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

Networking brainstem and basal ganglia circuits for movement
Arber S, Costa RM
Nat Rev Neurosci

2

Beyond cortex: The evolution of the human brain
Chin R, Chang SWC, Holmes AJ
Psychol Rev

3

Modulation of inhibitory communication coordinates looking and reaching
Hagan MA, Pesaran B
Nature

4

Somatosensory Cortical Signature of Facial Nociception and Vibrotactile Touch Induced Analgesia
Lu J, Chen B, Levy M, Xu P, Han B-X, Takatoh J, Thompson PM, He Z, Prevosto V, Wang F
bioRxiv

5

Dynamic compartmental computations in tuft dendrites of layer 5 neurons during motor behavior
Otor Y, Achvat S, Cermak N, Benisty H, Abboud M, Barak O, Schiller Y, Poleg-Polsky A, Schiller J
Science

6

Transformation of an early-established motor circuit during maturation in zebrafish
Pallucchi I, Bertuzzi M, Michel JC, Miller AC, El Manira A
Cell Rep

7

Rabies Anterograde Monosynaptic Tracing Allows Identification of Postsynaptic Circuits Receiving Distinct Somatosensory Input
Pimpinella S, Sauve I, Dietrich S, Zampieri N
Neuroscience

8

Epidural stimulation of the cervical spinal cord improves voluntary motor control in post-stroke upper limb paresis
Powell MP, Verma N, Sorensen E, Carranza E, Boos A, Fields D, Roy S, Ensel S, Barra B, Balzer J, Goldsmith J, Friedlander RM, Wittenberg G, Fisher LE, Krakauer JW, Gerszten PC, Pirondini E, Weber DJ, Capogrosso M
medRxiv

9

A Third Somatomotor Representation in the Human Cerebellum
Saadon-Grosman N, Angeli PA, DiNicola LM, Buckner RL
bioRxiv

10

Monosynaptic facilitation mediated by group Ia afferents from deltoid to biceps brachii motoneurons in humans
Yoshimoto T, Nito M, Hashizume W, Miyasaka T, Shindo M, Naito A
Exp Brain Res

11

Covert attention to obstacles biases escapes via the Mauthner cell
Zwaka H, McGinnis OJ, Pflitsch P, Prabha S, Mansinghka V, Engert F, Bolton AD
bioRxiv:2022.04.14.488363


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


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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.