Motor control articles within Nature

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    Measurements of fly muscle activity using a genetically encoded calcium indicator and high-speed imaging of wing movement were used to construct a model of the insect wing hinge and the role of steering muscles in flight control.

    • Johan M. Melis
    • , Igor Siwanowicz
    •  & Michael H. Dickinson

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    Single motor neurons in Drosophila are stimulated to show that they direct head movements towards specific postures rather than generating fixed movement vectors, suggesting that the brain controls movements through a continuing proprioceptive–motor loop.

    • Benjamin Gorko
    • , Igor Siwanowicz
    •  & Stephen J. Huston

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    | Open Access

    Recordings of neural populations from motor cortex and striatum spanning monkeys and mice demonstrate that neural dynamics in individuals from the same species are preserved when they perform similar behaviour.

    • Mostafa Safaie
    • , Joanna C. Chang
    •  & Juan A. Gallego

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    | Open Access

    A speech-to-text brain–computer interface that records spiking activity from intracortical microelectrode arrays enabled an individual who cannot speak intelligibly to achieve 9.1 and 23.8% word error rates on a 50- and 125,000-word vocabulary, respectively.

    • Francis R. Willett
    • , Erin M. Kunz
    •  & Jaimie M. Henderson

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    | Open Access

    Octopuses possess a distinct active sleep stage, with behavioural and neural correlates resembling vertebrate REM sleep, which may represent convergent features of complex cognition.

    • Aditi Pophale
    • , Kazumichi Shimizu
    •  & Sam Reiter

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    | Open Access

    In the Drosophila central-pattern-generating neural network, a mechanism for network desynchronization relying on weak electrical synapses and specific excitability dynamics of the coupled neurons translates unpatterned premotor input into stereotyped neuronal firing with fixed sequences of cell activation, ensuring stable wingbeat power.

    • Silvan Hürkey
    • , Nelson Niemeyer
    •  & Carsten Duch

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    | Open Access

    Photometric recordings and optogenetic manipulation show that dopamine fluctuations in the dorsolateral striatum in mice modulate the use, sequencing and vigour of behavioural modules during spontaneous behaviour.

    • Jeffrey E. Markowitz
    • , Winthrop F. Gillis
    •  & Sandeep Robert Datta

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    Mapping of the mouse cerebellar cortex using 3D reconstruction from electron microscopy, as well as numerical simulation of neuronal activity, shows non-random redundancy of connectivity that may favour resilient learning over encoding capacity.

    • Tri M. Nguyen
    • , Logan A. Thomas
    •  & Wei-Chung Allen Lee

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    A study presents ensemble recordings of neurons in the lumbar spinal cord indicating that activity in spinal cord circuits for movement follows low-dimensional rotational dynamics, and proposes a theory of neural generation of movements.

    • Henrik Lindén
    • , Peter C. Petersen
    •  & Rune W. Berg

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    The whisking oscillator—consisting of parvalbumin-expressing inhibitory neurons located in the vibrissa intermediate reticular nucleus—in mice is an all-inhibitory network and recurrent synaptic inhibition has a key role in its rhythmogenesis.

    • Jun Takatoh
    • , Vincent Prevosto
    •  & Fan Wang

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    In rhesus monkeys, learning of a motor task is accompanied by uniform changes in preparatory activity in motor cortex that are orthogonal to the force-predictive neural state subspace.

    • Xulu Sun
    • , Daniel J. O’Shea
    •  & Krishna V. Shenoy

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    A theory of motor learning based on the principle of contextual inference reveals that adaptation can arise by both creating and updating memories and changing how existing memories are differentially expressed, and predicts evoked recovery and context-dependent single-trial learning.

    • James B. Heald
    • , Máté Lengyel
    •  & Daniel M. Wolpert

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    In male zebra finches, song practice and courtship song performance are associated with distinct patterns of neural activity in the basal ganglia, resulting in reduced vocal variability during performance.

    • Jonnathan Singh Alvarado
    • , Jack Goffinet
    •  & Richard Mooney

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    | Open Access

    Mesoscale connectomic mapping of the cortico–basal ganglia–thalamic network reveals key architectural and information processing features.

