Motor Control and Adaptation

The paper shows that neural representations of actions in motor skills differentiate during early learning, particularly offline, and shift brain regions involved as skill improves.

The paper investigates how muscle vibration affects target-directed reaching, finding that dual vibration causes endpoint bias without increasing movement variability.

This study investigates how cerebellar climbing fiber activity relates to reward prediction errors in learning, showing that CF signals share characteristics with reinforcement learning rPEs and influence motor behavior.

The paper investigates the functional roles of corticospinal and corticorubral neurons in motor execution by optogenetically inhibiting them in rats and analyzing movement variability and kinematic parameters.

The paper shows that smooth pursuit eye movements modulate long-latency reflexes in the lower limb during virtual object interactions, suggesting a link between eye movement control and postural feedback.

The paper investigates quantitative and qualitative differences in visuomotor adaptation by analyzing learning and forgetting rates, revealing two distinct learning strategies based on individual differences in fast and slow processes.

The paper investigates motor planning by comparing Bayesian and efficient coding models, finding that movement biases and variability support efficient coding in dynamic environments.

The paper shows that posture and goal information in motor cortex are organized in separate, orthogonal subspaces, with posture information being stable across tasks.

This study examines express visuomotor responses (EVRs) in Parkinson's Disease patients and healthy controls during step initiation, finding EVRs are preserved in low postural demand but absent in high demand, with disease severity affecting EVR magnitude.

The paper examines how common synaptic inputs to spinal motor neurons change during grasping versus less functional hand tasks, finding reduced alpha band coherence and improved force steadiness during grasping.

This study investigates how attention influences sensorimotor adaptation, finding that attention modulates learning by defining contextual cues rather than directly affecting adaptation rates.

This study examines how participants coordinate eye and hand movements during problem-solving tasks, revealing hierarchical planning strategies through coarticulation in gaze and cursor movements.

This study investigates how different washout conditions affect savings in motor adaptation, finding that abrupt washout with large errors eliminates savings while gradual or no-feedback washout preserves it.

The paper shows that tool-use brain representations in motor association areas are independent of the acting body part and motor experience.

This study investigates how different preparatory delays affect goal-directed tuning of stretch reflex gains in specific muscles during a delayed-reach task.

This study shows humans predictively adjust arm stiffness before movement to optimize task success, even at the cost of energy efficiency.

This study shows that mice can perform trained fast running without intact primary motor cortex, but the cortex contributes to the spontaneity of running.

This study investigates brain interactions during reward-based motor tasks, finding that ventral striatum and cerebellum show distinct activity and connectivity patterns based on task outcomes and individual preferences.

This study challenges the pause-then-cancel model of action stopping by showing global motor suppression alone is sufficient to stop movement, using electromyography and transcranial magnetic stimulation in stop-signal tasks.

The paper records and analyzes spinal interneuron activity during treadmill locomotion in cats to reveal functional organization of the spinal locomotor network.

This study investigates locomotor learning in people with Parkinson's disease using a virtual obstacle task, finding faster learning rates in PD patients compared to controls.

The paper investigates how repetition of movement sequences affects performance, finding that memory traces are activated when the last 2-3 movements match the current execution.

The paper compares brain activity in younger and older adults during simple and complex finger movements, finding differences in ipsilateral PMd activation and interhemispheric connectivity.

This study shows that a single session of motor imagery training improves force steadiness in both young and older females, with greater improvements in older females.

This study disentangles the mechanisms of motor sequence learning by distinguishing between anticipation of next actions and optimization of movement trajectories using a continuous reaching task.

The paper investigates adaptation to surface movement during hand reaching and finds limited adaptation without visual feedback.

The paper shows that humans can selectively adapt to sensorimotor errors based on their task relevance, challenging the idea that all error signals drive adaptation equally.

This study investigates how target speed affects corticospinal excitability during interception preparation, finding that speed, not distance, influences MEP modulation.

The paper uses intracranial EEG to show that earlier motor planning in premotor cortex predicts faster motor execution in primary motor cortex, correlating with shorter reaction times.

This study identifies a vestibulospinal pathway that modulates mouse tail movement based on balance context, improving stability during challenging tasks.