Motor Control and Adaptation

This study examines how movement precision and proprioception affect motor control and adaptation using a large dataset, finding no strong predictors of adaptation except for proprioceptive precision changes.

The paper shows motor biases result from a misalignment between visual and proprioceptive reference frames, not from planning errors or biomechanical constraints.

This study shows that mice adjust their gait preference based on limb loading and posture, independent of speed, using proprioceptive feedback.

The paper examines how object identity is represented in sensorimotor cortex during the transition from hand opening to grasping, finding that neural representation shifts from motor and proprioceptive areas before contact to cutaneous and integrative somatosensory areas after contact.

This study investigates dopamine dynamics and dopaminoceptive circuits in the motor cortex during skilled forelimb movements in mice, showing their role in reinforcement learning.

This study shows that distinct tool operation modes, not just visual features, support dual adaptation to opposing visuomotor perturbations in virtual reality.

This study investigates how motor commands for reaching and grasping are represented in the mouse sensorimotor cortex, finding shared and distinct roles in encoding joint angles and target-specific signals.

This study assesses age-related changes in upper limb proprioception across multiple tasks and finds that effects are variable, task-dependent, and often require large samples to detect.

This paper proposes a disturbance observer framework to model visuomotor adaptation by integrating internal model principles and feedforward learning systems.

This paper identifies an automatic stimulus-response mapping mechanism in treadmill walking that enables both flexibility and automaticity in movement.

This paper introduces a linear model that explains how neural population dynamics in the motor cortex can flexibly control multiple behaviors through optimal sensory feedback mapping.

This study investigates how divided attention affects implicit sensorimotor adaptation, finding that it enhances adaptation when attention is split during error feedback.

This study uses TMS and fMRI to investigate how non-primary motor areas affect reaching performance, finding that PMd and PPC perturbations alter movement smoothness and accuracy.

This scoping review examines the effects of fatigue from physical and cognitive exertion on motor learning, highlighting inconsistencies in definitions, measurements, and participant demographics.

This paper develops a theoretical framework showing how logarithmic coding enables adaptive visuomotor stabilization in locomotion, validated through analysis of experimental data and extension to intermittent swimming.

This study investigates how dopamine affects motor learning with and without external feedback, finding that dopamine influences performance in both scenarios.

This study investigates how different types of feedback affect movement planning under risk, finding that trial-by-trial reinforcement feedback leads to the most optimal movement planning.

This study quantifies how age, sex/gender, and experience affect motor control using a large dataset of reaching tasks.

This paper develops robot-based tasks to assess age-related sensorimotor decline, finding that older adults show slower movements, lower force generation, and longer response times, with the viscous resistance task being most sensitive to these changes.

This study examines how visual feedback affects complex upper limb movements in children, showing age-related improvements and reduced reliance on visual feedback.

This study shows that motor cortical areas support schema-mediated integration of new motor information into memory by enhancing pattern similarity in motor cortices during schema-compatible practice.

This study investigates how brain network flexibility during motor preparation affects motor learning in younger and older adults, finding age-related differences in the relationship between flexibility and learning outcomes.

This study examines how unilateral handgrip fatigue at different intensities affects bimanual movement quality, finding no measurable impact on movement quality despite changes in neural dynamics.

This study investigates whether somatosensory realignment during force field adaptation shares properties with motor adaptation, finding they exhibit different characteristics.

The paper investigates age-related changes in motor control during multi-joint movements, finding preserved feedforward control but deteriorated feedback control in older adults.

This study investigates how target configuration during motor adaptation training affects learning strategies and generalization, finding that angular target groups learned translation rules while extent groups learned gain rules.

This paper presents a theoretical model of the BG-thalamo-cortical network to explain how reward-driven movement adaptation occurs through closed-loop dynamics and dopamine-dependent plasticity.

The paper reanalyzes passive finger movement fMRI data using univariate and multivariate methods to show that multivariate analysis better identifies brain regions encoding kinesthesia and proprioception, with larger neural representation for amplitude and direction than velocity.

This study examines superior colliculus projections to inferior olivary neurons in mice, revealing additional projections to the ventral principal olive and their functional impact on spiking and synchronization.

This study investigates how information about task duration affects adaptation and retention of walking patterns during split-belt walking, finding that it influences metabolic cost and aftereffect retention.