Neuroscience

Regulation of sensorimotor serial learning in speech production by motor compensation rather than sensory error

1. Yuhan Lu
2. Xiaowei Tang
3. Zhenyan Xiao
4. Anqi Xu
5. Junxi Chen
6. Xing Tian

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  This study investigates how people adapt their speech when auditory feedback is altered. The analyses are rigorous and the work makes a valuable contribution by extending methods from limb motor control to speech. However, because the paradigm does not directly measure sensory error, the evidence for the proposed mechanism of sensorimotor learning is incomplete. The findings are best viewed as evidence for how prior motor adjustments influence subsequent behaviour, highlighting the need for future studies to more precisely separate sensory and motor contributions to adaptation.

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Heat-off responses of epidermal cells sensitize Drosophila larvae to noxious inputs

1. Jiro Yoshino
2. Avery Chiu
3. Takeshi Morita
4. Chang Yin
5. Federico M. Tenedini
6. Takaaki Sokabe
7. Kazuo Emoto
8. Jay Z. Parrish

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