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7553
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Overview

Hugo Merchant is affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico and has focused their research primarily on neuroscience, with a substantial body of work concentrated in cognitive neuroscience. Their publications also touch on cellular and molecular neuroscience, developmental biology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their research topics encompass neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and music perception, animal vocal communication and behavior, functional brain connectivity studies, hearing loss and rehabilitation, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications.

Merchant's most cited recent papers include:

  • Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging, 2020, Neuron
  • Neural Encoding and Representation of Time for Sensorimotor Control and Learning, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Mapping between sound, brain and behaviour: four-level framework for understanding rhythm processing in humans and non-human primates, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • A collaborative resource platform for non-human primate neuroimaging, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Amodal population clock in the primate medial premotor system for rhythmic tapping, 2023, Cell Reports

Frequent co-authors in Merchant's work include Pamela García-Saldivar, Germán Mendoza, Oswaldo Pérez, Luis Prado, and Saskia Haegens, each contributing to numerous collaborative publications.

Merchant's publications have appeared predominantly in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • NeuroImage
  • iScience
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Neuroscience

The scientist's contributions primarily address complex neural mechanisms underlying behavior and cognition, including how brain processes represent time, rhythm, and sensorimotor control. Their work also highlights methodological advances in neuroimaging and the study of non-human primate brain function.

Best Publications

  • Neural basis of the perception and estimation of time

    Hugo Merchant;Deborah L. Harrington;Warren H. Meck

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

    Hugo Merchant;Jessica Grahn;Laurel Trainor;Martin Rohrmeier

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

    Hugo Merchant;Henkjan Honing

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

    Wilbert Zarco;Hugo Merchant;Luis Prado;Juan Carlos Mendez

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

    Hugo Merchant;Oswaldo Pérez;Wilbert Zarco;Jorge Gámez

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

    Hugo Merchant;Wilbert Zarco;Oswaldo Pérez;Luis Prado

  • Do we have a common mechanism for measuring time in the hundreds of millisecond range? Evidence from multiple-interval timing tasks

    Hugo Merchant;Wilbert Zarco;Luis Prado

  • Information processing in the primate basal ganglia during sensory-guided and internally driven rhythmic tapping.

    Ramón Bartolo;Luis Prado;Hugo Merchant

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

    Henkjan Honing;Hugo Merchant;Gábor P. Háden;Luis Prado

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

    Hugo Merchant;Monica M Luciana;Catalina Hooper;Stacy Majestic

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

    David A. Crowe;Wilbert Zarco;Ramon Bartolo;Hugo Merchant

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

    Hugo Merchant;Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer;Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer;Apostolos P. Georgopoulos

  • Motor system evolution and the emergence of high cognitive functions

    Germán Mendoza;Hugo Merchant

  • β oscillations are linked to the initiation of sensory-cued movement sequences and the internal guidance of regular tapping in the monkey.

    Ramón Bartolo;Hugo Merchant

  • Mapping of the preferred direction in the motor cortex.

    Apostolos P. Georgopoulos;Hugo Merchant;Hugo Merchant;Thomas Naselaris;Thomas Naselaris;Bagrat Amirikian;Bagrat Amirikian

  • Searching for the origins of musicality across species.

    Marisa Hoeschele;Hugo Merchant;Yukiko Kikuchi;Yuko Hattori

  • Neurophysiology of perceptual and motor aspects of interception

    Hugo Merchant;Apostolos P. Georgopoulos

  • Effects of optic flow in motor cortex and area 7a.

    H. Merchant;A. Battaglia-Mayer;Apostolos P Georgopoulos

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

    Hugo Merchant;Kielan Yarrow

  • Introduction to the neurobiology of interval timing.

    Hugo Merchant;Victor de Lafuente

  • Dynamic sculpting of directional tuning in the primate motor cortex during three-dimensional reaching

    Hugo Merchant;Thomas Naselaris;Thomas Naselaris;Apostolos P Georgopoulos

Frequent Co-Authors

Apostolos P. Georgopoulos
Apostolos P. Georgopoulos University of Minnesota
Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer
Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer Sapienza University of Rome
Henkjan Honing
Henkjan Honing University of Amsterdam
Jakob Seidlitz
Jakob Seidlitz University of Pennsylvania
Rogier B. Mars
Rogier B. Mars University of Oxford
W. Tecumseh Fitch
W. Tecumseh Fitch University of Vienna
Michael P. Milham
Michael P. Milham Child Mind Institute
Laurel J. Trainor
Laurel J. Trainor McMaster University
Suliann Ben Hamed
Suliann Ben Hamed Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Daniel S. Margulies
Daniel S. Margulies Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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