Does contextual interference – the idea that skills are slowly acquired but better retained with a random training schedule – apply to *implicit* recalibration of a simple reaching movement? Yes, it does! See our new bioRxiv: tinyurl.com/musz5hb9 🧵

I am thrilled to share our paper detailing a new computational perspective on motor adaptation. This was such a team effort. Thank you Rich Ivry, @HyosubEKim, and Adrian Haith & our editors Andrew Pruszynski Tim Behrens at @elife & three thoughtful reviewers. elifesciences.org/articles/76639

Learn how large-scale wearable data changed our decades-old understanding of running speeds. Hear about the thoughtful approaches that were needed to draw these conclusions from a challenging dataset. Date and Time: August 31st, 9 AM PDT Register now: stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Welcome Dr. Hyosub Kim, Assistant Professor in Computational Neurobiology of Human Movement!

Thrilled to share my first preprint from graduate school with Jonathan Sanching Tsay @tsay.bsky.social Guy Avraham Tanvi Thummala Ivry Laboratories We studied why Continue feedback generates better learning compared to Endpoint feedback, using sensorimotor learning task. 1/3

CognAc lab has a promo video! youtube.com/watch?v=NYpHXU… Some of us might not be most convincing in acting, but we all try our best to do good science🙂 Rich Ivry, Jonathan Sanching Tsay @tsay.bsky.social, Will Saban, Carolyn Irving, Guy Avraham, Tianhe Wang, Amanda LeBel, Ludovica Labruna, Sabrina Abram

Is motor adaptation a form of associative learning? In a new paper, now published in eLife - the journal, we show that we can create associations between movement errors and arbitrary cues! With Jordan Taylor, Assaf Breska, Rich Ivry and Sam McDougle elifesciences.org/articles/75801 #tweeprint👇

How does the cerebellum facilitate cognitive strategies during motor learning? In a new preprint, we demonstrate that the cerebellum is selectively involved in the discovery of a new strategy but not the recall of a learned strategy. shorturl.at/FJKW2

How do people explicitly re-aim in response to a visuomotor rotation? Does this process depend on the cerebellum? Come check out our #sfn poster at T13! Sam McDougle Jordan Taylor John W. Krakauer Ivry Laboratories Adrian Haith Anne Collins @HyosubEKim

Check out our new preprint about how motor learning is modulated by environmental statistics? By modeling and new experiments, we showed consistent evidence that cerebellar-dependent motor learning is NOT sensitive to environmental statistics. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

An updated lab photo!

Postdoc opening at CognAc (Cogntion and Action lab, UC Berkley, PI: Rich Ivry). Interested in studying human performance? Dreaming of California living? Don't hesitate applying! More info and full description at ivrylab.berkeley.edu/join-the-lab.h… Please retweet 🙏

Excited to give my Ph.D. exit seminar. If you are interested in joining virtually (all are welcome), DM me! Title: Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning Date: May 8th, 3:00 - 4:30 pm PDT Place: Rm 1102, 2121 Berkeley Way West

In my third, and our first (Ivry Laboratories, tianhe, @abramsabrina, Guy Avraham, Jonathan Sanching Tsay @tsay.bsky.social, Katinka v.d. Kooij , Jeroen Smeets ), paper, we show implicit reward-based motor learning and that this is not driven by use-dependent learning. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Scholarship applications for #NCMDub2024 opened yesterday, due December 4. Open to NCM members who are currently students OR within 6 years of earning their PhD!!

Check out our latest Current Biology paper on how to optimize the feedback for motor learning! Providing participants with their hypothetical movement endpoint, before completing the action, boosts learning outcomes over traditional feedback. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

In a new preprint, Rich Ivry and I dive into the mechanism underlying attenuation upon relearning in sensorimotor adaptation. TLDR: Interference. But you should read - there is a surprising twist 🙂... biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Details 👇 1/13

In a series of experiments involving over 400 human participants, we found that motor adaptation was reduced by symbolic compared to sensory feedback. tinyurl.com/474w8crk 🧵 Yifei Chen Sabrina Abram Ivry Laboratories

Question: How does #aging impact #motor #learning? Answer: Aging enhances implicit learning, but reduces explicit motor learning. New bioRxiv: tinyurl.com/4nw3snwb Amazing work led by Elizabeth Cisneros! S. Karny, Ivry Laboratories UCBerkeley Psychology CMUPSYCH @cmuneurosci

Did you know that NCM has meeting support awards to increase diversity of attendees? We welcome a variety of applicants with PUI, Family Care & diversity awards. Help us share these opportunities & increase the diversity of attendees. ncm-society.org/diversity-prog…