1

Anticipatory organization of neural population dynamics speeds behavioral decisions
Gorman J. C., Sainburg T., McPherson T. S., Gentner T. Q. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.06.30.735699

2

The Premotor Language Area Encodes a Full Acoustic-to-semantic Speech Hierarchy
Guo S. S., Huth A. G. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.07.01.735929

3

Neural timescales from a computational perspective
Zeraati R., Levina A., Macke J. H., Gao R. (2026)
Nature Neuroscience 29:1534-1547

4

Distinct neural processes link speech planning and execution
Duraivel S. et al. (2024)
bioRxiv:2024.10.07.617122

5

Learning-related population dynamics in right and left dorsal premotor cortex during typing skill acquisition
Hashimoto H. et al. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.07.02.736059

6

Independent Online Visuomotor Control to Cursor and Target Motion
Franklin S., Dimitriou M., Franklin D. W. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.06.28.735032

7

Learning Shapes the Energy Cost of Neural Tasks
Xue K. et al. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.07.01.735889

8

The Importance of Synchrony in the Neural Control of Movement
Hasegawa M. et al. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.06.26.734805

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.

1

Interpretable compositional computation with recurrent neural networks
Pezon L., van Meegen A. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.06.23.733979

2

Rigid control of motor unit firing rates in the human tibialis anterior muscle persists during neurofeedback
Lee M. J. et al. (2026)
Journal of Neurophysiology 135:1499-1517

3

Arm dominance is an emergent effect of practice executing complex trajectory shapes required by tools and objects
Arac A., Lee N. Y. H. J., Krakauer J. W. (2026)
PNAS 123

4

Connectomic evidence that ordered activity drives neuromuscular network formation
Meirovitch Y. et al. (2026)
Nature Neuroscience

5

Cortical sculpting of a rhythmic motor program
Kirk E. A., Cai K., Sauerbrei B. A. (2025)
bioRxiv:2025.06.20.660772

6

Composing trajectories for rapid inference of navigational goals
AbdelRahman N. Y. et al. (2026)
Neuron

7

Motor cortex directly excites the substantia nigra pars reticulata, the basal ganglia output nucleus
Thompson W. S., Wekwejt P., Grillner S., Silberberg G. (2026)
Nature Communications 17

8

Cerebellar aging is spatially heterogeneous and supports cognitive resilience in later life
d’Oleire Uquillas F. et al. (2026)
Nature Neuroscience

9

Shared neural geometries for bilingual semantic representations in human hippocampal neurons
Yan X. et al. (2026)
Cell

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.

1

Learning shapes neural geometry in the primate prefrontal cortex
Wójcik M. J. et al. (2026)
Nature Neuroscience

2

Parallel processing of orthogonal manifolds enables zero-shot composition in recurrent networks
Osako Y., Arango A., Asabuki T. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.06.14.732142

3

Prefrontal mechanisms of goal progress inference and monitoring in macaque monkeys
Xu X. et al. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.19.726190

4

Mammalian Brains Seen through the Lens of Evolution
Sherman S. M., Usrey W. M. (2026)
The Journal of Neuroscience 46:e0217262026

5

Cerebellar output shapes cortical preparatory activity during motor adaptation
Israely S. et al. (2025)
Nature Communications 16

6

Mechanisms of premotor-motor cortex interactions during movement initiation
Alyahyay M. et al. (2026)
Cell Reports 45:117542

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.

1

The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience: Studying how the brain interacts with the world
Angelaki D. E. et al. (2026)
Neuron

2

Striatal pathways dissociably control action counting and goal-directed steering
Fallon I. P. et al. (2026)
Nature Neuroscience

3

Perineuronal nets in cerebellar nuclei neurons orchestrate social behaviour via regulation of neuronal activity in circuits innervated by the cerebellum
Fujita K. et al. (2026)
Translational Psychiatry 16

4

Autism subtypes identified using cross-species functional connectivity analyses
Pagani M. et al. (2026)
Nature Neuroscience 29:1476-1487

5

BiXformer: A Bidirectional Cross Attention Transformer for Disentangling Inter-Regional Neural Dynamics
El Sayed O., Han Y., Dragoi T., Economo M. N., DePasquale B. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.06.05.730511

6

Extreme-value signal detection theory for recognition memory: The parametric road not taken.
Meyer-Grant C. G., Kellen D., Harding S. M., Singmann H. (2026)
Psychological Review

7

Long-term independent use of an intracortical brain–computer interface for speech and cursor control
Card N. S. et al. (2026)
Nature Medicine

8

Two time scales of adaptation in human learning rates
Simoens J. et al. (2026)
eLife

9

Cued Recall of Human Motor Memory
Lewis-Hoeber E., Darainy M., Ebrahimi S., Ostry D. J. (2026)
Journal of Neurophysiology jn.00158.2026

10

Movement planning predictions shape somatosensory sensitivity
D’Onofrio Pacheco P. N., Zimmermann E. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.06.12.731893

11

Patterns of brain-wide associations reflect socioeconomics
Marek S. et al. (2026)
Science 392

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.

