Reading List 317

readinglist
Published

January 9, 2026

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 representation without neural representation: Understanding the evidence
Krakauer JW, Ramsey W
PsyArXiv

2

Janet Shibley Hyde Sinks Stereotypes With Data
Armstrong K
APS Observer 32

3

EEG is better left alone
Delorme A
Sci Rep 13:2372

4

Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization
Hayden BY, Heilbronner SR, Yoo SBM
Nat Neurosci:1–12

5

Context-dependent low-dimensional neural dynamics unfold in distinct subspaces, dimensionality, and dynamical strength for natural walking and reaching
Ling AS, Silvernagel MP, Clarke SE, Jun EJ, Abdulla MU, Nuyujukian P, Brain Interfacing Laboratory
bioRxivorg:2025.12.19.695640

6

Intuitive, multidimensional motor unit control after paralysing spinal cord injury using non-invasive recordings
Yang X, Rawji V, Gibbs C, Jia T, Vila LG, Grison A, Nair A, Farina D, Gallego JA
medRxiv:2025.12.09.25341760

7

A system for live sorting of neuronal spiking activity from large-scale recordings
Muralidharan S, Leng C, Orts L, Trepka E, Zhu S, Panichello M, Jonikaitis D, Pennington J, Pachitariu M, Moore T
bioRxiv:2025.12.29.696938

8

Surrogate deep neural networks reveal hierarchical handwriting encoding in the human motor cortex
Chen J, Xu T, Xiong X, Yang X, Wang Y, Qi Y
Cell Rep 45:116837

9

Humans plan for the near future to walk economically on uneven terrain
Darici O, Kuo AD
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 120:e2211405120

10

How heterogeneity shapes dynamics and computation in the brain
Dahmen D, Hutt A, Indiveri G, Kennedy A, Lefebvre J, Mazzucato L, Motter AE, Narayanan R, Payvand M, Planert H, Gast R
Neuron

11

Breath as an internal context: Respiratory phase alignment between encoding and retrieval optimizes memory performance
Nakamura NH, Yoshino K, Fukunaga M
bioRxiv:2025.12.25.696473

12

Multi-timescale neural adaptation underlying long-term musculoskeletal reorganization
Philipp R, Hara Y, Uchida N, Ota N, Oya T, Funato T, Seki K
bioRxiv:2024.10.18.618983

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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.