Reading List 345
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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Inter-trial convergence of neural task states supports cognitive flexibility
Ritz H., Jha A., Daw N. D., Cohen J. D. (2026)
Current Biology 36:4245-4257.e11
2
A shared cortical manifold links sensory error to motor planning
Zempolich G. W., Zhou W., Holey B. E., Williams A. H., Schneider D. M. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.08.02.742317
3
Temporally structured motor and auditory representations in covert syllable production
Orpella J., Mantegna F., Oderbolz C., Assaneo M. F., Poeppel D. (2026)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123
4
An explainable AI latent space of brain dynamics reveals a cerebello-prefrontal signature of schizophrenia symptoms
Bonhoeffer M., Muratore P., Mathis M. W., Bègue I. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.08.25.746991
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Heart rate deceleration reflects expectation violation during reaching
Wu W. P., Nozaki D., Hayashi T. (2026)
bioRxiv:2026.09.01.748501
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Feedback-feedforward dynamics shape continuous motor learning
Avraham C., Mawase F. (2025)
bioRxiv:2025.04.10.648105
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Dimensionality reduction beyond neural subspaces with slice tensor component analysis
Pellegrino A., Stein H., Cayco-Gajic N. A. (2024)
Nature Neuroscience 27:1199-1210
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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
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Fractal basins trap latent reasoning
Lai J., Bao A., Quinn J., Gilpin W. (2026)
arXiv:2609.04963 [cs.LG]
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Soft Matching Distance: A metric on neural representations that captures single-neuron tuning
Khosla M., Williams A.H. (2024)
PMLR 243:326-341
Archive
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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.