Super-Mega-Massive Super Paper Friday

There will be a test on all this material on Monday. Happy reading!
(btw-my rice cooker is friggin fantastic! Seriously the best rice I've ever had. Score 1 for science!)

Motor learning: passing a skill from one hand to the other.
Birbaumer N.
Curr Biol. 2007 Dec 4;17(23):R1024-6.

Pioneers of Cortical Plasticity: six classic papers by Wiesel and Hubel.
Constantine-Paton M.
J Neurophysiol. 2008 Jan 23 [Epub ahead of print]

Neuronal activity in the cingulate motor areas during adaptation to a new dynamic environment.
Richardson AG, Lassi-Tucci G, Padoa-Schioppa C, Bizzi E.
J Neurophysiol. 2008 Jan 23 [Epub ahead of print]

Reading and controlling human brain activation using real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging.
deCharms RC.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2007 Nov;11(11):473-81. Epub 2007 Nov 7.

On the programming and reprogramming of actions.
Mars RB, Piekema C, Coles MG, Hulstijn W, Toni I.
Cereb Cortex. 2007 Dec;17(12):2972-9. Epub 2007 Mar 26.

Hand Movement Direction Decoded from MEG and EEG
Stephan Waldert, Hubert Preissl, Evariste Demandt, Christoph Braun, Niels Birbaumer, Ad Aertsen, and Carsten Mehring
The Journal of Neuroscience, January 23, 2008, 28(4):1000-1008.

Modulation of Muscle Synergy Recruitment in Primate Grasping
Simon A. Overduin,1 Andrea d'Avella,2 Jinsook Roh,1 and Emilio Bizzi
The Journal of Neuroscience, January 23, 2008, 28(4):880-892.

Optimality, stochasticity, and variability in motor behavior.
Guigon E, Baraduc P, Desmurget M.
J Comput Neurosci. 2008 Feb;24(1):57-68. Epub 2007 May 22.

Regulation of spike timing in visual cortical circuits.
Tiesinga P, Fellous JM, Sejnowski TJ.
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2008 Feb;9(2):97-107.

Muscle synergies during locomotion in the cat: a model for motor cortex control.
Drew T, Kalaska J, Krouchev N.
J Physiol. 2008 Jan 17 [Epub ahead of print]

Neural coding: The power of one
Katherine Whalley
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 9, 78 (2008).

Restoring connections
Leonie Welberg
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 9, 80 (2008).

Regulation of spike timing in visual cortical circuits
Paul Tiesinga, Jean-Marc Fellous & Terrence J. Sejnowski
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 9, 97-107 (February 2008).

Interpreting fMRI data: maps, modules and dimensions
Hans P. Op de Beeck, Johannes Haushofer & Nancy G. Kanwisher
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 9, 123-135 (February 2008).

Molecular and electrophysiological evidence for net synaptic potentiation in wake and depression in sleep.
Vyazovskiy VV, Cirelli C, Pfister-Genskow M, Faraguna U, Tononi G.
Nat Neurosci. 2008 Jan 20 [Epub ahead of print]

Order-dependent modulation of directional signals in the supplementary and presupplementary motor areas.
Sohn JW, Lee D.
J Neurosci. 2007 Dec 12;27(50):13655-66.

Evidence for a distributed hierarchy of action representation in the brain.
Grafton ST, Hamilton AF.
Hum Mov Sci. 2007 Aug;26(4):590-616. Epub 2007 Aug 13.

Multisensory interplay reveals crossmodal influences on 'sensory-specific' brain regions, neural responses, and judgments.
Driver J, Noesselt T.
Neuron. 2008 Jan 10;57(1):11-23.

Altered cortical activation during a motor task in ALS. Evidence for involvement of central pathways.
Stanton BR, Williams VC, Leigh PN, Williams SC, Blain CR, Jarosz JM, Simmons A.
J Neurol. 2007 Sep;254(9):1260-7. Epub 2007 Mar 25.