1

Neuropixels Opto: combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics
Lakunina A. A. et al. (2026)
Nature Methods 23:1207-1216

2

Neural networks learn forward dynamics when freed from numerical integration
Bahdasariants S., Yakovenko S. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.27.728310

3

Dynamic compression of whole-brain neural trajectories during human motor learning
Mohseni H. et al. (2026)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123

4

Spinal cord stimulation for upper limb motor function in people with chronic post-stroke hemiparesis: a feasibility trial
de Freitas R. M. et al. (2026)
Nature Medicine

5

Neural similarity predicts whether strangers become friends
Shen Y. L. et al. (2025)
Nature Human Behaviour 9:2285-2298

6

A motor basis for a foreign accent? Linguistic context constrains the generalization of second language speech motor plans
Heyland L., Palatinus S., Shiller D. M., Lametti D. R. (2026)
10.31234/osf.io/y6bqg_v1

7

Human learning of noninvasive brain–computer interfaces via manifold geometry
Busch E. L., Fincke E. C., Lajoie G., Krishnaswamy S., Turk-Browne N. B. (2026)
Nature Neuroscience

8

Individual locomotor bias drives counterclockwise motion in pedestrian crowds
Echeverría-Huarte I. et al. (2026)
Nature Communications 17

9

Peripheral mechanisms of tactile sensation in fish
Tan K., Gracheva E. O., Bagriantsev S. N. (2026)
Current Opinion in Neurobiology 99:103226

10

The cortex as a central pattern generator
Yuste R., MacLean J. N., Smith J., Lansner A. (2005)
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 6:477-483

11

The puzzling success of overparameterization: Lottery tickets or escape dimensions?
Martinelli F, Brea J, Gerstner W (2026)
10.5075/EPFL.20.500.14299/263577

Superlab Papers

Online planning of sequential actions
Diedrichsen J., Kashefi M., Nazerzadeh A., Pruszynski J. A. (2026)
Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.

1

Neuropixels Opto: combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics
Lakunina A. A. et al. (2026)
Nature Methods

2

Neural networks learn forward dynamics when freed from numerical integration
Bahdasariants S., Yakovenko S. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.27.728310

3

Dynamic compression of whole-brain neural trajectories during human motor learning
Mohseni H. et al. (2026)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123

4

Spinal cord stimulation for upper limb motor function in people with chronic post-stroke hemiparesis: a feasibility trial
de Freitas R. M. et al. (2026)
Nature Medicine

5

Neural similarity predicts whether strangers become friends
Shen Y. L. et al. (2025)
Nature Human Behaviour 9:2285-2298

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.

1

Voluntary Dissociation of Motor Unit Activity in the Vastii Muscles
Haller D. et al. (2026)
The Journal of Neuroscience e1982252026

2

Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand
Sulewski P., Amme C., Hebart M. N., König P., Kietzmann T. C. (2026)
Nature Neuroscience

3

When anticipation is not enough: a mixture of robust and adaptive feedback control strategies improve reaching in dynamic environments
Kalidindi H. T., Crevecoeur F. (2026)
The Journal of Neuroscience e2158252026

4

Reward magnitude determines reinforcement learning efficiency
Gong S., Martell A., Dudman J. T., Coddington L. T. (2026)
Science 392

5

A critical initialization for biological neural networks
Pachitariu M. et al. (2026)
Nature

6

A systematic investigation reveals dissociable effects of ageing on implicit and explicit components of sensorimotor learning
Cisneros E., Karny S., Ivry R. B., Tsay J. S. (2026)
Nature Human Behaviour

Superlab Papers

SUITPy: A Python-based toolbox for the analysis of cerebellar functional and anatomical imaging data across the human lifespan
Wang Y. et al. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.14.724397

Journal Club

Nishal Shah (Rice Univ.) joined us to talk about his recent paper:

Pseudo-linear summation explains neural geometry of multi-finger movements in human premotor cortex
Shah N. P. et al. (2025)
Nature Communications 16

YouTube video: https://youtu.be/4jd4eRIls0I

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.

1

Simple input–output dependencies explain neuronal activity
Lynn C. W. (2026)
Nature Physics

2

This paper changed my life: Appreciating John Hopfield’s brilliant neural network
Geffen M. (2026)
The Transmitter

3

Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities.
Hopfield J. J. (1982)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 79:2554-2558

4

Neural representation of action symbols in primate frontal cortex
Tian L. Y. et al. (2026)
Nature

5

Neural correlates of perceptual decision-making in the primary somatosensory cortex
Armstrong A. G., Vlasov Y. (2026)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123

6

Neural xenografts contribute to long-term recovery in stroke via molecular graft-host crosstalk
Weber R. Z. et al. (2025)
Nature Communications 16

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.

