2015 Schedule

1/8 - No journal club

1/15 - No journal club

1/22 - Reza Shadmehr Lecture: "Effort, reward, and vigor in decision making and motor control"

1/29 - Reza Shadmehr Lecture: "Effort, reward, and vigor in decision making and motor control"

2/5 - Andy Long Paper: Long L and Srinivasan M. Walking, running, and resting under time, distance, and average speed constraints: optimality of walk-run-rest mixtures. J R Soc Interface. 2013 Jan; 10(81): 20120980.

2/12 - Joe Galaro Paper: Fleming, Stephen M., et al. "Action-specific disruption of perceptual confidence." Psychological science 26.1 (2015): 89-98.

2/19 - Aaron Wong Paper: Weiler J and Heath M. Oculomotor task switching: alternating from a nonstandard to a standard response yields the unilateral prosaccade switch-cost". J Neurophysiol. 2014 Nov 1; 112(9): 2176-84.

2/26 - Firas Mawase Paper: Trewartha KM, Garcia A, Wolpert DM, and Flanagan JR. Fast but fleeting: adaptive motor learning processes associated with aging and cognitive decline. J Neurosci. 2014 Oct 1: 34(40): 13411-13421.

3/5 - David Huberdeau Paper: Galea JM et al. "The dissociable effects of punishment and reward on motor learning." Nat Neurosci. 2015 Epub. (canceled - weather)

3/12 - Simon Orozco Paper: Cantarero et al. Cerebellar direct current stimulation enhances on-line motor skill acquisition through an effect on accuracy. J Neurosci. 2015 Feb 18: 35(7): 3285-90.

3/19 - Dr. Sheng Li Lecture: "Brainstem mechanisms of post-stroke spasticity"

3/26 - Tom Reppert Paper: Kira et al. A neural implementation of Wald's sequential probability ratio test. Neuron. 2015 Feb 18: 85(4): 861-873.

4/2 - Tjitske Boonstra Paper: Pendt LK, Reuter I, and Muller H. Motor skill learning, retention, and control deficits in Parkinson's disease. PLoS ONE. 2011 Jul 8: 6(7): e21669.

4/9 - Ryan Roemmich Paper: Collins SH, Wiggin MB, and Sawicki GS. Reducing the energy cost of walking using an unpowered exoskeleton. Nature. 2015 Apr 1: epub ahead of print.

4/16 - Rob Hardwick Paper: Panouilleres MTN, Miall RC, and Jenkinson N. The Role of the Posterior Cerebellum in Saccadic Adaptation: A Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Study. J Neurosci. 2015 Apr 8: 35(14): 5471–5479.

4/23 - No journal club (NCM)

4/30 - Patrick Hogan Paper: Kuppuswamy et al. Post-stroke fatigue: a deficit in corticomotor excitability? Brain. 2015 Jan;138 (Pt 1): 136-148.

5/7 - Shintaro Uehara Paper: Perez MA and Rothwell JC. Distinct influence of hand posture on cortical activity during human grasping. J Neurosci. 2015 Mar: 35(12): 4882-4889.

5/14 - David Herzfeld Paper: Orban de Xivry JJ and Lefevre P. Formation of model-free memories during motor adaptation depends on perturbation schedule. J Neurophysiol. 2015 Feb 11: epub ahead of print.

5/21 - Scott Albert Paper: Song JH and Bédard P. Paradoxical benefits of dual-task contexts for visuomotor memory. Psychol Sci. 2015 Feb: 26(2): 148-158.

5/28 - Nicola Popp Paper: Kawai et al. Motor cortex is required for learning but not executing a motor skill. Neuron. 2015 May 6: 86(3): 800-812.

6/4 - Nick Wymbs Paper: Murata YM et al. Temporal plasticity involved in recovery from manual dexterity deficit after motor cortex lesion in macaque monkeys. J Neurosci. 2015 Jan 7: 35(1): 84-95.

6/11 - Amanda Therrien Paper: Howard IS, Wolpert DM, and Franklin DW. The value of the follow-through derives from motor learning depending on future actions. Curr Biol. 2015 Feb 2: 25(3): 397-401.

6/18 - Guest lecture: Ben Dongsung Huh

6/25 - Jing Xu Paper: Ejaz N, Hamada M, and Diedrichsen J. Hand use predicts the structure of representations in sensorimotor cortex. Nat Neurosci. 2015 Jun 1: epub ahead of print.

