Under Review
  • A paradigm to study the learning of muscle activity patterns outside of the natural repertoire. bioRxiv [LINK]
  • Motor sequence learning involves better prediction of the next action and optimization of movement trajectories. bioRxiv [LINK]
  • Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits. bioRxiv [LINK]
  • A mathematical language for linking fine-scale structure in spikes from hundreds to thousands of neurons with behaviour. arXiv [LINK]
  • Single-shot detection of microscale tactile features. bioRxiv [LINK]
  • Repetition effects reveal the sub-sequence representation of actions. bioRxiv [LINK]
  • Parallel feedback processing for voluntary control: knowledge of spinal feedback in motor cortex. bioRxiv [LINK]​

2025
  • String-pulling in the common marmoset. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
  • Spike frequency adaptation in primate lateral prefrontal cortex neurons results from interplay between intrinsic properties and circuit dynamics. Cell Reports [LINK]
2024
  • Terms are tools in biological motor control. Motor Control [LINK]
  • An application-based taxonomy for brain–computer interfaces. Nature Biomedical Engineering [LINK]
  • Neural correlates of online action preparation. Journal of Neuroscience [LINK]
  • Future movement plans interact in sequential arm movements. eLife [LINK] [Feature]
2023
  • The future of academic publishing. Nature Human Behaviour. [LINK]
  • Myomatrix arrays for high-definition muscle recording. eLife [LINK] [Feature]
  • Done in 65 ms: Express visuomotor responses in upper limb muscles in Rhesus Macaques. eNeuro [LINK]
  • Reach corrections toward moving targets are faster than reach corrections toward jumping targets. Neuroscience [LINK]
  • MotorNet: a Python toolbox for controlling differentiable biomechanical effectors with artificial neural networks. eLife [LINK]
  • Sensorimotor feedback loops are selectively sensitive to reward. eLife [LINK] 
2022
  • Precise and stable edge orientation signaling by human first-order tactile neurons. eLife [LINK].
  • Mapping the integration of sensory information across fingers in human sensorimotor cortex [LINK]
  • Motor planning brings human primary somatosensory cortex into movement-specific preparatory states. eLife [LINK]
2021
  • The planning horizon for movement sequences. eNeuro [LINK]
  • Human first-order tactile neurons can resolve spatial details on the scale of single fingerprint ridges. Journal of Neuroscience [LINK]
  • Spinal stretch reflexes support efficient control of reaching. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
  • Skin and muscle receptors shape coordinated fast feedback responses in the upper limb. Current Opinion in Physiology [LINK]
  • Sharing voxelwise neuroimaging results from rhesus monkeys and other species with Neurovault. Neuroimage [LINK]
  • Shared internal models for feedforward and feedback control of arm dynamics in non-human primates. European Journal of Neuroscience [LINK]
2020
  • Shared internal models between feedforward and feedback control. Brazilian Journal of Motor Behavior [LINK]
  • Explicit feedback and instruction do not change shoulder muscle activity reduction after shoulder fixation. BioRxiv [LINK]
  • Whole brain mapping of somatosensory responses in awake marmosets investigated with ultra-high field fMRI. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
  • Orientation processing by synaptic integration across first-order tactile neurons. PLoS Computational Biology [LINK]
  • Structure of population activity in primary motor cortex for single finger flexion and extension. Journal of Neuroscience [LINK]
  • Stretch reflexes. Current Biology [LINK]
  • Voluntary modification of rapid tactile-motor responses during reaching differs from its visuo-motor counterpart. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
  • Learning new feedforward motor commands based on feedback responses. Current Biology [LINK]
  • Generalizing movement patterns following shoulder fixation. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
  • Sensory information from a slipping object elicits a rapid and automatic shoulder response. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
  • Somatosensory inputs for real-world hand control (2020). The Cognitive Neurosciences (6th Edition). [LINK] [Book]
2019
  • The language of the brain: real-world neural population codes. Current Opinion in Neurobiology [LINK]
  • Maintaining arm control during self-triggered and unpredictable unloading perturbations. European Journal of Neuroscience [LINK].