    • Nicholas N. Foster
    • , Joshua Barry
    •  & Hong-Wei Dong

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    | Open Access

    Multi-modal analysis is used to generate a 3D atlas of the upper limb area of the mouse primary motor cortex, providing a framework for future studies of motor control circuitry.

    • Rodrigo Muñoz-Castañeda
    • , Brian Zingg
    •  & Hong-Wei Dong

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    | Open Access

    The BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network has constructed a multimodal cell census and atlas of the mammalian primary motor cortex in a landmark effort towards understanding brain cell-type diversity, neural circuit organization and brain function.

    • Edward M. Callaway
    • , Hong-Wei Dong
    •  & Susan Sunkin

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    Three-dimensional imaging of the lingual kinematics of mice drinking from a water spout reveals that successful licks have the hallmarks of online motor control, requiring rapid adjustments controlled by anterolateral motor cortex.

    • Tejapratap Bollu
    • , Brendan S. Ito
    •  & Jesse H. Goldberg

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    In macaque motor cortex, moment-to-moment fluctuations in neurally derived decision variables are tightly linked to decision state and predict behavioural choices with better accuracy than condition-averaged decision variables or the visual stimulus alone, and can be used to distinguish between different models of decision making.

    • Diogo Peixoto
    • , Jessica R. Verhein
    •  & William T. Newsome

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    Simultaneous mapping of activity across the cortex and dorsal striatum in mice shows that activity in each part of the striatum precisely mirrors that in topographically associated cortical regions, consistently across behavioural contexts.

    • Andrew J. Peters
    • , Julie M. J. Fabre
    •  & Matteo Carandini

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    Neurons in the canary premotor cortex homologue encode past song phrases and transitions, carrying information relevant to future choice of phrases as ‘hidden states’ during song.

    • Yarden Cohen
    • , Jun Shen
    •  & Timothy J. Gardner

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    The complex patterns of activity in motor cortex that control movements such as reach and grasp are dependent on both upstream neuronal activity in the thalamus and the current state of the cortex.

    • Britton A. Sauerbrei
    • , Jian-Zhong Guo
    •  & Adam W. Hantman

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    A neural decoder uses kinematic and sound representations encoded in human cortical activity to synthesize audible sentences, which are readily identified and transcribed by listeners.

    • Gopala K. Anumanchipalli
    • , Josh Chartier
    •  & Edward F. Chang

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    Transcriptional profiling and axonal reconstructions identify two types of pyramidal tract neuron in the motor cortex: one type projects to thalamic regions and produces early and persistent preparatory activity, and the other type projects to motor centres in the medulla and produces motor commands.

    • Michael N. Economo
    • , Sarada Viswanathan
    •  & Karel Svoboda

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    In mouse models of Parkinson’s disease and dyskinesia, striatal spiny projection neurons of the direct and indirect pathways have abnormal, imbalanced levels of spontaneous and locomotor-related activity, with the two different disease states characterized by opposite abnormalities.

    • Jones G. Parker
    • , Jesse D. Marshall
    •  & Mark J. Schnitzer

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    Speed and gait selection in mice are controlled by glutamatergic excitatory neurons in the cuneiform nucleus and the pedunculopontine nucleus, which act in conjunction to select context-dependent locomotor behaviours.

    • V. Caggiano
    • , R. Leiras
    •  & O. Kiehn

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    In the mouse caudal brainstem, functionally distinct neuronal subpopulations, which are distinguishable by neurotransmitter identity, connectivity and location, regulate locomotion parameters.

    • Paolo Capelli
    • , Chiara Pivetta
    •  & Silvia Arber

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    Thalamic neurons show selective persistent activity that predicts movement direction, and their photoinhibition decreases activity in the anterior lateral motor cortex, and vice versa, suggesting that persistent activity requires reciprocal excitation in a thalamocortical loop.

    • Zengcai V. Guo
    • , Hidehiko K. Inagaki
    •  & Karel Svoboda

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    A novel rhythmogenic brainstem network was discovered in mice that is necessary and sufficient for generating postinspiration, a breathing phase also used for swallowing, coughing and vocalization.

    • Tatiana M. Anderson
    • , Alfredo J. Garcia
    •  & Jan-Marino Ramirez

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