Inconvenient truths about neural processing in primary motor cortex.
Scott SH.
J Physiol. 2008 Jan 10 [Epub ahead of print]

Deterministic Neural Classification
Kar-Ann Toh
Neural Computation 0:0, 1-31

A New Multineuron Spike Train Metric
Conor Houghton, Kamal Sen
Neural Computation 0:0, 1-17

Integrating motion and depth via parallel pathways.
Ponce CR, Lomber SG, Born RT.
Nat Neurosci. 2008 Jan 13 [Epub ahead of print]

Reactivation of experience-dependent cell assembly patterns in the hippocampus.
O'Neill J, Senior TJ, Allen K, Huxter JR, Csicsvari J.
Nat Neurosci. 2008 Jan 13 [Epub ahead of print]

Intrinsic Mechanisms for Adaptive Gain Rescaling in Barrel Cortex
Marta Díaz-Quesada, and Miguel Maravall
J. Neurosci. 28: 696-710

Brain–computer symbiosis
Gerwin Schalk
2008 J. Neural Eng. 5 P1-P15

Neural mechanisms for learning actions in context.
Luu P, Tucker DM, Stripling R.
Brain Res. 2007 Nov 7;1179:89-105. Epub 2007 Jun 5.

Brain-computer communication: motivation, aim, and impact of exploring a virtual apartment.
Leeb R, Lee F, Keinrath C, Scherer R, Bischof H, Pfurtscheller G.
IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2007 Dec;15(4):473-82.

Recruitment and comfort of BION implanted electrical stimulation: implications for FES applications.
Popovic D, Baker LL, Loeb GE.
IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2007 Dec;15(4):577-86.

Targeting Axon Growth from Neuronal Transplants along Preformed Guidance Pathways in the Adult CNS
Kristine S. Ziemba, Nagarathnamma Chaudhry, Alexander G. Rabchevsky, Ying Jin, and George M. Smith
J. Neurosci. 28: 340-348

Human Pavlovian–Instrumental Transfer
Deborah Talmi, Ben Seymour, Peter Dayan, and Raymond J. Dolan
J. Neurosci. 28: 360-368

A Maximum Entropy Model Applied to Spatial and Temporal Correlations from Cortical Networks In Vitro
Aonan Tang, David Jackson, Jon Hobbs, Wei Chen, Jodi L. Smith, Hema Patel, Anita Prieto, Dumitru Petrusca, Matthew I. Grivich, Alexander Sher, Pawel Hottowy, Wladyslaw Dabrowski, Alan M. Litke, and John M. Beggs
J. Neurosci. 28: 505-518

General-purpose filter design for neural prosthetic devices.
Srinivasan L, Eden UT, Mitter SK, Brown EN.
J Neurophysiol. 2007 Oct;98(4):2456-75. Epub 2007 May 23.

Posterior parietal cortex encodes autonomously selected motor plans.
Cui H, Andersen RA.
Neuron. 2007 Nov 8;56(3):552-9.

Spike-timing in primary sensory neurons: a model of somatosensory transduction in the rat
Ben Mitchinson, Ehsan Arabzadeh, Mathew E. Diamond, Tony J. Prescott
Biological Cybernetics. January 08, 2008.

Predictive feedback control and Fitts’ law
Peter Gawthrop, Martin Lakie and Ian Loram
January 08, 2008

(This odd little journal requires registration, but is free. Weird.)
Mirror neurons and motor intentionality.
Rizzolatti G, Sinigaglia C.
Funct Neurol. 2007 Oct-Dec;22(4):205-10.

Neurophilosophy: an introduction and overview.
Churchland PS, Di Francesco M.
Funct Neurol. 2007 Oct-Dec;22(4):179-80.

Cue-evoked encoding of movement planning and execution in the rat nucleus accumbens.
Taha SA, Nicola SM, Fields HL.
J Physiol. 2007 Nov 1;584(Pt 3):801-18. Epub 2007 Aug 30.

