Deadline to submit for oral presentations at #NCMKobe26 is in just under a month! We especially welcome Team/Panel proposals: 2 hour session w 4 talks + discussion. Historically, the acceptance rate is higher for panels than for individual talks. Poster submission closes in February.

Our 2024 paper showed that policy gradient RL (with performance-based memory updates) predicts long-horizon motor learning. Now, @adrianhaith.bsky.social shows that policy-gradient RL also explains learning in other shorter horizon tasks. Exciting! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New Pre-Print: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... We’re all familiar with having to practice a new skill to get better at it, but what really happens during practice? The answer, I propose, is reinforcement learning - specifically policy-gradient reinforcement learning. Overview 🧵 below...

New pre-print! We attempt to survey the two different universes of motor learning research: basic (meetings like NCM, MLMC) and applied (e.g. NASPSA), and consider what these fields can learn from each other and what the future might look like if they can be better integrated. More in Eric's 🧵 👇

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

Very excited to share our new paper with @adrianhaith.bsky.social, now published in @nathumbehav.nature.com.

In this article, @jetrach.bsky.social and McDougle show that motor responses can form part of structured, graph-like memory representations. @actlab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In this article, @yuedu.bsky.social and @adrianhaith.bsky.social show that behavior can become habitual in two different ways, involving response initiation and response preparation, respectively www.nature.com/articles/s41...

POSTDOC JOB OPENING. My lab at @mossresearch.bsky.social has an opening for a postdoc fellow to work with @aaronlwong.bsky.social and me on an NSF-funded research program studying mechanisms of sensory plasticity that accompany adaptive motor learning. The full posting is below. Please share!

We are recruiting trainees for the Integrative Movement Sciences Summer Institute. Students will gain research experience in dynamic muscular control of movement across organizational scales from molecular mechanisms to whole-body movement in complex environments. Learn more: tinyurl.com/5n7w6pey

Want to hear more about how feedback can guide learning in RNNs for motor adaptation. Here is our new paper in Nat. Com. with Barbara Feulner and @juangallego.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨New paper alert🚨 Skin stretches when we move, but how complex are these patterns? How may this be encoded? Local postural changes elicit extensive and diverse skin stretch around joints, on the trunk and the face - now in @royalsociety.org Interface

We have a great program lined up for NCM 2025 in Panama! Poster submissions are open until Feb 17th. #NCMPan25

Our Barcelona-based summer school, BAMB! (bambschool.org) just opened applications! Come join us: 15-24th July, to learn how to model behavioral data using RL, Bayesian, latent variable models, RNNs, DDMs & more! #BAMB2025

Excited this one is finally out! The forced response method: A new chronometric approach to measure conflict processing with @hanzhang.bsky.social link.springer.com/10.3758/s134... Can we better study how the conflict between goal-directed and habitual/automatic actions is resolved? Read on!

Just under 2 weeks left to submit your panel and individual talk proposals for #NCM2025 in Panama. Dec 2nd deadline. There's still time to put together a panel proposal if you haven't already! Details at ncm-society.org/submission/