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

Cognitive neuroscience at the crossroads
Editorial
Nature

2

Behaviorally relevant decision coding in primary somatosensory cortex neurons
Buetfering C, Zhang Z, Pitsiani M, Smallridge J, Boven E, McElligott S, Häusser M
Nat Neurosci

3

The non-Riemannian nature of perceptual color space
Bujack R, Teti E, Miller J, Caffrey E, Turton TL
PNAS

4

Hand explorations are determined by the characteristics of the perceptual space of real-world materials from silk to sand
Dövencioǧlu DN, Üstün FS, Doerschner K, Drewing K
Sci Rep

5

Flexible multitask computation in recurrent networks utilizes shared dynamical motifs
Driscoll L, Shenoy K, Sussillo D
bioRxiv:2022.08.15.503870

6

Input-dependent segregation of visual and somatosensory circuits in the mouse superior colliculus
Guillamón-Vivancos T, Aníbal-Martínez M, Puche-Aroca L, Moreno-Bravo JA, Valdeolmillos M, Martini FJ, López-Bendito G
Science

7

Discrimination of edge orientation by bumblebees
Guiraud M, Roper M, Wolf S, Woodgate JL, Chittka L
PLoS One

8

Looking for a sign forecasting failure in actions: reaching errors triggered by a slowdown of movement and specific brain activity in preceding trials
Kobayashi T, Takemi M, Nozaki D
bioRxiv:2022.08.23.505043

9

Untangling the network effects of productivity and prominence among scientists
Li W, Zhang S, Zheng Z, Cranmer SJ, Clauset A
Nat Commun

10

Texture coding in higher order somatosensory cortices
Long KH, Greenspon CM, van Driesche A, Lieber JD, Bensmaia SJ
bioRxiv:2022.08.19.504511

11

Sex differences in motor unit behaviour: A review
Lulic-Kuryllo T, Greig Inglis J
J Electromyogr Kinesiol

12

Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty
Morgan AC, LaBerge N, Larremore DB, Galesic M, Brand JE, Clauset A
Nat Hum Behav

13

Complementary roles of primate dorsal premotor and pre-supplementary motor areas to the control of motor sequences
Nakajima T, Hosaka R, Mushiake H
J Neurosci

14

Motor learning-induced new dendritic spines are preferentially involved in the learned task than existing spines
Qiao Q, Wu C, Ma L, Zhang H, Li M, Wu X, Gan W-B
Cell Rep

15

RTNet: A neural network that exhibits the signatures of human perceptual decision making
Rafiei F, Rahnev D
bioRxiv:2022.08.23.505015

16

Neural sequences in primate prefrontal cortex encode working memory in naturalistic environments
Roussy M, Busch A, Luna R, Leavitt ML, Mofrad MH, Gulli RA, Corrigan B, Mináč J, Sachs AJ, Palaniyappan L, Muller L, Martinez-Trujillo JC
bioRxiv:2022.08.18.504406

17

The differential effect of age on upper limb sensory processing, proprioception and motor function
Saenen L, Verheyden G, Orban de Xivry J-J
bioRxiv:2022.08.26.505430

18

Microstimulation of human somatosensory cortex evokes task-dependent, spatially patterned responses in motor cortex
Shelchkova ND et al.
bioRxiv:2022.08.10.503543

19

The role of somatosensory innervation of adipose tissues
Wang Y, Leung VH, Zhang Y, Nudell VS, Loud M, Servin-Vences MR, Yang D, Wang K, Moya-Garzon MD, Li VL, Long JZ, Patapoutian A, Ye L
Nature

20

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Yong E
Knopf Canada


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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.