Learning new movements doesn't just change brain activity—it rewires the brain's circuits. Discover how UC San Diego scientists uncovered this transformation. #Neuroscience #BrainPlasticity #MotorLearning
https://geekoo.news/learning-rewires-the-brains-motor-pathways/
How do we become the pilots of our own bodies? New research reveals the surprising key to building a sense of agency. #Neuroscience #MotorLearning #HumanExperience
https://geekoo.news/learning-to-move-learning-to-be-how-we-build-self-agency/
Motor learning at #SfN24
It has been almost 10 years now that we have come to the realization that a particular type of our operant experiments can be classified as motor learning. In such "operant self-learning" experiments, the animal learns about the consequences of its own behavior and adjusts future behavior accordingly. In this experiment, a tethered fly, flying stationarily in an otherwise featureless environment, is trained to avoid/prefer one of two turning directions. The fly is tethered to a torque […]
Whodathunk? Motor learning in motor neurons, huh?
I was very excited when our latest research paper came out, after all, I was confident our 30-year-long search for the sites of plasticity in the form of motor learning we study was coming to an end. In this work, we were fairly confident that underlying the type of learning we study was a novel form of plasticity in a very specific set of motor neurons in the ventral nerve cord of the flies we use for our research. The reason for our confidence was the convergence of several lines of [...]
https://bjoern.brembs.net/2024/07/whodathunk-motor-learning-in-motor-neurons-huh/
Our stellar postdoc Radostina Lyutova presenting her poster on how to improve #motorlearning in #drosophila at #sfn23
Come see her at posterboard UU23 this morning at #sfn #neuroscience
@debivort @schoppik @markgbaxter @elduvelle_neuro @beneuroscience @jzsimon @jzsimon @jonny
This year, we have two posters for #SFN both in the morning.
On Tuesday, it'll be on optogenetic self-stimulation with Ben deBivort as co-author:
https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/10892/presentation/28323
but it'll be mainly the recent work of undergraduate Luisa Guyton.
On Wednesday it'll be on different ways in which we improve #motorlearning in #Drosophila
https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/10892/presentation/29876
It has been a few years that I have been this excited about work coming from our lab! Our latest preprint:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.16.520755v3
rests on a collaboration with Carsten Duch in Mainz:
https://enb-idn.biologie.uni-mainz.de/prof-dr-carsten-duch/
and describes #neuroscience experiments on a type of #motorlearning in #Drosophila that was first described in 1991:
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF00194898.pdf
Now, we present which genes are required in which neurons for this type of learning to take place.
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Shanaathanan Modchalingam finds that people seem to switch models rather than adapt an existing model when faced with a perturbation that is more clearly environmental than a simple rotation: sideways acceleration. Clever use of #VR virtual reality! #SCAPPS #MotorLearning
PDF: https://deniseh.lab.yorku.ca/files/2023/10/Modchalingam_SCAPPS_2023.pdf?x64373
📢📷 Exciting update: Well done, @federicon97
for Presenting his work on 'Bill-EVR: an Embodied Virtual Reality framework for reward-and-error-based motor rehab-learning', pushing boundaries of motor learning and rehabilitation through innovative technology #RehabWeek2023 #motorlearning #virtualreality #innovate
Our paper "Prior movement of one arm facilitates motor adaptation in the other" is out @ #JNeurosci.
We show that the direction of a prior movement of the other arm is an effective cue to allow adaptation to interfering force fields. The brain seems to use kinematic information in learned sequences involving different body parts to adjust movements of the same sequence.
Also our data is pretty.
#motorlearning #motorcontrol #motoradaptation @sensorimotor @neuroscience
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2166-22.2023
Here comes a thread about our new preprint!
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.22.517483v1
We show that prior movement of the opposite arm is an effective cue to allow force field specific adaptation, while “sensory” prior movement is not.
This is work with @HeedLab, Ian Howard, Saskia Leupold, Arno Villringer, Vadim Nikulin and Bernhard Sehm.
Thanks to @jjodx (I think?) who already provided very insightful fb on the preprint!
@sensorimotor #motorlearning #motorcontrol #motoradaptation
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The role of #auditory #feedback in the #MotorLearning of #music in #experienced and #novice #performers
"Auditory feedback was more relevant for beginners than for advanced students, as evidenced by the greater benefits of listening during practice"
Looking forward to Bob Sainburg's zoom talk tomorrow: It’s the Wrong Hand, Bob!” Why treat the good hand in Stroke Patients?" as part of the BioMed@TAU motor learning, his talks are always entertaining!
https://en-biomed.tau.ac.il/events/motor/learning/biomed/Sainburg/22
In our list of lab members who also have an individual mastodon account: lab PI Ludo Max. Find him at @ludomax
#Speech #Articulation #MotorControl #MotorLearning #Adaptation #Sensorimotor #Neuroscience #Movement #Auditory #Feedback #Acoustics #Kinematics #Stuttering #SpeechLanguagePathology
