Motor Control and Adaptation

The paper investigates whether proprioceptive deficits in inactive older adults affect discrete reaching performance and finds no significant relationship between proprioceptive error and motor task performance.

This study shows that motor adaptations in lower limb cycling can occur without balance threats, with temporal asymmetries triggering feedforward changes and spatial asymmetries causing feedback responses without aftereffects.

This study tests whether Bayesian computation is inherent in sensorimotor estimation by comparing children and adults in a position estimation task, finding that Bayesian behavior develops over time.

This study shows that implicit motor learning, but not explicit strategies, influences the earliest neuromuscular activity during a rapid visuomotor response.

The paper shows that sensory prediction errors, not performance errors, update the stable component of motor memory during visuomotor adaptation.

This study shows that parietal and frontal motor cortices efficiently represent 3D posture in freely behaving rats with high accuracy.

The paper identifies two types of motor cortex neurons with distinct roles in movement preparation and execution using single-cell profiling and axonal reconstructions.

The paper shows that feedforward and feedback control share an internal model of arm dynamics by demonstrating learning transfer between control mechanisms when intersegmental dynamics are altered.

The paper investigates how task errors influence implicit remapping in sensorimotor adaptation by manipulating target positions during movement.

The paper demonstrates a neural population mechanism in motor cortices that enables rapid behavioral adaptation without altering functional connectivity.

This study tests the PPIC model of hand choice using fMRI, finding that bilateral posterior parietal regions show increased activity during free hand selection and contralateral hand use.

The paper investigates how human posterior parietal and dorsal premotor cortex encode visual properties of upcoming actions during planning, finding that early stages represent desired sensory outcomes while later stages shift to motor programs.

The paper investigates how motor cortical populations generate varied behaviors by analyzing neural modes across different motor tasks.

This study investigates whether the superior colliculus uses a dynamic rate code to control saccade kinematics, finding a strong correlation between SC activity and instantaneous eye velocity.

The paper investigates how explicit strategies influence implicit adaptation in dual visuomotor transformations, showing that aftereffects reflect local adaptation around movement plans.

The paper models how saccadic inhibition allows the oculomotor system to rapidly switch between eye movement plans when new stimuli appear.

This study identifies cerebellar neurons in mice that encode future locomotion kinematics, with linear decoding of locomotion speed using a small subset of cells.

This study investigates cerebellar climbing fiber activity in mice during motor learning, finding that CFs are preferentially driven by task parameters predicting reward outcomes, suggesting a role in learned sensorimotor predictions.

The paper investigates how implicit motor adaptation and explicit re-aiming contribute to learning in visuomotor rotation tasks, finding that implicit adaptation scales with small errors while explicit re-aiming scales linearly across all error magnitudes.

This study shows that motor learning effects are partially transferable between pro- and anti-reaching movements even when movement direction is the same, indicating that rule switching affects learning transfer.

This study shows the CNS balances task performance with joint stress regulation after muscle denervation in rats.

This study uses fMRI to predict the freely chosen effector of an upcoming movement from cortical activation and finds that accurate prediction correlates with shorter response times.

This study shows that preparatory neural events in monkeys are conserved across different movement initiation contexts, but preparation can be temporally flexible and brief.

The paper shows that visuomotor adaptations to a 45-degree rotation can be achieved through differential tuning of robust muscle synergies, with consistent generalization across different rotations.

The paper investigates whether force-field adaptation induces after-effects on space representation by comparing prism adaptation and dynamic environment adaptation in healthy individuals.

This study shows that gaze patterns during sensorimotor adaptation correlate with learning rates and savings, indicating the explicit component's contribution to visuomotor rotation learning.

The paper investigates individual differences in motor adaptation rate and noise, finding optimal relationships between adaptation rate and planning/expression noise.

The paper shows that grip force control during object manipulation involves a switch between two feedforward control strategies based on object stiffness.

The paper uses network analysis to show that anatomical constraints shape functional connectivity between muscles during postural tasks.

The paper demonstrates that smooth pursuit eye velocity and catch-up saccade amplitude are modulated by the reliability of visual and prior information in a smooth pursuit task.