1

White matter micro- and macrostructure brain charts for the human lifespan
Kim M. E. et al. (2026)
Nature

2

A synaptic locus of song learning
Schreiner D. C., Brudner S., Li A., Pearson J., Mooney R. (2026)
Nature

3

Spatiotemporal encoding of touch signals in the human somatosensory and motor cortices
Cattabriga M. et al. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.08.721831

4

Learning a reversed bicycle disrupts predictive control and induces interference with the normal bicycle
Nietschmann P., Franklin D. W. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.08.723825

5

Population-level encoding of somatosensation in mouse sensorimotor cortex
Lipton M. H., Park S., Dadarlat M. C. (2026)
Journal of Neurophysiology jn.00005.2026

6

A framework for quantifying the mechanics of dexterous grasp
Sobinov A. R. et al. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.05.723084

7

Neural population geometry and optimal coding of tasks with shared latent structure
Wakhloo A. J., Slatton W., Chung S. (2026)
Nature Neuroscience 29:682-692

8

Laminar organization of cellular microcircuits modulating human interictal epileptiform discharges
Silva A. B. et al. (2026)
Nature Neuroscience

9

Motor abstraction training generalizes to the refinement of specific movement patterns
Sun Z., Xie Z., McDougle S. D. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.05.722946

10

Tuft dendrites in frontal motor cortex enable flexible learning
Maristany de las Casas E. et al. (2026)
Science 392

Superlab Papers

Sequence preparation is not always associated with a reaction time cost
Panjehpour A., Kashefi M., Diedrichsen J., Pruszynski J. A. (2026)
Journal of Neurophysiology 135:1398-1407

A context-free model of savings in motor learning
Shahbazi M., Codol O., Michaels J. A., Gribble P. L. (2026)
eLife 14

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.

1

Human motor memory retention requires fronto-parietal circuit plasticity
Ebrahimi S, Darainy M, Manning TF, Lewis-Hoeber E, Ostry DJ (2026)
J Neurophysiol 135:1175–1185

2

Premotor cortex uses a compositional neural geometry to plan words
Abramovich Krasa B, Kunz EM, Kamdar F, Avansino D, Hahn N, Singh A, Card NS, Wairagkar M, Iacobacci C, Hochberg LR, Brandman DM, Stavisky SD, Henderson JM, Willett FR, Druckmann S (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.04.27.721195

3

Recovery of dexterous motor control via non-monosynaptic corticospinal pathways
Sorensen E, Borda L, Ostrowski J, de Freitas RM, Verma N, Fisher LE, Wittenberg GF, Gerszten P, Weber DJ, Pirondini E, Gorassini M, Krakauer JW, Capogrosso M (2026)
medRxiv:2026.03.24.26348827

4

Predictive pursuit emerges in high-dimensional recurrent neural networks
Redman WT, Dinc FD, Lin X, Chan MG, Alexander AS (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.04.23.720457

5

Fast corrective responses in redundant motor control are shaped by intrinsic constraints of movement patterns
Kobayashi T, Nozaki D (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.03.11.711221

6

Large-scale electrophysiology at single-spike resolution
Siegle JH, Steinmetz NA (2026)
Nat Rev Neurosci

7

Laminar organization of cellular microcircuits modulating human interictal epileptiform discharges
Silva AB, Marathe SA, Greicius QR, Xu D, Jain S, Chung JE, Yang X, Khambhati AN, Leonard MK, Kleen JK, Chang EF (2026)
Nat Neurosci

8

Infinite horizon control with nonlinear dynamics models reproduces temporal modulation of reaching movements
De Comite A, Kalidindi HT, Pruszynski JA, Crevecoeur F (2026)
Neural Comput 38:823–844

9

Granule cells reorient cortical manifolds to separate contexts but preserve their geometry
Garcia-Garcia MG, Wojcik MJ, Thota S, Drake L, Otchere A, Akinwale O, Ramos L, Costa RP, Wagner MJ (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.03.03.709240

10

Premotor cortex uses a compositional neural geometry to plan words
Abramovich Krasa B, Kunz EM, Kamdar F, Avansino D, Hahn N, Singh A, Card NS, Wairagkar M, Iacobacci C, Hochberg LR, Brandman DM, Stavisky SD, Henderson JM, Willett FR, Druckmann S (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.04.27.721195

11

Whole-body 3D kinematics of freely behaving Drosophila
Ispizua JI, Abe ETT, Yan J, Othayoth R, Sawtelle S, Atkins F, Shiozaki H, Meier NR, Wong J, Tran TT, Mori CK, Voigts J, Stern DL, Brunton BW, Tuthill JC, Johnson RE (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.03.722293

12

A communication subspace relays context-dependent actions from human prefrontal to motor cortex
Binish N, Terlau J, Martini J, Lin JJ, Knight RT, Helfrich RF (2026)
Nat Neurosci

13

Adaptive problem solving in the primate frontal cortex
Ramadan M, Gosztolai A, Jazayeri M (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.04.722785

14

Evidence from Formal Logical Reasoning Reveals that the Language of Thought is not Natural Language
Kean H, Fung A, Jaggers P, Chen J, Rule J, Benn Y, Tenenbaum J, Piantadosi S, Varley R, Fedorenko E (2025)
bioRxiv:2025.07.26.666979

15

Neural coding of arm and hand actions is spatially organized in motor cortex
Chehade NG, Gharbawie O (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.02.722416

16

Involuntary feedback responses reflect a representation of partner actions
Sullivan SR, Buggeln JH, Calalo JA, Ngo TT, Semrau JA, Carter MJ, Cashaback JGA (2026)
eLife

17

Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus
Katlowitz KA et al. (2026)
Nature

18

Neuromodulation enables transient flexible control of motoneurons
T. Consul N, Avrillon S, Bracklein M, Gallego JA, Farina D (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.01.721852

19

Multiplexed magnetic resonance imaging
Li Y, Guo R, Zhao Y, Jin W, Ke Z, Chen L, Chen X, Tang W, Li Y, Liang Z-P (2026)
Nature

