Tarkesh Singh

Open-Rank Faculty Position in Sensorimotor Control and Rehabilitation Neuroscience APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

The Department of Kinesiology at Penn State is inviting applications for an open-rank faculty position in sensorimotor control and rehabilitation neuroscience. Please share this opportunity with interested colleagues in your network.

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Several prior studies have examined behavior in kitchen-like environments to gain insights into cognitive and motor function, e.g., www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Kinesiology and Applied Physiology at UD is hiring a biomechanist! We invite applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position with a preferred research focus in musuloskeletal modeling.
careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

How to design your academic website - Nature Human Behaviour An academic website serves as both a public-facing window on the world wide web and an important internal laboratory resource. In this ‘How to’ piece, I outline how to build your academic website, including what content to include, and ways to build and launch your site.

In this 'How to' Comment, @gribblelab.org gives advice on how to think about one's academic website and how to go about building one. #AcademicWebsite
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Evidence for an active handoff between hemispheres during target tracking The brain has somewhat separate cognitive resources for the left and right sides of our visual field. Despite this lateralization, we have a smooth and unified perception of our environment. This rais...

New paper!
Evidence for an active handoff between hemispheres during target tracking
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
#neuroscience

Now out in @nature.com: Our study discovering a neural circuit in Drosophila that predictively inhibits proprioceptor axons during voluntary leg movements, such as walking and grooming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Transitions in dynamical regime and neural mode during perceptual decisions - Nature Simultaneous recordings were made of hundreds of neurons in the rat frontal cortex and striatum, showing that decision commitment involves a rapid, coordinated transition in dynamical regime and neura...

How does the brain decide? 🧠

Our new @nature.com paper shows that neural activity switches from an 'evidence gathering' to a 'commitment' state at a precise moment we call nTc.

After nTc, new evidence is ignored, revealing a neural marker for the instant when the mind is made up.

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The myth of optimality in human movement science The concept of optimality dominates contemporary human movement science, with researchers across biomechanics, motor control, and neuroscience routine…

The myth of optimality in human movement science

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New pre-print!

We attempt to survey the two different universes of motor learning research: basic (meetings like NCM, MLMC) and applied (e.g. NASPSA), and consider what these fields can learn from each other and what the future might look like if they can be better integrated.

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
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Thank you, Aaron. Got a new student who is trying to figure it out

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This suggests a previously unrecognized connection between eye movement control and postural reflexes. The findings point to potential links between visual tracking systems and the neural circuits that help maintain balance.

We investigated how eye movements might influence reflexes during balance tasks. We found that when people tracked a moving object with smooth pursuit versus keeping their gaze fixed, their leg muscle reflexes were enhanced during perturbations.

YouTube video by Kinarm Dexterit-E 3.11 - New Features!

Hey Kinarm users! Did you see the post about the new release, but not have the time to read it? We're happy to share a new video summary of the new features. Today Dexterit-E; tomorrow Explorer youtu.be/SjPUrbwp98Q?...

Is It Me or the Train Moving? Humans Resolve Sensory Conflicts with a Nonlinear Feedback Mechanism in Balance Control Humans use multiple sensory systems to estimate body orientation in space. Sensory contributions change depending on context. A predominant concept for the underlying multisensory integration (MSI) is...

Paper was recently featured in J Neuroscience; author copy through OSF.
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2...
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With sky-less Matthias Albrecht, Markus Gruber, and Robert Peterka. Supported by AFF @uni-konstanz.de

Eye and hand coarticulation during problem solving reveals hierarchically organized planning | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society During everyday activities -such as preparing a cup of coffee or traveling across cities -we often plan ahead and execute sequences of actions. Yet, how such planning unfolds when solutions must be fo...

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Sensory responses of visual cortical neurons are not prediction errors Predictive coding is theorized to be a ubiquitous cortical process to explain sensory responses. It asserts that the brain continuously predicts sensory information and imposes those predictions on lo...

1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction.

But...

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Looking for OTs and PTs who work in stroke rehab to complete our survey on how bilateral coordination is assessed! This will help us create clinically feasible assessment tools. Please share! redcap.link/neuRAL.BCsur...

YouTube video by Kinarm Fast Feedback Interception Test: an interview with the co-creators

Fast Feedback Interception Test: an interview with the co-creators
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwMS...

Do you know an outstanding early career researcher in the NCM Community? Nominate them for the Early Career Award!

Deadline for nominations is Sept 8 and more details can be found on the website - ncm-society.org/awards/

We are excited to share our new paper that dives into how ongoing decision deliberation reflects ongoing movements: (jneurosci.org/content/45/3...
A tour-de-force by the incredible Jan Calalo.

Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
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Rubber arm illusion in octopus The feeling of a body as belonging to oneself is called the sense of body ownership and the centerpiece of conscious experience. Kawashima and Ikeda investigated the sense of body ownership in an octo...

Rubber arm illusion in octopus: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Motor sequence learning involves better prediction of the next action and optimization of movement trajectories Learning new sequential movements is a fundamental skill for many animals. Motor sequence learning may arise from three distinct processes: (1) improved execution of individual movements independent o...

Careful dissection of motor sequence learning by @andpru.bsky.social and @mkashefi.bsky.social. In my humble opinion this should be an instant classic 😏.

www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

6+6 = 12 reasons to move to Waterloo, Canada.

First 6.....

6 job openings in the University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science/Waterloo Eye Institute.

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see thread for the next 6.

Our department is recruiting! New tenure-track, open rank faculty position in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan (emphasis on human cognition and artificial intelligence).
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Following a discussion with Mindy Levin about the limitations of using VR in motor control and rehabilitation, I joined her in writing this review.

Interference between flexible and adaptive reaching control Humans rapidly update the control of an ongoing movement following changes in contextual parameters. This involves adjusting the controller to exploit redundancy in the movement goal, such as when rea...

When we reach for an object, we adapt to unexpected dynamics and respond to disturbances. These two mechanisms work online, and when you perturb them at the right time, you can see interference...

Full story ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...