Motor Control and Adaptation

This study investigates switch costs in motor skill switching, finding that errors arise from perseveration rather than poor execution of new skills.

The paper investigates neural dynamics underlying walking and stopping in rats, finding locomotion follows a limit-cycle attractor and stopping transitions to a fixed-point attractor.

This study investigates how proprioceptive and tactile information influence anticipatory hand movements during juggling, finding that internal information enables earlier planning and reduced target uncertainty.

The paper investigates how motor working memory (MWM) contributes to explicit and implicit motor learning by testing correlations between effector-independent and effector-specific MWM and learning outcomes.

This study shows that cerebellar ataxia impairs the ability to process unexpected events in cognitive tasks, suggesting a role for the cerebellum in violation of expectations across domains.

The paper shows that adaptation to electrical muscle stimulation during walking leads to persistent kinematic changes beyond the perturbation.

This study shows that practicing beyond performance stabilization improves the ability to adjust to unpredictable perturbations in an interceptive task compared to stopping at stabilization.

This study uses RQA to analyze EEG and kinematic data during motor learning, finding an inverse relationship between neural and behavioral determinism as performance improves.

The paper investigates how humans determine confidence in motor adaptation by analyzing how confidence dynamics relate to sensorimotor adaptation during a visual reach task with perturbed feedback.

This study investigates how error-based and reward-based motor learning mechanisms interact in real-world tasks using virtual reality, finding that reward feedback does not exclusively engage specific learning mechanisms.

This study investigates the role of DLPFC and SMG in motor skill learning by assessing how their inhibition affects movement accuracy and variability during a proprioception-dependent task.

This study shows that sensory expectations influence motor preparation and corrective responses in humans and monkeys, with neural activity scaling with perturbation probabilities.

This study investigates how different feedback types affect motor skill acquisition, transfer, and proprioception in a complex maze navigation task, finding that error-based and adaptive reinforcement feedback improve performance and transfer more than use-dependent or static reinforcement feedback.

The paper shows that micro-offline gains in motor skill learning are short-lived performance benefits driven by motor pre-planning, not replay-mediated offline learning.

This study shows that higher intensity aerobic exercise improves motor adaptation and learning more than lower intensity or rest.

The paper shows that logarithmic nonlinearities in sensory and motor systems stabilize sensorimotor control despite delays and uncertainty.

The paper uses dynamic causal modeling to analyze effective connectivity in the cortico-cerebellar network during visuomotor adaptation and ignoring delayed visual feedback, finding increased cerebellar influence on V5 and mutual excitation between cerebellar hemispheres.

This paper introduces a training pipeline using augmented feedback to overcome the learning plateau in motor expertise, showing improved performance in piano playing.

The paper shows that muscle spindle afferents encode complex jaw movements during a lick sequence task, with their coding changing across task phases.

This paper shows that movement duration in reaching tasks can be explained by infinite horizon optimal feedback control, capturing tradeoffs between duration, accuracy, and task parameters.

This study examines how humans adapt eye, hand, and head movements during a continuous visuomotor task, showing strategic adjustments improve performance.

This study investigates how 3D tongue direction is encoded in the orofacial sensorimotor cortex during feeding and drinking, showing directional tuning in neurons and changes with sensory loss.

This study investigates whether increased cognitive load during multi-finger object manipulation triggers mechanical advantage force distribution, finding it does not.

This study investigates whether pupillometry can serve as a no-report marker of perturbation detection during sensorimotor adaptation in grasping tasks, finding mixed results in predicting responses from pupil dilation.

This study proposes that policy-gradient reinforcement learning explains human practice-based motor skill learning across diverse tasks.

The paper investigates how neural subspaces are mapped in the mouse motor system, finding that specific cell types do not exclusively encode movement-potent dynamics.

This study shows that forest mice have larger corticospinal tracts and greater dexterity compared to prairie mice, supporting the hypothesis that CSN number expansion enhances motor skills.

The paper examines how uncertainty about movement targets affects neural activity in the motor cortex during reaching tasks in rhesus macaques, finding that PMd shows reduced neural trajectory expansion with higher uncertainty.

This study investigates the role of CaMKIIa reticular neurons in the caudal medulla in postural control by using chemogenetic activation and inactivation in mice.