More than 20 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

Astrocytes close a motor circuit critical period
Ackerman SD, Perez-Catalan NA, Freeman MR, Doe CQ
Nature (2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03441-2

2

People systematically overlook subtractive changes
Adams GS, Converse BA, Hales AH, Klotz LE
Nature (2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03380-y

3

Energy expenditure does not explain step length-width choices during walking
Antos SA, Kording KP, Gordon KE
bioRxiv (2021) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.11.439375v1

4

Challenges and future directions for representations of functional brain organization
Bijsterbosch J, Harrison SJ, Jbabdi S, Woolrich M, Beckmann C, Smith S, Duff EP
Nat Neurosci (2020) https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41593-020-00726-z

5

Consolidation of human skill linked to waking hippocampo-neocortical replay
Buch ER, Claudino L, Quentin R, Bönstrup M, Cohen LG
bioRxiv (2021) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.07.438819v1.abstract?%3Fcollection=

6

Thunderstruck: The ACDC model of flexible sequences and rhythms in recurrent neural circuits
Calderon CB, Verguts T, Frank MJ
bioRxiv (2021) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.07.438842v1

7

Slowing the Body slows down Time (Perception)
De Kock R, Zhou W, Joiner WM, Wiener M
Elife (2021) https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63607

8

Complete neuroanatomy and sensor maps of Odonata wings for fly-by-feel flight control
Fabian J, Siwanowicz I, Uhrhan M, Maeda M, Bomphrey RJ, Lin H-T
bioRxiv (2021) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.11.439336v1

9

Direct and indirect cues can enable dual-adaptation, but through different learning processes
Forano M, Schween R, Taylor JA, Hegele M, Franklin DW
bioRxiv (2021) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.09.439164v1

10

A cross-species neural integration of gravity for motor optimization
Gaveau J, Grospretre S, Berret B, Angelaki DE, Papaxanthis C
Science Advances (2021) https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/15/eabf7800

11

A developmental transition in the sensory coding of limb kinematics in primary motor cortex
Glanz RM, Dooley JC, Sokoloff G, Blumberg MS
bioRxiv (2020) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.14.422707v2

12

Parallel and serial sensory processing in developing primary somatosensory and motor cortex
Gómez LJ, Dooley JC, Sokoloff G, Blumberg MS
J Neurosci (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2614-20.2021

13

Human Fronto-Striatal Connectivity is Organized into Discrete Functional Subnetworks
Gordon EM, Laumann TO, Marek S, Newbold DJ, Hampton JM, Seider NA, Montez DF, Nielsen AM, Van AN, Zheng A, Miller R, Siegel JS, Kay BP, Snyder AZ, Greene DJ, Schlaggar BL, Petersen SE, Nelson SM, Dosenbach NUF
bioRxiv (2021) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.12.439415v1?s=09

14

State-dependent egocentric and allocentric heading representation in the monarch butterfly brain
Jerome Beetz M, Kraus C, Franzke M, Dreyer D, Strube-Bloss MF, Rössler W, Warrant EJ, Merlin C, el Jundi B
bioRxiv (2021) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.07.438824v1

15

Rotational dynamics reduce interference between sensory and memory representations
Libby A, Buschman TJ
Nat Neurosci (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41593-021-00821-9

16

Flexible modulation of sequence generation in the entorhinal-hippocampal system
McNamee DC, Stachenfeld KL, Botvinick MM, Gershman SJ
Nat Neurosci (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41593-021-00831-7

17

Stopping a Continuous Movement: A Novel Approach to Investigating Motor Control
Schultz KE, Denning D, Hufnagel V, Swann N
bioRxiv (2021) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.08.439070v1

18

Our child’s TBI: a rehabilitation engineer’s personal experience, technological approach, and lessons learned
Sulzer J, Karfeld-Sulzer LS
J Neuroeng Rehabil (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12984-021-00862-y


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.