Significant experimental, computational, and theoretical work has identified rich structure
within the coordinated activity of interconnected neural populations. An emerging challenge …

Primary motor cortex has been studied for more than a century, yet a consensus on its
functional contribution to movement control is still out of reach. In particular, there remains …

Animals readily execute learned behaviors in a consistent manner over long periods of time,
and yet no equally stable neural correlate has been demonstrated. How does the cortex …

Long-term learning of language, mathematics, and motor skills likely requires cortical
plasticity, but behavior often requires much faster changes, sometimes even after single …

The central nervous system (CNS) is believed to utilize specific predefined modules, called
muscle synergies (MS), to accomplish a motor task. Yet questions persist about how the …

How are we able to learn new behaviors without disrupting previously learned ones? To
understand how the brain achieves this, we used a brain-computer interface (BCI) learning …

Speech is a critical form of human communication and is central to our daily lives. Yet,
despite decades of study, an understanding of the fundamental neural control of speech …

Accurate control of body posture is enforced by a multitude of corrective actions operating
over a range of time scales. The earliest correction is the short-latency reflex (SLR) which …

Background Motor‐related brain activity in Parkinson's disease has been investigated in a
multitude of functional neuroimaging studies, which often yielded apparently conflicting …

Several lines of research demonstrate that primary motor cortex (M1) is principally involved
in controlling the contralateral side of the body. However, M1 activity has been correlated …