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Author summary Memory decline is a central feature of aging and an early marker of neurodegenerative disease, yet current methods for assessing memory are poorly suited for frequent, long-term monitor...

Many neural circuits undergo competitive input selection, a process in which supernumerary connections compete for innervation territory on target cells. This process can create atypical circuits when...

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Cerebellar-dependent functions are mostly maintained or even enhanced across the lifespan, with cerebellar-mediated motor abilities remaining intact despite degeneration, in contrast to non-cerebellar...

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When reaching for an object, tactile sensations from a sleeve sliding over the moving arm are often ignored, yet the computational principles governing this phenomenon remain unclear. Prevailing accou...

***Version française en dessous*** We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decisio...

Author summary Conflicting previous work has suggested that reinforcement feedback leads to either greater or smaller movement corrections. Here we elucidate that past successful actions lead to a sup...

Abstract. Short-term motor adaptation is a form of motor learning that optimizes how sensory information about a target’s location is translated into a tar

Despite several age-related processes impacting motor performance, older adults often retain the ability to implicitly adapt to sensory prediction errors. Here, we leverage the fact that implicit adap...

Neurons in the brain are often many synapses away from motoneurons, yet if a movement results in error, each distant neuron needs a teacher that considers its specific contribution to production of th...

Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) solves some of the challenges in research communication today. We take a look at the range of organisations working to make PRC a bigger part of scholarly publishing.

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Many worry that AI use will erode human cognition. We discuss evidence suggesting that offloading cognition to AI can impede skill acquisition and lead to skill decay, but risks depend on how AI is us...

The journal is a seventeenth-century technology asked to do four modern jobs at once: disseminate results, certify their quality, allocate scholarly attention, and confer career credit. It does none o...

Scientific literature depends on the integrity of its references. Each reference implicitly asserts that a verifiable source exists and supports the claims being made. When references point to non-exi...

I’m an AI Researcher. AI Is Making Me Stupid My productivity has never been higher. My understanding has never been lower Last Tuesday, I sat down to write a Python function I’ve written probably …

Whether proprioception is necessary for upper-limb motor control has been debated for decades. Classic studies in deafferented animals and humans suggested that proprioception may be dispensable for r...

Interference between consecutively acquired motor memories is a defining feature of sensorimotor adaptation, yet its mechanistic origin remains unresolved. Because adaptation is supported by separable...