Reading List 300

readinglist
Published

June 20, 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.

This week we continue our Journal Club feature (see below). In our lab meeting we discuss a paper from the list, and invite one of the authors to give a presentation and answer questions. We post a video of the meeting on YouTube, and we post a link to the video here.

Enjoy!

—the superlab

1

Planning-while-acting: addressing the continuous dynamics of planning and action in a sequential embodied task
Nuzzi D, Cisek P, Pezzulo G
bioRxiv:2024.11.28.625911

2

Learning to move and plan like the knight: Sequential decision making with a novel motor mapping
Velázquez-Vargas CA, Taylor JA
Comput Brain Behav

3

How a target’s speed influences the extent to which the time or place at which it is intercepted is adjusted
Bertonati G, Gori M, Smeets JBJ, Brenner E
Exp Brain Res 243:171

4

Egocentric value maps of the near-body environment
Bufacchi RJ, Somervail R, Fitzpatrick AM, Murayama Y, Logothetis N, Caminiti R, Iannetti GD
Nat Neurosci 28:1336–1347

5

Interactions across hemispheres in prefrontal cortex reflect global cognitive processing
McDonnell ME, Umakantha A, Williamson RC, Smith MA, Yu BM
bioRxiv:2025.06.12.659406

6

Cerebellar circuit computations for predictive motor control
Nguyen KP, Person AL
Nat Rev Neurosci

7

Motoneurons can count: A cell intrinsic spike number memory compensates for deviations from rate coding
Huthmacher L, Hilgert S, Reichert S, Hürkey S, Ryglewski S, Duch C
bioRxiv:2025.06.16.659928

8

The spinal premotor network driving scratching flexor and extensor alternation
Yao M, Nagamori A, Campos Maçãs S, Azim E, Sharpee T, Goulding M, Golomb D, Gatto G
Cell Rep 44:115845

Superlab Papers

The brain works at more than 10 bits per second
Sauerbrei BA, Pruszynski JA
Nat Neurosci

Journal Club

We recently welcomed two guest speakers to our sensorimotor superlab lab meetings:

Mohammad Amin Fakharian from the Shadmehr Lab at Johns Hopkins presented a recent paper, “A vector calculus for neural computation in the cerebellum”. Now out in Science: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adu6331.
Video: https://youtu.be/SV4qdMvsOIU

Ariel Rokem (University of Washington) showed us the latest and greatest in tract tracing via MRI, especially as it relates to development (https://neuroinformatics.uw.edu/publications).
Video: https://youtu.be/HMrk2zekoa4

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.