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

Internal Dynamics Interact with Proprioceptive Feedback During Movement Execution in an RNN Model of Motor Cortex
Jiang H, Bu X, Zheng Z, Pan X, Chen Y
bioRxiv:2023.12.05.570033

2

Connectivity underlying motor cortex activity during naturalistic goal-directed behavior
Finkelstein A, Daie K, Rózsa M, Darshan R, Svoboda K
bioRxiv:2023.11.25.568673

3

Sleep consolidation potentiates skill maintenance
Solano A, Lerner G, Griffa G, Deleglise A, Caffaro P, Riquelme L, Perez-Chada D, Della-Maggiore V
bioRxiv:2023.10.26.564031

4

Cortical circuitry mediating interareal touch signal amplification
Ryan L, Sun-Yan A, Laughton M, Peron S
Cell Rep 42:113532

5

Fast feedback responses to categorical sensorimotor errors that do not indicate error magnitude are optimized based on short and long term memory
McGarity-Shipley MR, Markovik Jantz S, Johansson RS, Wolpert DM, Flanagan JR
J Neurosci 43:JN-RM-1990-22

6

Scale‐invariant changes in corticospinal excitability reflect multiplexed oscillations in the motor output
Emanuele M, D’Ausilio A, Koch G, Fadiga L, Tomassini A
J Physiol

7

Muscle-driven simulations and experimental data of cycling
Clancy CE, Gatti AA, Ong CF, Maly MR, Delp SL
Sci Rep 13:1–10

8

The neural control of movement: a century of in vivo motor unit recordings is the legacy of Adrian and Bronk
Farina D, Gandevia S
J Physiol

9

Your Eyes Talk to Your Ears. Scientists Know What They’re Saying
Duke Today

10

Computational demonstration of a spinal circuit that modulatesγ-MN activity via anα-MN collateral mitigates the inevitable disruptions from velocity-dependent stretch reflexes during voluntary movements
Niyo G, Almofeez LI, Erwin A, Valero-Cuevas FJ
bioRxiv:2023.12.08.570843

11

Daily vocal exercise is necessary for peak performance singing in a songbird
Adam I, Riebel K, Stål P, Wood N, Previs MJ, Elemans CPH
Nat Commun 14:1–12

12

Ashley Kopec’s journey out of academia
The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives

13

Effort cost of harvest affects decisions and movement vigor of marmosets during foraging
Hage P, Jang IK, Looi V, Fakharian MA, Orozco SP, Pi JS, Sedaghat-Nejad E, Shadmehr R
eLife

14

Large-scale single-neuron speech sound encoding across the depth of human cortex
Leonard MK, Gwilliams L, Sellers KK, Chung JE, Xu D, Mischler G, Mesgarani N, Welkenhuysen M, Dutta B, Chang EF
Nature

15

BICCN: The first complete cell census and atlas of a mammalian brain
Krzysztofiak J
Nature

16

CORNN: Convex optimization of recurrent neural networks for rapid inference of neural dynamics
Dinc F, Shai A, Schnitzer M, Tanaka H
arXiv [q-bioNC]

17

Cortical reactivations predict future sensory responses
Nguyen ND, Lutas A, Amsalem O, Fernando J, Ahn AY-E, Hakim R, Vergara J, McMahon J, Dimidschstein J, Sabatini BL, Andermann ML
Nature

18

Disruption of somatosensory cortex impairs motor learning and retention
Darainy M, Manning TF, Ostry DJ
J Neurophysiol 130:1521–1528

19

A software tool for at-home measurement of sensorimotor adaptation
Jang J, Shadmehr R, Albert ST
bioRxiv:2023.12.12.571359

20

The neuronal implementation of representational geometry in primate prefrontal cortex
Lin X-X, Nieder A, Jacob SN
Sci Adv 9

21

Stable cortical body maps before and after arm amputation
Schone HR, Maimon-Mor RO, Kollamkulam MT, Gerrand C, Woollard A, Kang NV, Baker CI, Makin TR
bioRxiv:2023.12.13.571314

22

Restoration of sensory feedback from the foot and reduction of phantom limb pain via closed-loop spinal cord stimulation
Nanivadekar AC, Bose R, Petersen BA, Okorokova EV, Sarma D, Madonna TJ, Barra B, Farooqui J, Dalrymple AN, Levy I, Helm ER, Miele VJ, Boninger ML, Capogrosso M, Bensmaia SJ, Weber DJ, Fisher LE
Nat Biomed Eng:1–12

23

Rapid integration of face detection and task set in visually guided reaching
Mekhaiel DY, Goodale MA, Corneil BD
bioRxiv:2023.12.07.570480


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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.