  • Spinal stretch reflexes support efficient hand control. Nature Neuroscience [LINK] [F1000 Review]
  • Science in flux: Registered reports and beyond at the European Journal of Neuroscience. European Journal of Neuroscience [LINK]
  • A rapid visuomotor response on the human upper limb is selectively influenced by implicit, but not explicit, motor learning. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
  • Stability of representational geometry across a wide range of fMRI activity levels. Neuroimage [LINK]
2018
  • Feedforward and feedback control share an internal model of the arm’s dynamics. Journal of Neuroscience [LINK]
  • Edge-orientation processing during active touch. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
  • Neural network models of the tactile system develop first-order units with spatially complex receptive fields. PLoS One [LINK]
  • Concentric radiofrequency arrays to increase the statistical power of resting-state maps in monkeys. Neuroimage [LINK]
  • Fast and accurate edge orientation processing during manipulation. eLife [LINK]
  • Done in 100 ms: Path-dependent visuomotor transformation in the human upper limb. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
  • Rapid feedback responses are flexibly coordinated across arm muscles to support goal-directed reaching. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
2017
  • Compensating for intersegmental dynamics across the shoulder, elbow and wrist joints during feedforward and feedback control. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
  • Registered reports at the European Journal of Neuroscience: consolidating and extending peer‐reviewed study pre‐registration. European Journal of Neuroscience [LINK]
2016
  • Coordination of the long-latency stretch response across the shoulder, elbow, and wrist. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
  • Distributed task-specific processing of somatosensory feedback for voluntary motor control. eLife [LINK].
  • Primary motor cortex neurons classified in a postural task predict muscle activation patterns in a reaching task. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
  • A rapid tactile-motor reflex automatically guides reaching towards handheld objects. Current Biology [LINK]
2015
  • Goal-dependent modulation of the long-latency stretch response at the shoulder, elbow and wrist. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
  • Reading the mind to move the body. Science [LINK]
2014
  • Edge-orientation processing in first-order tactile neurons. Nature Neuroscience [LINK] [News and Views] [F1000 Review]
  • Perturbation-evoked responses in primary motor cortex are modulated by behavioural context. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
  • Primary motor cortex and fast feedback responses to mechanical perturbations: a primer on what we know now and some suggestions on what we should find out next. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience [LINK]
  • Biting intentions modulate the human jaw-opening reflex. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
  • Goal-dependent modulation of fast feedback responses in primary motor cortex. Journal of Neuroscience [LINK]
2012
  • BOLD responses to tactile stimuli in visual and auditory cortex depend on the frequency content of stimulation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience [LINK]
  • Optimal feedback control and the long-latency stretch response. Experimental Brain Research [LINK]
2011
  • Primary motor cortex underlies multi-joint integration for fast feedback control. Nature [LINK]
  • The long-latency reflex is composed of at least two functionally independent processes. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
  • Rapid motor responses quickly integrate visuospatial task constraints. Experimental Brain Research [LINK]
2010
  • Stimulus-locked responses on human arm muscles reveal a rapid neural pathway linking visual input to arm motor output. European Journal of Neuroscience [LINK] [F1000 Review].
  • Long-latency and voluntary responses to an arm displacement can be rapidly attenuated by perturbation offset. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
  • Complex spatiotemporal tuning in human upper-limb muscles. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK] [F1000 Review]
2009
  • Long-latency responses during reaching account for the mechanical interaction between the shoulder and elbow joints. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
  • Temporal evolution of 'automatic gain-scaling'. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
2008
  • Rapid motor responses are appropriately tuned to the metrics of a visuo-spatial task. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]
  • Long-latency reflexes of the human arm reflect an internal model of limb dynamics. Current Biology [LINK]
2007
  • Temporal encoding of movement in motor cortical neurons. Journal of Neuroscience [LINK]
2006
  • Primate upper limb muscles exhibit activity patterns that differ from their anatomical action during a postural task. Journal of Neurophysiology [LINK]