Maarten A. Frens

Cerebellar influences on neocortical development in humans and mice

This study shows early cerebellar morphology drives neocortical maturation in a regionally specific manner across humans and mice.

Estimating cortical thickness trajectories in children across different scanners using transfer learning from normative models

This paper uses transfer learning from normative models to estimate cortical thickness trajectories in children across different scanners, showing it can detect pre-term morphological heterogeneity.

Large Data on the Small Brain: Population-wide Cerebellar Growth Models of Children and Adolescents

The paper develops population-wide cerebellar growth models using neuroimaging data, revealing an anterior-posterior growth gradient linked to cognitive and motor development.

Individual differences in frontal midline theta activity during visuomotor adaptation are related to execution noise

The paper investigates how individual differences in frontal midline theta activity during visuomotor adaptation relate to execution noise and error processing.

Purkinje Cell Activity in Medial and Lateral Cerebellum During Suppression of Voluntary Eye Movements in Rhesus Macaques

This study investigates Purkinje cell activity in the medial and lateral cerebellum of rhesus macaques during antisaccade tasks, revealing distinct roles in volitional eye movement suppression.

Can we improve slow learning in cerebellar patients?

This study tests if overlearning improves slow motor adaptation in cerebellar patients, finding increased spontaneous recovery but no improvement in the primary deficit.

A neuroanatomically grounded optimal control model of the compensatory eye movement system

The paper develops an optimal control model of the compensatory eye movement system that successfully reproduces eye movement data across multiple conditions and explains non-linear reflex summation.

Individual differences in motor noise and adaptation rate are optimally related

The paper investigates individual differences in motor adaptation rate and noise, finding optimal relationships between adaptation rate and planning/expression noise.