This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-06-19-list338.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

Come chat with me at poster #2085 about rest and task differences (and similarities) for precision mapping! #OHBM26 @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Online planning of sequential actions Review by Jörn Diedrichsen (@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social), Mehrdad Kashefi (@mkashefi.bsky.social), Amin Nazerzadeh, & J. Andrew Pruszynski (@andpru.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/2p9nbnbx

I will miss #OHBM2026 this year, but if you go make sure you see these four amazing posters from current and former members of the lab !

Natural behavior unfolds as a continuous stream of actions. Because these actions often occur in rapid succession, the brain must prepare multiple future actions while the current action is being executed. Our TICS piece explores how this works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We started studying sequence learning by looking into how a fixed sequence is learned. However, in real life, the problem for the brain is to put together flexible sequences on the fly - which provides a completely new perspective: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... With @andpru.bsky.social

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2026-06-05-list336.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

SUITPy 2.1 is here - a Python-version of our toolbox for cerebellar isolation, normalization, atlassing, and flatmap visualization. The processing pipeline now works fully automatically from birth to old age. suitpy.readthedocs.io www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Double act with @actlab.bsky.social at Cinet in Osaka. Cerebellum and Cognition. Doing paired talks is certainly good for a lively discussion…

For those going to @ncmsociety.bsky.social annual meeting next week, come check out our posters! @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org. I know that @mnlmrc.bsky.social @sivanjo.bsky.social @alighavampour.bsky.social @arminpanjehpour.bsky.social and Amin are excited show you what they've done.

Wonderful work by Amin!

SfN Journals@sfnjournals.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#JNeurosci: When playing in a band, notes must be efficient yet flexible to tempo, dynamics, or other musicians’ actions. Using a sequential finger‑pressing task, Nazerzadeh et al show this balance comes from integrating sensory input & sequence memory https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1797-25.2026

How similar are two activity patterns? We all know that low correlations don't mean that they are necessarily dissimilar – our measurements could be noisy. So how do you correct for this? Our slightly nerdy, but hopefully useful preprint takes a deep dive: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Also out today - A quick intro piece on the role of the cerebellum in cognition. What does it do? How will we find out? This is what @actlab.bsky.social and I think the critical questions are right now. It was fun to write - especially the section on evolution.... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

How does the cerebellum contribute to cognitive functions?

The role of the cerebellum in motor functions is well understood. But why is the same circuitry engaged in functions such as working memory, language, and social cognition? This Unsolved Mystery looks...

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For nearly two decades resting-state fMRI has ruled supreme. And resting-state is suprisingly powerful. But we can do so much better by using broad batteries of tasks with the right design. Here a double-punch delivered by two papers from @carobellum.bsky.social and @basselarafat.bsky.social!

basselarafat.bsky.social@basselarafat.bsky.social · 5mo ago

You have 10 minutes of task fMRI to map functional brain regions in an individual. Three decisions matter: How do you localize regions? Which tasks do you include? How do you arrange tasks in your experiment? Here, we tackle all three! Preprint👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The MultiTaskBattery toolbox is live: 20+ implemented tasks, object-oriented design and a battery optimizer built in! Docs: multitaskbattery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Github: github.com/DiedrichsenL... With @carobellum.bsky.social Jinkang Derrick Xiang @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social 🙌

GitHub - DiedrichsenLab/MultiTaskBattery

Contribute to DiedrichsenLab/MultiTaskBattery development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The cutting edge work is thanks to investment from partners like @braincanada.bsky.social @westernu.ca @schulichmeddent.bsky.social and our amazing collaborators who use these systems to understand the brain.

