new pape from our lab, led by the indefatigable @chrisjdallmann.bsky.social. i am very proud of this one.

The cerebellum isn’t just about coordinating movement. It’s implicated in nearly every domain of cognition—from language to social behavior. But how exactly does the cerebellum contribute to action and cognition? 🧵 Check out our new paper w/ Rich Ivry. arxiv.org/abs/2509.09818

The myth of optimality in human movement science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interesting to see how the eLife review process shaped this controversial study. The current summary is worth a read! 🧪 elifesciences.org/articles/89106

Motor Learning: Bridging the Gap Between Basic and Applied Approaches: https://osf.io/mbdc8

Preprint alert! Individual preferences in relying on vision or proprioception in reaching show distinct patterns in connectivity across sensorimotor network. Happy to have contributed to this nice piece of work by Kess, @hjblock.bsky.social and other cool people! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Of potential interest to those keen on motor control and/or multi-task networks. Congrats to Elom and Eric. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Life as an academic is sometimes tough but getting positive reviews for two papers (although one rejection) and one grant in the last days feels very good.

In this paper we use a new approach from control theory (engineering), a "disturbance observer", to see if it can be applied to visuomotor adaptation. This "DO model" is doing reasonably well.

This is an amazing success story. We are happy to have published several papers there - it really has become the top neuroimaging journal within just two years. Kudos to all who had the courage to make it happen!

Longitudinal neuroimaging in three adults, followed before and up to 5 years after arm amputation, reveals that amputation does not trigger large-scale cortical reorganization @hunterschone.bsky.social @cibaker.bsky.social @plasticity-lab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We investigated how eye movements might influence reflexes during balance tasks. We found that when people tracked a moving object with smooth pursuit versus keeping their gaze fixed, their leg muscle reflexes were enhanced during perturbations.

The integrated control of decision and movement vigor www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Working together to build strong scientific communities — a Comment article by Megan R. Carey @megancarey.bsky.social ‪ #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Moravec’s Paradox Moravec's paradox is the observation in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning requires very little computation, but sensorimotor and perception skills require enormous computational resources. "it is comparatively…

Is it me, or the train moving? We use vision to maintain balance. Just close your eyes while standing on one leg and you typically feel less stable. But if we use vision, how come we do not fall when looking at a moving visual reference, e.g. a train? 📈🧠🧪 #sensorimotor #balance #BiomechSky

Physical inactivity is increasingly common, posing an important societal challenge. This Perspective offers a complex systems approach in tackling the problem, emphasizing the role of interactions between dynamic systems across time.

New lab preprint spearheaded by @xavierjob.bsky.social !! We used MEG to understand the dynamics of self-touch attenuation 👇👇👇 !!

www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3... #neuroskyence #sensorimotor #psychscisky

A wireless non-invasive neuromotor interface that uses electrical signals from muscles of the wrist enables human-computer interaction. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #NBThighlight

Springer Nature’s new white paper—based on insights from 11,000 researchers across 166 countries—is the first large-scale look at why null results often go unpublished, and why that needs to change. Learn more: spklr.io/63324BESvp

Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)! Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US. Please reach out if you have any questions!

Agonist-antagonist muscular co-contraction improves rapid corrective responses linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...

At first, happy that my paper appeared in the results of co-pilot. Then really unhappy because it made the opposite conclusion of what our paper says... Implicit motor adaptation is not impaired by aging while explicit adaptation is. #failedGPT paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If your name is on a paper you didn't contribute directly to, or even carefully read one time, you are a dishonest fraud, end of. If you publish as part of a cabal that puts everyone's name on every paper regardless of direct input, you are all dishonest frauds.

This October, the fifth Motor Impairment Conference will take place in Amsterdam. We have an excellent list of invited speakers on various domains of motor impairment and cordially invite you to join. Abstract submission deadline is August 8th. For details see: motorimpairment.org.

Parallel feedback processing for voluntary control: knowledge of spinal feedback in motor cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Uncovering Cultural Biases in Visuomotor Adaptation In a groundbreaking study poised to redefine our understanding of the intersection between culture and sensorimotor control, researchers Yamada, Itaguchi, and Rodríguez-Aranda have unveiled compelling evidence that unconscious cultural cognitive…

Sensorimotor adaptation to a nonuniform formant perturbation is preserved in healthy aging: https://osf.io/95jku

Motor Learning Outside the Body: Broad Skill Generalisation with an Extra Robotic Limb https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.27.661550v1

Is the list on holiday ? @andpru.bsky.social @gribblelab.org ?

Benefits of dual-tasking on implicit sensorimotor adaptation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.18.660484v1

Me: "What did you learn at journal club today?" Intern: "That one day I'm going to publish a paper, and a bunch of people are going to sit around a table and rip it apart."

I'm very excited to share the final, published versions of not one, but two papers examining cerebellar network dynamics in the context of healthy behavior and disease states using our new method for chronic, wide-field imaging of cerebellar cortical activity during behavior! (brief lil thread)

Last time: One step further in our understanding of structure-function relationship in the context of aging. 900hrs of behavioural testing, 150hours of MRI to, show across a battery of tasks that, despite degeneration, cerebellar function is preserved even in people above 80yrs old. #neuroskyence

1/N How do neural dynamics in motor cortex interact with those in subcortical networks to flexibly control movement? I’m beyond thrilled to share our work on this problem, led by Eric Kirk @eric-kirk.bsky.social with help from Kangjia Cai! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Paraphrasing @erictopol.bsky.social , the cerebellum might be a super-ager….

This suggests that the cerebellum possesses a remarkable degree of functional resilience and redundancy. Cerebellar circuits seem to be uniquely equipped—through intrinsic plasticity and network-level compensation—to preserve function despite structural degeneration.

It’s up for you to see: 900hrs of behavioral testing, 150hours of MRI to, show across a battery of tasks that, despite degeneration, cerebellar function is preserved even in people above 80yrs old. #sensorimotor

Are bar plots without error bars or individual data really the future? While I agree on many things said here, I don't think that the chosen examples of bar plots are a good way forward

Uploading the biggest manuscript from my lab ever feels incredibly good. So much hard work and so satisfying when it is almost there... #ProudPI

Cerebellar circuit computations for predictive motor control — a Review by Katrina P. Nguyen & Abigail L. Person www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience #neuroskyence

Good to see that Nature is following what @elife.bsky.social has been doing for ages....

I am saving this for one day....

Effects of aging on upper body express visuomotor responses while reaching under varying postural demands https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.11.659162v1

Automatic, not inflexible: Implicit adaptation is modulated by goal-directed attentional demands osf.io/preprints/ps... #sensorimotor