Motor Control and Adaptation

Evidence of sensory error threshold in triggering locomotor adaptations in humans

The paper investigates the error threshold in triggering locomotor adaptations in humans by manipulating kinematic and kinetic constraints and finding that asymmetric loading, not kinematic asymmetry alone, induces persistent adaptation.

Differential beta and gamma activity modulation during unimanual and bimanual motor learning

This study examines how beta and gamma neural activity differs between unimanual and bimanual motor tasks and how these patterns change with learning.

Comparable neural and behavioural performance in dominant and non-dominant hands during grasping tasks

This study finds no significant difference in synergy index, EEG band power, or EEG-EMG coherence between dominant and non-dominant hands during grasping tasks.

The impact of dwell time on the contextual effect of visual and passive lead-in movements

This study investigates how dwell time affects the contextual influence of visual and passive lead-in movements on motor learning, finding that visual cues lose effectiveness more quickly than passive cues as dwell time increases.

Task dependent cortico-cerebellar responses to delayed visual movement feedback

The paper investigates how the brain processes delayed visual movement feedback in different tasks, finding enhanced cerebellar and parietal cortex responses during visuomotor adaptation.

Cortical dynamics underlying initiation of rapid steps with contrasting postural demands

The paper examines cortical dynamics during rapid stepping movements under different postural demands, finding greater cortical involvement in high-demand steps.

Handy divisions: Hand-specific specialization of prehensile control in bimanual tasks

The paper investigates hand-specific specialization in bimanual tasks, finding that the dominant hand shows superior predictive control while the non-dominant hand excels in impedance control during object manipulation.

Learning to Move and Plan like the Knight: Sequential Decision Making with a Novel Motor Mapping

This study examines how motor learning and sequential planning interact by having participants learn a non-trivial keyboard-based movement rule resembling a knight's chess move, showing improvements in task performance with increased learning rates and flexible planning.

Timing of speech in brain and glottis and the feedback delay problem in motor control

The paper investigates how the brain predicts peripheral timing during speech production and how this relates to motor control and feedback delays.

Hand Position Fields of Neurons in the Premotor Cortex of Macaques during Natural Reaching

The paper shows that neurons in the premotor cortex of macaques have position fields that encode hand position during reaching, similar to spatial representations in the hippocampus.

Systematic modulation of sensorimotor learning by domain-specific working memory

The paper investigates whether spatial or feature-based working memory capacity predicts learning in visuomotor adaptation tasks, finding domain-specific associations.

Feedback-feedforward dynamics shape continuous motor learning

This study investigates how feedback and feedforward control mechanisms evolve during continuous motor learning and finds they co-evolve with distinct temporal and frequency-dependent contributions.

Reward influences movement vigor through multiple motor cortical mechanisms

This study investigates how reward influences movement vigor through multiple mechanisms in motor cortical areas by analyzing neural activity in rhesus monkeys.

Ethologically relevant behavioural assay for investigating reach and grasp kinematics during whole-body motor control in mice

This paper introduces a novel behavioural assay to study whole-body motor control during climbing in mice, revealing kinematic features and multi-limb coordination patterns.

Continuous sensorimotor transformation enhances robustness of neural dynamics to perturbation in macaque motor cortex

This study shows that motor cortex dynamics in macaques adapt to moving targets, leading to reduced reaction time delays from perturbations compared to static targets.

An Open-Source Joystick Platform for Investigating Forelimb Motor Control, Auditory-Motor Integration, and Value-Based Decision-Making in Head-Fixed Mice

This paper introduces an open-source joystick platform for training head-fixed mice in auditory-motor and value-based decision-making tasks, providing rich behavioral and motor data.

Transfer entropy predicts pupillary response and cognitive effort during a tracking task

This study uses transfer entropy to quantify cognitive demand in a tracking task and finds it correlates with subjective effort and pupillary response.

Human sensorimotor cortex reactivates recent visuomotor experience during awake rest

This study shows that task-related activity patterns in the primary sensorimotor cortex re-emerge during post-learning rest, correlating with improved motor performance.

Age-related Facilitation of Bimanual Finger Behaviors by Haptic Augmentation

This study investigates if haptic augmentation improves bimanual finger response times in middle-aged adults, finding performance gains but not in younger adults.

ROLE OF WORKING MEMORY IN INTERLIMB GENERALIZATION OF NEWLY LEARNED SKILLS

This study investigates how working memory tasks after skill training affect interlimb generalization, finding that short training and working memory interfere, while long training does not.

Population activity of mossy fibre axon input to the cerebellar cortex during behaviours

The paper investigates the population activity of mossy fibre axons in the cerebellar cortex during different behavioural states, finding a high-dimensional, bidirectional code that supports sensorimotor associations.

A transient neural code for feedback-driven motor corrections during reaching

This paper introduces the BAND model to extract neural dynamics for feedback-driven motor corrections during reaching, finding that corrections are encoded in small neural variability in M1 cortex and are transient and sensory-driven.

The laminar pattern of proprioceptive activation in human primary motor cortex

This study uses laminar fMRI to show that deep layers of human primary motor cortex are activated during proprioceptive stimulation, suggesting their role in proprioceptive circuits.

A novel biomechanical model of the mouse forelimb predicts muscle activity in optimal control simulations of reaching movements

The paper develops a biomechanical model of the mouse forelimb to predict muscle activity during reaching movements, finding strong similarity between simulated and empirical muscle patterns.

String-pulling by the common marmoset

This study examines how adult common marmosets perform a string-pulling task and how their performance changes across the lifespan.

Reward invigorates isometric gripping actions

The paper investigates how reward affects isometric gripping actions, finding that reward increases force generation speed and magnitude without compromising accuracy.

Eye movements anticipate target rebounds in an interception task

This study shows that eye movements anticipate target rebounds in an interception task, using learned statistical regularities to predict trajectory changes.

Cerebellar output shapes cortical preparatory activity during motor adaptation

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

Are online corrections to visual targets really a distinct class of movement?

The paper investigates whether online corrections to visual targets are a distinct movement class by analyzing muscle recruitment, force, and kinematics in a target-jumping task.

Visuomotor memory is not bound to visual motion

The paper investigates visuomotor memory by testing transfer across contexts with opposing visual motion, finding that motor memory is tied to planned hand displacement rather than visual feedback.