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

Amplified cortical neural responses as animals learn to use novel activity patterns
Akitake B, Douglas HM, LaFosse PK, Deveau CE, Li AJ, Ryan LN, Duffy SP, Zhou Z, Deng Y, Histed MH
bioRxiv:2022.07.10.499496

2

A call for more clarity around causality in neuroscience
Barack DL, Miller EK, Moore CI, Packer AM, Pessoa L, Ross LN, Rust NC
Trends Neurosci

3

Large-scale capture of hidden fluorescent labels for training generalizable markerless motion capture models
Butler DJ, Keim AP, Ray S, Azim E
bioRxiv:2022.07.07.499213

4

Strike or ball? Batters know it better: an fMRI study of action anticipation in baseball players
Chen Y-H, Chang C-Y, Huang S-K
Cereb Cortex

5

Human muscle spindles are wired to function as controllable signal-processing devices
Dimitriou M
eLife

6

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

7

Joining a conversation: the problem/gap/hook heuristic
Lingard L
Perspect Med Educ

8

Parallel planning through an optimal neural subspace in motor cortex
Meirhaeghe N, Riehle A, Brochier T
bioRxiv:2022.07.09.499417

9

Mesoscale cortex-wide neural dynamics predict self-initiated actions in mice several seconds prior to movement
Mitelut C, Zhang Y, Sekino Y, Boyd J, Bolanos F, Swindale NV, Silasi G, Saxena S, Murphy TH
bioRxiv:2021.12.17.473193

10

Parallel processing relies on a distributed, low-dimensional cortico-cerebellar architecture
Müller EJ, Hou KY, Palesi F, Tan J, Close T, Gandini Wheeler-Kingschott CA, D’Angelo E, Calamante F, Shine JM
bioRxiv:2022.07.10.499497

11

Signaling the agency of an erroneous outcome via synchronization of spikes in the cerebellum
Pi JS, Sedaghat-Nejad E, Fakharian MA, Hage P, Shadmehr R
bioRxiv:2022.07.11.499614

12

Neuromechanical Coupling is Reflected in the Spatial Organization of the Spinal Motoneuron Pools
Taitano RI, Yakovenko S, Gritsenko V
bioRxiv:2022.07.09.499432

13

OpenCap: 3D human movement dynamics from smartphone videos
Uhlrich SD, Falisse A, Kidziński Ł, Muccini J, Ko M, Chaudhari AS, Hicks JL, Delp SL
bioRxiv:2022.07.07.499061

14

Multisensory information about changing object properties can be used to quickly correct predictive force scaling for object lifting
van Polanen V
bioRxiv:2022.01.26.477825

15

Disentangling Hierarchical and Sequential Computations during Sentence Processing
Zacharopoulos C-N, Dehaene S, Lakretz Y
bioRxiv:2022.07.08.499161

16

Multiplexing working memory and time: encoding retrospective and prospective information in neural trajectories
Zhou S, Seay M, Taxidis J, Golshani P, Buonomano DV
bioRxiv:2022.07.08.499383


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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.