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

Memory’s gatekeeper: the role of PFC in the encoding of familiar events
Guerreiro IC, Clopath C
bioRxiv:2024.02.01.578356

2

Brain-wide neural activity underlying memory-guided movement
Chen S, Liu Y, Wang ZA, Colonell J, Liu LD, Hou H, Tien N-W, Wang T, Harris T, Druckmann S, Li N, Svoboda K
Cell 187:676-691.e16

3

Being a non-native English speaker in science and medicine
Carlsson SV, Esteves SC, Grobet-Jeandin E, Masone MC, Ribal MJ, Zhu Y
Nat Rev Urol

4

Emergent human-like covert attention in feedforward convolutional neural networks
Srivastava S, Wang WY, Eckstein MP
Curr Biol 34:579-593.e12

5

The cerebellum directly modulates the substantia nigra dopaminergic activity
Washburn S, Oñate M, Yoshida J, Vera J, Bhuvanasundaram R, Khatami L, Nadim F, Khodakhah K
Nature Neuroscience

6

Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces
Tafazoli S, Bouchacourt F, Ardalan A, Markov NT, Uchimura M, Gomes Mattar MG, Daw ND, Buschman TJ
bioRxiv:2024.01.31.578263

7

Human Motor Cortex Encodes Complex Handwriting Through a Sequence of Primitive Neural States
Qi Y, Zhu X, Xiong X, Yang X, Ding N, Wu H, Xu K, Zhu J, Zhang J, Wang Y
bioRxiv:2024.02.05.578548

8

Ramping dynamics in the frontal cortex unfold over multiple timescales during motor planning
Affan RO, Bright IM, Pemberton L, Cruzado NA, Scott BB, Howard MO
bioRxiv:2024.02.05.578819

9

Wearable Neural Interfaces: Real-Time Identification of Motor Neuron Discharges in Dynamic Motor Tasks
Guerra IM, Barsakcioglu DY, Farina D
bioRxiv:2024.02.05.578874

10

Parallel processing of value-related information during multi-attribute decisions
Nakahashi A, Cisek P
J Neurophysiol 130:967–979

11

Task dependent coarticulation of movement sequences
Kalidindi HT, Crevecoeur F
bioRxiv:2023.12.15.571847

12

Striatal dopamine contributions to skilled motor learning
Phillips CD, Myers CC, Leventhal DK, Burgess CR
bioRxiv:2024.02.06.579240

13

Identifying Interpretable Latent Factors with Sparse Component Analysis
Zimnik AJ, Cora Ames K, An X, Driscoll L, Lara AH, Russo AA, Susoy V, Cunningham JP, Paninski L, Churchland MM, Glaser JI
bioRxiv:2024.02.05.578988

14

Neural basis of self-control
Lee KE, Elsey J, Hwang J, Emeric E, Stuphorn V
bioRxiv:2024.02.07.578652

15

Spike neural network of Motor Cortex model for arm reaching controlling
Jiang H, Bu X, Sui X, Tang H, Pan X, Chen Y
bioRxiv:2024.02.07.579412

16

µSim: A goal-driven framework for elucidating the neural control of movement through musculoskeletal modeling
Almani MN, Lazzari J, Chacon A, Saxena S
bioRxiv:2024.02.02.578628


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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.