Motor Control and Adaptation

The paper investigates spontaneous recovery of motor memory in humans by analyzing saccadic eye movements, identifying two distinct adaptive processes during different phases of movement.

This study shows that mid-lateral cerebellum inactivation impairs visuomotor association learning in monkeys, suggesting its role in reinforcement learning beyond motor control.

The paper uses stochastic models to analyze saccade variability and shows that a dual control system using displacement and velocity better explains saccadic eye movement behavior than models using only one signal.

This study shows co-contraction of agonist-antagonist muscles improves motor corrections by using a dual control strategy, not just increased muscle impedance.

This study investigates the role of the dorsal striatum in effort sensitivity during motor tasks, finding that lesions affect movement kinematics without impairing procedural memory.

This study shows that motor cortical maps in adult monkeys can symmetrically reorganize in response to training on tasks involving proximal or distal joints, with changes reflecting usage-consistent reorganization rather than local expansion.

This study develops a modular neural network model to simulate grasp movement generation in macaques by mimicking the anatomical circuit and using visual features to generate muscle dynamics.

The paper shows that humans can adapt to visual feedback delays across different tasks, resulting in a consistent 33% temporal aftereffect.

This study identifies a functional cortical network involved in controlling sensorimotor sequences in mice through a novel licking task and electrophysiological analysis.

The paper investigates how initial motor chunking instructions influence the formation of beneficial or detrimental motor habits over a 3-week training period.

The paper proposes a vision-independent learning mechanism for temporal integration in the oculomotor system using a recurrent network with segregated dendritic and somatic compartments.

The paper introduces a Matlab-based software tool for automated video analysis of rodent string-pulling behavior to quantify motor function and phenotyping in neurological disorders.

This study evaluates learning transfer from single-task bimanual practice to a novel task, finding that transfer occurs without feedback and persists over extended trials.

The paper shows that proprioception improves with repeated testing without feedback, but retains individual-specific error patterns.

The paper investigates muscle synergies in an isometric upper limb task, finding significant intermuscular coherence in the alpha band within synergies.

This study shows that complex spikes in monkeys encode reward expectation signals during visuomotor learning, independent of simple spike activity.

This study investigates the roles of motor cortical and thalamic inputs to the striatum during motor learning and execution in rats, finding that cortical input is critical for learning but not execution, while thalamic input is essential for maintaining learned behavior.

The paper shows that cerebellar-recipient motor thalamus provides a fixed latency signal for movement initiation, which is critical for goal-directed behavior in mice.

This study examines how basketball players adjust release parameters to improve free-throw accuracy despite motor noise, finding they use a near-minimum-speed strategy to minimize error propagation.

This study identifies direct connections from the posterior parietal cortex to the primary motor cortex in humans using intraoperative cortical stimulation.

This study investigates reward-based learning in a 3D trajectory task, finding that learning outcomes are not improved by separating feedback on task-relevant factors.

This study shows that human arm movement control and adaptation reflect differences in internal models, with some behaviors resembling stochastic and robust optimal control strategies.

The paper examines differences between real and pantomime string-pulling movements, finding reduced motoric and temporal complexity in pantomime, supporting the action/perception theory.

This study examines how corticospinal excitability variability during grasp force planning contributes to trial-to-trial behavioral variability in humans.

This study shows that skill acquisition in adult rats increases myelination and strengthens functional connectivity in sensorimotor circuits, correlating with improved performance.

The paper investigates the role of the insula in processing gravity during movement, finding distinct activation patterns for predictive and reactive mechanisms.

This study investigates how value reassessment influences movement during decision-making, showing that participants adjust their trajectories based on updated value information during ongoing movements.

This study shows that slower stimulus presentation rates reduce performance in procedural learning tasks but do not affect the underlying knowledge acquired.

This study investigates contextual interference in motor learning by comparing blocked and random practice schedules, finding that random practice improves retention but not accuracy.

This study shows that blocking the anterior corpus callosum in rats reduces symmetric bimanual movements during food handling and increases asymmetric movements, suggesting its role in coordinating bimanual actions.