20

Human hippocampal ripples coordinate planning sequences and compositional representations in neocortex
He L, Wang X, Zhang J, Xiao Z, Hu X, Schwartenbeck P, Bakermans J, Behrens T, Liu Y (2026)
Nat Neurosci

21

Evolution imposes an inductive bias that alters and accelerates learning dynamics
Midler B, Pan-Vazquez A (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.04.722746

22

Single human fingertip mechanoreceptive afferents simultaneously encode multidimensional aspects of touch
Lang VA, Wasling HB, Ackerley R, Wessberg J (2026)
J Physiol

Journal Club

• Arseny Finklestein (Tel Aviv, Janelia) joined us to talk about his recent paper:

  Connectivity underlying motor cortex activity during goal-directed behaviour
  Finkelstein A, Daie K, Rózsa M, Darshan R, Svoboda K (2025)
  Nature

  YouTube video: https://youtu.be/BRgyCb6dYDs?si=F2CC4Zsyef1Vizlt

• Huidi Li joined us from the Earl Miller lab at MIT to talk about her recent paper:

  Neural subspace reorganization reflects value-based decision making
  Li H, Chrysanthidis N, Brincat SL, Rose J, Miller EK (2026)
  bioRxiv:2026.02.02.703171

  YouTube video: https://youtu.be/soDPs8zdua0?si=ir2A26UspfxjwyYS

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.

1

Universal geometry of compositional construction in prefrontal cortex
Manakov M, Proskurin M, Wang H, Kuleshova E, Lustig A, Behnam R, Druckmann S, Tervo DGR, Koay SA, Karpova AY (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.04.23.720375

2

Parallel processing chains span cytoarchitectures to organize association cortex
Gordon EM et al. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.04.21.717753

3

A mesoscale optogenetics system for precise and robust stimulation of the primate cortex
Li H, Lu D, Liao H, Zhang J, Tang J, He F, Li L, Zhang Y, Leng X, Li C, Poo M-M, Liu Z (2026)
Neuron 114:1006-1020.e4

4

Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks
Cooper ML, Selles MC, Cammer M, Redd C, Gildea HK, Sall J, Chiurri KE, Cheung P, Wheeler DG, Saab AS, Liddelow SA, Chao MV (2026)
Nature:1–9

5

A multimodal approach for visualizing and identifying electrophysiological cell types in vivo
Lee EK, Gül AE, Heller G, Lakunina A, Yu H, Shelton A, Olsen S, Steinmetz NA, Hurwitz C, Jaramillo S, Przytycki PF, Chandrasekaran C (2026)
Nat Commun:1–21

6

The prefrontal cortex controls memory organization in the hippocampus
de Sousa AF, Zeidler ZE, Almeida-Filho DG, Shen Y, Luchetti A, Simanian S, Mardini M, DeNardo LA, Silva AJ (2026)
Nat Neurosci:1–12

7

A cortical circuit for orchestrating oromanual food manipulation
An X, Li Y, Matho K, Mohan H, Xu XH, Boato F, Whishaw IQ, Kepecs A, Huang ZJ (2026)
Neuron

8

Sensory basis of speech motor learning and memory
Rao N, Gendron R, Manning TF, Ostry DJ (2026)
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 123:e2525468123

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.

1

Recurrent cortical networks encode natural sensory statistics via sequence filtering
Deveau CE, Zhou Z, LaFosse PK, Deng Y, Mirbagheri S, Steinmetz N, Histed MH (2026)
Neuron 114:1489-1503.e4

2

Overcoming the ceiling effects of experts’ motor expertise through active haptic training
Hirano M, Sakurada M, Furuya S (2020)
Sci Adv 6

3

Enhanced somatosensory inhibition sharpens hand representation and sensorimotor skills in pianists
Hirano M, Kimoto Y, Shiotani S, Furuya S (2025)
J Neurosci

4

A central somatotopic map of the fly leg supports spatially targeted grooming
Elabbady L, Chou GM, Sustar A, Cook A, Collman F, Tuthill JC (2026)
Curr Biol

5

Language models transmit behavioural traits through hidden signals in data
Cloud A, Le M, Chua J, Betley J, Sztyber-Betley A, Mindermann S, Hilton J, Marks S, Evans O (2026)
Nature 652:615–621

6

Proprioceptive judgements made with the hand and the jaw: two distinct but functionally related body parts
Robertson LS, Butler AA, Fisher G, Gandevia SC, Héroux ME (2026)
Sci Rep:1–16

7

Neuronal competition shapes the encoding, consolidation, and retrieval of precise spatial memories in mice
Wang Y, Wu B, Jacob AD, Ramsaran AI, Fallahi A, Jung JH, Fang X, Duncan KD, Schlichting ML, Frankland PW, Josselyn SA (2026)
Curr Biol

8

Somatosensory input drives membrane potential dynamics in motor cortex during voluntary limb movement
Voigt BC, Rau F, Estebanez L, Poulet JFA (2026)
PLoS Biol 24:e3003749

9

Rhesus macaque versus rat divergence in the corticospinal projectome
Sinopoulou E et al., (2022)
Neuron

10

A neural geometry for forelimb proprioception in the cervical spinal cord
Bollu T, Goulding M (2025)
bioRxiv:2025.09.26.678887

11

Objects feel stiffer in the nondominant hand when comparing between hands
Arusi S, Leib R, Nisky I (2026)
J Neurophysiol 135:1034–1048

12

Stability of neural manifolds at minimal dimensionality despite motor representational drift
Abdulla MU, Clarke SE, Jun EJ, Nuyujukian P (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.01.30.702162

13

Outplaying elite table tennis players with an autonomous robot
Dürr P et al. (2026)
Nature 652:886–891

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.

