Adrian Haith
@adrianhaith.bsky.social
Motor Control and Motor Learning
Deadline to submit for oral presentations at #NCMKobe26 is in just under a month!
We especially welcome Team/Panel proposals: 2 hour session w 4 talks + discussion. Historically, the acceptance rate is higher for panels than for individual talks.
Poster submission closes in February.
We especially welcome Team/Panel proposals: 2 hour session w 4 talks + discussion. Historically, the acceptance rate is higher for panels than for individual talks.
Poster submission closes in February.
Don't forget to get your submission in for #NCMKobe26! Team/panel and individual orals close at 23:59 PDT Dec 1.
Learn more - ncm-society.org/subm...
Learn more - ncm-society.org/subm...
November 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Deadline to submit for oral presentations at #NCMKobe26 is in just under a month!
We especially welcome Team/Panel proposals: 2 hour session w 4 talks + discussion. Historically, the acceptance rate is higher for panels than for individual talks.
Poster submission closes in February.
We especially welcome Team/Panel proposals: 2 hour session w 4 talks + discussion. Historically, the acceptance rate is higher for panels than for individual talks.
Poster submission closes in February.
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Our 2024 paper showed that policy gradient RL (with performance-based memory updates) predicts long-horizon motor learning. Now, @adrianhaith.bsky.social shows that policy-gradient RL also explains learning in other shorter horizon tasks. Exciting!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Policy-Gradient Reinforcement Learning as a General Theory of Practice-Based Motor Skill Learning
Mastering any new skill requires extensive practice, but the computational principles underlying this learning are not clearly understood. Existing theories of motor learning can explain short-term ad...
www.biorxiv.org
October 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Our 2024 paper showed that policy gradient RL (with performance-based memory updates) predicts long-horizon motor learning. Now, @adrianhaith.bsky.social shows that policy-gradient RL also explains learning in other shorter horizon tasks. Exciting!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New Pre-Print:
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We’re all familiar with having to practice a new skill to get better at it, but what really happens during practice? The answer, I propose, is reinforcement learning - specifically policy-gradient reinforcement learning.
Overview 🧵 below...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We’re all familiar with having to practice a new skill to get better at it, but what really happens during practice? The answer, I propose, is reinforcement learning - specifically policy-gradient reinforcement learning.
Overview 🧵 below...
Policy-Gradient Reinforcement Learning as a General Theory of Practice-Based Motor Skill Learning
Mastering any new skill requires extensive practice, but the computational principles underlying this learning are not clearly understood. Existing theories of motor learning can explain short-term ad...
www.biorxiv.org
October 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
New Pre-Print:
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We’re all familiar with having to practice a new skill to get better at it, but what really happens during practice? The answer, I propose, is reinforcement learning - specifically policy-gradient reinforcement learning.
Overview 🧵 below...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We’re all familiar with having to practice a new skill to get better at it, but what really happens during practice? The answer, I propose, is reinforcement learning - specifically policy-gradient reinforcement learning.
Overview 🧵 below...
New pre-print!
We attempt to survey the two different universes of motor learning research: basic (meetings like NCM, MLMC) and applied (e.g. NASPSA), and consider what these fields can learn from each other and what the future might look like if they can be better integrated.
More in Eric's 🧵 👇
We attempt to survey the two different universes of motor learning research: basic (meetings like NCM, MLMC) and applied (e.g. NASPSA), and consider what these fields can learn from each other and what the future might look like if they can be better integrated.
More in Eric's 🧵 👇
September 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
New pre-print!
We attempt to survey the two different universes of motor learning research: basic (meetings like NCM, MLMC) and applied (e.g. NASPSA), and consider what these fields can learn from each other and what the future might look like if they can be better integrated.
More in Eric's 🧵 👇
We attempt to survey the two different universes of motor learning research: basic (meetings like NCM, MLMC) and applied (e.g. NASPSA), and consider what these fields can learn from each other and what the future might look like if they can be better integrated.
More in Eric's 🧵 👇
Reposted by Adrian Haith
Cerebellar circuit computations for predictive motor control — a Review by Katrina P. Nguyen & Abigail L. Person
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
Cerebellar circuit computations for predictive motor control - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The cerebellum helps ensure the speed and accuracy of movements, but its precise contributions to movement control are unclear. Nguyen and Person here evaluate evidence for and against feedforward mot...
www.nature.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Cerebellar circuit computations for predictive motor control — a Review by Katrina P. Nguyen & Abigail L. Person
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
Reposted by Adrian Haith
Very excited to share our new paper with @adrianhaith.bsky.social, now published in @nathumbehav.nature.com.
In this article, @yuedu.bsky.social and @adrianhaith.bsky.social show that behavior can become habitual in two different ways, involving response initiation and response preparation, respectively
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dissociable habits of response preparation versus response initiation - Nature Human Behaviour
Du and Haith show that behaviour can become habitual in two different ways, involving response initiation and response preparation.
www.nature.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Very excited to share our new paper with @adrianhaith.bsky.social, now published in @nathumbehav.nature.com.
Reposted by Adrian Haith
In this article, @jetrach.bsky.social and McDougle show that motor responses can form part of structured, graph-like memory representations. @actlab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations - Nature Human Behaviour
Trach and McDougle show that motor responses can form part of structured, graph-like memory representations.
www.nature.com
June 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
In this article, @jetrach.bsky.social and McDougle show that motor responses can form part of structured, graph-like memory representations. @actlab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Adrian Haith
In this article, @yuedu.bsky.social and @adrianhaith.bsky.social show that behavior can become habitual in two different ways, involving response initiation and response preparation, respectively
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dissociable habits of response preparation versus response initiation - Nature Human Behaviour
Du and Haith show that behaviour can become habitual in two different ways, involving response initiation and response preparation.
www.nature.com
June 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
In this article, @yuedu.bsky.social and @adrianhaith.bsky.social show that behavior can become habitual in two different ways, involving response initiation and response preparation, respectively
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Adrian Haith
POSTDOC JOB OPENING. My lab at @mossresearch.bsky.social has an opening for a postdoc fellow to work with @aaronlwong.bsky.social and me on an NSF-funded research program studying mechanisms of sensory plasticity that accompany adaptive motor learning. The full posting is below. Please share!
