Motor Control and Adaptation

The paper examines how visual and proprioceptive feedback influences activity in primary motor cortex neurons, finding that ~73% of neurons respond to at least one feedback source and that limb and goal feedback converge on the same neurons.

This study shows that human reinforcement motor learning involves different behavioural variability and cortical electrophysiological responses to successful and unsuccessful outcomes.

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

This study investigates Purkinje cell activity in the medial and lateral cerebellum of rhesus macaques during antisaccade tasks, revealing distinct roles in volitional eye movement suppression.

This study investigates how corticospinal neuron activity changes during skilled versus unskilled motor learning and shows that patterned network activity is essential for skilled movement execution.

Synthesizing visuomotor adaptation literature, this review maps three distinct error signals—task performance, sensory prediction, and binary target hitting errors—onto interacting implicit and explicit learning processes.

The paper shows that prior passive movement experiences improve motor learning by increasing error sensitivity and shifting learning from slow to fast adaptive systems.

This study identifies the mesodiencephalic junction as a hub for cerebro-cerebellar communication via both mossy fibre and climbing fibre systems in mice.

The paper shows that primary motor cortex population dynamics differ across spontaneous facial motor sequences in mice, suggesting distinct population dynamics codes for different motor sequences.

This study investigates how aging-related network changes affect unimanual motor learning using simultaneous EEG-fMRI, finding reduced beta power and altered inhibitory interactions in older adults.

This study investigates decision-making during movement, showing that deliberation continues after movement onset and is influenced by reward and motor state.

This study examines how long motor adaptation from split-belt walking is retained in children, younger adults, and older adults, finding age-related differences in memory retention.

This study investigates motor generalization by examining the role of top-down decisions in transferring learned movements to novel contexts, finding a strong link between subjective similarity ratings and motor performance.

This study compares rise-to-threshold and dynamical systems models of proactive inhibition by analyzing motor cortex stimulation effects on interneuron circuits during movement tasks.

The paper introduces a method to characterize learning dynamics in motor control by applying perturbations and analyzing responses to estimate internal dynamics and noise.

The paper investigates how body motion affects corticospinal excitability and hand preference during reaching tasks, finding that MEP amplitudes modulate with motion phase.

This study investigates how initial arm posture affects reaching movement variability, finding idiosyncratic effects that depend on visual feedback and movement phase.

The paper investigates how GABA levels and functional connectivity in M1 and cerebellum relate to retention of visuomotor adaptation.

This study examines how functional corticomuscular connectivity develops from childhood to adulthood during precision grip tasks, finding greater coherence in older individuals and a shift in cortical sources.

This study shows that primary motor cortex in rats transitions from being primarily sensory to more complex and informationally rich in movement representation before developing motor function.

The paper shows that pointing in depth is influenced by a prior knowledge of natural grasping distance rather than just visual distortion.

This study examines age-related changes in three-dimensional reaching movements under normal gravity conditions, finding reduced vertical precision and increased co-contraction in older adults.

This paper introduces a method to reduce bias in estimating trial-by-trial motor adaptation during natural movements, improving accuracy compared to conventional approaches.

This study tests if levodopa affects reward- and error-based motor adaptation, finding no significant effects on adaptation or neural responses to reward feedback.

This study investigates how sensorimotor learning is influenced by sensory prediction errors and task performance errors, finding that they drive distinct learning mechanisms.

This study shows that motor skill learning reduces motor variability and increases planning horizon, with an optimal control model capturing these changes.

This study evaluates the reliability of the foot fault scoring system in the ladder rung walking test for rats and mice, finding excellent intra- and inter-rater agreement.

The paper examines movement-invariant and movement-specific signaling in layer 5B of motor cortex in mice, finding that most neurons show movement-invariant responses while a minority display movement specificity.

This study examines whether baseline motor variability predicts the ability to adopt new movement solutions in a precision task, finding weak correlations and highlighting task-specific variability effects.

This study shows that older adults have difficulty using explicit cues to modulate both digit position and forces during dexterous manipulation, unlike young adults.