1

Striatum-wide dopamine encodes trajectory errors separated from value
Brown EH, Zi Y, Vu MA et al. (2026)
Nature 652:424–433

2

Flexible integration of corollary discharge and sensory feedback signals in somatosensory cortex
An X, Chowdhury RH, Blum KP, Miller LE, Glaser JI (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.04.02.716126

3

Brain–computer interface–based neurofeedback training enables transferable control of cortical state switching in humans
Iwama S, Matsuoka A, Ushiba J (2026)
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 123:e2525769123

4

Translation of neurotechnologies
Schalk G, Brunner P, Allison BZ et al. (2024)
Nat Rev Bioeng 2:637–652

5

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses
Tsukano H, Garcia MM, Dandu PR et al. (2026)
Nat Neurosci 29:888–900

6

Categorization is ‘baked’ into the brain
Barrett LF, Miller EK (2026)
Nat Rev Neurosci

7

Neural sequences underlying directed turning in Caenorhabditis elegans
Kramer TS, Wan FK, Pugliese SM et al. (2026)
Nat Neurosci

8

Neural representation of action grammar structure in primate frontal cortex
Tian LY, Hanuska DJ, Garzón Gupta K, Liu Y, Wang XJ, Tenenbaum JB, Freiwald WA (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.01.18.700235

9

Brainwide blood volume reflects opposing neural populations
Landemard A, Krumin M, Harris KD et al. (2026)
Nature

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.

1

Prefrontal cortex encodes behavior states decoupled from motor execution
Rautio IV, Nevjen F, Hem I, Dunn BA, Whitlock JR (2026)
Cell Rep 45:117138

2

Prenatal and early postnatal periods differentially shape the maturation of human cortical microstructure and myelin
Tsigaras T, Dukart J, Oldham S, Eickhoff SB, Paquola C (2026)
PLoS Biol 24:e3003722

3

Laminar CBV and BOLD response characteristics over time and space in the human primary somatosensory cortex at 7T
Dresbach S, Gulban OF, Steinbach T, Eck J, Kashyap S, Kaas A, Weiskopf N, Goebel R, Huber R (2026)
Imaging Neurosci (Camb) 4:IMAG.a.1157

4

Cognition emerges from phase dynamics of intrinsic coordination
Song Y, Chen J, Calhoun VD, Iraji A (2026)
bioRxivorg:2026.03.26.714488

5

Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex
Shi Y, Bi D, Hesse JK, Lanfranchi FF, Chen S, Tsao DY (2026)
Nature:1–10

6

Thalamic activation of the visual cortex at the single-synapse level
Chen Y, Kloos M, Varga Z, Zhang Y, Piro I, Sato TK, Sakmann B, Nelken I, Konnerth A (2026)
Science 391:1349–1354

7

Reciprocal fronto-parietal interactions support motor anticipation during sequential reaching
Bardanikas G, Jana S, Meirhaeghe N, Barthelemy F, Riehle A, Grün S, Brovelli A, Brochier T (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.03.03.709252

8

Active dissociation of intracortical spiking and high gamma activity
Lei T, Scheid MR, Flint RD, Glaser JI, Slutzky MW (2026)
Nature:1–7

9

Cerebellar contributions to action and cognition: Prediction, timescale, and continuity
Tsay JS, Ivry RB (2026)
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 123:e2524258123

10

Stretch-evoked motor responses in the brainstem are modulated by task instructions
Nikonowicz RC, Reddy NA, Medina MC, Bright MG, Sergi F (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.04.03.716388

11

Faster fowl fall frequently: speed and force regulation during turning maneuvers by guinea fowl on high and low friction terrains
Goldsmith H, Hall J, Daley MA (2026)
J Exp Biol 229:jeb250929

12

Extracellular spike waveforms: Morphology, biophysics, and classification strategies
Sun SH, Ibbotson MR (2026)
J Neurosci 46:e1741252025

13

Open questions in elucidating neural mechanisms underlying sensory-guided motor control
Q&A (2026)
Nat Commun 17:3260

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.

