Dr Christina Merrick of @UniOfCali and Magnetic Tides will be joining us in London to speak on a new subthreshold method of non-invasive brain stimulation with kTMP Join us this September: shorturl.at/18Rxo #BBI2024 #Neuroscience #NIBS

More on reward, motor cortex, and motor learning! Here is our latest article on BioRxiv, exploring how extrinsic rewards impact motor plasticity during skill learning: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… A collaboration with Goldy Yadav, Pierre Vassiliadis, Hummel Lab and DuqueLab!

When you fail to perform at your best right when it matters the most, what's going on in your brain? We can now provide an explanation: Exceptionally high stakes interfere with motor preparation. We can see this in motor cortex. Next up: finding out why. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

After some lovely updates thanks to reviewer/editor feedback, this work is now published in Neuron! cell.com/article/S08966… We find monotonic reward signals in M1/PMd, and interactions of reward value with neural reach signals that correlate with an inverted-U in performance

The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science Data paper is out! doi.org/10.5334/jopd.1… “... the Replication Database (forrt-replications.shinyapps.io/fred_explorer), a novel platform hosting 1,239 original findings paired with replication findings.”

The Computational and Cognitive Neural Sciences lab at UC Riverside is recruiting psychology PhD students to join our team! Check out the flyer to learn about the lab and our stellar research community at UCR. UC Riverside Halle DimsdaleZucker Ilana Bennett Hayden Schill

How do animals walk stably in the presence of intrinsic noise or external perturbations? biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We currently lack a unified answer to this question across species with diverse embodiment. In this preprint, we provide evidence that legged species use a common

I am recruiting graduate students! I'll review applications through both the Cognitive & Developmental areas. Interested students are encouraged to be in touch; I'd love to chat with you! Find out more: cogdevlab.org

📢Multiple tenured and tenure-track faculty positions in neuroscience of aging and CNS diseases at Indiana University-Bloomington 📢 Apply by Oct. 21 for best consideration. Please RT! Assistant: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/25791 Assoc/full: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/25797

🚨New #preprints alert!🚨 Excited to share our work on #DeepBrainStimulation of the motor thalamus to enhance speech & swallowing. This continues our research led by Lilly Tang & me, with guidance from Elvira Pirondini & Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez. 🧠1/8 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

How does sensorimotor (S1/M1) cortex support adaptive motor control?  Come find out in our latest preprint, which spans the development of a full adult forelimb model + physics simulations, neural-modeling for control, complex 🐭behavior 🕹️, large-scale imaging, and of course

🥳📡📄 The MLMC 2024 program is now LIVE -> motor-conference.org/openconf.php w/ plenary talks from Maryam Shanechi, Shreya Saxena, and Karen Adolph register here: motor-conference.org/registration.h… SEE YOU IN CHICAGO!

📢New preprint! The brain may handle visuo-proprioceptive cue conflicts differently for a dynamic hand undergoing visuomotor adaptation than for a static hand. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

When you watch someone else learn a behavior, how well do you learn it yourself? How well do you retain what you've learned from your observations? New work from Paul Gribble provides the answers. journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11…

Come join us Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute ! We're recruiting a new Assistant Professor in the Neuroscience Institute: apply.interfolio.com/151921

I’m excited to share that I’ve officially been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! This milestone wouldn’t have been possible without the support of my family, the dedication of my outstanding students, and the endless support of my amazing colleagues. Thank you all!

Our atlas is now out in Nature Communications! Thank you to our reviewers whose insightful comments helped sharpen our argument. I might have had too much fun with the 33-page response - glad it lives alongside the paper. rdcu.be/dViIJ

New research by Carlos A. Velázquez-Vargas and Jordan A. Taylor shows humans can adapt to feedback perturbations in visuomotor tasks by retrieving successful solutions from memory. 🔗ow.ly/XznU50TrL27 #MotorAdaptation #WorkingMemory #BayesianMethods #ExplicitStrategies

Using games to understand mind! I have programmed a whack-a-mole game to investigate human hierarchical reinforcement learning. Everyone can play it here! hokincode.github.io/whack-a-mole/ it only takes around 20mins and one data file would be generated at the end