2018 schedule

1/4 - No journal club (weather)

1/11 - Simon Orozco Paper: Cashaback JGA et al. Dissociating error-based and reinforcement-based loss functions during sensorimotor learning. PLoS Comput Biol. 2017 Jul 28;13(7):e1005623. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005623. eCollection 2017 Jul.

1/18 - Shintaro Uehara Paper: Grossman N et al. Noninvasive deep brain stimulation via temporally interfering electric fields. Cell. 2017 Jun 1;169(6):1029-1041.e16. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.05.024.

1/25 - Kendra Cherry-Allen Paper: Kim SY et al. Coordinated plasticity of synapses and astrocytes underlies practice-driven functional vicariation in peri-infarct motor cortex.

2/1 - Alkis Hadjiosif Paper: Parrell B et al. Impaired feedforward control and enhanced feedback control of speech in patients with cerebellar degeneration. J Neurosci. 2017 Sep 20;37(38):9249-9258. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3363-16.2017. Epub 2017 Aug 23.

2/8 - No journal club (BME PhD recruitment)

2/15 - Keith Runnalls Paper: Rawji V et al. tDCS changes in motor excitability are specific to orientation of current flow. Brain Stimul. 2018 Mar - Apr;11(2):289-298. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2017.11.001. Epub 2017 Nov 7.

2/22 - Firas Mawase Paper: da Silva JN et al. Dopamine neuron activity before action initiation gates and invigorates future movements. Nature. 2018 Feb 8;554(7691):244-248. doi: 10.1038/nature25457. Epub 2018 Jan 31.

3/1 - No journal club (BME PhD recruitment)

3/8 - No journal club

3/15 - Kevin Day Paper: Vyas S et al. Neural population dynamics underlying motor learning transfer. Neuron. 2018 Mar 7;97(5):1177-1186.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.01.040. Epub 2018 Feb 15.

3/22 - Cristina Rossi Paper: Cuppone Av et al. Consolidation of human somatosensory memory during motor learning. Behav Brain Res. Epub 2018 Mar 13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2018.03.013.

3/29 - No journal club (BME faculty candidate seminar)

4/5 - Kristan Leech Paper: Holland P et al. The contribution of explicit processes to reinforcement-based motor learning. J Neurophysiol. 2018 Mar 14. doi: 10.1152/jn.00901.2017. [Epub ahead of print]

4/12 - No journal club (BME faculty candidate seminar)

4/19 - Tehrim Yoon Paper: Wolf C et al. The necessity to choose causes the effects of reward on saccade preparation. Sci Rep. 2017 Dec 5;7(1):16966. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-17164-w.

4/26 - No journal club

5/3 - No journal club (NCM)

5/10 - Amanda Therrien Paper: Albergaria C et al. Locomotor activity modulates associative learning in mouse cerebellum. Nat Neurosci. 2018 May;21(5):725-735. doi: 10.1038/s41593-018-0129-x. Epub 2018 Apr 16.

5/17 - Simon Orozco Paper: Leow LA et al. Savings for visuomotor adaptation require prior history of error, not prior repetition of successful actions. J Neurophysiol. 2016 Oct 1; 116(4): 1603–1614.

5/24 - No journal club

5/31 - Chris Yang Paper: Cardis M et al. High variability impairs motor learning regardless of whether it affects task performance. J Neurophysiol. 2018 Jan 1;119(1):39-48. doi: 10.1152/jn.00158.2017. Epub 2017 Sep 27.

6/7 - Ehsan Sedaghat-Nejad Paper: Streng ML et al. Modulation of sensory prediction error in Purkinje cells during visual feedback manipulations. Nat Commun. 2018 Mar 15;9(1):1099. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-03541-0.

6/14 - No journal club

6/21 - No journal club

6/28 - Scott Albert Paper: Heald JB et al. Multiple motor memories are learned to control different points on a tool. Nat Hum Behav. 2018 Apr;2(4):300-311. doi: 10.1038/s41562-018-0324-5. Epub 2018 Apr 9.

7/5 - Purnima Padmanabhan Paper: Shin JH et al. Differential coding of reward and movement information in the dorsomedial striatal direct and indirect pathways. Nat Commun. 2018 Jan 26;9(1):404. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02817-1.

7/12 - Cristina Rossi Paper: Khilkevich A et al. A cerebellar adaptation to uncertain inputs. Sci Adv. 2018 May 30;4(5):eaap9660. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aap9660. eCollection 2018 May.

7/19 - Alkis Hadjiosif Paper: de Brouwer AJ et al. Using gaze behavior to parcellate the explicit and implicit contributions to visuomotor learning. J Neurophysiol. 2018 Jul 11. doi: 10.1152/jn.00113.2018. [Epub ahead of print].

7/26 - Keith Runnalls Paper: Stavrinos EL and Coxon JP. High-intensity interval exercise promotes motor cortex disinhibition and early motor skill consolidation. J Cogn Neurosci. 2017 Apr;29(4):593-604. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01078. Epub 2016 Nov 29.

8/2 - Kevin Day Paper: Honda T et al. Tandem internal models execute motor learning in the cerebellum. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Jul 10;115(28):7428-7433. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1716489115. Epub 2018 Jun 25.

8/9 - No journal club

8/16 - Kendra Cherry-Allen Paper: Quattrocchi G et al. Pharmacological dopamine manipulation does not alter reward-based improvements in memory retention during a visuomotor adaptation task. eNeuro. 2018 Jul 16;5(3). pii: ENEURO.0453-17.2018. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0453-17.2018. eCollection 2018 May-Jun.

8/23 - Kristan Leech Paper: Darmohray D et al. Spatial and temporal locomotor learning in mouse cerebellum. Biorxiv preprint. Posted Aug 10 2018.

8/30 - No journal club

9/6 - Guest speaker: Saurabh Vyas, Stanford University "Neural population dynamics underlying visuomotor learning"

9/13 - No journal club (construction)

9/20 - No journal club (construction)

9/27 - No journal club (construction)

10/4 - Scott Albert

10/11 - No journal club

10/18 - Amanda Therrien Paper: Heffley W et al. Coordinated cerebellar climbing fiber activity signals learned sensorimotor predictions. Nat Neurosci. 2018 Oct;21(10):1431-1441. doi: 10.1038/s41593-018-0228-8. Epub 2018 Sep 17.

10/25 - Simon Orozco Paper: Joiner WM et al. Temporal specificity of the initial adaptive response in motor adaptation. PLoS Comput Biol. 2017 Jul 10;13(7):e1005438. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005438. eCollection 2017 Jul.

11/1 - No journal club (SfN pre-meetings)

11/8 - No journal club (SfN)

11/15 - Tehrim Yoon Paper: Hagura N et al. Perceptual decisions are biased by the cost to act. Elife. 2017 Feb 21;6. pii: e18422. doi: 10.7554/eLife.18422.

11/22 - No journal club (Thanksgiving)

11/29 - Chris Yang Paper: Samonds JM et al. Natural image and receptive field statistics predict saccade sizes. Nat Neurosci. 2018 Nov;21(11):1591-1599. doi: 10.1038/s41593-018-0255-5. Epub 2018 Oct 22.

12/6 - Ehsan Sedaghat-Nejad Paper: Marinescu IE et al. Quasi-experimental causality in neuroscience and behavioural research. Nature Human Behaviour. 2018 Volume 2; 891–898.

12/13 - Purnima Padmanabhan Paper: Kojima Y and Soetedjo R. Elimination of the error signal in the superior colliculus impairs saccade motor learning. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Sep 18;115(38):E8987-E8995. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1806215115. Epub 2018 Sep 5.