Reading List 340

readinglist
Published

July 3, 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

Interpretable compositional computation with recurrent neural networks
Pezon L., van Meegen A. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.06.23.733979

2

Rigid control of motor unit firing rates in the human tibialis anterior muscle persists during neurofeedback
Lee M. J. et al. (2026)
Journal of Neurophysiology 135:1499-1517

3

Arm dominance is an emergent effect of practice executing complex trajectory shapes required by tools and objects
Arac A., Lee N. Y. H. J., Krakauer J. W. (2026)
PNAS 123

4

Connectomic evidence that ordered activity drives neuromuscular network formation
Meirovitch Y. et al. (2026)
Nature Neuroscience

5

Cortical sculpting of a rhythmic motor program
Kirk E. A., Cai K., Sauerbrei B. A. (2025)
bioRxiv:2025.06.20.660772

6

Composing trajectories for rapid inference of navigational goals
AbdelRahman N. Y. et al. (2026)
Neuron

7

Motor cortex directly excites the substantia nigra pars reticulata, the basal ganglia output nucleus
Thompson W. S., Wekwejt P., Grillner S., Silberberg G. (2026)
Nature Communications 17

8

Cerebellar aging is spatially heterogeneous and supports cognitive resilience in later life
d’Oleire Uquillas F. et al. (2026)
Nature Neuroscience

9

Shared neural geometries for bilingual semantic representations in human hippocampal neurons
Yan X. et al. (2026)
Cell

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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.