Tarkesh Singh

We tend to think of neurons as either excitatory or inhibitory, but some neurons chemically inhibit their downstream targets while electrically exciting their neighbors. What is gained by having an inhibitory neuron excite its neighbor?

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Deadline is quickly approaching for team/panel and individual oral submissions for #NCMKobe26! The submission deadline is 23:59 PST December 1.

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Last three days to apply for the position.

🧠Want to start a #PhD in sensorimotor #neuroscience in Fall 2026? Our NIH- and NSF-funded lab at
@iubloomington.bsky.social uses human behavior and noninvasive brain stimulation to study motor learning and perception. More info: blocklab.net/openings.html or hjblock@iu.edu. Deadline is Dec. 15.

A bit over $1,000, but a collaborator uses Gazepoint and is quite happy with it www.gazept.com?srsltid=AfmB...

NCM is proud to offer meeting support awards for #NCMKobe26 again this year! The first round of applications are due Dec 1 and more information can be found on the website.

Please share with others in your community so we can support as many people as possible.

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3 Postdoctoral Research Fellows Champalimaud Foundation (Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr.

🚨Job alert🚨

The lab has up to *3 postdoc openings* for comp systems neuroscientists interested in describing and manipulating neural population dynamics mediating behaviour

This is part of a collaborative ARIA grant "4D precision control of cortical dynamics"

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383909

Don't forget to get your submission in for #NCMKobe26! Team/panel and individual orals close at 23:59 PDT Dec 1.

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Come join us in beautiful Happy Valley! Last two weeks to submit applications.

Our (@jdcrawford.bsky.social) new preprint review of 'Cortical Mechanisms for Transsaccadic Vision: Extrinsic and Intrinsic Feature Updating' is now up! Check it out: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Acute Loss of Tactile Input Leads to General Compensatory Changes in Eye–Hand Coordination during Object Manipulation Current models of motor control emphasize the critical role of sensory feedback, as demonstrated by movement coordination deficits following sensory impairment. When both vision and touch are available for object-oriented manual behaviors, they serve distinct roles; vision guides the execution of planned movements, while touch provides more direct feedback on hand–object interactions. The impact of losing somatosensory feedback on eye–hand coordination during dexterous object manipulation tasks has not been thoroughly studied. Conceivably, vision is recruited to compensate for the feedback lost when touch is abolished based on the dexterity demands of the behavior. To investigate this, we tested healthy participants of either sex on a manual dexterity task requiring the movement of small metal pegs, both before and after the administration of digital anesthesia, which selectively abolished cutaneous sensations in the fingertips while preserving motor function. We recorded participants' gaze and hand positions. Despite loss of cutaneous feedback, participants successfully completed the pegboard task. However, they exhibited significantly longer trial times and altered force profiles. Notably, acute somatosensory loss triggered a rapid shift in visual behavior, characterized by a tighter coupling between gaze and hand positions across all task actions, even those not directly involving object manipulation. These changes, which occurred with anesthesia of the dominant and nondominant hands, were not evident with sham (saline) injections. Our findings underscore the contributions of sensory feedback to force control in service of dexterous object manipulation and reveal the nonselective nature of compensatory gaze–hand coordination processes.

#eNeuro | Acute Loss of Tactile Input Leads to General Compensatory Changes in Eye–Hand Coordination during Object Manipulation
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0487-23.2025

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

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.

rdcu.be/eGUrv

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

What’s the best way to learn Psychtoolbox quickly?

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...

journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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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