Motor Control and Adaptation

The paper introduces a modified single pellet reach task to assess forelimb dexterity in mice and shows that cortical inactivation affects different motor components at distinct times.

This study shows that practice reduces the magnitude and duration of post-error slowing in a motor sequence learning task, even when overall performance plateaus.

The paper tests whether saccadic eye movements are controlled by a velocity-based internal feedback controller using optimal control models, finding that a velocity tracking model better explains velocity modulation during eye-hand coordination.

The paper investigates altered cortical beta-oscillations during motor learning in cerebellar ataxia, finding imbalanced oscillations linked to disrupted implicit learning and increased explicit control.

The paper uses high-speed imaging and deep learning to analyze mouse tongue movements during licking, revealing cortex-dependent corrective submovements after missed targets.

This study shows that the brain often encodes multiple motor goals before target selection under uncertainty, based on gaze behavior analysis during a reach task.

The paper shows corticospinal neurons relay both kinematic-related and unrelated motor signals to distinct striatal and spinal pathways through biased innervation strategies.

This study identifies two cerebellar-thalamic pathways with distinct roles in motor learning and offline consolidation in mice.

This study combines repetition suppression and pattern analysis to show that M1 and parietal areas exhibit different representational changes during motor sequence learning.

This study investigates how neurons in different regions of primate orofacial sensorimotor cortex encode bite force and gape during feeding, finding stronger individual neuron encoding of bite force and population-level encoding of gape.

This study examines muscle activity during different postural adjustment phases when standing on an elevated platform versus the ground, finding increased muscle activity during specific phases on the platform.

Recordings from four monkeys handling objects place input-driven activity in one putative somatosensory-feedback subspace of motor cortex, prominent around error correction and probed by stimulating ascending tracts.

The paper shows that a visuomotor model reduces perceptual uncertainty and improves movement accuracy in human position sense.

The paper investigates how proprioceptive afferents contribute to the perception of object heaviness and mass distribution during manual handling without vision.

This study tests if overlearning improves slow motor adaptation in cerebellar patients, finding increased spontaneous recovery but no improvement in the primary deficit.

The paper investigates how gamma brain oscillatory coherence between visual and motor areas relates to temporal adaptation in a delayed visual feedback interception task.

The paper infers individualized internal models from response times in a visuomotor learning task, revealing structured inductive bias varying across individuals.

This study shows that reward improves sequential reaching performance, with gains maintained after reward removal, suggesting coarticulation enhances efficiency and retention of motor improvements.

This study investigates the effects of temporarily inactivating the motor cortex in rats to understand its role in mediating forelimb movement through the premotor cortex.

This study investigates how motor cortex activity contributes to the execution of rapid motor sequences and finds that elements are not fused but executed in parallel with temporal compression.

The paper shows that spontaneous motor variability in vocal pitch predicts adaptive compensation for auditory feedback shifts in humans.

This study identifies distinct time-scale dynamics in motor planning and execution in the rat sensorimotor cortex using high-pass filtering and optogenetic validation.

The paper shows that individual differences in error-based and reward-based motor learning are linked and associated with larger entorhinal cortex volume.

The paper proposes a mathematical model for how the spinal cord stores and retrieves motor programs through orthogonalization and normalization of descending inputs.

This study investigates the neural mechanisms of visuomotor decisions by combining accumulation-to-threshold models with EEG, revealing simultaneous forward and backward information flow between sensory and motor regions.

This study shows that cooling dorsal premotor cortex and parietal area 5 in monkeys impairs motor corrections, with distinct effects on speed and accuracy, supporting their roles in feedback control.

The paper shows that single units in human primary somatosensory cortex encode imagined reaches related to limb positions during a cognitive motor task.

This study investigates how microzones in the cerebellar C3 zone of cats are organized and function during a skilled forelimb reaching task, revealing action-based control of muscle synergies.

This study shows humans can learn new walking patterns without walking, using one-legged stepping to facilitate adaptive learning that transfers to novel gaits.

This study shows that explicit feedback and instructions do not significantly enhance learning of shoulder muscle activity reduction after shoulder fixation.