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

The role of population structure in computations through neural dynamics
Dubreuil A, Valente A, Beiran M, Mastrogiuseppe F, Ostojic S
Nat Neurosci

2

Learning binds new inputs into functional synaptic clusters via spinogenesis
Hedrick NG, Lu Z, Bushong E, Singhi S, Nguyen P, Magaña Y, Jilani S, Lim BK, Ellisman M, Komiyama T
Nat Neurosci

3

Reflexes in response to stretch (myotatic reflexes)
Liddell EGT, Sherrington CS
Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (1924)

4

Proactive inhibition of goal-directed movements involves explicit changes to movement planning
Pickavance JP, Mon-Williams M, Mushtaq F, Ryan Morehead J
bioRxiv:2022.06.01.494317

5

Brain motor and fear circuits regulate leukocytes during acute stress
Poller WC et al.
Nature

6

II. Note on the knee-jerk and the correlation of action of antagonistic muscles
Sherrington CS, Foster M
Proc R Soc Lond (1893)

7

Representation learning in the artificial and biological neural networks underlying sensorimotor integration
Suhaimi A, Lim AWH, Chia XW, Li C, Makino H
Sci Adv

8

Optimal reaching trajectories based on feedforward control
Taniai Y, Naniwa T, Nishii J
Biol Cybern

9

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

10

Targeting thalamic circuits rescues motor and mood deficits in PD mice
Zhang Y, Roy DS, Zhu Y, Chen Y, Aida T, Hou Y, Shen C, Lea NE, Schroeder ME, Skaggs KM, Sullivan HA, Fischer KB, Callaway EM, Wickersham IR, Dai J, Li X-M, Lu Z, Feng G
Nature


Superlab Papers

Precise and stable edge orientation signaling by human first-order tactile neurons
Sukumar V, Johansson RS, Pruszynski JA
bioRxiv:2022.06.01.494420


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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.