A cerebro-cerebellar network for learning visuomotor associations

N Sendhilnathan, AC Bostan, PL Strick… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Consensus is rapidly building to support a role for the cerebellum beyond motor function, but
its contributions to non-motor learning remain poorly understood. Here, we provide …

Rapid input-output transformation between local field potential and spiking activity during sensation but not action in the superior colliculus

C Bourrelly, C Massot, NJ Gandhi - Journal of Neuroscience, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Sensorimotor transformation is the sequential process of registering a sensory signal in the
environment and then responding with the relevant movement at an appropriate time. For …

Context-specific early recruitment of small motor units in the shoulder muscle reflects a reach movement plan

S Rungta, A Murthy - Journal of neurophysiology, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Understanding how motor plans are transformed into appropriate patterns of muscle activity
is a central question in motor control. Although muscle activity during the delay period has …

Unpacking self-ordered sequences

KE Conen, TM Desrochers - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
In this issue of Neuron, Chiang et al. examine population coding of self-ordered sequences
in prefrontal cortex. They find better decoding, more distributed information, and less …

Neck muscle activity reflects neural patterns of sequential saccade planning in head-restrained primates

D Basu, N Sendhilnathan… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Goal-directed behavior involves the transformation of neural movement plans into
appropriate muscle activity patterns. Studies involving single saccades have shown that a …

Implicit gaze research for XR systems

N Sendhilnathan, AS Fernandes, MJ Proulx… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Although eye-tracking technology is being integrated into more VR and MR headsets, the
true potential of eye tracking in enhancing user interactions within XR settings remains …

The Neural Basis of Behavioral Sequences in Cortical and Subcortical Circuits

KE Conen, TM Desrochers - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of …, 2022 - oxfordre.com
Sequences of actions and experiences are a central part of daily life in many species.
Sequences consist of a set of ordered steps with a distinct beginning and end. They are …

Neck motor unit activity displays neural signatures of temporal control during sequential saccade planning

D Basu, N Sendhilnathan, A Murthy - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Goal-directed behavior involves the transformation of neural movement plans into
appropriate muscle activity patterns. Studies involving single saccades have shown that a …

Developmental maturation of causal signaling hubs in voluntary control of saccades and their functional controllability

Y Zhang, S Ryali, W Cai, K Supekar… - Cerebral …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The ability to adaptively respond to behaviorally relevant cues in the environment, including
voluntary control of automatic but inappropriate responses and deployment of a goal …

Shoulder muscle recruitment of small amplitude motor units during the delay period encodes a reach movement plan which is sensitive to task context

S Rungta, A Murthy - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Understanding how motor plans are transformed into appropriate patterns of muscle activity
is a central question in motor control. Previous work in our laboratory has revealed early …