Jonathan Tsay

Great collboration from @mnlmrc.bsky.social: Multivoxel fMRI and neuropixel recordings show sensorimotor prediction errors in M1 / S1 in the input, but not in the spiking of output neurons!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
With @andpru.bsky.social @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @gribblelab.org

Large reaching datasets quantify the impact of age, sex/gender, and experience on motor control - Communications Psychology Harmonizing data from 2390 participants across four diverse reaching studies, this work quantifies how age, sex/gender, and everyday experience influence reaction time, movement speed, and precision—e...

Harmonizing data from 2,390 participants across four reaching studies, this work quantifies how age, sex/gender, & everyday experience influence reaction time, movement speed, and precision—establishing a normative benchmark for human motor control.
@tsay.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

revised version of @mahdiyar45.bsky.social's paper: "A Context-Free Model of Savings in Motor Learning"
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #sensorimotor
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New article published in Communications Psychology!

Large reaching datasets quantify the impact of age, sex/gender, and experience on motor control.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences Nature Communications - Normative theory predicts that feedback should not affect decisions under risk, but past findings disagree. Here, the authors show that feedback shifts risk-taking by...

🧵 New paper in @NatureComms
Feedback-induced attitudinal changes in risk preferences
Nasioulas, Potier, Cerrotti, Lebreton & me (2026)
Does feedback really improve risky decision-making? Short answer: no! it changes attitudes, not learning. 👇
rdcu.be/e0VcO

Embodied Speech: Sensorimotor Contributions to Native and Non-Native Phoneme Processing and Learning Abstract. Learning to recognize and produce foreign speech sounds can be challenging, particularly when only subtle differences distinguish these new sounds from phonemes in the native language. Funct...

I’m excited to share that my first peer-reviewed journal article, part of my PhD work @laboratoireddl.bsky.social, is now officially published in @jneurolang.bsky.social 🎉

A review of motor contributions to speech perception and the embodied, sensorimotor benefits for foreign language learning 🤓

Where does learning through imitation happen in the brain?

In juvenile zebra finches, we pinpoint a synaptic locus of song learning in a cortico-basal ganglia circuit and leverage this localization to measure the timescale of consolidation and make birds learn faster! #neuroskyence (1/14)

Autism is a disorder that particularly affects the cerebellum.
Synaptic protein abnormalities appear to underlie disrupted development, potentially resulting in cognitive symptoms.

The recorded talks are available here: www.youtube.com/@shadmehrlab...

What I think is an important study led by @mnlmrc.bsky.social investigating sensory planning in the human brain!

Dr. Amanda Therrien studies how damage to the cerebellum disrupts sensorimotor function & motor learning. Using behavioral, computational, and brain stimulation methods, her NSF-funded work aims to advance rehab therapies for sensory & movement disorders. 🧠

Learn more: https://ow.ly/hVHh50XYepY

Motor Learning

New article in the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science @oecs-bot.bsky.social on Motor Learning.

Thank you @mcxfrank.bsky.social @asifamajid.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute!

oecs.mit.edu/pub/l3hscpvx...

🚨🧵 Happy to share my new preprint “Sensory expectations and prediction error during feedback control in the human brain” with @gribblelab.org , @andpru.bsky.social , @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social and @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It’s really easy to make an academic website with GitHub:

(1) Find a template & fork it
github.com/topics/acade...

(2) Add your info (often just markdown). All you need is (short!) bio, contact info, CV, and your paper(s) or posters.

(3) Host for free with GitHub
docs.github.com/en/pages/qui...

This guide may be especially useful for:

• researchers new to online experimentation
• labs scaling up crowdsourced behavioral studies
• reviewers evaluating online experiments
• editors seeking clearer methodological standards

New preprint with @mwarb.bsky.social!

We outline 10 principles for conducting rigorous online behavioral experiments, offering a practical framework for researchers.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

New paper in @elife.bsky.social led by Tianhe!

