Reading List 333

readinglist
Published

May 15, 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

White matter micro- and macrostructure brain charts for the human lifespan
Kim M. E. et al. (2026)
Nature

2

A synaptic locus of song learning
Schreiner D. C., Brudner S., Li A., Pearson J., Mooney R. (2026)
Nature

3

Spatiotemporal encoding of touch signals in the human somatosensory and motor cortices
Cattabriga M. et al. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.08.721831

4

Learning a reversed bicycle disrupts predictive control and induces interference with the normal bicycle
Nietschmann P., Franklin D. W. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.08.723825

5

Population-level encoding of somatosensation in mouse sensorimotor cortex
Lipton M. H., Park S., Dadarlat M. C. (2026)
Journal of Neurophysiology jn.00005.2026

6

A framework for quantifying the mechanics of dexterous grasp
Sobinov A. R. et al. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.05.723084

7

Neural population geometry and optimal coding of tasks with shared latent structure
Wakhloo A. J., Slatton W., Chung S. (2026)
Nature Neuroscience 29:682-692

8

Laminar organization of cellular microcircuits modulating human interictal epileptiform discharges
Silva A. B. et al. (2026)
Nature Neuroscience

9

Motor abstraction training generalizes to the refinement of specific movement patterns
Sun Z., Xie Z., McDougle S. D. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.05.722946

10

Tuft dendrites in frontal motor cortex enable flexible learning
Maristany de las Casas E. et al. (2026)
Science 392

Superlab Papers

Sequence preparation is not always associated with a reaction time cost
Panjehpour A., Kashefi M., Diedrichsen J., Pruszynski J. A. (2026)
Journal of Neurophysiology 135:1398-1407

A context-free model of savings in motor learning
Shahbazi M., Codol O., Michaels J. A., Gribble P. L. (2026)
eLife 14

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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.