1

Autogenic spinal excitatory circuit ensures skilled hand movements in primates
Kim G, Tomatsu S, Umeda T, Takei T, Funato T, Seki K (2026)
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 123:e2525051123

2

Inhibitory normalization of error signals improves learning in neural circuits
Eyono RH, Levenstein D, Ghosh A, Cornford J, Richards B (2026)
arXiv [q-bioNC]

3

Clarifying the conceptual dimensions of representation in neuroscience
Pohl S, Walker EY, Barack DL, Lee J, Denison RN, Block N, Meyniel F, Ma WJ (2026)
Nat Rev Neurosci:1–16

4

Duration between rewards controls the rate of behavioral and dopaminergic learning
Burke DA, Taylor A, Jeong H, Lee S, Zsembik L, Wu B, Floeder JR, Naik GA, Chen R, Namboodiri VMK (2026)
Nat Neurosci:1–15

5

Limb state accounts for differences between motor imagery and action in motor cortex
Johnson SN, Rybář M, Greenspon CM, Moore DD, Downey JE, Dekleva BM, Hatsopoulos NG (2026)
medRxiv:2026.03.13.26348353

6

Extent of damage to descending output from cortex rather than to specific cortical regions drives the emergence of flexor synergy in non-human primates
Baines A, Glover IS, Baker AME, Krakauer JW, Baker SN (2026)
bioRxivorg:2026.03.04.709517

7

Nested spatiotemporal theta-gamma waves organize hierarchical processing across the mouse visual cortex
Harris B, Gong P (2026)
Nat Commun 17:2629

8

Overlap in neural representations of coordinated wrist and finger movements in human motor cortex
Emonds AMX, Okorokova EV, Blumenthal GH, Collinger JL, Bensmaia SJ, Miller LE, Downey JE, Sobinov AR (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.03.19.712976

9

Using tools as cues for motor adaptation in virtual reality
King AM, Boulrice JJ, Modchalingam S, Mikula L, ’t Hart BM, Henriques DYP (2026)
J Neurophysiol 135:642–652

10

Interhemispheric transfer of sensory and working memory information is dictated by behavioral strategy
Avidan E, Sherer SD, Gilad A (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.03.18.712808

11

The digital sphinx: Can a worm brain control a fly body?
Brunton BW, Abe ETT, Hu LJ, Tuthill JC (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.03.20.713233

12

Processes within the subspaces leading to changes in performance and keeping it unchanged
De SD, Latash ML (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.03.23.713586

13

A right-hemispheric language network at single-neuron resolution
Schiffl LF, Held LM, Waitzmann F, Eder M, Chen H, Alkan G, Favero P, Utzschmid A, Eisenkolb VM, Grosse-Wentrup M, Gjorgjieva J, Wagner A, Gempt J, Meyer B, Jacob SN (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.03.24.713937

14

Functional hierarchy of the human neocortex across the lifespan
Taylor HP IV, Huynh KM, Thung K-H, Lin G, Lyu W, Lin W, Ahmad S, Yap P-T (2026)
Nature:1–10

15

Computational framework to predict and shape human–machine interactions in closed-loop, co-adaptive neural interfaces
Madduri MM, Yamagami M, Li SJ, Burckhardt S, Burden SA, Orsborn AL (2026)
Nat Mach Intell 8:372–387

Superlab Papers

How does the cerebellum contribute to cognitive functions?
Diedrichsen J, McDougle SD (2026)
PLoS Biol 24:e3003688

Journal Club

Tatiana Engel, (Princeton University), recently joined us to talk about her recent paper:

The dynamics and geometry of choice in the premotor cortex
Genkin M, Shenoy KV, Chandrasekaran C, Engel TA (2025)
Nature 645, 168–176

YouTube video: https://youtu.be/e2rqL0VA5IE

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.

1

JEDI: Jointly embedded inference of neural dynamics
Jamkhandi A, Korojy A, Codol O, Lajoie G, Perich MG (2026)
arXiv [q-bioNC]

2

A spinal substrate for modular control of natural behavior
Nicola F, Li L, Riesenmy T, Pursley R, Roome RB, Markowitz JE, Levine AJ (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.03.12.711392

3

Lifelong behavioral screen reveals an architecture of vertebrate aging
Bedbrook CN, Nath RD, Zhang L, Linderman SW, Brunet A, Deisseroth K (2026)
Science 391:eaea9795

4

Competitive interactions shape mammalian brain network dynamics and computation
Luppi AI, Sanz Perl Y, Vohryzek J, Ali H, Mediano PAM, Rosas FE, Milisav F, Suárez LE, Gini S, Gutierrez-Barragan D, Yee Y, Froudist-Walsh S, Gozzi A, Misic B, Deco G, Kringelbach ML (2026)
Nat Neurosci:1–19

5

Evolutionarily conserved neural dynamics across mice, monkeys, and humans
Codol O, Asclipe M, Sobinov AR, Chen Z, Park J, Hatsopoulos NG, Dudman JT, Gallego JA, Lajoie G, Perich MG (2026)
bioRxivorg:2026.03.06.709637

6

Peripheral anatomy and central connectivity of proprioceptive sensory neurons in the Drosophila wing
Lesser E, Moussa AJ, Tuthill JC (2026)
Elife 14

7

Spatial transcriptomics reveals human cortical layer and area specification
Qian X et al. (2025)
Nature:1–11

8

Rapid integration of somatosensory feedback in planning tongue movements
Kim JJ, Dong M, O’Connor DH (2026)
bioRxivorg:2026.03.03.709371

9

Tactile and pain mechanical sensitivity of the human hand
Giner MJ, Mazar M, Aleixandre-Carrera F, Talavera K, Delicado-Miralles M, Miralles-Liborio V, Velasco E (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.02.23.707479

10

Dynamic engagement of the motor cortex in controlling movement
Dragoi T, Loschinskey Z, Hasnain MA, DePasquale B, Economo MN (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.01.13.699314