Motor errors shape everyday actions—from spilling milk to missing a hold while climbing. Why are some errors systematic?

We show motor biases arise from misalignment between visual and proprioceptive reference frames.

tinyurl.com/t7h786m5

Mark your calendars for the 2026 Whyte-Schwartz Annual Lecture on Wed, 3/25 @ 12:00 pm! Dr. Rich Ivry, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley will present on "Probing the Role of the Cerebellum in Sensorimotor Learning and Cognition."

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.

My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Excited to share that our paper, “Goal uncertainty attenuates sensorimotor adaptation,” is now published in the Journal of Neurophysiology.

Huge thanks to our collaborators—Sritej, Bobby, and Reza @rezashadmehr.bsky.social.

Paper: tinyurl.com/yyfast5m

WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.

If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.

eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

Intuitive, multidimensional motor unit control after paralysing spinal cord injury using non-invasive recordings Spinal cord injury (SCI) results in profound motor impairment for approximately 20 million people worldwide. Regaining hand use is one of their highest priorities. Interestingly, even severely affecte...

New preprint! We show that people with tetraplegic spinal cord injury can use their residual motor unit activity to achieve up to three dimensional control using non-invasive high-density surface EMG

With my co-first authors Xingchen Yang and Ciara Gibbs

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

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🚨📜+🧵🚨 Very excited about this work showing that people with no hand function following a spinal cord injury can control the activity of motor units from those muscles to perform 1D, 2D and 3D tasks, play video games, or navigate a virtual wheelchair

By a wonderful team co-mentored w Dario Farina

Illustration of the hypothesized flows of information between perception, memory and cognitive control in a conceptual model of working memory. Stimuli attributes are processed to varying degrees of abstraction and parts of these representations can be loaded into working memory under the guidance of cognitive control. Familiar stimuli such as the letter B activate visually abstract representations while less familiar stimuli are limited to sensory representations. Information can be shifted both up and down levels of the perceptual hierarchy to build either more or less abstract representations of either perceived or imagined stimuli. Working memories can be shifted into or out of the hierarchy as needed.

We recently published a theoretical review about how compositional and generative mechanisms in working memory provide a flexible engine for creative perception and imagery.

Pre-print:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Experimental paradigm and behavioral results.

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of mind blanking.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/vRPz50XSqmA

For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/BCNw50XSqmC.

Was waiting for that one:
Cerebellar Purkinje cell firing reduction contributes to aging-related declining motor coordination in mice
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Not sure that this translates to humans though given their preserved cerebellar function:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper led by wonder postdocs Francesca Greenstreet and @jessegeerts.bsky.social and @clopathlab.bsky.social trying to understand why –in the "what for" sense– there are multiple motor learning systems –supervised and RL-based– in the brain.

Check out Jesse's 🧵

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Tolman's Sunburst Maze 80 Years on: A Meta‐Analysis Reveals Poor Replicability and Little Evidence for Shortcutting In 1946, Tolman et al. reported that rats could take a novel shortcut to a goal after training on an indirect route, supporting the Cognitive Map theory. However, a review of subsequent Sunburst maze...

Can humans & animals really use internal maps to take shortcuts?

Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze.

Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think.
🧵👇 doi.org/10.1111/ejn....

@uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social

Paper title and authors

Now up as a reviewed @elife.bsky.social preprint: "Continuous developmental changes in word recognition support language learning across early childhood" elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Using data from ~2000 kids ages 1-6, we quantify links between word recognition and early vocabulary growth!

How to change research culture with participatory workshops Nature Human Behaviour - Changing research culture begins with the kind of engaged, collaborative, critical reflection that can spark collective action. This Comment outlines how to design...

We wrote a short piece on conducting participatory workshops to change research culture, given our experiences in teaching workshops on climate activism & open scholarship.

With @anne-urai.bsky.social @clarekelly.bsky.social @annaveer.bsky.social

📝 rdcu.be/eXja4

🧪 #AcademicSky

Check out our new work on motor learning across multiple brain regions!