Motor Control and Adaptation

The paper shows that motor cortex activity encodes spatial and temporal arm movement parameters independently through low-dimensional neural trajectories.

This study uses kernel-based analysis to show context-dependent deterministic processes and consistent noise in steering behavior across species and tasks.

This study investigates how Purkinje cells in the cerebellum control tongue movements in marmosets by suppressing their activity during specific phases of movement.

This study examines the developmental trajectory of motor learning in mice, finding peak plasticity between P30-P60 and a shift from hopping to walking gait.

This study examines how neuromuscular fatigue affects motor adaptation during reaching tasks, finding impaired adaptation and altered muscle activation strategies without affecting postural control.

The paper shows that peripheral vision and smooth pursuit eye movements equally enable anticipatory postural adjustments before contact with moving objects.

The paper shows that expected intensity of a sensory outcome affects the force applied during an action, with lower expected intensity leading to higher applied force.

The paper explains interindividual differences in motor learning by proposing a computational model with generalist and specialist memory modules that adapt based on training schedules.

The paper tests Weber's law in a two-finger pointing task and finds that the standard deviation of inter-finger separation increases with target distance, supporting Weber's law in action.

The paper shows that a 40% shoulder force reserve predicts compensatory trunk movements during reaching with shoulder strength deficits, outperforming traditional control models.

The paper examines neural encoding differences between initial and corrective submovements during precision reaching tasks in rhesus macaques, finding distinct directional and modulation patterns.

This study shows that reinforcement motor learning improves with age in children, with younger children showing limited learning due to immature spatial processing and probabilistic reasoning, which can be improved by adjusting task demands.

This study uses unsupervised machine learning to identify age-independent motor control patterns in whole-body reaching movements of young and older adults.

This study shows that ablating cerebellar output neurons has less impact on behavior than genetic mutations in these neurons, which cause additional deficits in learning and memory.

This study shows that motor training improves cortico-cerebellar connectivity in cerebellar ataxia patients, with specific effects depending on the type of feedback used during training.

This study investigates how aging affects explicit and implicit sensorimotor learning through meta-analysis and controlled experiments, finding dissociated impairments and enhancements in these processes.

This study investigates how task load affects motor learning through longitudinal fNIRS analysis, finding load-independent control strategies and load-dependent cortical activation changes.

This study investigates how sensory representations of a visual stimulus vary across granule cells and inferior olive neurons in larval zebrafish and how Purkinje cells integrate these signals.

The paper investigates the roles of the frontal cortex and striatum in motor timing by using perturbation experiments in mice, showing that the striatum integrates cortical input to regulate timing.

The paper identifies layer Va neurons as major presynaptic partners of corticospinal neurons and shows their critical role in skilled movements.

This study compares how symbolic and sensory feedback affect motor adaptation, finding that symbolic feedback leads to slower and more explicit learning.

The paper shows that respiratory exchange ratio (RER) correlates with long-term motor memory retention and that glucose intake improves 24-hour retention.

The paper decouples movement distance and visual distance in Fitts' Law, showing both influence movement times and that their weighting depends on sensory context.

This study compares how expert pianists and non-musicians adapt to auditory perturbations during piano performance, finding differences in motor responses and neural correlates.

This study estimates working memory constraints in visuomotor adaptation by analyzing performance in item-recognition and rotation recall tasks, finding a capacity limit of 2-5 items and increased guessing with larger set sizes.

This study shows that mouse motor cortical neurons encode sensation and are influenced by expectation, with changes in single-cell and population responses during predictable and unexpected acoustic outcomes of movement.

The paper introduces an open-source platform and software for analyzing mouse forelimb movement during a reach-to-grasp task, including hardware design, training protocols, and video analysis tools.

The paper identifies a neural mechanism in the dorsal mPFC motor cortex that initiates persistent movement by selectively encoding contextual information.

The paper identifies a cerebellar module in the vermis involved in postural anti-gravity maintenance through optogenetic stimulation and movement analysis.

This study shows that short-term skill acquisition in a force-matching task involves reduced alpha band neural oscillations and increased coupling between force and target oscillations.