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

Neural Excursions from Low-Dimensional Manifold Structure Explain Intersubject Variation in Human Motor Learning
Areshenkoff CN, Gale DJ, Nashed JY, Standage D, Randall Flanagan J, Gallivan JP
bioRxiv:2021.09.01.458601

2

The brain uses invariant dynamics to generalize outputs across movements
Athalye VR, Khanna P, Gowda S, Orsborn AL, Costa RM, Carmena JM
bioRxiv:2021.08.27.457931

3

Contextual effects in motor adaptation adhere to associative learning rules
Avraham G, Taylor JA, Breska A, Ivry RB, McDougle SD
bioRxiv:2020.09.14.297143

4

Central nervous system of a 310-m.y.-old horseshoe crab: Expanding the taphonomic window for nervous system preservation
Bicknell RDC, Ortega-Hernández J, Edgecombe GD, Gaines RR, Paterson JR
Geology (2021)

5

Measuring fingerpad deformation during active object manipulation
Delhaye BP, Schiltz F, Barrea A, Thonnard J-L, Lefevre P
bioRxiv:2021.07.20.453037

6

The relationship between habits and skills in humans
Du Y, Krakauer JW, Haith A
PsyArXiv (2021)

7

Distinct dynamics of neuronal activity during concurrent motor planning and execution
Eriksson D, Heiland M, Schneider A, Diester I
Nat Commun 12:5390 (2021)

8

Hippocampal replay reflects specific past experiences rather than a plan for subsequent choice
Gillespie AK, Astudillo Maya DA, Denovellis EL, Liu DF, Kastner DB, Coulter ME, Roumis DK, Eden UT, Frank LM
Neuron (2021)

9

Building population models for large-scale neural recordings: Opportunities and pitfalls
Hurwitz C, Kudryashova N, Onken A, Hennig MH
Curr Opin Neurobiol 70:64–73 (2021)

10

Learning from the path not taken: Sensory prediction errors are sufficient for implicit adaptation of withheld movements
Kim OA, Forrence AD, McDougle SD
bioRxiv:2021.08.12.456140

11

Predictive simulations of gait with exoskeletons that alter energetics
Koelewijn AD, Selinger JD
bioRxiv:2021.08.31.458315

12

Neural tuning and representational geometry
Kriegeskorte N, Wei X-X
Nat Rev Neurosci:1–16 (2021)

13

Coupling between motor cortex and striatum increases during sleep over long-term skill learning
Lemke SM, Ramanathan DS, Darevksy D, Egert D, Berke JD, Ganguly K
Elife 10 (2021)

14

Movement is governed by rotational population dynamics in spinal motor networks
Lindén H, Petersen PC, Vestergaard M, Berg RW
bioRxiv:2021.08.31.458405

15

Premovement inhibition can protect motor actions from interference by response-irrelevant sensory stimulation
McInnes AN, Lipp OV, Tresilian JR, Vallence A-M, Marinovic W
J Physiol (2021)

16

The corticospinal tract primarily modulates sensory inputs in the mouse lumbar cord
Moreno-Lopez Y, Bichara C, Delbecq G, Isope P, Cordero-Erausquin M
Elife 10 (2021)

17

Noise Correlations for Faster and More Robust Learning
Nassar MR, Scott D, Bhandari A
J Neurosci 41:6740–6752 (2021)

18

The geometry of cortical representations of touch in rodents
Nogueira R, Rodgers CC, Bruno RM, Fusi S
bioRxiv:2021.02.11.430704

19

Learning to stand with unexpected sensorimotor delays
Rasman BG, Forbes PA, Peters RM, Ortiz O, Franks I, Inglis JT, Chua R, Blouin J-S
Elife 10 (2021)

20

The Interaction between Motion and Texture in the Sense of Touch
Ryan CP, Bettelani GC, Ciotti S, Parise CV, Moscatelli A, Bianchi M
J Neurophysiol (2021)

21

Real-time linear prediction of simultaneous and independent movements of two finger groups using an intracortical brain-machine interface
Nason SR, Mender MJ, Vaskov AK, Willsey MS, Ganesh Kumar N, Kung TA, Patil PG, Chestek CA
Neuron (2021)

22

A curved manifold orients rotational dynamics in motor cortex
Sabatini DA, Kaufman MT
bioRxiv:2021.09.09.459647

23

A direct interareal feedback-to-feedforward circuit in primate visual cortex
Siu C, Balsor J, Merlin S, Federer F, Angelucci A
Nat Commun 12:4911 (2021)

24

Solving musculoskeletal biomechanics with machine learning
Smirnov Y, Smirnov D, Popov A, Yakovenko S
PeerJ Comput Sci 7:e663 (2021)

25

Monkeys exhibit a paradoxical decrease in performance in high-stakes scenarios
Smoulder AL, Pavlovsky NP, Marino PJ, Degenhart AD, McClain NT, Batista AP, Chase SM
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 118 (2021)

26

Pitfalls in quantifying exploration in reward-based motor learning and how to avoid them
van Mastrigt NM, van der Kooij K, Smeets JBJ
Biol Cybern (2021)

27

Disentangling acceleration-, velocity- and duration-dependency of the short- and medium-latency stretch reflexes in the ankle plantarflexors
van ’t Veld RC, van Asseldonk EHF, van der Kooij H, Schouten AC
J Neurophysiol (2021)

28

An approximate stochastic optimal control framework to simulate nonlinear neuro-musculoskeletal models in the presence of noise
Van Wouwe T, Ting LH, De Groote F
bioRxiv:2021.08.13.456221


Superlab Papers

Gaze control during reaching is flexibly modulated to optimize task outcome
Abekawa N, Gomi H, Diedrichsen J
J Neurophysiol 126:816–826 (2021)

Combining Repetition Suppression and Pattern Analysis Provides New Insights into the Role of M1 and Parietal Areas in Skilled Sequential Actions
Berlot E, Popp NJ, Grafton ST, Diedrichsen J
J Neurosci 41:7649–7661 (2021)


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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.