Reading List 320

readinglist
Published

January 30, 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

Infinite hidden Markov models can dissect the complexities of learning
Bruijns SA, International Brain Laboratory, Bougrova K, Laranjeira IC, Lau PYP, Meijer GT, Miska NJ, Noel J-P, Pan-Vazquez A, Roth N, Socha KZ, Urai AE, Dayan P
Nat Neurosci 29:186–194

2

Oxygen-free metabolism in the bird inner retina supported by the pecten
Damsgaard C et al.
Nature:1–7

3

Precision in motion: Reactive and anticipatory control of mouse tongue movement for interception
ELTabbal M, Galetzka C, Kuhn B
bioRxiv:2026.01.25.701632

4

Spontaneous behavior is a succession of self-directed tasks
Weinreb C, Kannan LT, Newman-Boulle A, Sainburg T, Gillis WF, Plotnikoff A, Makowska S, Pearl JE, Osman MAM, Linderman SW, Datta SR
Neuron

Superlab Papers

A context-free model of savings in motor learning
Shahbazi M, Codol O, Michaels JA, Gribble PL
bioRxiv:2025.03.26.645562

Journal Club

Jessie Liu, Postdoc in the Chang Lab at UCSF, joined us to talk about her recent paper on speech sequencing:

Liu JR, Zhao L, Hullett PW, Chang EF (2025)
Speech sequencing in the human precentral gyrus
Nat Hum Behav 9:2327–2344

YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOcr_PauaVU

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.