Reading List 332

readinglist
Published

May 8, 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

Human motor memory retention requires fronto-parietal circuit plasticity
Ebrahimi S, Darainy M, Manning TF, Lewis-Hoeber E, Ostry DJ (2026)
J Neurophysiol 135:1175–1185

2

Premotor cortex uses a compositional neural geometry to plan words
Abramovich Krasa B, Kunz EM, Kamdar F, Avansino D, Hahn N, Singh A, Card NS, Wairagkar M, Iacobacci C, Hochberg LR, Brandman DM, Stavisky SD, Henderson JM, Willett FR, Druckmann S (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.04.27.721195

3

Recovery of dexterous motor control via non-monosynaptic corticospinal pathways
Sorensen E, Borda L, Ostrowski J, de Freitas RM, Verma N, Fisher LE, Wittenberg GF, Gerszten P, Weber DJ, Pirondini E, Gorassini M, Krakauer JW, Capogrosso M (2026)
medRxiv:2026.03.24.26348827

4

Predictive pursuit emerges in high-dimensional recurrent neural networks
Redman WT, Dinc FD, Lin X, Chan MG, Alexander AS (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.04.23.720457

5

Fast corrective responses in redundant motor control are shaped by intrinsic constraints of movement patterns
Kobayashi T, Nozaki D (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.03.11.711221

6

Large-scale electrophysiology at single-spike resolution
Siegle JH, Steinmetz NA (2026)
Nat Rev Neurosci

7

Laminar organization of cellular microcircuits modulating human interictal epileptiform discharges
Silva AB, Marathe SA, Greicius QR, Xu D, Jain S, Chung JE, Yang X, Khambhati AN, Leonard MK, Kleen JK, Chang EF (2026)
Nat Neurosci

8

Infinite horizon control with nonlinear dynamics models reproduces temporal modulation of reaching movements
De Comite A, Kalidindi HT, Pruszynski JA, Crevecoeur F (2026)
Neural Comput 38:823–844

9

Granule cells reorient cortical manifolds to separate contexts but preserve their geometry
Garcia-Garcia MG, Wojcik MJ, Thota S, Drake L, Otchere A, Akinwale O, Ramos L, Costa RP, Wagner MJ (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.03.03.709240

10

Premotor cortex uses a compositional neural geometry to plan words
Abramovich Krasa B, Kunz EM, Kamdar F, Avansino D, Hahn N, Singh A, Card NS, Wairagkar M, Iacobacci C, Hochberg LR, Brandman DM, Stavisky SD, Henderson JM, Willett FR, Druckmann S (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.04.27.721195

11

Whole-body 3D kinematics of freely behaving Drosophila
Ispizua JI, Abe ETT, Yan J, Othayoth R, Sawtelle S, Atkins F, Shiozaki H, Meier NR, Wong J, Tran TT, Mori CK, Voigts J, Stern DL, Brunton BW, Tuthill JC, Johnson RE (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.03.722293

12

A communication subspace relays context-dependent actions from human prefrontal to motor cortex
Binish N, Terlau J, Martini J, Lin JJ, Knight RT, Helfrich RF (2026)
Nat Neurosci

13

Adaptive problem solving in the primate frontal cortex
Ramadan M, Gosztolai A, Jazayeri M (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.04.722785

14

Evidence from Formal Logical Reasoning Reveals that the Language of Thought is not Natural Language
Kean H, Fung A, Jaggers P, Chen J, Rule J, Benn Y, Tenenbaum J, Piantadosi S, Varley R, Fedorenko E (2025)
bioRxiv:2025.07.26.666979

15

Neural coding of arm and hand actions is spatially organized in motor cortex
Chehade NG, Gharbawie O (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.02.722416

16

Involuntary feedback responses reflect a representation of partner actions
Sullivan SR, Buggeln JH, Calalo JA, Ngo TT, Semrau JA, Carter MJ, Cashaback JGA (2026)
eLife

17

Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus
Katlowitz KA et al. (2026)
Nature

18

Neuromodulation enables transient flexible control of motoneurons
T. Consul N, Avrillon S, Bracklein M, Gallego JA, Farina D (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.01.721852

19

Multiplexed magnetic resonance imaging
Li Y, Guo R, Zhao Y, Jin W, Ke Z, Chen L, Chen X, Tang W, Li Y, Liang Z-P (2026)
Nature

20

Human hippocampal ripples coordinate planning sequences and compositional representations in neocortex
He L, Wang X, Zhang J, Xiao Z, Hu X, Schwartenbeck P, Bakermans J, Behrens T, Liu Y (2026)
Nat Neurosci

21

Evolution imposes an inductive bias that alters and accelerates learning dynamics
Midler B, Pan-Vazquez A (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.04.722746

22

Single human fingertip mechanoreceptive afferents simultaneously encode multidimensional aspects of touch
Lang VA, Wasling HB, Ackerley R, Wessberg J (2026)
J Physiol

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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.