Development and neuromodulation of spinal locomotor networks in the metamorphosing frog.
Rauscent A, Le Ray D, Cabirol-Pol MJ, Sillar KT, Simmers J, Combes D.
J Physiol Paris. 2006 Nov-Dec;100(5-6):317-27. Epub 2007 Jun 8.

Corticospinal involvement in volitional contractions.
Rothwell JC.
J Physiol. 2007 Oct 15;584(Pt 2):363. Epub 2007 Sep 13.

Spinal Mechanisms Contribute to Differences in the Time to Failure of Submaximal Fatiguing Contractions Performed with Different Loads.
Klass M, Levenez M, Enoka RM, Duchateau J.
J Neurophysiol. 2008 Jan 9 [Epub ahead of print]

The nature of corticospinal paths driving human motoneurones during voluntary contractions.
Butler JE, Larsen TS, Gandevia SC, Petersen NT.
J Physiol. 2007 Oct 15;584(Pt 2):651-9. Epub 2007 Aug 16.

Interaction between neocortical and hippocampal networks via slow oscillations.
Sirota A, Buzsáki G.
Thalamus Relat Syst. 2005 Dec;3(4):245-259.

Endogenous Inhibition and the Neural Basis of "Free Won't"
J. Neurosci. 27: 13919-13920
Giovanni Mirabella

Microstimulation and architectonics of frontoparietal cortex in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus).
Burish MJ, Stepniewska I, Kaas JH.
J Comp Neurol. 2008 Mar 10;507(2):1151-68.

Repeated Electrical Stimulation of Reward-Related Brain Regions Affects Cocaine But Not "Natural" Reinforcement
Dino Levy, Maytal Shabat-Simon, Uri Shalev, Noam Barnea-Ygael, Ayelet Cooper, and Abraham Zangen
J. Neurosci. 27: 14179-14189

On-line control of grasping actions: object-specific motor facilitation requires sustained visual input.
Prabhu G, Lemon R, Haggard P.
J Neurosci. 2007 Nov 14;27(46):12651-4.

Mental simulation of action in the service of action perception.
Raos V, Evangeliou MN, Savaki HE.
J Neurosci. 2007 Nov 14;27(46):12675-83.

Effects of motor training on the recovery of manual dexterity after primary motor cortex lesion in macaque monkeys.
Murata Y, Higo N, Oishi T, Yamashita A, Matsuda K, Hayashi M, Yamane S.
J Neurophysiol. 2007 Dec 19 [Epub ahead of print]

Integration of light-controlled neuronal firing and fast circuit imaging.
Airan RD, Hu ES, Vijaykumar R, Roy M, Meltzer LA, Deisseroth K.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2007 Oct;17(5):587-92.

Techniques for extracting single-trial activity patterns from large-scale neural recordings.
Churchland MM, Yu BM, Sahani M, Shenoy KV.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2007 Oct;17(5):609-18.

Synaptic plasticity, memory and the hippocampus: a neural network approach to causality.
Neves G, Cooke SF, Bliss TV.
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2008 Jan;9(1):65-75.

2007 Gallery: Images of the Year.
Marris E.
Nature. 2007 Dec 20;450(7173):1144-1149.

Be smart, exercise your heart: exercise effects on brain and cognition.
Hillman CH, Erickson KI, Kramer AF.
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2008 Jan;9(1):58-65.

Behavioural report of single neuron stimulation in somatosensory cortex.
Houweling AR, Brecht M.
Nature. 2008 Jan 3;451(7174):65-8. Epub 2007 Dec 19.

Rapid changes in throughput from single motor cortex neurons to muscle activity.
Davidson AG, Chan V, O'Dell R, Schieber MH.
Science. 2007 Dec 21;318(5858):1934-7.

Locally dynamic synaptic learning rules in pyramidal neuron dendrites.
Harvey CD, Svoboda K.
Nature. 2007 Dec 20;450(7173):1195-200.

