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

Gaze-specific motor memories for hand-reaching
Abekawa N, Ito S, Gomi H
Curr Biol


2

How the Brain Tells Apart Important and Unimportant Sensations
Azim E, Bensmaia S, Miller LE, Versteeg C
Scientific American


3

Gliding and parachuting by arboreal salamanders
Brown CE, Sathe EA, Dudley R, Deban SM
Curr Biol


4

Hippocampus as a generative circuit for predictive coding of future sequences
Chen Y, Zhang H, Sejnowski TJ
bioRxiv:2022.05.19.492731


5

Mechanoreceptor signal convergence and transformation in the dorsal horn flexibly shape a diversity of outputs to the brain
Chirila AM, Rankin G, Tseng S-Y, Emanuel AJ, Chavez-Martinez CL, Zhang D, Harvey CD, Ginty DD
bioRxiv:2022.05.20.492853


6

Emergent reliability in sensory cortical coding and inter-area communication
Ebrahimi S, Lecoq J, Rumyantsev O, Tasci T, Zhang Y, Irimia C, Li J, Ganguli S, Schnitzer MJ
Nature


7

The Individualized Neural Tuning Model: Precise and generalizable cartography of functional architecture in individual brains
Feilong M, Nastase SA, Jiahui G, Halchenko YO, Ida Gobbini M, Haxby JV
bioRxiv:2022.05.15.492022


8

The proportional recovery rule redux Arguments for its biological and predictive relevance
Goldsmith J, Kitago T, de la Garza AG, Kundert R, Luft A, Stinear C, Byblow WD, Kwakkel G, Krakauer JW
bioRxiv:2021.05.20.445022


9

Correlation between ranges of leg walking angles and passive rest angles among leg types in stick insects
Guschlbauer C, Hooper SL, Mantziaris C, Schwarz A, Szczecinski NS, Büschges A
Curr Biol


10

Coevolution of motor cortex and behavioral specializations associated with flight and echolocation in bats
Halley AC, Baldwin MKL, Cooke DF, Englund M, Pineda CR, Schmid T, Yartsev MM, Krubitzer L
Curr Biol


11

People construct simplified mental representations to plan
Ho MK, Abel D, Correa CG, Littman ML, Cohen JD, Griffiths TL
Nature


12

Handedness is associated with less common input to spinal motor neurons innervating different hand muscles
Maillet J, Avrillon S, Rossi J, Nordez A, Hug F
bioRxiv:2022.05.25.493122


13

The representation of priors and decisions in parietal cortex
Marshall TR, Ruesseler M, Hunt LT, O’Reilly JX
bioRxiv:2021.05.03.442155


14

Neural signals regulating motor synchronization in the primate deep cerebellar nuclei
Okada K-I, Takeya R, Tanaka M
Nat Commun


15

Speech sound categorization: The contribution of non-auditory and auditory cortical regions
Preisig B, Riecke L, Hervais-Adelman A
bioRxiv:2021.10.08.463391


16

Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the brain: What is stimulated? – a consensus and critical position paper
Siebner HR et al.
Clin Neurophysiol


17

Perceptual similarity judgments do not predict the distribution of errors in working memory
Tomić I, Bays P
bioRxiv:2022.05.24.493200


18

Slowly-adapting type II afferents contribute to conscious touch sensation in humans: evidence from single unit intraneural microstimulation
Watkins RH, Amante M, Wasling HB, Wessberg J, Ackerley R
J Physiol



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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.