Reading List 298

readinglist
Published

June 6, 2025

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

The origin of vertebrate teeth and evolution of sensory exoskeletons
Haridy Y, Norris SCP, Fabbri M, Nanglu K, Sharma N, Miller JF, Rivers M, La Riviere P, Vargas P, Ortega-Hernández J, Shubin NH
Nature 642:119–124

2

Conserved brain-wide emergence of emotional response from sensory experience in humans and mice
Kauvar I et al.
Science 388:eadt3971

3

Whole body coarticulation reflects expertise in sport climbing
Maselli A, Musculus L, Moretti R, d’Avella A, Raab M, Pezzulo G
J Neurophysiol 133:1016–1033

4

In vivo calcium imaging shows that dorsal root ganglion stimulation predominantly activates large-sized sensory neurons in mice
Goodwin GL, Franken G
bioRxiv:2025.05.27.656338

5

Neural connectivity of a computational map for fly flight control
Dhawan S, Huang Z, Dickerson BH
bioRxiv:2025.05.29.656834

6

Modulation of error sensitivity during motor learning across time, space and environment variability
Todorov D, Moulin M, Buch E, Quentin R
bioRxiv:2025.05.30.656374

7

Modeling 2D spatio-tactile population receptive fields of the fingertip in human primary somatosensory cortex
Stoll S, Luesebrink F, Schwarzkopf DS, Mattern H, Liu P, Noelle J, Kuehn E
bioRxiv:2025.05.24.655840

8

Encoding of speech modes and loudness in ventral precentral gyrus
Srinivasan A, Wairagkar M, Iacobacci C, Hou X, Card NS, Jacques BG, Pritchard AL, Bechefsky PH, Hochberg LR, AuYong N, Pandarinath C, Brandman DM, Stavisky SD
bioRxiv:2025.05.30.657105

9

Eye and hand coarticulation during problem solving reveals hierarchically organized planning
Eluchans M, Maselli A, Lancia GL, Pezzulo G
bioRxiv:2024.11.18.624090

10

Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations
Trach JE, McDougle SD
Nat Hum Behav:1–15

11

A hypothalamus–brainstem circuit governs the prioritization of safety over essential needs
Krauth N, Sach LK, Sitzia G, Clemmensen C, Kiehn O
Nat Neurosci:1–13

12

Biological kinematics: a detailed review of the velocity-curvature power law calculation
Fraser DS, Di Luca M, Cook JL
Exp Brain Res 243:107

13

Synthetic serum markers enable noninvasive monitoring of gene expression in primate brains
Lee S, Romac M, Watanabe S, Chernov M, Li H, Raisley E, Szablowski JO, Costa VD
bioRxiv:2025.06.01.657212

14

Dissociable habits of response preparation versus response initiation
Du Y, Haith AM
Nat Hum Behav:1–18

15

Multi-timescale reinforcement learning in the brain
Masset P, Tano P, Kim HR, Malik AN, Pouget A, Uchida N
Nature:1–9

16

A semantic embedding space based on large language models for modelling human beliefs
Lee B, Aiyappa R, Ahn Y-Y, Kwak H, An J
Nat Hum Behav:1–13

Archive

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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.