The use of preparatory activity in the smooth eye movement region of the frontal eye fields as a visual-motor gain signal allows preparation to progress without inappropriate movement.

Precisely sequenced patterns of neuronal activity associated with the production of a skilled behavior begin and end as part of orchestrated activity across functionally diverse populations of cortical premotor neurons.

Muscarinic antagonism is causally involved in motivation and incentivisation in healthy human participants, partially mediated via preparatory neural signatures, with implications for cholinergic treatment of Parkinson's disease.

Non-invasive disinhibition of the oculomotor system shows that ongoing preparatory activity in the superior colliculus has movement-generating potential and need not rise to threshold in order to produce a saccade.

Neuronal activity in the striatum keeps track of elapsed time during the time production task while that in the cerebellum correlates with stochastic variation of self-timing in the range of several hundreds of milliseconds.

Voluntary movements are preceded by a temporally flexible preparatory neural process that is present regardless of whether movement is initiated rapidly or thoughtfully.

The activity of cerebellar Purkinje cells both represents and participates in organizing the temporal structure of a periodically performed motor action.

Computational principles shed light on why movement is preceded by preparatory activity within the neural networks that control muscles.

Memory guides attention by enabling preparation for upcoming states in the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex.

Low-dimensional external inputs are sufficient to control the speed of sequential activity, and to transition between persistent activity, in a network of neurons with both temporally symmetric and asymmetric learning.