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

Predictive neural representations of naturalistic dynamic input
de Vries IEJ, Wurm MF
bioRxiv:2022.09.02.506366

2

Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity
Dehaene S, Al Roumi F, Lakretz Y, Planton S, Sablé-Meyer M
Trends Cogn Sci

3

The neuroconnectionist research programme
Doerig A, Sommers R, Seeliger K, Richards B, Ismael J, Lindsay G, Kording K, Konkle T, Van Gerven MAJ, Kriegeskorte N, Kietzmann TC
arXiv [q-bioNC]

4

Tracking human skill learning with a hierarchical Bayesian sequence model
Éltető N, Nemeth D, Janacsek K, Dayan P
bioRxiv:2022.01.27.477977

5

Hand posture, but not vision of the hand, affects tactile spatial resolution in the grating orientation discrimination task
French B, Chiaro NVD, Holmes NP
Exp Brain Res

6

Experimenters’ sex modulates mouse behaviors and neural responses to ketamine via corticotropin releasing factor
Georgiou P et al.
Nat Neurosci

7

Action prediction error: a value-free dopaminergic teaching signal that drives stable learning
Greenstreet F, Vergara HM, Pati S, Schwarz L, Wisdom M, Marbach F, Johansson Y, Rollik L, Moskovitz T, Clopath CM, Stephenson-Jones M
bioRxiv:2022.09.12.507572

8

Learning-induced changes in the neural circuits underlying motor sequence execution
Kadmon Harpaz N, Hardcastle K, Ölveczky BP
Curr Opin Neurobiol

9

Physiological noise facilitates multiplexed coding of vibrotactile-like signals in somatosensory cortex
Kamaleddin MA, Shifman A, Abdollahi N, Sigal D, Ratté S, Prescott SA
PNAS

10

The coarse mental map of the breast is anchored on the nipple
Long K, Fitzgerald E, Berger-Wolf E, Fawaz A, Greenspon C, Lindau S, Bensmaia SJ
bioRxiv:2022.09.14.507974

11

Distinguishing externally from saccade-induced motion in visual cortex
Miura SK, Scanziani M
Nature

12

Using a chopping task to compare expert and competent motor memory
Nepotiuk AH, Brown LE
J Neurophysiol

13

Activity in primate visual cortex is minimally driven by spontaneous movements
Talluri BC, Kang I, Lazere A, Quinn KR, Kaliss N, Yates JL, Butts DA, Nienborg H
bioRxiv:2022.09.08.507006

14

Magnetomicrometry
Taylor CR, Srinivasan SS, Yeon SH, O’Donnell MK, Roberts TJ, Herr HM
Science Robotics

15

Non-necessary neural activity in the primate cortex
Tremblay S, Testard C, Inchauspé J, Petrides M
bioRxiv:2022.09.12.506984

16

The neural bases for timing of durations
Tsao A, Yousefzadeh SA, Meck WH, Moser M-B, Moser EI
Nat Rev Neurosci

17

A prosthesis utilizing natural vestibular encoding strategies improves sensorimotor performance in monkeys
Wiboonsaksakul KP, Roberts DC, Della Santina CC, Cullen KE
PLoS Biol

18

Common Neural Mechanisms Control Attention and Working Memory
Zhou Y, Curtis CE, Sreenivasan KK, Fougnie D
J Neurosci


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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.