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/

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

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

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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