Reading List 321
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
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Sparse input representations explain odor discrimination in complex, concentration-varying mixtures
McCalmon H, Cai G, Tsibouris C, Pashakhanloo F, Chung S, Kapoor V, Murthy VN
bioRxiv:2026.01.27.702074
2
Neural modes in motor cortex cycle over fast timescales
Clarke SE, Jun EJ, Nuyujukian P
bioRxiv:2026.01.26.701671
3
How AI Impacts Skill Formation
Shen JH, Tamkin A
arXiv [csCY]
4
Audiomotor prediction errors drive speech adaptation even in the absence of overt movement
Parrell B, Naber C, Kim OA, Nizolek CA, McDougle SD
bioRxiv:2024.08.13.607718
5
RPNT: Robust pre-trained neural transformer – A pathway for generalized motor decoding
Fang H, Canfield RA, Ouchi T, Macagno B, Shlizerman E, Orsborn AL
arXiv [csLG]
6
Dynamics of working memory drift and information flow across the cortical hierarchy
Li H-H, Ma WJ, Curtis CE
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 123:e2518110123
7
Deepmriprep: Voxel-based morphometry preprocessing via deep neural networks
Fisch L et al.
Nat Comput Sci:1–10
8
Mixed-selective organization of reach and grasp in the primate fronto-parietal network
Fathian A, Lehmann SJ, Michaels JA, Scherberger H
Prog Neurobiol 258:102889
9
Representational drift reflects ongoing balancing of stochastic changes by Hebbian learning
Eppler J-B, Lai T, Aschauer DF, Rumpel S, Kaschube M
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 123:e2503046123
10
Neural subspace reorganization reflects value-based decision making
Li H, Chrysanthidis N, Brincat SL, Rose J, Miller EK
bioRxiv:2026.02.02.703171
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The curse of dimensionality in motor cortex
Silvernagel MP, Tor A, Jun EJ, Clarke SE, Sutherland R, Marshall K, Wu Y, Abdulla MU, Even-Chen N, Nuyujukian P, Brain Interfacing Laboratory
bioRxiv:2026.01.26.701668
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Closed-loop imitation learning reveals muscle-centric and latent-goal codes in primate sensorimotor cortex
Marin Vargas A, Chiappa AS, Perez Rotondo A, Mathis MW, Mathis A
bioRxiv:2026.02.01.703133
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The unexpected sight: improvement of visual function following intracortical microstimulation of the human occipital cortex
Alfaro A, Soo L, Waclawczyk D, Morollón R, Grani F, Fernandez E
Brain Commun 8:fcaf504
14
Representation of action sequence boundaries by macaque prefrontal cortical neurons
Fujii N, Graybiel AM
Science 301:1246–1249
15
Brain-computer interface control with artificial intelligence copilots
Lee JY, Lee S, Mishra A, Yan X, McMahan B, Gaisford B, Kobashigawa C, Qu M, Xie C, Kao JC
Nat Mach Intell 7:1510–1523
16
Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder
Ren J et al.
Nature:1–9
17
Distinct neural dynamics in prefrontal and premotor cortex during flexible perceptual decisions
Wang T, Lee EK, Carr N, Li Y, Chandrasekaran C
bioRxiv:2026.02.02.702013
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Neural population activity for memory: Properties, computations, and codes
Dupret D, Fusi S, Panzeri S
Neuron 114:390–407
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Integrated approaches for investigating the neural bases of movement - highlights from the 34th annual meeting of the society for the neural control of movement
Dowdall L, Geminiani A, Kosugi A, Lemke SM, Liu S, Nashef A, Perks KM, Chowdhury RR, Thanawalla AR, Wang T, Wei R-H, Wood JM
J Neurophysiol
Superlab Papers
Reward-driven emergence of auditory pattern encoding in the primate motor system
Neupane S, Kashefi M, Kersten R, Pruszynski JA, Grahn JA, Michaels JA
bioRxiv:2026.01.29.702435
Neural representations of speech production in neocortical and cerebellar regions
Jossinger S, Arafat B, Diedrichsen J
bioRxiv:2026.01.30.702863
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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.