Reading List 313
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
Infinite horizon control captures modulation of movement duration in reaching movements
De Comite A, Kalidindi HT, Pruszynski JA, Crevecoeur F
bioRxiv:2025.10.22.683958
2
Time, space, memory and brain-body rhythms
Buzsáki G
Nat Rev Neurosci:1–18
3
JAXLEY: differentiable simulation enables large-scale training of detailed biophysical models of neural dynamics
Deistler M, Kadhim KL, Pals M, Beck J, Huang Z, Gloeckler M, Lappalainen JK, Schröder C, Berens P, Gonçalves PJ, Macke JH
Nat Methods:1–9
4
Cardiac, respiratory, and gastric rhythms independently modulate motor corticospinal excitability in humans
Engelen T, Schuhmann T, Sack AT, Tallon-Baudry C
PLoS Biol 23:e3003478
5
Characterizing neuronal population geometry with AI equation discovery
Tilbury R, Kwon D, Haydaroglu A, Ratliff J, Schmutz V, Carandini M, Miller KJ, Stachenfeld K, Harris KD
bioRxiv:2025.11.12.688086
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Motor cortical output integrates distorted proprioceptive feedback
Li Y, Xu XH, Pan S, An X, Mulcahey PJ, Qiu Z, Zhao S, Li N, Pearson J, Huang ZJ
bioRxivorg:2025.11.11.687832
7
A habit and working memory model as an alternative account of human reward-based learning
Collins AGE
Nat Hum Behav:1–13
8
High-dose high-intensity arm neurorehabilitation in chronic stroke improves general motor control
Dawson AC, Galea JM, Sporn S, Krakauer JW, Bestmann S, Ward NS
medRxiv:2025.11.18.25340491
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Neural dynamics outside task-coding dimensions drive decision trajectories through transient amplification
Pereira-Obilinovic U, Daie K, Chen S, Svoboda K, Darshan R
bioRxiv:2025.11.20.689599
10
Sensorimotor integration during grasping is mediated by distinct M1 circuits
Botta K, Dolfini E, Casarotto A, Koch G, D’Ausilio A, Fadiga L
J Neurophysiol 134:1320–1328
11
Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain
Hedger N, Naselaris T, Kay K, Knapen T
Nature:1–9
12
Connectivity underlying motor cortex activity during goal-directed behaviour
Finkelstein A, Daie K, Rózsa M, Darshan R, Svoboda K
Nature:1–7
13
Characterizing control between interacting subsystems with deep Jacobian estimation
Eisen AJ, Ostrow M, Chandra S, Kozachkov L, Miller EK, Fiete IR
NIPS 39
14
Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces
Tafazoli S, Bouchacourt FM, Ardalan A, Markov NT, Uchimura M, Mattar MG, Daw ND, Buschman TJ
Nature:1–9
15
In search for the invisible: motor inhibition in monkey premotor cortex and its RNN replicas
Alboré N, Galluzzi A, Pani P, Ferraina S, Mattia M
bioRxiv:2025.11.24.690225
Superlab Papers
Sequence preparation is not always associated with a reaction time cost
Panjehpour A, Kashefi M, Diedrichsen J, Pruszynski JA
bioRxiv:2025.11.11.687917
Journal Club
Juliana Trach (Yale University) PhD student in Sam McDougle’s lab joined us to talk about her paper:
Trach JE, McDougle SD
Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations
Nat Hum Behav:1–15YouTube video: https://youtu.be/6LlDYxDV8wo
Lucas Tian (Rockefeller University) Postdoc in Winrich Freiwald’s lab joined us to talk about his paper:
Neural representation of action symbols in primate frontal cortex
Tian LY, Garzón KU, Hanuska DJ, Rouse AG, Eldridge MAG, Schieber MH, Wang X-J, Tenenbaum JB, Freiwald WA
bioRxivorg:2025.03.03.641276YouTube video: https://youtu.be/hCuUE7XEg8o
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.