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

Attenuation of muscle spindle firing with artificially increased series compliance during stretch of relaxed muscle
Abbott EM, Stephens JD, Simha SN, Wood L, Nardelli P, Cope TC, Sawicki GS, Ting LH
Exp Physiol

2

A Unified, Scalable Framework for Neural Population Decoding
Azabou M, Arora V, Ganesh V, Mao X, Nachimuthu S, Mendelson MJ, Richards B, Perich MG, Lajoie G, Dyer EL
arXiv [csLG]

3

Presynaptic gating of monkey proprioceptive signals for proper motor action
Tomatsu S, Kim G, Kubota S, Seki K
Nat Commun 14:1–14

4

Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making
Findling C et al.
bioRxiv:2023.07.04.547684

5

Presynaptic inhibition selectively suppresses leg proprioception in behaving Drosophila
Dallmann CJ, Agrawal S, Cook A, Brunton BW, Tuthill JC
bioRxiv:2023.10.20.563322

6

Dissociable causal roles of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and primary motor cortex as a function of motor skill expertise
Nguyen QN, Michon KJ, Lee TG
bioRxiv:2023.10.20.563280

7

Emergence of a somatosensory tonotopic map for substrate vibration in the brainstem
Lee K-S, de Thomas Wagner D, Sanders M, Huber D
bioRxiv:2023.09.26.559502

8

Pseudo-linear summation explains neural geometry of multi-finger movements in human premotor cortex
Shah NP, Avansino D, Kamdar F, Nicolas C, Kapitonava A, Vargas-Irwin C, Hochberg L, Pandarinath C, Shenoy K, Willett FR, Henderson J
bioRxiv:2023.10.11.561982

9

On the Rotational Structure in Neural Data
Kuzmina E, Kriukov D, Lebedev M
bioRxiv:2023.09.11.557230

10

Bilateral intracortical inhibition during unilateral motor preparation and sequence learning
Hamel R, Waltzing BM, Hinder MR, McAllister CJ, Jenkinson N, Galea JM
bioRxiv:2023.10.19.563212

11

Noninvasive theta-burst stimulation of the human striatum enhances striatal activity and motor skill learning
Wessel MJ et al.,
Nat Neurosci:1–12

12

The making of a proprioceptor: a tale of two identities
de Nooij JC, Zampieri N
Trends 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.