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 practical guide for studying human behavior in the lab
Barbosa J, Stein H, Zorowitz S, Niv Y, Summerfield C, Soto-Faraco S, Hyafil A
Behav Res Methods


2

Secondary auditory cortex mediates a sensorimotor mechanism for action timing
Cook JR, Li H, Nguyen B, Huang H-H, Mahdavian P, Kirchgessner MA, Strassmann P, Engelhardt M, Callaway EM, Jin X
Nat Neurosci


3

Separability of Human Motor Memories during Reaching Adaptation with Force Cues
Crevecoeur F, Mathew J, Lefèvre P
bioRxiv:2022.02.28.482223


4

Frequency shapes the quality of tactile percepts evoked through electrical stimulation of the nerves
Graczyk EL, Christie BP, He Q, Tyler DJ, Bensmaia SJ
J Neurosci


5

A midbrain-thalamus-cortex circuit reorganizes cortical dynamics to initiate movement
Inagaki HK, Chen S, Ridder MC, Sah P, Li N, Yang Z, Hasanbegovic H, Gao Z, Gerfen CR, Svoboda K
Cell


6

The role of higher order thalamus during learning and correct performance in goal-directed behavior
La Terra D, Rosier M, Bjerre A-S, Masuda R, Ryan TJ, Palmer LM
Elife 11


7

Decoding cognition from spontaneous neural activity
Liu Y, Nour MM, Schuck NW, Behrens TEJ, Dolan RJ
Nat Rev Neurosci


8

Retinal optic flow during natural locomotion
Matthis JS, Muller KS, Bonnen KL, Hayhoe MM
PLoS Comput Biol


9

The influence of movement-related costs when searching to act and acting to search
Moskowitz JB, Berger SA, Castelhano MS, Gallivan JP, Flanagan JR
bioRxiv:2022.03.01.482521


10

Cortico-striatal circuits for bilaterally coordinated movements
Pimentel-Farfan AK, Báez-Cordero AS, Peña-Rangel TM, Rueda-Orozco PE
Sci Adv


11

Proactive inhibition is marked by differences in the pattern of motor cortex activity during movement preparation and execution
Rawji V, Modi S, Rocchi L, Jahanshahi M, Rothwell J
J Neurophysiol


12

Controversies and current progress on large-scale brain network nomenclature from OHBM WHATNET: Workgroup for HArmonized Taxonomy of NETworks
Uddin LQ et al.
OSF Preprints


13

Cortical processing of flexible and context-dependent sensorimotor sequences
Xu D, Dong M, Chen Y, Delgado AM, Hughes NC, Zhang L, O’Connor DH
Nature


14

Time-of-day matters - pronounced regional morning-to-evening effects in structural brain metrics
Zareba MR, Fafrowicz M, Marek T, Beldzik E, Oginska H, Domagalik A
bioRxiv:2022.03.06.483163


15

A New Power Law Linking the Speed to the Geometry of Tool-Tip Orientation in Teleoperation of a Robot-Assisted Surgical System
Zruya O, Sharon Y, Kossowsky H, Forni F, Geftler A, Nisky I
bioRxiv:2022.03.02.482648



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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.