Mechanosensory Gating of Proprioceptor Input to Modulatory Projection Neurons
Mark P. Beenhakker, Matthew S. Kirby, and Michael P. Nusbaum
J. Neurosci. 27: 14308-14316

Focusing Effect of Acetylcholine on Neuroplasticity in the Human Motor Cortex
Min-Fang Kuo, Jan Grosch, Felipe Fregni, Walter Paulus, and Michael A. Nitsche
J. Neurosci. 27: 14442-14447

Action and Outcome Encoding in the Primate Caudate Nucleus
Brian Lau, and Paul W. Glimcher
J. Neurosci. 27: 14502-14514

Spinal Cord Injury: Present and Future Therapeutic Devices and Prostheses
Simon F. Giszter
Neurotherapeutics. Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages 147-162

Task-related interaction between basal ganglia and cortical dopamine release.
Garraux G, Peigneux P, Carson RE, Hallett M.
J Neurosci. 2007 Dec 26;27(52):14434-41.

Do Corticomotoneuronal Cells Predict Target Muscle EMG Activity?
Griffin DM, Hudson HM, Belhaj-Saif A, McKiernan BJ, Cheney PD.
J Neurophysiol. 2007 Dec 26 [Epub ahead of print]

How robots will teach us how the brain works.
Ghazanfar AA, Turesson HK.
Nat Neurosci. 2008 Jan;11(1):3.

The development of brain-machine interface neuroprosthetic devices.
Patil PG, Turner DA.
Neurotherapeutics. 2008 Jan;5(1):137-46.

Systems Neuroplasticity in the Aging Brain: Recruiting Additional Neural Resources for Successful Motor Performance in Elderly Persons
Sofie Heuninckx, Nicole Wenderoth, and Stephan P. Swinnen
J. Neurosci. 28: 91-99

Face perception in monkeys reared with no exposure to faces.
Sugita Y.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Jan 8;105(1):394-8. Epub 2008 Jan 2.

Daytime sleep condenses the time course of motor memory consolidation.
Korman M, Doyon J, Doljansky J, Carrier J, Dagan Y, Karni A.
Nat Neurosci. 2007 Sep;10(9):1206-13. Epub 2007 Aug 12.

One memory, two ways to consolidate?
Diekelmann S, Born J.
Nat Neurosci. 2007 Sep;10(9):1085-6.

Neuroscience. Rules of plasticity.
Brecht M, Schmitz D.
Science. 2008 Jan 4;319(5859):39-40.

Ongoing in vivo experience triggers synaptic metaplasticity in the neocortex.
Clem RL, Celikel T, Barth AL.
Science. 2008 Jan 4;319(5859):101-4.

Muscle proprioceptive feedback and spinal networks.
Windhorst U.
Brain Res Bull. 2007 Jul 12;73(4-6):155-202. Epub 2007 Apr 17.

Representation of moving wavefronts of whisker deflection in rat somatosensory cortex.
Drew PJ, Feldman DE.
J Neurophysiol. 2007 Sep;98(3):1566-80. Epub 2007 Jun 13.

From stimulus estimation to combination sensitivity: encoding and processing of amplitude and timing information in parallel, convergent sensory pathways.
Carlson BA, Kawasaki M.
J Comput Neurosci. 2008 Jan 5 [Epub ahead of print]

Neurostatistics: Applications, challenges and expectations.
Georgopoulos AP, Karageorgiou E.
Stat Med. 2008 Feb 10;27(3):407-17.

Kalman filter control of a model of spatiotemporal cortical dynamics
Steven J Schiff and Tim Sauer
J. Neural Eng. 5 1-8 2008

Neural representations of kinematic laws of motion: evidence for action-perception coupling.
Dayan E, Casile A, Levit-Binnun N, Giese MA, Hendler T, Flash T.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Dec 18;104(51):20582-7. Epub 2007 Dec 13.

Somatic and motor components of action simulation.
Avenanti A, Bolognini N, Maravita A, Aglioti SM.
Curr Biol. 2007 Dec 18;17(24):2129-35.

A state-space framework for movement control to dynamic goals through brain-driven interfaces.
Srinivasan L, Brown EN.
IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2007 Mar;54(3):526-35.