Reading List 337

readinglist
Published

June 12, 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

Neuropixels Opto: combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics
Lakunina A. A. et al. (2026)
Nature Methods 23:1207-1216

2

Neural networks learn forward dynamics when freed from numerical integration
Bahdasariants S., Yakovenko S. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.05.27.728310

3

Dynamic compression of whole-brain neural trajectories during human motor learning
Mohseni H. et al. (2026)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123

4

Spinal cord stimulation for upper limb motor function in people with chronic post-stroke hemiparesis: a feasibility trial
de Freitas R. M. et al. (2026)
Nature Medicine

5

Neural similarity predicts whether strangers become friends
Shen Y. L. et al. (2025)
Nature Human Behaviour 9:2285-2298

6

A motor basis for a foreign accent? Linguistic context constrains the generalization of second language speech motor plans
Heyland L., Palatinus S., Shiller D. M., Lametti D. R. (2026)
10.31234/osf.io/y6bqg_v1

7

Human learning of noninvasive brain–computer interfaces via manifold geometry
Busch E. L., Fincke E. C., Lajoie G., Krishnaswamy S., Turk-Browne N. B. (2026)
Nature Neuroscience

8

Individual locomotor bias drives counterclockwise motion in pedestrian crowds
Echeverría-Huarte I. et al. (2026)
Nature Communications 17

9

Peripheral mechanisms of tactile sensation in fish
Tan K., Gracheva E. O., Bagriantsev S. N. (2026)
Current Opinion in Neurobiology 99:103226

10

The cortex as a central pattern generator
Yuste R., MacLean J. N., Smith J., Lansner A. (2005)
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 6:477-483

11

The puzzling success of overparameterization: Lottery tickets or escape dimensions?
Martinelli F, Brea J, Gerstner W (2026)
10.5075/EPFL.20.500.14299/263577

Superlab Papers

Online planning of sequential actions
Diedrichsen J., Kashefi M., Nazerzadeh A., Pruszynski J. A. (2026)
Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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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.