Motor Control and Adaptation

The paper investigates an optimal error rate for motor skill learning and finds that performance improves most at around 30% error rate.

This study shows that artificial tactile stimulation can guide force field adaptation by acting as a haptic cue, influencing how participants learn and compensate for novel forces during object interaction.

This paper introduces a population-coding model of the cerebellum to explain how sensorimotor learning is modulated by contextual variation, showing that contextual effects emerge from population dynamics rather than meta-learning.

The paper identifies three distinct connectivity patterns with motor cortex during sensorimotor adaptation, each linked to different learning processes and generalizes one to explicit motor learning.

The paper identifies mutations affecting motor learning and locomotion in mice by screening 36,444 germline mutations and analyzing their impact on motor performance.

This study investigates whether faster movement speeds improve reward-based motor learning by increasing variability, but finds no difference in learning between fast and slow movement sessions.

The paper shows that primary motor cortex encodes future spinal reflexes to coordinate with afferent signals and muscle activity during movement.

The paper identifies selective direct motor cortical influence on limb muscles during climbing in mice, revealing distinct neural activity patterns.

The paper examines the development of visuo-proprioceptive integration in children aged 4-12 through multiple sensorimotor tasks, finding that coordination abilities develop sequentially and interdependently.

The paper presents a spiking mechanistic model of voluntary motor control based on two principles: practice through hierarchical training and continuous prediction for feedback control.

The paper simulates operant conditioning to study how feedback parameters affect learning outcomes and strategy in a visuomotor task.

The paper investigates whether low-dimensional neural manifolds in M1 are present during unconstrained natural movements and finds they are, with similar dimensionality to constrained movements.

The paper shows that neural activity structure from prior learning influences adaptation, with more structured networks adapting better under specific conditions.

The paper examines how older adults adjust muscle synergies during gait perturbations, finding that four core synergies are preserved but modified in timing and muscle contribution.

This study investigates the behavioral consequences of velocity commands in human motor tasks, finding that noise in velocity commands leads to Brownian motion patterns in position.

This study examines motor planning by measuring corticospinal responses during functional reaching, finding that proximal muscle MEPs increase closer to movement onset, while distal MEPs show posture-dependent changes.

This study investigates whether prior prism adaptation improves subsequent de novo motor skill learning but finds no evidence of such potentiation.

The paper examines how neural variability, measured via EEG entropy and standard deviation, modulates with grip force magnitude during precision grasping tasks.

The paper tests if task-relevant object-shape cues can act as contextual cues for error attribution and motor memory creation during object-transport tasks, finding they are poor but viable cues.

The paper investigates the neural control of finger dexterity in humans, finding that flexion is more individually controllable than extension, with distinct brain regions involved.

This study investigates motor adaptation impairments in Essential Tremor patients and finds deficits in movement execution, while anticipatory components remain intact.

The paper identifies brainstem regions associated with distinct walking styles in mice by using an unbiased mapping assay combining walking signatures and cell-type-specific activation.

This study shows that walking speed and phase affect visuo-motor tracking accuracy, indicating that locomotion constraints influence sensorimotor performance.

The paper shows that complex spikes in Purkinje cells alter saccadic eye movements by pulling them toward the visual space preferred by the olivary input to those cells.

The paper investigates whether the human superior colliculus (SC) is involved in finger tapping movements, finding no SC signals related to simple or complex finger tapping.

The paper identifies a spinal microcircuit involving V2a and V2b neurons that coordinate ipsilateral body movements during locomotion, showing antagonistic and synergistic roles in motor control.

This paper introduces a framework to analyze muscle synergies by categorizing their task relevance, revealing how muscle interactions contribute to task performance in different ways.

This study shows that dopamine antagonists impair reward-based motor vigour but not movement fusion during sequential reaching tasks.

The paper analyzes EEG signals from repeated thumb flexions to show trial-to-trial variability in neural processing patterns, revealing distinct activation patterns rather than noise.

The paper investigates visuomotor transformations in blindsight macaques, finding that the dorsal premotor cortex maintains task-related theta-band responses after V1 lesioning, suggesting its role in hand movement control.