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

Perception of biological motion by jumping spiders
De Agrò M, Rößler DC, Kim K, Shamble PS
PLoS Biol 19:e3001172 (2021)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001172

2

Reward-dependent selection of feedback gains impacts rapid motor decisions
De Comite A, Crevecoeur F, Lefèvre P
bioRxiv:2021.07.25.453678 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.25.453678v1

3

Retinal waves prime visual motion detection by simulating future optic flow
Ge X, Zhang K, Gribizis A, Hamodi AS, Sabino AM, Crair MC
Science 373 (2021)
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6553/eabd0830

4

Disrupting cortico-cerebellar communication impairs dexterity
Guo J-Z, Sauerbrei BA, Cohen JD, Mischiati M, Graves AR, Pisanello F, Branson KM, Hantman AW
Elife 10:e65906 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.65906

5

The mechanosensory neurons of touch and their mechanisms of activation
Handler A, Ginty DD
Nat Rev Neurosci (2021)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41583-021-00489-x

6

A single exposure to altered auditory feedback causes observable sensorimotor adaptation in speech
Hantzsch L, Parrell B, Niziolek CA
bioRxiv:2021.07.26.453857 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.26.453857v1

7

Perception of microstimulation frequency in human somatosensory cortex
Hughes CL, Flesher SN, Weiss JM, Boninger ML, Collinger J, Gaunt R
Elife 10 (2021)
https://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.65128

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Motor Sequences - Separating The Sequence From The Motor. A longitudinal rsfMRI Study Jäger ATP, Huntenburg JM, Tremblay SA, Schneider U, Grahl S, Huck J, Tardif CL, Villringer A, Gauthier CJ, Bazin PL, Steele CJ
bioRxiv:2021.02.09.430495 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.09.430495v2

9

Anipose: a toolkit for robust markerless 3D pose estimation
Karashchuk P, Rupp KL, Dickinson ES, Walling-Bell S, Sanders E, Azim E, Brunton BW, Tuthill JC
bioRxiv:2020.05.26.117325 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.26.117325v2

10

Innovation and geographic spread of a complex foraging culture in an urban parrot
Klump BC, Martin JM, Wild S, Hörsch JK, Major RE, Aplin LM
Science 373:456–460 (2021)
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6553/456

11

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/10.1101/2021.07.09.451701v2

12

Action costs rapidly and automatically interfere with reward-based decision-making in a reaching task
Pierrieau E, Lepage J-F, Bernier P-M
eNeuro (2021)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0247-21.2021

13

Rapid Feedback Responses Parallel the Urgency of Voluntary Reaching Movements
Poscente S, Peters R, Cashaback J, Cluff T
Neuroscience (2021)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2021.07.014

14

A rare case of deafferentation reveals an essential role of proprioception in bilateral coordination
Schaffer JE, Sarlegna FR, Sainburg RL
Neuropsychologia:107969 (2021)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107969

15

Spinal V1 neurons inhibit motor targets locally and sensory targets distally
Sengupta M, Daliparthi V, Roussel Y, Bui TV, Bagnall MW
Curr Biol (2021)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.053

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Why Does the Neocortex Need the Cerebellum for Working Memory?
Stein H
J Neurosci 41:6368–6370 (2021)
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/41/30/6368

17

Effects of reward history on decision-making and movement vigor
Sukumar S, Shadmehr R, Ahmed AA
bioRxiv:2021.07.22.453376 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.22.453376v1

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Neurophysiology of slip sensation and grip reaction: insights for hand prosthesis control of slippage
Zangrandi A, D’Alonzo M, Cipriani C, Di Pino G
J Neurophysiol (2021)
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/10.1152/jn.00087.2021

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.