Adrian Haith

Cerebellar circuit computations for predictive motor control - Nature Reviews Neuroscience The cerebellum helps ensure the speed and accuracy of movements, but its precise contributions to movement control are unclear. Nguyen and Person here evaluate evidence for and against feedforward mot...

Cerebellar circuit computations for predictive motor control — a Review by Katrina P. Nguyen & Abigail L. Person

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

Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations - Nature Human Behaviour Trach and McDougle show that motor responses can form part of structured, graph-like memory representations.

In this article, @jetrach.bsky.social and McDougle show that motor responses can form part of structured, graph-like memory representations. @actlab.bsky.social
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Dissociable habits of response preparation versus response initiation - Nature Human Behaviour Du and Haith show that behaviour can become habitual in two different ways, involving response initiation and response preparation.

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
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Frontiers | Are muscle synergies useful for neural control? The observation that the activity of multiple muscles can be well approximated by a few linear synergies is viewed by some as a sign that such low-dimensiona...

I recommend this paper: www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...

The argument is that you may see synergy "signatures" exist in OFC-based control, even though there were no synergy assumptions used to generate the behavior. The point being that seeing apparent signatures of synergies isn't really good evidence that there really are underlying synergies.

That is correct. I wouldn't call error compensation a "side effect" – the whole point of OFC to use online feedback to correct (task-relevant) errors. Certainly no assumptions of synergy-like constraints on particular combination of muscle activations.

Full job posting for a postdoc position at the Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute.

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.

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A neural implementation model of feedback-based motor learning - Nature Communications How the brain adapts our movements to new conditions remains unclear. Here, the authors show that a recurrent neural network that controls its output using error-based feedback can learn to count...

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

BAMB! Course philosophy Our goal is​ to teach advanced techniques in model-based analysis of behavior (humans and other animals) to cognitive and computational neuroscientists at PhD and early career levels...

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

The forced-response method: A new chronometric approach to measure conflict processing - Behavior Research Methods Despite long-standing concerns about the use of free reaction times (RTs) in cognitive psychology, they remain a prevalent measure of conflict resolution. This report presents the forced-response meth...

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/