Reading List 254

readinglist
Published

July 19, 2024

More than 20 trainees and PIs from the Sensorimotor Superlab at Western University contribute to this reading list. Here are the articles that have interested us this week.

Enjoy!
—the superlab

1

Mental state decoders: game-changers or wishful thinking?
Vigotsky AD, Iannetti GD, Apkarian AV
Trends Cogn Sci

2

Neural population dynamics in songbird RA and HVC during learned motor-vocal behavior
Tostado-Marcos P, Arneodo EM, Ostrowski L, Brown DE II, Perez XA, Kadwory A, Stanwicks LL, Alothmanm A, Gentner TQ, Gilja V
arXiv [q-bioNC]

3

Synchronous theta networks characterize successful memory retrieval
Rao AM, Kahana MJ
bioRxiv:2024.07.12.603286

4

Finding the truth in science
Bik EM
Nat Rev Cancer

5

Creating diverse and inclusive scientific practices for research datasets and dissemination
Kam JWY, Badhwar A, Borghesani V, Lee K, Noble S, Raamana PR, Ratnanather JT, Tan DGH, Oestreich LKL, Lee HW, Marzetti L, Nakua H, Rippon G, Olsen R, Pozzobon A, Uddin LQ, Yanes JA, Tzovara A
Imaging Neuroscience

6

“Micro-offline gains” convey no benefit for motor skill learning
Das A, Karagiorgis A, Diedrichsen J, Stenner M-P, Azanon E
bioRxiv:2024.07.11.602795

7

Goal-directed action preparation in humans entails a mixture of corticospinal neural computations
Wadsley CG, Nguyen T, Horton C, Greenhouse I
bioRxiv:2024.07.08.602530

8

Coordinated response modulations enable flexible use of visual information
Srinath R, Czarnik MM, Cohen MR
bioRxiv:2024.07.10.602774

9

Effect of juggling expertise on pointing performance in peripheral vision
Jurkiewicz T, Delporte L, Revol P, Rossetti Y, Pisella L
PLoS One 19:e0306630

10

Startling acoustic stimuli hasten choice reaching tasks by strengthening, but not changing the timing of, express visuomotor responses
Weerdesteyn V, Kearsley SL, Cecala AL, MacPherson EA, Corneil BD
bioRxiv:2024.07.01.601510

11

Co-coding of head and whisker movements by both VPM and POm thalamic neurons
Oram TB, Tenzer A, Saraf-Sinik I, Yizhar O, Ahissar E
Nat Commun 15:5883

12

Bridging model and experiment in systems neuroscience with Cleo: the Closed-Loop, Electrophysiology, and Optophysiology simulation testbed
Johnsen KA, Cruzado NA, Menard ZC, Willats AA, Charles AS, Markowitz JE, Rozell CJ
bioRxiv:2023.01.27.525963

13

Rapid eye and hand responses in an interception task are differentially modulated by context-dependent predictability
Balalaie P, Park K, Fooken J
bioRxiv:2024.07.11.603058

14

Inverting a model of neuromuscular control to estimate descending activation patterns that generate fast-reaching movements
Hummert C, Zhang L, Schöner G
J Neurophysiol 131:1271–1285

15

Cortico-basal ganglia plasticity in motor learning
Roth RH, Ding JB
Neuron

16

Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams
Botvinik-Nezer R et al.
Nature 582:84–88

17

Motor system involvement in word comprehension: faster comprehension of action words
Nishkaran S
PsyArXic

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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.