Yifat Prut

This paper develops a deep learning framework to detect kinematic events in primate reaching behavior and assesses its performance across animals.

The paper investigates neural synchrony in primate sensorimotor cortices during facial motor control, finding that medial and lateral areas interact in a network rather than functioning independently.

This study investigates motor deficits and compensatory responses in monkeys with cerebellar outflow blocked during reaching tasks, finding reduced hand velocity and altered movement strategies.

This study shows that cerebellar signals constrain cortical preparatory activity dimensionality and promote generalization during motor adaptation.

The paper investigates whether stereotypical facial expressions are organized into discrete cortical zones using microstimulation, finding that stimulation evokes complex facial responses but not social-communicative behavior.

This study identifies how lateral and medial cortical regions encode facial gestures through distinct temporal patterns, forming a hierarchy for coherent motor outputs during social communication.

The paper investigates how cerebellar signals are selected for movement initiation through inhibitory network dynamics in the motor cortex.

This study shows that motor cortical maps in adult monkeys can symmetrically reorganize in response to training on tasks involving proximal or distal joints, with changes reflecting usage-consistent reorganization rather than local expansion.

The paper reversibly blocks cerebellar outflow in primates to study its role in motor coordination, finding disruptions in cortical activity timing without affecting spatial tuning or preparatory activity.