7/2 - Kevin Day Paper: Mahonar SG et al. Reward pays the cost of noise reduction in motor and cognitive control. Curr Biol. 2015 Jun 17: epub ahead of print.

7/9 - David Huberdeau Paper: Galea JM et al. The dissociable effects of punishment and reward on motor learning. Nat Neurosci. 2015 Epub.

7/16 - Heidi Weeks Paper: Dubbioso et al. The effect of cerebellar degeneration on human sensori-motor plasticity. Brain Stimul. 2015. Epub.

7/23 - Andy Long Paper: Zénon A, Sidibé M, and Olivier E. Disrupting the supplementary motor area makes physical effort appear less effortful. J Neurosci. 2015 Jun 10: 35(23):8737-44.

7/30 - Joe Galaro Paper: Latimer KW et al. Single-trial spike trains in parietal cortex reveal discrete steps during decision-making. Science. 2015 July 10: 349(6244): 184-187.

8/6 - Aaron Wong Paper: Kaufman MT et al. Vacillation, indecision and hesitation in moment-by-moment decoding of monkey motor cortex. eLife. 2015 May 5;4:e04677.

8/13 - No journal club (scheduling conflict in Talbot Library)

8/20 - Claudia Ammann Paper: Thimm A and Funke K. Multiple blocks of intermittent and continuous theta-burst stimulation applied via transcranial magnetic stimulation differently affect sensory responses in rat barrel cortex. J Physiol. 2015 Feb 15: 593(Pt 4): 967-985.

8/27 - Ryan Roemmich Paper: Brooks JX, Carriot J, and Cullen KE. Learning to expect the unexpected: rapid updating in primate cerebellum during voluntary self-motion. Nat Neurosci. 2015 Aug 3: epub ahead of print.

9/3 - Simon Orozco Paper: Hadjiosif AM and Smith MA. Flexible control of safety margins for action based on environmental variability. J Neurosci. 2015 Jun 17;35(24):9106-21.

9/10 - Tom Reppert Paper: Quinet J and Goffart L. Does the brain extrapolate the position of a transient moving target? J Neurosci. 2015 Aug 26;35(34): 11708-11790

9/17 - Tjitske Boonstra Paper: Lefebvre et al. Neural substrates underlying stimulation-enhanced motor skill learning after stroke. Brain. 2015 Jan; 138(Pt 1);149-63.

9/24 - Patrick Hogan Paper: Eshel et al. Arithmetic and local circuitry underlying dopamine prediction errors. Nature. 2015 Sep 10;525(7568):243-6.

10/1 - Rob Hardwick Original data

10/8 - Shintaro Uehara Paper: Guo L et al. Dynamic rewiring of neural circuits in the motor cortex in mouse models of Parkinson's disease. Nat Neurosci. 2015 Sep;18(9):1299-309.

10/15 - No journal club (SfN)

10/22 - No journal club (SfN)

10/29 - No journal club (dean meeting in Talbot library)

11/5 - Firas Mawase Paper: Ramanathan DS, Gulati T, and Ganguly K. Sleep-dependent reactivation of ensembles in motor cortex promotes skill consolidation. PLoS Biol. 2015 Sep 18: 13(9):e1002263.

11/12 - Nick Wymbs Paper: Ohmae S and Medina JF. Climbing fibers encode a temporal-difference prediction error during cerebellar learning in mice. Nat Neurosci. 2015 Nov 9: epub ahead of print.

11/19 - Amanda Therrien Paper: Chen CH et al. Short latency cerebellar modulation of the basal ganglia. Nat Neurosci. 2014 Dec;17(12): 1767-75.

11/26 - No journal club (Thanksgiving)

12/3 - Jing Xu Paper: Griffin DM, Hoffman DS, and Strick PL. Corticomotoneuronal cells are "functionally tuned". Science. 2015 Nov 6;350(6261):667-70.

12/10 - Amanda Edwards Paper: Gallego JÁ et al. A neuroprosthesis for tremor management through the control of muscle co-contraction. J Neuroeng Rehabil. 2013 Apr 15;10:36.

12/17 - David Huberdeau Original data: "Declarative phenomena support the formation of procedural motor memory while implicit recalibration remains invariant"

1/14 - David Herzfeld Paper: Golub MD, Yu BM, and Chase SM. Internal models for interpreting neural population activity during sensorimotor control. eLife. 2015 Dec 8: epub ahead of print.