Reading List 344

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Published

July 31, 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

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1

Cued recall of human motor memory
Lewis-Hoeber E., Darainy M., Ebrahimi S., Ostry D. J. (2026)
Journal of Neurophysiology 136:156-164

2

Movement effort does not alter the planning horizon of sequential reaching movements
Bellmann A., Oostwoud Wijdenes L., Medendorp W. P. (2026)
Journal of Neurophysiology 136:285-293

3

Replay of procedural memory is independent of the hippocampus
Thompson E. J. et al. (2026)
Nature Neuroscience

4

Spinal rotational dynamics orchestrate locomotor recovery
Colard J., Harnie J., Berg R. W., Frigon A. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.07.21.739844

5

Internal perturbation reveals the flexible and adaptive nature of the coordination between decisions and movements
Thura D., Gardechaux G., Saleri C. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.07.23.740304

6

Spatial and network principles behind neural generation of locomotion
Komi S. et al. (2026)
Nature Communications 17

7

Climbing fibers encode the gradient of a loss function for the cerebellum
Doostmohammadi J. et al. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.07.27.741034

8

Gradual consolidation of skilled sequential movements in primary motor cortex of non-human primates
Ohbayashi M., Picard N. (2024)
bioRxiv:2024.10.06.616850

9

Creating true and false memories from forgotten information in Drosophila
Yang W. et al. (2026)
Nature Neuroscience

10

All living things emit a faint glow. Could this light be useful?
Marchant J. (2026)
Nature 655:1116-1119

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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.