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

Mental compression of spatial sequences in human working memory using numerical and geometrical primitives
Al Roumi F, Marti S, Wang L, Amalric M, Dehaene S
Neuron (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2021.06.009


2

What is behavior? No seriously, what is it?
Calhoun A, El Hady A
bioRxiv:2021.07.04.451053 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.04.451053v1?rss=1


3

Brain-like functional specialization emerges spontaneously in deep neural networks
Dobs K, Martinez J, Kell AJE, Kanwisher N
bioRxiv:2021.07.05.451192 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.05.451192v1


4

What to do if N is two?
Fries P, Maris E
arXiv [statME] (2021) https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.14562


5

Tactile suppression stems from sensation-specific sensorimotor predictions
Führer E, Voudouris D, Lezkan A, Drewing K, Fiehler K
bioRxiv:2021.07.04.451060 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.04.451060v1


6

The Strength of the Corticospinal Tract Not the Reticulospinal Tract Determines Upper-Limb Impairment Level and Capacity for Skill-Acquisition in the Sub-Acute Post-Stroke Period
Hammerbeck U, Tyson SF, Samraj P, Hollands K, Krakauer JW, Rothwell J
Neurorehabil Neural Repair (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15459683211028243


7

A fast link between face perception and memory in the temporal pole
Landi SM, Viswanathan P, Serene S, Freiwald WA
Science (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abi6671


8

Classification of Cortical Neurons by Spike Shape and the Identification of Pyramidal Neurons
Lemon RN, Baker SN, Kraskov A
Cereb Cortex (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab147


9

Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions
Llorens A et al.
Neuron 109:2047–2074 (2021) https://www.cell.com/article/S0896627321004177/abstract


10

Contribution of dorsal horn CGRP-expressing interneurons to mechanical sensitivity
Löken LS, Braz JM, Etlin A, Sadeghi M, Bernstein M, Jewell M, Steyert M, Kuhn J, Hamel K, Llewellyn-Smith IJ, Basbaum A
Elife 10 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.59751


11

A topographical and physiological exploration of C-tactile afferents and their response to menthol and histamine
Löken LS, Wasling HB, Olausson H, McGlone F, Wessberg J
bioRxiv:2021.07.02.450784 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.02.450784v1


12

Adaptive control of movement deceleration during saccades
Orozco SP, Albert ST, Shadmehr R
PLoS Comput Biol 17:e1009176 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009176


13

A topological solution to object segmentation and tracking
Tsao T, Tsao DY
arXiv [csCV] (2021) https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02036


14

A neural circuit state change underlying skilled movements
Wagner MJ, Savall J, Hernandez O, Mel G, Inan H, Rumyantsev O, Lecoq J, Kim TH, Li JZ, Ramakrishnan C, Deisseroth K, Luo L, Ganguli S, Schnitzer MJ
Cell (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.06.001



Superlab Papers

Mapping the integration of sensory information across fingers in human sensorimotor cortex
Arbuckle SA, Andrew Pruszynski J, Diedrichsen J
bioRxiv:2021.07.07.451552 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.07.451552v1
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The role of feedback in the production of skilled finger sequences
Popp NJ, Hernandez-Castillo CR, Gribble PL, Diedrichsen J
bioRxiv:2021.07.02.450916 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.02.450916v1



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.