11

Linking neural manifolds to circuit structure in recurrent networks
Pezon L, Schmutz V, Gerstner W (2026)
Neuron

Superlab Papers

Multi-task fMRI outperforms resting-state fMRI for revealing task-invariant organization of the human brain
Nettekoven C, Shahbazi A, Arafat B, Skenderija M, Xiang JD, Pinho AL, Diedrichsen J (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.03.09.710558

Speed-dependent modulation of tactile edge orientation discrimination
Sukumar V, Pruszynski JA (2026)
J Neurophysiol 135:725–732

Journal Club

Ryan Canfield, recently graduated PhD student with Dr. Amy Orsborn and Dr. Gregory Horwitz at University of Washington, joined us to talk about his recent paper:

The spatiotemporal structure of neural activity in motor cortex during reaching
Canfield RA, Ouchi T, Fang H, Macagno B, Smith LI, Scholl LR, Orsborn AL (2025)
bioRxiv:2025.10.17.683171

YouTube video: https://youtu.be/F23AW0k4y_M

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.

1

The human insula encodes somatotopic representation of motor execution with an effector-specific connectome map to primary motor cortex
Kerezoudis P, Jensen MA, Klassen BT, Worrell GA, Gregg NM, Ince NF, Van Gompel JJ, Hermes D, Miller KJ (2026)
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 123:e2517734123

2

The methodological foundations of lesion network mapping remain sound
Siddiqi SH, Horn A, Schaper FL, Khosravani S, Cohen AL, Joutsa J, Rolston JD, Ferguson MA, Snider SB, Winkler AM, Akram H, Smith S, Nichols TE, Friston K, Boes AD, Fox MD (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.02.24.707529

3

PANDORA: Population Archive of Neuroimaging Data Organized for Rapid Analysis
Abivardi A, Webster M, McCarthy P, Alfaro-Almagro F, Radosavljevic L, Miller KL, Jbabdi S, Woolrich MW, Gong W, Beckmann CF, Elliott LT, Nichols TE, Smith SM (2026)
medRxiv:2026.01.05.26343425

4

Proprioceptive Cortical Neurons Implement Optimal State Estimation
Palacio-Manzano M, Scheer I, Prsa M (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.02.23.707432

5

Finding the groove in neural space
Bhatt R, Sheets DE, Jordan PM, Downey JE, Merchant H, Greenspon CM (2026)
medRxiv:2026.02.26.26347169

6

A central somatotopic map of the fly leg supports spatially targeted grooming
Elabbady L, Chou G, Sustar A, Cook A, Collman F, Tuthill JC (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.02.27.708590

7

Closed-loop error damping in human BCI using pre-error motor cortex activity
Gontier C, Hockeimer W, Kunigk NG, Canario E, Endsley LJ, Downey JE, Weiss JM, Dekleva B, Collinger JL (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.02.25.707999

8

Arm control and its recovery after selective lesions of sensorimotor cortex and the red nucleus: A kinematic study in non-human primates
Baines A, Poll A, Baker AME, Krakauer JW, Baker SN (2025)
bioRxiv:2025.08.06.668715

9

On attaining and estimating steady walking speed
Wong JD, Darici O, Kuo A (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.03.01.708843

10

Genetically encoded assembly recorder temporally resolves cellular history
Yan Y, Lu J, Li Z, Zhao Z, Shay TF, Wang S, Lei Y, Wang Y, Chen W, Parker P, Yang H, Qi A, Sun Y, Bergles DE, Baker D, Lin D (2026)
Nature:1–3

11

Structure, disorder, and dynamics in task-trained recurrent neural circuits
Clark DG, Bordelon B, Zavatone-Veth JA, Pehlevan C (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.03.02.708943

12

The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2
Mulhall EM, Yarishkin O, Hill RZ, Koster AK, Patapoutian A (2026)
Nature:1–9

13

Granule cells reorient cortical manifolds to separate contexts but preserve their geometry
Garcia-Garcia MG, Wojcik MJ, Thota S, Drake L, Otchere A, Akinwale O, Ramos L, Costa RP, Wagner MJ (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.03.03.709240

14

Consistent EMG encoding during reach and grasp by neurons in motor cortex
Ciucci C, Ma X, Rizzoglio F, Gasper E, Sobinov AR, Miller LE (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.03.02.709159

15

Data Visualization (Second Edition)
Healy K (2026)
https://socviz.co/

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.

1

Does anodal tDCS over M1 really enhance motor sequence learning? A non-replication of earlier findings in a double-blind, pre-registered large-sample study in humans
Kerstens S, van Boekholdt L, Vanderheyden H, Smedt LD, Seminck N, Van Bogaert T, Albouy G, King BR, Orban de Xivry J-J, Mc Laughlin M (2025)
medRxiv:2025.10.06.25337371

2

Astrocytes enable amygdala neural representations supporting memory
Bukalo O, O’Sullivan R, Tanisumi Y, Mendez A, Weinholtz C, Zimmerman S, Offenberg V, Carpenter O, Bhagwat H, Mosley S, O’Malley JJ, Lyons K, Fang Y, Goldschlager J, Ostroff LE, Penzo MA, Wake H, Halladay LR, Holmes A (2026)
Nature:1–8

