Motor Control and Adaptation

A neural basis of choking under pressure

The paper investigates how high rewards affect neural activity in Rhesus monkeys during a reaching task, finding that large rewards reduce neural information about movement plans.

Neuro-musculoskeletal modeling reveals muscle-level neural dynamics of adaptive learning in sensorimotor cortex

The paper uses a mouse forelimb model to show that sensorimotor prediction errors are encoded in S1 cortex more than M1 during motor adaptation.

Effects Of Extrinsic Reward Based Skill Learning On Motor Plasticity

This study investigates how extrinsic reward affects motor plasticity during skill learning, finding that reward reduces corticospinal output variability and correlates with individual reward sensitivity.

Effort in Oculomotor Control: Role of Instructions and Reward on Spatio-temporal Eye Movement Dynamics

This study investigates how task instructions and reward influence spatio-temporal eye movement dynamics during a saccadic selection task, showing that reward enhances performance and effort-related changes in eye movements.

Modulation of cortico-muscular coupling associated with split-belt locomotor adaptation

This study investigates how cortico-muscular coherence changes during split-belt locomotor adaptation, finding temporary decreases followed by increases in coherence with adaptation and de-adaptation.

Older individuals do not show task specific variations in EEG band power and finger force coordination

This study compares EEG band power and finger force coordination between young and older adults during two task conditions, finding no task-specific variations in older individuals.

Grasp context-dependent uncertainty alters the relative contribution of anticipatory and feedback-based mechanisms in object manipulation

This study investigates how uncertainty about grasp type during movement preparation affects the balance between feedback and feedforward mechanisms in object manipulation.

Motor learning is regulated by GDNF levels in postnatal cerebellar Purkinje cells

This study shows that increasing GDNF in postnatal Purkinje cells enhances motor learning in mice, with findings relevant to human motor skill differences.

Finding the rhythm: Humans exploit nonlinear intrinsic dynamics of compliant systems in periodic interaction tasks

The paper shows humans intuitively exploit nonlinear dynamics of compliant systems in periodic tasks by matching system eigenfrequencies with minimal control effort.

Sensory context of initiation-cue modulates action goal-relevant neural representations

The paper investigates how sensory context of initiation cues affects neural representations of goal-relevant features during movement tasks.

Future movement plans interact in sequential arm movements

The paper investigates how the brain plans multiple future arm movements during sequential actions, finding that planning processes interact and influence each other.

Indirect Haptic Disturbances Enhance Motor Variability, with Divergent Effects on Skill Transfer

This study shows that indirect haptic disturbances increase motor variability during learning but have mixed effects on skill transfer.

Visuomotor prediction during action planning in the human frontoparietal cortex and cerebellum

This study investigates forward models in motor planning by examining brain activity during a delayed movement task with visuomotor congruence manipulation using fMRI.

3D-ARM-Gaze: a public dataset of 3D Arm Reaching Movements with Gaze information in virtual reality

The paper introduces a public dataset of 3D arm reaching movements with gaze data in virtual reality, capturing over 2.5 million samples from 20 participants.

Learning-Induced Effects of Practice Schedule Variability on Stimuli Discrimination Efficiency: High-Density EEG Multi-scale Analyses of Contextual Interference Effect

The paper investigates how random practice schedules affect neural efficiency in perceptual and attentional processes using high-density EEG analyses.

Movement-independent representation of reward-predicting cues in the medial part of the primate premotor cortex

The paper investigates how movement and reward expectancy modulate neural activity in different primate cortical areas during a conditioning task.

An output-null signature of inertial load in motor cortex

The paper investigates how motor cortex compensates for inertial load during locomotion in mice, finding that load induces significant cortical dynamics changes independent of motor output.

Sensorimotor Confidence for Tracking Eye Movements

The paper investigates metacognitive sensitivity for the accuracy of eye movements by having participants judge their tracking performance of a moving dot cloud.

Dopaminergic manipulations affect the modulation and meta-modulation of movement speed: evidence from two pharmacological interventions

This study shows dopamine affects movement speed, speed-modulation, and speed-meta-modulation through two pharmacological interventions in Parkinson's patients and healthy individuals.

A cup of coffee can boost your motor performance: Enhanced motor sequence learning with caffeine

This study compares motor sequence learning performance between caffeine consumers and non-consumers, finding faster response times in the caffeine group.

Bidirectional locomotion induces unilateral limb adaptations

This study investigates whether bidirectional walking on a split-belt treadmill induces short-term gait adaptations, finding unilateral aftereffects in step length.

Durability of Motor Learning by Observing

This study compares the durability of motor learning through observation versus physical practice, finding that observation-induced adaptation decays faster than physical practice.

Fast implicit and slow explicit learning of temporal context in cortico-cerebellar loops

The paper demonstrates that the eyeblink system can learn rapidly and flexibly, challenging previous views of implicit learning as slow and inflexible.

Encoding of 2D self-centered plans and world-centered positions in the rat frontal orienting field

This study identifies two distinct spatial reference frames encoded in the rat frontal orienting field during motor planning: self-centered movement directions and world-centered position.

High-Dimensional Encoding of Movement by Single Neurons in Basal Ganglia Output

This study records SNpr neuron activity during eye movements and finds diverse firing patterns that suggest high-dimensional coding beyond simple movement gating.

Measures of Implicit and Explicit Adaptation Do Not Linearly Add

The paper tests the assumption that implicit and explicit motor adaptation measures add linearly and finds they are not additive.

Cerebellar nuclei cells produce distinct pathogenic spike signatures in mouse models of ataxia, dystonia, and tremor

The paper identifies distinct neural spike signatures in cerebellar nuclei cells across mouse models of ataxia, dystonia, and tremor, showing these signatures can induce specific motor impairments.

Shifts in neural tuning systematically alter sensorimotor learning ability

This study shows that neural tuning shifts during sensorimotor learning alter learning ability in a spatial pattern predicted by computational models.

Motor cortex latent dynamics encode spatial and temporal arm movement parameters independently

The paper shows that motor cortex activity encodes spatial and temporal arm movement parameters independently through low-dimensional neural trajectories.

Context-dependence of deterministic and nondeterministic contributions to closed-loop steering control

This study uses kernel-based analysis to show context-dependent deterministic processes and consistent noise in steering behavior across species and tasks.