April 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
POSTDOC JOB OPENING. My lab at @mossresearch.bsky.social has an opening for a postdoc fellow to work with @aaronlwong.bsky.social and me on an NSF-funded research program studying mechanisms of sensory plasticity that accompany adaptive motor learning. The full posting is below. Please share!
Reposted by Adrian Haith
We are recruiting trainees for the Integrative Movement Sciences Summer Institute. Students will gain research experience in dynamic muscular control of movement across organizational scales from molecular mechanisms to whole-body movement in complex environments.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/5n7w6pey
Learn more: tinyurl.com/5n7w6pey
IMSI Summer Institute 2025: Now Recruiting Trainees! – Center for Integrative Movement Science
cims.uci.edu
March 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
We are recruiting trainees for the Integrative Movement Sciences Summer Institute. Students will gain research experience in dynamic muscular control of movement across organizational scales from molecular mechanisms to whole-body movement in complex environments.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/5n7w6pey
Learn more: tinyurl.com/5n7w6pey
Reposted by Adrian Haith
Want to hear more about how feedback can guide learning in RNNs for motor adaptation. Here is our new paper in Nat. Com. with Barbara Feulner and @juangallego.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A neural implementation model of feedback-based motor learning - Nature Communications
How the brain adapts our movements to new conditions remains unclear. Here, the authors show that a recurrent neural network that controls its output using error-based feedback can learn to count...
www.nature.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Want to hear more about how feedback can guide learning in RNNs for motor adaptation. Here is our new paper in Nat. Com. with Barbara Feulner and @juangallego.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Adrian Haith
🚨New paper alert🚨
Skin stretches when we move, but how complex are these patterns? How may this be encoded?
Local postural changes elicit extensive and diverse skin stretch around joints, on the trunk and the face - now in @royalsociety.org Interface
Skin stretches when we move, but how complex are these patterns? How may this be encoded?
Local postural changes elicit extensive and diverse skin stretch around joints, on the trunk and the face - now in @royalsociety.org Interface
February 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🚨New paper alert🚨
Skin stretches when we move, but how complex are these patterns? How may this be encoded?
Local postural changes elicit extensive and diverse skin stretch around joints, on the trunk and the face - now in @royalsociety.org Interface
Skin stretches when we move, but how complex are these patterns? How may this be encoded?
Local postural changes elicit extensive and diverse skin stretch around joints, on the trunk and the face - now in @royalsociety.org Interface
We have a great program lined up for NCM 2025 in Panama! Poster submissions are open until Feb 17th. #NCMPan25
The #NCMPan25 program is now available! Review the talks, panels, and more and make your plans for Panama.
January 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
We have a great program lined up for NCM 2025 in Panama! Poster submissions are open until Feb 17th. #NCMPan25
Reposted by Adrian Haith
Our Barcelona-based summer school, BAMB! (bambschool.org) just opened applications! Come join us: 15-24th July, to learn how to model behavioral data using RL, Bayesian, latent variable models, RNNs, DDMs & more! #BAMB2025
BAMB!
Course philosophy
Our goal is to teach advanced techniques in model-based analysis of behavior (humans and other animals) to cognitive and computational neuroscientists at PhD and early career levels...
bambschool.org
January 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Our Barcelona-based summer school, BAMB! (bambschool.org) just opened applications! Come join us: 15-24th July, to learn how to model behavioral data using RL, Bayesian, latent variable models, RNNs, DDMs & more! #BAMB2025
Reposted by Adrian Haith
Excited this one is finally out!
The forced response method: A new chronometric approach to measure conflict processing
with @hanzhang.bsky.social
link.springer.com/10.3758/s134...
Can we better study how the conflict between goal-directed and habitual/automatic actions is resolved? Read on!
The forced response method: A new chronometric approach to measure conflict processing
with @hanzhang.bsky.social
link.springer.com/10.3758/s134...
Can we better study how the conflict between goal-directed and habitual/automatic actions is resolved? Read on!
The forced-response method: A new chronometric approach to measure conflict processing - Behavior Research Methods
Despite long-standing concerns about the use of free reaction times (RTs) in cognitive psychology, they remain a prevalent measure of conflict resolution. This report presents the forced-response meth...
link.springer.com
December 17, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Excited this one is finally out!
The forced response method: A new chronometric approach to measure conflict processing
with @hanzhang.bsky.social
link.springer.com/10.3758/s134...
Can we better study how the conflict between goal-directed and habitual/automatic actions is resolved? Read on!
The forced response method: A new chronometric approach to measure conflict processing
with @hanzhang.bsky.social
link.springer.com/10.3758/s134...
Can we better study how the conflict between goal-directed and habitual/automatic actions is resolved? Read on!
Just under 2 weeks left to submit your panel and individual talk proposals for #NCM2025 in Panama. Dec 2nd deadline. There's still time to put together a panel proposal if you haven't already! Details at ncm-society.org/submission/
November 19, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Just under 2 weeks left to submit your panel and individual talk proposals for #NCM2025 in Panama. Dec 2nd deadline. There's still time to put together a panel proposal if you haven't already! Details at ncm-society.org/submission/