Most Recent Publications
1. Vani G. Rajendran, Luis Prado, Juan Pablo Marquez, Hugo Merchant, Monkeys have rhythm, Science, December 2025; 390(6776), 940-944
2. Ameyaltzin Castillo Almazán, Oswaldo Pérez, Luis Prado, Nori Jacoby, Hugo Merchant, Flexible tapping synchronization in macaques: dynamic switching of timing strategies within rhythmic sequences, Journal Of Neurophysiology, August 2025; 134(2), 580-590
3. Merchant, H., Mendoza, G., Pérez, O., Betancourt, A., García-Saldivar, P., Prado, L. , Diverse Time Encoding Strategies Within the Medial Premotor Areas of the Primate., Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, June 2024; 1455, 3-23
4. Criscuolo A, Schwartze M, Prado L, Merchant H, Kotz S., Macaque monkeys and humans sample temporal regularities in the acoustic environment, Progress In Neurobiology, October 2023; 229(102502), 1-13
5. Gamez J., Mendoza G., Prado L., Betancourt A. and Merchant H. , The amplitude in periodic neural state trajectories underlies the tempo of rhythmic tapping, PLOS Biology, April 2019; 17(4), 1-32
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1. Vani G. Rajendran, Luis Prado, Juan Pablo Marquez, Hugo Merchant, Monkeys have rhythm, Science, December 2025; 390(6776), 940-944
2. Ameyaltzin Castillo Almazán, Oswaldo Pérez, Luis Prado, Nori Jacoby, Hugo Merchant, Flexible tapping synchronization in macaques: dynamic switching of timing strategies within rhythmic sequences, Journal Of Neurophysiology, August 2025; 134(2), 580-590
3. Merchant, H., Mendoza, G., Pérez, O., Betancourt, A., García-Saldivar, P., Prado, L. , Diverse Time Encoding Strategies Within the Medial Premotor Areas of the Primate., Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, June 2024; 1455, 3-23
4. Criscuolo A, Schwartze M, Prado L, Merchant H, Kotz S., Macaque monkeys and humans sample temporal regularities in the acoustic environment, Progress In Neurobiology, October 2023; 229(102502), 1-13
5. Gamez J., Mendoza G., Prado L., Betancourt A. and Merchant H. , The amplitude in periodic neural state trajectories underlies the tempo of rhythmic tapping, PLOS Biology, April 2019; 17(4), 1-32
6. Karyna Yc., Prado L, and Merchant H., The scalar property during isochronous tapping is disrupted by a D2-like agonist in the nonhuman primate., Journal Of Neurophysiology, March 2019; 121(3), 940-949
7. Honing H., Bouwer FL., Prado L., Merchant H., Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) sense isochrony in rhythm, but not the beat. Additional support for the gradual audiomotor evolution hypothesis., Frontiers in Neuroscience, December 2018
8. Gamez J., Yc K., Ayala Y., Prado L., Merchant H., Predictive rhythmic tapping to isochronous and tempo changing metronomes in the nonhuman primate., Annals Of The New York Academy Of Science, April 2018
9. Mendoza G.,, Mendez J..C.,, Perez O., Prado L., Merchant H., Neural basis for categorical boundaries in the primate pre-SMA during relative categorization of time intervals., Nature Communications, March 2018
10. Mendoza, G., Peyrache, A., Gámez, J., Prado, L., Buzsáki, G. and Merchant, H., Recording extracellular neural activity in the behaving monkey using a semi-chronic, high-density electrode system., Journal Of Neurophysiology, September 2016; 116(2), 563-574
11. Merchant, H.*, Perez, O., Bartolo, R., Mendez JC., Mendoza, G., Gamez, J., Yc, K., Prado, L., Sensorimotor neural dynamics during isochronous tapping in the medial premotor cortex of the macaque, European Journal Of Neuroscience,, European Journal Of Neuroscience, March 2015; 41(5), 586-602
12. Merchant, H., Bartolo, R., Perez, O., Mendez JC., Mendoza, G., Gamez, J., Yc, K. Prado, L., Neurobiology of Timing in the Hundred of Milliseconds: Multiple Layers of Neuronal Clocks in the Medial Premotor Areas., Advances In Experimental Medicine And Biology, October 2014; 829(1), 143-154
13. Mendez, J.C., Perez, O., Prado, L., and Merchant H., Linking perception, cognition, and action: Psychophysical observations and neural network modelling, Plos One, July 2014; 9(7), 18
14. Donnet S, Bartolo R, Fernandes JM, Cunha JP, Prado L, Merchant H., Monkeys time their pauses of movement and not their movement-kinematics during a synchronization-continuation rhythmic task, Journal Of Neurophysiology, May 2014; 111(10), 2138-2149
15. Bartolo R, Prado L, Merchant H., Information processing in the primate basal ganglia during sensory-guided and internally driven rhythmic tapping., Journal Of Neuroscience, March 2014; 34(11), 3910-3923
16. Honing H., Merchant H., Heden G, Prado L. A. and Bartolo, R., Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) can detect rhythmic groups in music, but not the beat., Plos One, December 2012; 324(3), 1-9
17. Merchant H, Zarco W, Pérez O, Prado L, Bartolo R., Measuring time with different neural chronometers during a synchronization-continuation task., Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America, November 2011; 108(49), 19784-19789
18. Mendez JC, Prado L, Mendoza G, Merchant H., Temporal and spatial categorization in human and non-human primates., Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, September 2011; 5(50), 1-10
19. Zarco W, Merchant H, Prado L, Mendez JC, Subsecond Timing in Primates: Comparison of Interval Production Between Human Subjects and Rhesus Monkeys, Journal Of Neurophysiology, 2009; 102(6), 3191:3202
20. Merchant, H. Zarco, W. Prado, L. and Perez O, Behavioral and neurophysiological aspects of target interception, Advances In Experimental Medicine And Biology, March 2009; 629(1), 201-220
21. Merchant H, Zarco, W. Bartolo R, Prado, L, The context of temporal processing is represented in the multidemensional relationship between timing tasks, Plos One, September 2008; 9(3), e3169
22. Merchant H, Zarco W, Prado L., Do we have a common mechanism for measuring time in the hundred of milliseconds range? Evidence from multiple interval timing tasks, Journal Of Neurophysiology, May 2008; 99(0), 939-949