Welcome to the 99th (!) Reading List. As we begin our winter break, we have decided to also take a break from the Reading List, and return in January with a special 100th edition to launch the new year. The 100th edition is slated to appear on Friday January 22nd. Have a safe holiday break.

Here are the articles that we have been reading this week.

Enjoy!
—Paul, Andrew & Jörn

1

Sensory coding of limb kinematics in developing primary motor cortex
Glanz, R.M., Dooley, J.C., Sokoloff, G., and Blumberg, M.S.
bioRxiv (2020)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.14.422707v1

2

A midbrain - thalamus - cortex circuit reorganizes cortical dynamics to initiate planned movement
Inagaki, H.K., Chen, S., Ridder, M.C., Sah, P., Li, N., Yang, Z., Hasanbegovic, H., Gao, Z., Gerfen, C.R., and Svoboda, K.
bioRxiv (2020)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.16.423127v1

3

Increased connectivity among sensory and motor regions during visual and audiovisual speech perception
Peelle, J.E., Spehar, B., Jones, M.S., McConkey, S., Myerson, J., Hale, S., Sommers, M.S., and Tye-Murray, N.
bioRxiv (2020)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.15.422726v1.abstract?%3Fcollection=

4

Stretch-activated ion channels identified in the touch-sensitive structures of carnivorous Droseraceae plants
Procko, C., Murthy, S., Keenan, W.T., Mousavi, S.A.R., Dabi, T., Coombs, A., Procko, E., Baird, L., Patapoutian, A., and Chory, J.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.15.422915v1

5

Information transfer and recovery for the sense of touch
Huang, C., Englitz, B., Reznik, A., Zeldenrust, F., and Celikel, T.
bioRxiv (2020)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.08.415729v2.abstract?%3Fcollection=

6

Capacity sharing between concurrent movement plans in the frontal eye field during the planning of sequential saccades
Basu, D., Sendhilnathan, N., and Murthy, A.
bioRxiv (2020)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.04.411454v1

7

Rules warp feature encoding in decision-making circuits
Ebitz, R.B., Tu, J.C., and Hayden, B.Y.
PLoS Biol (2020)
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000951

8

The Gradient Clusteron: A model neuron that learns via dendritic nonlinearities, structural plasticity, and gradient descent
Moldwin, T., Kalmenson, M., and Segev, I.
bioRxiv (2020)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.15.417790v1.abstract?%3Fcollection=

9

Transforming task representations to perform novel tasks
Lampinen, A.K., and McClelland, J.L.
PNAS (2020)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2008852117

10

The rise to dominance of genetic model organisms and the decline of curiosity-driven organismal research
Farris, S.M.
PLoS ONE (2020)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/comments?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0243088


Disclaimer

Please keep in mind that the appearance of a paper on our reading list should not necessarily be considered an endorsement of the work unless of course we explicitly endorse it, for example in a blurb. As always, please read papers with a critical eye.