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

Contextual effects in sensorimotor adaptation adhere to associative learning rules
Avraham G, Taylor JA, Breska A, Ivry RB, McDougle SD
Elife


2

Adaptation of muscle activation after patellar loading demonstrates neural control of joint variables
Barroso FO, Alessandro C, Tresch MC
Sci Rep


3

Competition between action plans tracks with evidence accumulation during flexible decision-making
Bond KAM, Rasero J, Madan R, Bahuguna J, Rubin J, Verstynen T
bioRxiv:2022.10.03.510668


4

Politics and the English Language
Orwell G


5

Effort reinforces learning
Jarvis H, Stevenson I, Huynh AQ, Babbage E, Coxon J, Chong TT-J
J Neurosci


6

Motor control beyond reach—how humans hit a target with a whip
Krotov A, Russo M, Nah M, Hogan N, Sternad D
Royal Society Open Science


7

The basal ganglia achieve a higher signal-to-noise ratio than the cerebellum by sharpening reward and movement signals
Larry N, Zur G, Joshua M
bioRxiv:2022.10.01.510246


8

A ubiquitous spectrolaminar motif of local field potential power across the primate cortex
Mendoza-Halliday D, Major AJ, Lee N, Lichtenfeld M, Carlson B, Mitchell B, Meng PD, Xiong Y (sophy), Westerberg J, Maier A, Desimone R, Miller EK, Bastos AM
bioRxiv:2022.09.30.510398


9

The logic of recurrent circuits in the primary visual cortex
Oldenburg IA, Hendricks WD, Handy G, Shamardani K, Bounds HA, Doiron B, Adesnik H
bioRxiv:2022.09.20.508739


10

Accurate measurement of inhibition and excitation in human motor pools during sensory stimulation
Soteropoulos DS, Del Vecchio A
bioRxiv:2022.09.29.509858


11

Error Tight: Exercises for Lab Groups to Prevent Research Mistakes
Strand JF
PsyArXiv


12

Active antennal movements in Drosophila tune wind encoding
Suver MP, Medina AM, Nagel KI
bioRxiv:2022.09.30.510392


13

The Existence of the StartReact Effect Implies Reticulospinal, Not Corticospinal, Inputs Dominate Drive to Motoneurons during Voluntary Movement
Tapia JA, Tohyama T, Poll A, Baker SN
J Neurosci


14

Disentangling with Biological Constraints: A Theory of Functional Cell Types
Whittington JCR, Dorrell W, Ganguli S, Behrens TEJ
arXiv [q-bioNC]


15

Ultraflexible electrode arrays for months-long high-density electrophysiological mapping of thousands of neurons in rodents
Zhao Z, Zhu H, Li X, Sun L, He F, Chung JE, Liu DF, Frank L, Luan L, Xie C
Nat Biomed Eng



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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.