Guy Avraham

Cerebellar Contributions to Action and Cognition: Prediction, Timescale, and Continuity The cerebellum is implicated in nearly every domain of human cognition, yet our understanding of how this subcortical structure contributes to cognition remains elusive. Efforts on this front have ten...

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

Thrilled that our new review "Motor Working Memory" is now in press at TiCS!

@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
@cellpress.bsky.social

By me +
Hanna Hillman

We argue that a dedicated research program on 'working memory for movements' is long overdue

Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lmMX4sIRv...

Reward function compression facilitates goal-dependent reinforcement learning Reinforcement learning agents learn from rewards, but humans can uniquely assign value to novel, abstract outcomes in a goal-dependent manner. However, this flexibility is cognitively costly, making l...

📢 New preprint!
How do humans learn from arbitrary, abstract goals? We show that, when goal spaces can be compressed, costly working-memory processes give way to internalized reward functions, enabling efficient goal-dependent reinforcement learning. @annecollins.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2509.06810

REM Sleep Misfires: Intruding Delta Waves Forecast Tau, Amyloid, and Forgetting in Aging Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep degrades with age, and more severely in Alzheimer's disease (AD). REM sleep comprises about twenty percent of adult sleep, alternates between phasic and tonic periods, a...

Fresh results now in bioRxiv! 🎉 We know about the function of NREM sleep for overnight memory consolidation. But what about REM sleep? We found that in aging, slow delta waves can intrude phasic REM periods, and this, is associated with worse overnight consolidation 🧠 (1/5) doi.org/10.1101/2025...

PhD and Postdoc Positions (m/f/d) in Human Cognitive Neuroscience of Dynamic Cognition – M/EEG, brain stimulation Job Offer from August 11, 2025

We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social

M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
tinyurl.com/5dku4du9

@timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social

please repost 🙏

Here is the link (last one broke): www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3...

What happens to motor adaptation—the way we correct errors with feedback—when feedback is indirect, like a number on a screen?

In our new paper in @royalsociety.org‬, we found that indirect feedback hinders learning compared to sensory feedback.

tinyurl.com/5d32c99e

New preprint with Sritej, rezashadmehr.bsky.social, and Roberta Klatzky now on biorxivpreprint.bsky.social!

Motor adaptation—our ability to correct errors using feedback—is attenuated in a Bayes-optimal manner when goals are uncertain.

Welcome any and all feedback!

tinyurl.com/y9kjcfzj

New paper! 📝 now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social !

#eNeuro | Interference Underlies Attenuation upon Relearning in Sensorimotor Adaptation
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In Exp 5 we show that prolonged experience with baseline feedback produces attenuated adaptation. This is strikingly similar to latent inhibition, and consistent with our other evidence suggesting that motor adaptation is a form of associative learning.

elifesciences.org/articles/75801

Many thanks to the editor and reviewers for the wonderful feedback, and especially for recognizing that “the results of experiment 5 and the link to classical conditioning are what is most exciting in this paper”. We agree...

Interference Underlies Attenuation upon Relearning in Sensorimotor Adaptation Savings refers to the gain in performance upon relearning. In sensorimotor adaptation, savings is tested by having participants adapt to perturbed feedback and, following a washout block during which ...

Happy to share that our study “Interference underlies attenuation upon relearning in sensorimotor adaptation” is now out in @SfNJournals #eNeuro!

www.eneuro.org/content/12/6...

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.

Thrilled to share the new paper from the lab out today in
@nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the great @jetrach.bsky.social!

"Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...