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  73. Sensorimotor neural dynamics during isochronous tapping in the medial premotor cortex of the macaque

    Article • European Journal of Neuroscience, March 2015, Wiley

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  74. Finding the beat: a neural perspective across humans and non-human primates

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  75. Searching for the origins of musicality across species

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  76. Differences in auditory timing between human and nonhuman primates

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  77. Motor system evolution and the emergence of high cognitive functions

    Article • Progress in Neurobiology, November 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  78. Dynamic Representation of the Temporal and Sequential Structure of Rhythmic Movements in the Primate Medial Premotor Cortex

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, September 2014, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  79. Cognitive modulation of local and callosal neural interactions in decision making

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, August 2014, Frontiers

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  80. Linking Perception, Cognition, and Action: Psychophysical Observations and Neural Network Modelling

    Article • PLOS One, July 2014, PLOS

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  81. Monkeys time their pauses of movement and not their movement-kinematics during a synchronization-continuation rhythmic task

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, May 2014, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  82. Information Processing in the Primate Basal Ganglia during Sensory-Guided and Internally Driven Rhythmic Tapping

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, March 2014, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  83. Introduction to the Neurobiology of Interval Timing

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  84. Are non-human primates capable of rhythmic entrainment? Evidence for the gradual audiomotor evolution hypothesis

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, January 2014, Frontiers

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  85. Neurophysiology of Timing in the Hundreds of Milliseconds: Multiple Layers of Neuronal Clocks in the Medial Premotor Areas

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  86. Neural Basis of the Perception and Estimation of Time

    Article • Annual Review of Neuroscience, July 2013, Annual Reviews

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  87. Interval Tuning in the Primate Medial Premotor Cortex as a General Timing Mechanism

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, May 2013, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  88. Trial time warping to discriminate stimulus-related from movement-related neural activity

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience Methods, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  89. Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) Detect Rhythmic Groups in Music, but Not the Beat

    Article • PLOS One, December 2012, PLOS

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  90. Functional impact of interneuronal inhibition in the cerebral cortex of behaving animals

    Article • Progress in Neurobiology, November 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  91. Temporal discrimination learning for treatment of gait dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease: a feasibility study using single subject design

    Article • Journal of Parkinsonism and Restless Leg Syndrome, December 2011, Journal of Parkinsonism and RLS

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  92. Measuring time with different neural chronometers during a synchronization-continuation task

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  93. Temporal and Spatial Categorization in Human and Non-Human Primates

    Article • Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, January 2011, Frontiers

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  94. Top-Down Spatial Categorization Signal from Prefrontal to Posterior Parietal Cortex in the Primate

    Article • Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, January 2011, Frontiers

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  95. What Can Be Inferred from Multiple-task Psychophysical Studies about the Mechanisms for Temporal Processing?

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  96. “Apneas” in Purkinje cell activity: evidence for the bistability of membrane potential in the awake cat cerebellum

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, January 2010, Frontiers

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  97. Subsecond Timing in Primates: Comparison of Interval Production Between Human Subjects and Rhesus Monkeys

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, December 2009, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  98. Learning and generalization of time production in humans: rules of transfer across modalities and interval durations

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, June 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  99. Neurophysiology of Interceptive Behavior in the Primate: Encoding and Decoding Target Parameters in the Parietofrontal System

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  100. Behavioral and Neurophysiological Aspects of Target Interception

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  101. Functional Architecture of Directional Tuning in the Primate Motor Cortex During 3D Reaching

    Article • December 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  102. Dynamic Sculpting of Directional Tuning in the Primate Motor Cortex during Three-Dimensional Reaching

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, September 2008, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  103. The Context of Temporal Processing Is Represented in the Multidimensional Relationships between Timing Tasks

    Article • PLOS One, September 2008, PLOS

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  104. Do We Have a Common Mechanism for Measuring Time in the Hundreds of Millisecond Range? Evidence From Multiple-Interval Timing Tasks

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, February 2008, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  105. Interval timing and Parkinson’s disease: heterogeneity in temporal performance

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, September 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  106. Mapping of the preferred direction in the motor cortex

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2007, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  107. Reply to Kurtzer and Herter

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, June 2007, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  108. Large-Scale Organization of Preferred Directions in the Motor Cortex. I. Motor Cortical Hyperacuity for Forward Reaching

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, December 2006, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  109. Large-Scale Organization of Preferred Directions in the Motor Cortex. II. Analysis of Local Distributions

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, December 2006, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  110. Investigating Higher Order Cognitive Functions in the Dorsal (magnocellular) Stream of Visual Processing

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  111. Neurophysiology of Perceptual and Motor Aspects of Interception

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, January 2006, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  112. Spatial Reconstruction of Trajectories of an Array of Recording Microelectrodes

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, April 2005, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  113. Decoding of path-guided apparent motion from neural ensembles in posterior parietal cortex

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, December 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  114. Comparative and categorical spatial judgments in the monkey: ?high? and ?low?

    Article • Animal Cognition, April 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  115. Neural Responses during Interception of Real and Apparent Circularly Moving Stimuli in Motor Cortex and Area 7a

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, March 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  116. Neural responses in motor cortex and area 7a to real and apparent motion

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, February 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  117. Short-term memory effects on the representation of two-dimensional space in the rhesus monkey

    Article • Animal Cognition, December 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  118. Interception of real and apparent motion targets: psychophysics in humans and monkeys

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, September 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  119. Functional Organization of Parietal Neuronal Responses to Optic-Flow Stimuli

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, August 2003, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  120. Neurobiology

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, December 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  121. Neurobiology

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, October 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  122. Neurobiology

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, April 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  123. Neurobiology

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, February 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  124. Neurobiology

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, December 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  125. Neurobiology: Paper alert

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, October 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  126. Neurobiology

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, June 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  127. Neurobiology

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, April 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  128. The Effects of Sensory Stimulation on REM Sleep Duration

    Article • SLEEP, March 1998, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  129. Processing of somesthetic stimuli in primate sensory-motor cortex

    Article • January 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  130. Role of primary somatic sensory cortex in the categorization of tactile stimuli: effects of lesions

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, June 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  131. Categorical perception of somesthetic stimuli: psychophysical measurements correlated with neuronal events in primate medial premotor cortex

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, June 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  132. Categorization of somaesthetic stimuli

    Article • Neuroreport, May 1996, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  133. Neuronal activity of primate putamen during categorical perception of somaesthetic stimuli

    Article • Neuroreport, May 1995, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  134. Brain distribution of c-fos expression as a result of prolonged rapid eye movement (REM) sleep period duration

    Article • Brain Research, May 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant, Ph.D. Fabio Garcia

  135. c-fos proto-oncogene change in relation to REM sleep duration

    Article • Brain Research, May 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant