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

Motor memories of object dynamics are categorically organized
Cesanek E, Zhang Z, Ingram JN, Wolpert DM, Randall Flanagan J
bioRxiv:2021.07.13.452183 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.13.452183v1


2

The basal ganglia control the detailed kinematics of learned motor skills
Dhawale AK, Wolff SBE, Ko R, Ölveczky BP
Nat Neurosci: (2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00889-3


3

Visual perturbation of balance suggests impaired neuromuscular stability but intact visuo-motor control in Parkinson’s disease
Engel D, Student J, Schwenk JCB, Morris AP, Waldthaler J, Timmermann L, Bremmer F
bioRxiv:2021.07.05.451110 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.05.451110v1


4

What Happened to Mirror Neurons?
Heyes C, Catmur C
Perspect Psychol Sci (2021) http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745691621990638


5

When two worlds collide: the influence of an obstacle in peripersonal space on multisensory encoding
Menger R, De Haan AM, Van der Stigchel S, Dijkerman HC
Exp Brain Res 239:1715–1726 (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-021-06072-1


6

Your head is there to move you around: Goal-driven models of the primate dorsal pathway
Mineault PJ, Bhaktiari S, Richards BA, Pack CC
bioRxiv:2021.07.09.451701 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.09.451701v1


7

Dopamine axons in dorsal striatum encode contralateral visual stimuli and choices
Moss MM, Zatka-Haas P, Harris KD, Carandini M, Lak A
J Neurosci (2021) https://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0490-21.2021


8

Interpreting neural computations by examining intrinsic and embedding dimensionality of neural activity
Jazayeri M, Ostojic S
arXiv [q-bioNC] (2021) https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04084


9

The evolution of two distinct strategies of moth flight
Aiello BR, Sikandar UB, Minoguchi H, Bhinderwala B, Hamilton CA, Kawahara AY, Sponberg S
bioRxiv:2020.10.27.358176 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.27.358176v3


10

TimTrack: A drift-free algorithm for estimating geometric muscle features from ultrasound images
van der Zee TJ, Kuo AD
bioRxiv:2020.08.23.263574 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.23.263574v2



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.