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

Accessing populations of motor units
Kirk EA, Sauerbrei BA
Elife 13:e94764

2

Inferring neural activity before plasticity as a foundation for learning beyond backpropagation
Song Y, Millidge B, Salvatori T, Lukasiewicz T, Xu Z, Bogacz R
Nat Neurosci

3

The archerfish can use motor adaptation to correct for light refraction at the water air interface
Volotsky S, Donchin O, Segev R
eLife

4

On prefrontal working memory and hippocampal episodic memory: Unifying memories stored in weights and activation slots
Whittington JCR, Dorrell W, Behrens TEJ, Ganguli S, El-Gaby M
bioRxiv:2023.11.05.565662

5

Somatosensory cortex microstimulation modulates primary motor and premotor cortex neurons with extensive spatial convergence and divergence
Ruszala B, Mazurek KA, Schieber MH
bioRxiv:2023.08.05.552025

6

Timing and precision of rattlesnake spinal motoneurons are determined by the KV72/3 potassium channel
Bothe MS, Kohl T, Felmy F, Gallant J, Chagnaud BP
Curr Biol

7

Performance reserves in brain-imaging-based phenotype prediction
Schulz M-A, Bzdok D, Haufe S, Haynes J-D, Ritter K
Cell Rep 43:113597

8

The Neuron as a Direct Data-Driven Controller
Moore J, Genkin A, Tournoy M, Pughe-Sanford J, van Steveninck RR de R, Chklovskii DB
bioRxiv:2024.01.02.573843

9

The brainstem’s red nucleus was evolutionarily upgraded to support goal-directed action
Krimmel SR et al.
bioRxiv:2023.12.30.573730

10

Kernels of Motor Memory Formation: Temporal Generalization in Bimanual Adaptation
Howard IS, Franklin S, Franklin DW
bioRxiv:2024.01.03.574029

11

Dynamical constraints on neural population activity
Oby ER, Degenhart AD, Grigsby EM, Motiwala A, Mcclain NT, Marino PJ, Yu BM, Batista AP
bioRxiv:2024.01.03.573543

12

A single computational objective drives specialization of streams in visual cortex
Finzi D, Margalit E, Kay K, Yamins DLK, Grill-Spector K
bioRxiv:2023.12.19.572460

13

A tridimensional atlas of the developing human head
Blain R et al.
Cell 186:5910-5924.e17

14

Motoneuron-driven computational muscle modelling with motor unit resolution and subject-specific musculoskeletal anatomy
Caillet AH, Phillips ATM, Farina D, Modenese L
PLoS Comput Biol 19:e1011606

15

Compact deep neural network models of visual cortex
Cowley BR, Stan PL, Pillow JW, Smith MA
bioRxiv:2023.11.22.568315

16

Why the simplest explanation isn’t always the best
Dyer EL, Kording K
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 120

17

Reversible deactivation of motor cortex reveals that areas in parietal cortex are differentially dependent on motor cortex for the generation of movement
Bresee CS, Cooke DF, Goldring AB, Baldwin MKL, Pineda CR, Krubitzer LA
J Neurophysiol

18

Action history and target uncertainty co-determine human reaching direction under time pressure
Keane B, Smith L, Carroll TJ
bioRxiv:2023.12.17.572036

19

Knowing what you don’t know: Estimating the uncertainty of feedforward and feedback inputs with prediction-error circuits
Hertäg L, Wilmes KA, Clopath C
bioRxiv:2023.12.13.571410

20

Post a preprint of your next research paper
Nat Hum Behav 7:2039–2039


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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.