3

Global remapping of the sensory homunculus emerges early in childhood development
Tucciarelli R, Bird L, Straka Z, Szymanska M, Kollamkulam M, Sonar HA, Paik J, Clode D, Hoffmann M, Cowie D, Makin TR (2026)
Nat Commun 17:1591

4

Human hippocampal neurogenesis in adulthood, ageing and Alzheimer’s disease
Disouky A, Sanborn MA, Sabitha KR, Mostafa MM, Ayala IA, Bennett DA, Lu Y, Zhou Y, Keene CD, Weintraub S, Gefen T, Mesulam M-M, Geula C, Maienschein-Cline M, Rehman J, Lazarov O (2026)
Nature:1–10

5

Expert motor synergies emerge predominantly offline during early skill learning
Kistler W, Fakhreddine R, Rodriguez GR, Hayward M, Buch ER, Bestmann S, Cohen L (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.02.24.707000

6

Layer 5 Martinotti and pyramidal neurons encode spatial information in the primary motor cortex
Ciralli B, Malfatti T, Kullander K (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.02.25.707928

7

Vectorized instructive signals in cortical dendrites
Francioni V, Tang VD, Toloza EHS, Ding Z, Brown NJ, Harnett MT (2026)
Nature:1–10

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.

1

Myelin sheaths in the central nervous system can withstand damage and dynamically remodel
Arafa D et al. (2026)
Science 391:eadr4661

2

TRIBE: TRImodal Brain Encoder for whole-brain fMRI response prediction
d’Ascoli S, Rapin J, Benchetrit Y, Banville H, King J-R (2025)
arXiv [csLG]

3

Hierarchy in neuronal representations of multiple tasks in prefrontal cortex
Sheng Q, Luo S, Li D, Jia J, Fan Z, He Z, Wang F, Chen Y, Yuan S, Cheng Z, Li CT, Xie Y (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.02.10.705211

4

Feedback control of random networks as a model of flexible motor cortical dynamics across tasks
Kalidindi HT, Crevecoeur F (2026)
Cell Reports 45:116991

5

Neural population geometry and optimal coding of tasks with shared latent structure
Wakhloo AJ, Slatton W, Chung S (2026)
Nat Neurosci:1–11

6

The evolution of gene regulation in mammalian cerebellum development
Sarropoulos I et al. (2026)
Science 391:eadw9154

7

The equilibrium point hypothesis revisited: why threshold control does not explain human movement
Mangalam M, Stergiou N (2026)
Exp Brain Res 244:44

8

Feature-tuned synaptic inputs to somatostatin interneurons drive context-dependent processing
Hendricks WD, Sadahiro M, Mossing D, Veit J, Adesnik H (2026)
Neuron

9

Shared somatosensory–motor neural population dynamics track motor recovery after stroke
Heimbuch IS, Khanna P, Novik L, Morecraft RJ, Ganguly K (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.02.10.705199

10

Neuropixels reveal laminar microcircuit organization in monkey V1 in vivo
Carr N, Zhu S, Chen X, Lee EK, Perliss A, Moore T, Chandrasekaran C (2026)
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 123:e2521556123

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.

1

In praise of artifice
Rust NC, Movshon JA
Nat Neurosci 8:1647–1650

2

Sensory adaptation supports flexible evidence accumulation during perceptual decision making
McGaughey KD, Gold JI
bioRxiv:2026.02.03.703553

3

The layer 6b theory of attention
Zolnik TA, Eickholt BJ, Molnár Z, Larkum ME
Neuron

4

A system for live sorting of neuronal spiking activity from large-scale recordings
Muralidharan S, Leng C, Orts L, Trepka E, Zhu S, Panichello M, Jonikaitis D, Pennington J, Pachitariu M, Moore T
bioRxiv:2025.12.29.696938

5

Eye tracking insights into movement preparation and execution under nonstandard visual movement feedback
Quirmbach F, Helmert JR, Pannasch S, Dix A, Limanowski J
bioRxiv:2026.02.04.703867

6

Action Progress Organizes Motor Memory
Makino Y, Suemitsu K, Hirashima M
bioRxiv:2026.02.09.704807

7

Cortical traveling waves in time and space: Physics, physiology, and psychology
Cruddas J, Pang JC, Fornito A
Neuron

8

Moving intentions from brains to machines
Beste C, Slagter HA, Herff C, Kamitani Y, Coninx S, van Wezel R, Frings C
Trends Cogn Sci

9

Evidence for representation of pretend objects by Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo
Bastos APM, Krupenye C
Science 391:583–586

10

Primate dexterous hand movements are controlled by functionally distinct premotoneuronal systems
Takei T, Oya T, Seki K
Sci Adv 12

11

Months-long stability of the head-direction system
Skromne Carrasco S, Viejo G, Peyrache A
Nature

12

Mapping the causal roles of non-primary motor areas in human reach planning and execution
Haddadshargh G, de Freitas RM, Mak J, Boos A, Fang X, Collinger JL, McKernan G, Zhan L, Liu F, Wittenberg GF
Hum Brain Mapp 47:e70465

Archive

You can look at an archive of our previous posts here: https://superlab.ca

Disclaimer

Articles appear on this list because they caught our eye, but their appearance here is not necessarily an endorsement of the work. We hope that you find something on this list you might not otherwise have come across—but, as always, please read with a critical eye.