Motor Control and Adaptation

This study shows that recurrent weight changes in a computational model can explain within- and outside-manifold learning differences without altering the neural manifold.

The paper identifies neural differences between goal-directed and non-goal-directed movements in monkeys using electrophysiological recordings.

This study shows that residual errors in motor adaptation are due to implicit learning's error sensitivity, which depends on past error history, not forgetting.

The paper investigates how visual and kinaesthetic information integrate to modulate motor cortex excitability in humans, finding that combined stimuli increase excitability more than either alone.

The paper compares how direction expectation affects motion perception and anticipatory smooth pursuit, finding different biases in each response.

This study identifies the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure test as a predictor of long-term motor learning in older adults, suggesting its use in assessing rehabilitation potential.

This paper develops an embodied virtual reality setup for studying real-world motor learning, showing comparable learning trends to physical tasks and enabling controlled feedback manipulations.

The paper shows that prolonged reaction times allow for full compensation in visuomotor adaptation tasks by reducing residual errors through increased planning time.

This study uses mobile EEG to investigate neural processes during real-world obstacle avoidance, finding distinct proactive and reactive control mechanisms.

This study shows implicit motor learning occurs rapidly, reaching near-asymptote within one to three trials, contradicting the traditional view of slow implicit learning.

This study identifies the nigro-thalamic pathway's role in timing action initiation by combining electrophysiology and optogenetics in mice.

The paper shows humans can judge grasp quality from visual input and improve through visual and haptic feedback.

This study shows that attention can disrupt automatic finger-tapping movements, affecting timing and amplitude, and reorganizing movement patterns based on attention focus.

This study identifies the whisker motor cortex as the cortical region most directly related to the sensory-motor transformation in mice during a whisker detection task.

This paper proposes neural and circuit-level mechanisms for motor learning, showing how cortical and subcortical pathways support fast and slow learning processes.

The paper introduces a predictive probabilistic model explaining saccade decisions during pursuit by estimating position error confidence through Bayesian inference and Kalman filtering.

This study investigates how temporal predictability affects express visuomotor responses, finding that predictable target timing enhances the frequency and strength of stimulus-locked responses.

This study shows that acute exercise after skill practice improves long-term motor memory consolidation in Parkinson's disease patients, with effects only visible at 7-day retention.

The paper shows that motor planning modulates early auditory cortex activity before movement, with effector-specific information decoded from neural activity.

The paper introduces a high-fidelity musculoskeletal model of reaching movements that reproduces Fitts law without signal-dependent noise, suggesting the speed-accuracy tradeoff arises from motor planning variability and optimal control theory.

This study shows that force-field adaptation in older and younger adults is not linked to dynamic proprioceptive acuity, even under limited visual feedback conditions.

The study shows that retrieving well-established probabilistic sequence knowledge is not affected by a concurrent secondary task, despite increased reaction times in the primary task.

This study shows that people adapt their walking strategy over prolonged split-belt treadmill use to reduce energy cost by acquiring positive work from the treadmill.

This study investigates how precisely-timed dopamine signals affect motor skill performance in rats during a complex reaching task, finding abrupt transitions in movement kinematics.

The paper investigates how visual uncertainty affects implicit motor adaptation, finding that uncertainty reduces learning only for small errors, suggesting it alters perceived feedback location rather than error signal strength.

This study shows that non-human primates adjust both feedforward and feedback control of arm dynamics when intersegmental dynamics are altered, as evidenced by changes in muscle activity and kinematic aftereffects.

The paper investigates neuronal dynamics in macaque dorsal premotor cortex during movement inhibition and finds that movement cancellation involves subspace evolution inversion, influenced by specific behavioral strategies.

This study investigates how hand movement velocity affects cognitive conflict processing in a 3D virtual reality object selection task, finding that velocity modulates brain responses and induces a prediction error negativity.

This study investigates motor learning in real-world pool billiards, finding that learning affects whole-body movement and that initial variability in specific joints correlates with learning rates.