Motor Control and Adaptation

This study shows that initial engagement of model-free or model-based mechanisms in motor learning biases subsequent adaptations, even when task demands change.

The paper investigates how connectivity changes in a cerebello-thalamo-cortical network during re-adaptation relate to visuomotor learning savings.

This study shows that individuals with cerebellar ataxia fail to adapt vocal pitch to external perturbations, suggesting a critical cerebellar role in pitch control, but not in online compensation.

This study investigates how the central nervous system controls redundant joints during arm reaching, finding that proximal joints control task space while distal joints manage joint redundancy.

This study examines how muscle synergies reorganize during overarm throwing in children, finding that performance improvements come from structural and temporal reorganization rather than increased synergy number.

This study identifies two cerebellar populations in mice that drive forelimb movement toward or away from the body, revealing a subcortical circuit basis for directional refinement during movement.

The paper investigates how flexible control and motor adaptation interact during movement, finding that concurrent perturbations reduce target redundancy exploitation and motor adaptation.

The paper investigates how inferior olive neurons encode sensory events' effects on behavior in mice during motor tasks, finding that some neurons provide informative signals about behavioral consequences.

This study examines age-related changes in corticomuscular connectivity during locomotor perturbations, finding older adults use less flexible, more diffuse connectivity patterns compared to young adults.

The paper examines how passive dynamics affect human balancing in a physical cart-pendulum task, finding that faster dynamics lead to shorter balance durations.

The paper shows that cervical spinal cord neurons use muscle and tendon afferents to create a low-dimensional neural code representing forelimb movement state.

The paper investigates how bimanual coordination adapts to changes in movement direction and extent, showing task-dependent adjustments in arm variability.

This study investigates implicit motor sequence learning using multimodal neuroimaging, showing early learning links to default mode network connectivity and motor network connectivity for sustained learning.

This study decodes continuous goal-directed movement from brain-wide intracranial recordings using PSID, showing widespread neural correlates across multiple brain regions.

This study identifies how the cortex encodes body schema through action-specific neural ensembles and reference frames in mice.

The paper shows that spinal dI3 neurons are essential for motor adaptation driven by low-threshold cutaneous afferents in spinalized mice.

The paper shows that proprioceptive input to primate primary motor cortex is generally gated during movement but specific antagonist muscle signals are preserved to support posture control.

This study shows that implicit learning does not occur in small mirror reversal tasks, unlike in visuomotor rotation tasks.

This study investigates how different pre-motor nuclei modulate whisker movement in mice by optogenetically stimulating specific brain regions and analyzing kinematic changes.

This study shows that neurons in primate globus pallidus and motor cortex encode ordinal position across motor sequences rather than just sequence boundaries.

The paper compares movement-related neuronal activity in cerebellar- and basal ganglia-recipient regions of the macaque thalamus, finding distinct temporal and directional encoding patterns.

This paper identifies two distinct implicit processes in sensorimotor adaptation: implicit recalibration for action execution and implicit aiming for action selection, showing different temporal stability and contextual modulation.

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 shows a shared neural architecture for finger movement encoding in the human sensorimotor cortex across individuals using fMRI and Procrustean transformation.

This study trains a multitasking RNN with a musculoskeletal arm model to perform diverse movements, revealing compositional strategies and shared low-dimensional representations for flexible movement generation.

This study investigates how error magnitude and feedback timing influence early implicit motor adaptation using a single-trial learning paradigm.

This study shows that motor cortex activity is high-dimensional and flexible, with distinct neural dynamics for different subskills during a force-tracking task.

This study compares the effects of selective cerebellar granule cell and Purkinje cell ablation on motor coordination and learning in adult mice, finding that GCs are more critical for motor learning.

This study investigates neural population dynamics in motor cortex during reaching, revealing a compositional structure that enables posture-dependent control.

The paper shows that consistency, not certainty, drives predictive motor strategies during walking, with participants adapting more when trials were consistent.