Antoine De Comite
antoinecomite.bsky.social
Antoine De Comite
@antoinecomite.bsky.social
Postdoc studying locomotion across species at MIT. PhD from UCLouvain

https://decomitea.github.io/
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Very happy to have my first postdoc work with Nidhi published!
Excited that this work discovering cross-species signatures of stabilizing foot placement control is now out in PNAS!

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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🚨🚨 We're hiring !! Looking for postdoc? Come work in an international, collaborative and stimulating environment on mechanisms of human upper limb motor control
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Postdoc Position on Systems Neuroscience, Motor Control at UCLouvain, Belgium
Project Title: Multi-disciplinary, multi-lab investigations of the neural bases of human sensorimotor control Project Description:
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November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Very happy to have my first postdoc work with Nidhi published!
Excited that this work discovering cross-species signatures of stabilizing foot placement control is now out in PNAS!

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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In Nov last year, we published a predictive theory of locomotor adaptation to novel environments, capturing learning and generalization phenomena in over ten experiments:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm honored to be featured on the 2025 Innovators Under 35 list for this work.
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September 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Excited to share my latest work with @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social & @andpru.bsky.social!
We asked: How does the motor cortex account for arm posture when generating movement?
Paper 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Compositional neural dynamics during reaching
The complex mechanics of the arm make the neural control of reaching inherently posture dependent. Because previous reaching studies confound reach direction with final posture, it remains unknown how...
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September 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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We are excited to share our new paper that dives into how ongoing decision deliberation reflects ongoing movements: (jneurosci.org/content/45/3...
A tour-de-force by the incredible Jan Calalo.
July 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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When we reach for an object, we adapt to unexpected dynamics and respond to disturbances. These two mechanisms work online, and when you perturb them at the right time, you can see interference...

Full story ➡️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Interference between flexible and adaptive reaching control
Humans rapidly update the control of an ongoing movement following changes in contextual parameters. This involves adjusting the controller to exploit redundancy in the movement goal, such as when rea...
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July 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Fred Crevecoeur
@fredericcrevec1
🚨preprint time by @harikalidindi.bsky.social
for our work on neural population dynamics: we show that features of neural population activity during reaching emerge from a simple linear body-network system 🧵👇
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May 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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🧠What do random neural networks have in common with the motor cortex?

Turns out, a lot!

Both exhibit similar low‑dimensional dynamics across sensorimotor tasks.👇🧵
May 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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April 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Excited to share my latest work with @oliviercodol.bsky.social, supervised by @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social and @paulgribble.bsky.social, where we introduce a context-free model of savings in motor learning:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A Context-Free Model of Savings in Motor Learning
Learning to adapt voluntary movements to an external perturbation, whether mechanical or visual, is faster during a second encounter than during the first. The mechanisms underlying this phenomenon, k...
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April 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Applications are due Sunday, March 23.

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February 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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This paper ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc..., published at ICAIC25, blatantly plagiarises a paper by myself and colleagues at the Turing,, claiming that they developed the sqlsynthgen package. Although the text has been rephrased, the contents are nearly identical.
February 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Here @sresch.bsky.social and I respond to a Latash piece on definitions in biological motor control. Our view: let's not caught up in prosecuting definitions -- we're in the meat of the discovery stage. doi.org/10.1123/mc.2...
Terms Are Tools in Biological Motor Control
"Terms Are Tools in Biological Motor Control" published on 23 Dec 2024 by Human Kinetics.
doi.org
December 23, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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Can the motor system use sensory expectations to prepare for unexpected events?

Excited to share my latest work with @andpru.bsky.social – where we establish that sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits!

🧵 and paper below
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December 23, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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Here’s our latest work at @glajoie.bsky.social and @mattperich.bsky.social ‘s labs! Excited to see this out.

We used a combination of neural recordings & modelling to show that RL yields neural dynamics closer to biology, with useful continual learning properties.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brain-like neural dynamics for behavioral control develop through reinforcement learning
During development, neural circuits are shaped continuously as we learn to control our bodies. The ultimate goal of this process is to produce neural dynamics that enable the rich repertoire of behavi...
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October 7, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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How do animals walk stably in the presence of intrinsic noise or external perturbations?
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We lack a unified answer to this question across species. In this preprint, we find that legged species use a shared strategy for stable locomotion: foot placement control! (1/6)
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https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.10.612345v1…
September 16, 2024 at 11:39 PM