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

A cerebellar-thalamocortical pathway drives behavioral context-dependent movement initiation
Dacre J, Colligan M, Clarke T, Ammer JJ, Schiemann J, Chamosa-Pino V, Claudi F, Harston JA, Eleftheriou C, Pakan JMP, Huang C-C, Hantman AW, Rochefort NL, Duguid I
Neuron (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.05.016


2

Strong and weak principles of neural dimension reduction
Humphries MD
Neurons, Behavior, Data analysis, and Theory (2021) https://nbdt.scholasticahq.com/article/24619-strong-and-weak-principles-of-neural-dimension-reduction


3

Mental practice modulates functional connectivity between the cerebellum and the primary motor cortex
Monany DR, Lebon F, Dupont W, Papaxanthis C
bioRxiv:2021.06.18.448667 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.18.448667v1


4

Coordinated multivoxel coding beyond univariate effects is not likely to be observable in fMRI data
Pakravan M, Ghazizadeh A
bioRxiv:2021.06.13.448229 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.13.448229v1


5

The functional properties of synapses made by regenerated axons across spinal cord lesion sites
Parker D
bioRxiv:2021.06.21.449247 (2021) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.21.449247v1


6

Large-scale neural recordings with single-cell resolution in human cortex using high-density Neuropixels probes
Paulk AC, Kfir Y, Khanna A, Mustroph M, Trautmann EM, Soper DJ, Stavisky SD, Welkenhuysen M, Dutta B, Shenoy KV, Hochberg LR, Richardson M, Williams ZM, Cash SS
bioRxiv:2021.06.20.449152 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.20.449152v1


7

The effects of long duration spaceflight on sensorimotor control and cognition
Tays G, Hupfeld K, McGregor H, Salazar A, DeDios Y, Beltran N, Reuter-Lorenz P, Kofman I, Wood S, Bloomberg J, Mulavara A, Seidler R
bioRxiv:2021.06.22.449414 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.22.449414v1


8

Distinct Processing of Sensory Prediction Error and Task Error during Motor Learning
Tsay J, Haith A, Ivry RB, Kim HE
bioRxiv:2021.06.20.449180 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.20.449180v1


9

Good decisions require more than information
Alex Cayco-Gajic N, Zylberberg J
Nat Neurosci (2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00883-9


10

Subcortical circuits mediate communication between primary sensory cortical areas in mice
Lohse M, Dahmen JC, Bajo VM, King AJ
Nat Commun 12:1–14 (2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24200-x



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.