Reading List 301
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
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Brain-wide spatial mapping of oscillatory activity during naturalistic motor behavior
Bönstrup M, Schneider T, Bräuer A, Ader J, Villringer A, Classen J
J Neurophysiol 133:1583–1593
2
The stretch-shortening cycle effect is not associated with cortical or spinal excitability modulations
Rissmann L-F, Raiteri BJ, Seiberl W, Siebert T, Hahn D
J Physiol
3
Investigating the speed and accuracy of human movement corrections to visual, somatosensory, and tactile perturbations: Evidence for distinct sensorimotor processes
Abdulrabba S, Facchini J, Manson GA
eNeuro 12:ENEURO.0548-24.2025
4
Biomechanical simplification of the motor control of whisking
Bresee CS, Luo Y, Alade’Fa JL, Black ME, Kleczka KJ, Bush NE, Zhang K, Hartmann MJ
bioRxiv:2025.06.21.660818
5
Preserved cerebellar functions despite structural degeneration in older adults
Witte A de, Matthijs A, Parrell B, Mantini D, Gooijers J, Orban de Xivry J-J
bioRxiv:2025.06.18.660418
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Cortical sculpting of a rhythmic motor program
Kirk EA, Cai K, Sauerbrei BA
bioRxiv:2025.06.20.660772
7
Large-scale high-density brain-wide neural recording in nonhuman primates
Trautmann EM et al.
Nat Neurosci:1–14
8
Fingertip viscoelasticity enables human tactile neurons to encode loading history alongside current force
Saal HP, Birznieks I, Johansson RS
Elife 12
9
Intramuscular high-density micro-electrode arrays enable high-precision decoding and mapping of spinal motor neurons to reveal hand control
Grison A, Pereda JI, Muceli S, Kundu A, Baracat F, Indiveri G, Donati E, Farina D
arXiv [q-bioNC]
10
Developing a sensory representation of an artificial body part
Dowdall L, Molina-Sanchez M, Dominijanni G, da Silva E, Pavalkyte V, Jugovic E, Bianchi M, Iida F, Clode D, Makin TR
bioRxiv:2025.06.16.658246
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The dynamics and geometry of choice in the premotor cortex
Genkin M, Shenoy KV, Chandrasekaran C, Engel TA
Nature:1–9
12
Flexible sensitivity to inputs during skilled tongue movements
Dasgupta R, Dong M, O’Connor DH
bioRxiv:2025.05.18.654702
13
Dissociable effects of curiosity and hedonic valence on reinforcement learning
Rothenhoefer KM, Romac MD, Henderson K, Costa VD
bioRxiv:2025.06.24.660807
14
Non-human primates can flexibly learn serial sequences and reorder context-dependent object sequences
Wen X, Neumann A, Dhungana S, Womelsdorf T
PLoS Biol 23:e3003255
15
Computing muscle mechanical state variables from combined proprioceptive sensory feedback
Stephens JD, Ting LH, Cope TC
Exp Physiol
16
Power Pixels: a turnkey pipeline for processing of Neuropixel recordings
Meijer GT, Battaglia FP
bioRxiv:2025.06.27.661890
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Cerebellar imaging for neuroscience at 9.4 T
van der Zwaag W, Tse DHY, Poser BA, Priovoulos N
Magn Reson Med
18
Regional specialization of movement encoding across the primate sensorimotor cortex
Borgognon S, Macellari N, Hickey AM, Perich MG, Javaheri H, Ornelas-Kobayashi R, Delacombaz M, Hitz C, Fallegger F, Lacour SP, Bezard E, Rouiller EM, Bloch J, Milekovic T, Seáñez I, Courtine G
Nat Commun 16:5729
19
Inter-brain neural dynamics in biological and artificial intelligence systems
Zhang X, Phi N, Li Q, Gorzek R, Zwingenberger N, Huang S, Zhou JL, Kingsbury L, Raam T, Wu YE, Wei D, Kao JC, Hong W
Nature:1–11
20
Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks
Ji-An L, Benna MK, Mattar MG
Nature:1–9
21
Brain implantation of soft bioelectronics via embryonic development
Sheng H et al.
Nature 642:954–964
22
A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition
Binz M et al.
Nature:1–8
Superlab Papers
A paradigm to study the learning of muscle activity patterns outside of the natural repertoire
Ghavampour A, Emanuele M, Sayyid SR, Orban de Xivry J-J, Michaels JA, Pruszynski JA, Diedrichsen J
bioRxiv:2025.02.13.638098
Journal Club
We recently welcomed Dr. Emily Oby from Queen’s University to talk to us about her recent paper:
Dynamical constraints on neural population activity
Oby ER, Degenhart AD, Grigsby EM, Motiwala A, McClain NT, Marino PJ, Yu BM, Batista AP (2025)
Nat Neurosci 28:383–393
video: https://youtu.be/zU5RbP5qk9c
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.