Welber Marinovic

From Inhibition to Excitation and Why: The Role of Temporal Urgency in Modulating Corticospinal Activity

This study examines how urgency affects corticospinal suppression during movement preparation, finding no suppression under high urgency and increased disruption from external events.

Musical training improves planning and robustness of sequence learning

This study shows that musical training enhances the development of predictive motor control during sequence learning consolidation, making motor memories more robust to interference.

Sounds and Sights in Sequence Learning: Can Accessory Auditory Cues Enhance Motor Task Performance?

This study shows that combining auditory and visual stimuli enhances motor sequence learning compared to visual-only conditions, with informative auditory cues improving learning outcomes.

Time affects a time-consuming, flexible component and a fast, inflexible component of sensorimotor adaptation.

The paper investigates how time affects two distinct components of sensorimotor adaptation: a flexible error-driven component and a less-flexible error-driven component, finding that time alters both.

Evolving Changes in Cortical and Sub-Cortical Excitability during Movement Preparation: A Study of Brain Potentials and Eye-Blink Reflexes during Loud Acoustic Stimulation.

The paper examines how movement preparation affects responses to loud acoustic stimuli by analyzing cortical and sub-cortical excitability and reaction times.

A Study of Event-Related Potentials during Monaural and Bilateral Hearing in Single Sided Deaf Cochlear Implant Users

This study examines how cochlear implants (CI) and normal hearing ears (NHE) interact in SSD users during auditory tasks, finding that CI improves neural responses but not task performance in free-field conditions.

Event-Related Potentials of Single Sided Deaf Cochlear Implant Users - Using a Semantic Oddball Paradigm in Noise

This study investigates how cochlear implants affect speech in noise perception in single-sided deafness patients using EEG and a semantic oddball paradigm in noise.

Motor Cortex Excitability in Chronic Low Back Pain

This study examines intracortical motor cortex excitability in chronic low back pain using TMS, finding reduced intracortical facilitation and increased resting motor threshold.

Odd-Even Oddball Task: Evaluating Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) during Word Discrimination Compared to Speech-Token and Tone Discrimination.

This study compares P3b neural responses during word discrimination and speech-token/tonal oddball tasks, finding differences in latency and amplitude related to task complexity and reaction time variability.

Engagement of the contralateral limb can enhance the facilitation of motor output by loud acoustic stimuli

The paper investigates how contralateral limb contractions during action preparation enhance motor output facilitation by loud acoustic stimuli, showing greater facilitation with contralateral low-force flexion contractions.

Acoustic stimulation increases implicit adaptation in sensorimotor adaptation

This study investigates how unpredictable loud acoustic stimulation enhances sensorimotor adaptation by improving initial adaptation and overnight retention.

Premovement inhibition protects motor actions from interference

The paper investigates whether preparatory inhibition is obligatory in motor preparation by examining its presence under high urgency conditions using TMS and LAS.

Preparatory Suppression and Facilitation of Voluntary and Involuntary Responses to Loud Acoustic Stimuli in an Anticipatory Timing Task.

This study examines how loud acoustic stimuli affect voluntary and involuntary responses during movement preparation, finding facilitation of voluntary actions and suppression of involuntary reflexes at specific timepoints.

Cumulative distribution functions: An alternative approach to examine the triggering of prepared motor actions in the StartReact effect

The paper evaluates the use of cumulative distribution functions to analyze reaction time data in the StartReact effect, finding that SCM activity is unreliable for identifying neurophysiological triggering differences.

Task errors drive memories that improve sensorimotor adaptation.

The paper shows that task errors, not sensory prediction errors, drive latent sensorimotor memory and improve adaptation to visuomotor perturbations.

Motor Output Matters: Evidence of a Continuous Relationship Between Stop/No-go P300 Amplitude and Response Force on Failed Inhibitions at the Trial-Level.

The paper examines the relationship between Stop/No-go P300 amplitude and response force on failed inhibitions, finding a continuous correlation that is missed by binary categorization.

Task errors contribute to implicit remapping in sensorimotor adaptation

The paper investigates how task errors influence implicit remapping in sensorimotor adaptation by manipulating target positions during movement.

Triggering mechanisms for motor actions: A mini meta-analysis and experimental data.

The paper meta-analyzes studies on motor action triggering, finding faster premotor reaction times in trials with sternocleidomastoid muscle activity, and presents experimental data on foreperiod predictability effects.

Cerebellar anodal tDCS increases implicit visuomotor remapping when strategic re-aiming is suppressed

This study shows cerebellar anodal tDCS enhances implicit visuomotor remapping during sensorimotor adaptation, regardless of whether explicit re-aiming is suppressed or allowed.

Estimating the implicit component of visuomotor rotation learning by constraining movement preparation time.

The paper compares two methods to estimate implicit visuomotor rotation learning: constraining movement preparation time and self-reporting aiming directions, finding that preparation time constraints suppress re-aiming without requiring self-reports.

The primary motor cortex is critical for the retention of implicit sensorimotor adaptation

This study shows that the primary motor cortex (M1) is critical for retaining sensorimotor adaptations learned implicitly when explicit strategies are suppressed.