Western Institute for Neuroscience (WIN)@westernuwin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The #WesternU Centre for Functional & Metabolic Mapping is pushing the boundaries in brain research with Canada's only collection of high- and ultra-high-field MRI systems + leading cutting‑edge work that is transforming how we understand the brain. 🔗 cfmm.uwo.ca

As eLife editor, it has been exciting and we are in a new steady state: quality of papers remains high, variance has dropped; work during the editorial phase has gone up tremendously; review quality is excellent and has improved. Kudos to @behrenstimb.bsky.social and the leadership team.

eLife@elife.bsky.social · 5mo ago

2/ Alongside today's blog, eLife Editor-in-Chief, Timothy Behrens and Deputy Editors Yamini Dalal and Diane Harper assess the past three years and outline some of the changes that will be made over the course of 2026. buff.ly/O5IFD7j

After nearly 11 years of learning how to be more polite and how to portage a canoe i became a proud Canadian today. In a time where some political leaders think they can threaten whole nations it seems more meaningful than ever to become part of a free, friendly and peaceful nation.

Today I received a note from a grad student who lives in Tehran. Her note gives you firsthand experience of what it’s like to live in a city that is being bombed, and what it’s like to be young and feel despair about your future. rezashadmehr.blogspot.com/2026/03/hope...

Hopeless in Tehran

Essays on neuroscience

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Now out in Journal of Neuroscience: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... How are motor memories and sensory information combined when you are playing the piano? Congrats to Amin and Medha! I know having a paper out may seem small and insignificant against all that happens in the world right now!

Integration of memory and sensory information in skilled sequence production

Sequential movements rely on two information sources: external sensory cues and internal memory representations. Although often both sources jointly drive sequential behavior, previous research has pr...

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@carobellum.bsky.social really wanted to know how well resting-state correlations can predict which areas co-activate over a wide array of tasks. It turns out that you are better off running a short Multi-task battery, even if the tasks are completely different from the ones you want to predict!

Caroline Nettekoven@carobellum.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8

Language areas in the cerebellar mapped by @coltoncasto.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/language/cer... Very consistent with @carobellum.bsky.social functional atlas, but providing deeper details. By now the "terra incognita" of the cerebellum isn't so "incognita" anymore!

Cerebellum responds to language like cortical areas

One of four language-responsive cerebellar regions may encode meaningful information, much like the cortical language network in the left hemisphere, according to a new study.

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Incredibly hard and heroic work by @rhodricusack.bsky.social, @clionaod.bsky.social and many other just out in Nature Neuroscience: Visual categorization in the ventral stream can is present in 2-month old already. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Infants have rich visual categories in ventrotemporal cortex at 2 months of age - Nature Neuroscience

Using infant fMRI, the authors show that, by 2 months of age, representations in high-level visual cortex encode visual categories that align with deep neural networks, and lateral object-selective re...

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The first Canadian paper from @sivanjo.bsky.social: when we started this work, I thought the cerebellar articulation areas would just look like the speech area in M1. Not so. Check it out! @coltoncasto.bsky.social

@sivanjo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New preprint is live! 🎉 We (@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social , @basselarafat.bsky.social, and I) studied how the brain represents syllables during speech, and which cortical representations the cerebellum most closely resemble. Feedback very welcome: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Great collboration from @mnlmrc.bsky.social: Multivoxel fMRI and neuropixel recordings show sensorimotor prediction errors in M1 / S1 in the input, but not in the spiking of output neurons! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... With @andpru.bsky.social @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @gribblelab.org

🥳 Happy holidays everyone, the list will be back in January 🎉

Paul Gribble 🇨🇦@gribblelab.org · 8mo ago

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2025-12-19-list316.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor

If you are an MRI researcher interested in moving to 🇨🇦 for $500k a year or $1M a year for 8 years with a possibility of renewal at a reduced rate, take a look at our equipment cfmm.uwo.ca and this program www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl... . MSK, neuroscience, cardiac, cancer applications all encouraged!

This is an amazing success story. We are happy to have published several papers there - it really has become the top neuroimaging journal within just two years. Kudos to all who had the courage to make it happen!

Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date. We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400. Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2025-11-28-list313.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor