Kyle P. Blum

Flexible integration of corollary discharge and sensory feedback signals in somatosensory cortex

The paper shows that motor and sensory signals in somatosensory cortex are integrated through orthogonal population subspaces to enable accurate body state estimation and perturbation decoding.

Predicting proprioceptive cortical anatomy and neural coding with topographic autoencoders

The paper develops a topographic autoencoder to model proprioceptive cortical coding and predicts neural manifold structures from natural movement data.

Diverse and complex muscle spindle afferent firing properties emerge from multiscale muscle mechanics

This paper develops a biophysical model showing how muscle spindle afferent firing patterns emerge from muscle mechanics and neuromechanical interactions.

Noncontractile tissue forces mask muscle fiber forces underlying muscle spindle Ia afferent firing rates in stretch of relaxed rat muscle

The paper shows that history-dependent muscle spindle Ia afferent firing rates in relaxed rat muscle mirror muscle fiber forces, which are masked by noncontractile tissue forces.