Motor Control and Adaptation

Adaptive Eye Movement Behavior for Actions in Younger and Older Adults

This study examines age-related differences in predictive eye movements during a visuomotor task, finding that older adults shift gaze earlier to their own paddle but later to the ball's final bounce location.

Motor experience leads to structural changes in the adult male mouse inferior olive

This study shows that motor experience induces structural changes in the inferior olive of adult male mice, including increased dendritic complexity and gap junction density, suggesting plasticity in the olivo-cerebellar network.

Behavior-Dependent Immediate Early Gene Activation in the Mouse Cerebellum

The paper identifies distinct patterns of c-Fos activation in the mouse cerebellum associated with novelty, motor behavior, and learning during the rotarod task.

Fast timescale reparameterization of stable neural manifolds

This paper shows that motor cortex maintains a dynamic library of state eigenvectors that generalize over reach directions, with stable dynamics that drift and jump during repetitive tasks.

Natural prey capture reveals flexible reconfiguration of canonical motor-cortical dynamics for online control

This study shows that sensorimotor cortex maintains canonical dynamics during natural prey capture but flexibly reconfigures them for online control.

Cortico-cerebellar beta-band dynamics predict flexible motor timing

The paper investigates how cortico-cerebellar beta-band dynamics predict flexible motor timing during a context-dependent task.

Heart rate deceleration reflects expectation violation during reaching

This study shows that heart rate deceleration during movement is linked to expectation violations rather than movement errors themselves.

Posterior parietal cortex guides sensorimotor associative learning by linking sensation to distal action

This study identifies the rostro-lateral posterior parietal cortex as a hub that links tactile stimuli to delayed licking during sensorimotor learning, showing its role in maintaining temporal continuity through sustained activity and neural coupling.

Distinct contributions of motor imagery and execution to history-dependent biases in reaching

The paper investigates how motor imagery and execution contribute to movement history effects, finding that sensory feedback during execution drives late-stage biases while motor planning influences initial direction adjustments.

Effects of predictability and error on corticospinal excitability during an electronic prediction game

The paper examines how corticospinal excitability changes with predictability and prediction errors during a penalty-kick game, finding context-specific modulation in motor evoked potentials.

Left-right alternation of superior colliculus activity with the stepping rhythm

The paper shows that superior colliculus neurons in mice fire at opposite phases of the stepping rhythm, supporting left-right turn coordination during locomotion.

Distinct sensorimotor encoding in tuft dendrites and somata associated with action, correction, and learning

The paper investigates sensorimotor encoding differences between tuft dendrites and somata in frontal cortex L5 neurons during motor learning in mice.

Motor planning and execution establish distinct feedforward and feedback motor histories

The paper dissociates the effects of motor planning and execution on movement history, showing distinct contributions to feedforward and feedback aspects of motor behavior.

How to pour a cup of coffee

This study investigates how humans pour liquids into containers, finding that fill level remains consistent despite varying movement patterns and conditions.

Motor Learning Driven by Sensory Prediction Errors is Insensitive to Task Performance Feedback

This study investigates how sensory prediction errors (SPEs) and task performance errors (TPEs) influence motor learning, finding that SPE-driven learning is unaffected by TPE magnitude.

Purkinje cells in Crus I and II encode the visual stimulus and the impending choice as monkeys learn a reinforcement based visuomotor association task

The paper shows that Purkinje cells in Crus I/II encode visual stimuli and impending choices during learning of a visuomotor task, with increased selectivity over time.

Stretch-induced muscle responses under threat vs safety

This study investigates how threat influences motor preparation and stretch reflexes during reaching tasks, finding direction-selective modulation of long-latency reflexes under threat.

Kinematics-based assessment of reaching and grasping movements in LRN ablated animals identifies a role for the LRN in endpoint stabilization and reach timing.

This study examines the role of the lateral reticular nucleus (LRN) in skilled reaching and grasping by analyzing kinematic data from LRN-ablated rats, finding deficits in endpoint control and reach timing.

Perceptual versus motor awareness of explicit contributions to visuomotor adaptation

The paper compares perceptual and motor awareness of visuomotor adaptation to different cursor rotations and finds they differ in magnitude and correlation.

Differential impact of ageing on reward driven changes in motor control

This study examines how monetary reward affects motor control in younger and older adults, finding age-related differences in movement vigour but not in action selection.

Neural correlates of licking behavior modulated by target position in the striatal matrix compartment

This study shows that striatal matrix neurons encode spatial features of licking behavior, with distinct associations before and during licking based on target position.

Task- and experience-dependent modulation of head-eye coordination during ball interception

This study shows that ball sport experience influences head-eye coordination during ball interception, with experienced individuals showing greater task-dependent flexibility and stable gaze-head synchronization.

Motor Sequence Learning in Children and Adults: Age Differences in the Time Course of Brain Activation and Representational Stability

This study compares brain activation patterns and representational stability during motor sequence learning in children and adults, finding age differences in M1 involvement and stability.

Micro-offline gains do not drive implicit motor sequence learning

The paper compares micro-online and micro-offline gains in implicit motor sequence learning and finds that only micro-online gains correlate with skill improvement.

Distinct roles of directional and positional experience in de novo visuomotor learning

This study investigates how directional and positional sensorimotor experiences contribute to de novo visuomotor learning, finding that direction improves movement initiation and position enhances termination, with accuracy depending on their alignment in control space.

Tracking the hidden dynamics of proprioception

This study introduces a continuous proprioceptive tracking paradigm and computational modeling to capture dynamic proprioception in real time, showing it provides faster and more accurate limb state estimates than vision.

Loud acoustic stimulation reveals an online reticulospinal contribution to long-latency reflexes in humans

This study uses loud acoustic stimulation to demonstrate an online reticulospinal contribution to long-latency reflexes in humans, showing facilitation of the reflex but not the short-latency reflex.

Motor abstraction training generalizes to the refinement of specific movement patterns

This study shows that motor abstraction training leads to skill improvements comparable to repetitive practice, demonstrating a causal role for motor abstractions in learning.

Active Motor Preparation Drives Corticospinal Facilitation during Interception Planning

The paper investigates how active motor preparation and gaze strategy affect corticospinal excitability during interception planning, finding that motor preparation drives facilitation while gaze strategy influences perception.

A Cortico-Cerebellar Network Model for Refining Preparatory Activity in Motor Control through Sensorimotor Learning

This paper introduces a cortico-cerebellar network model that refines preparatory activity in motor control through sensorimotor learning, showing the cerebellum shortens preparatory periods for movement.