Publications

27 publications · 856 total citations · Updated May 2026

2026

Mixed-Selective Organization of Reach and Grasp in the Primate Fronto-Parietal Network

Progress in Neurobiology (2026)
A Fathian, SJ Lehmann, JA Michaels, H Scherberger
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High performance sorting of motor unit action potentials with EMUsort

bioRxiv (2026)
S O'Connell, JA Michaels, R Wang, S Mamidipaka, M Venkatesh, N Aresh, et al.
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Reward-driven emergence of auditory patt...

Reward-driven emergence of auditory pattern encoding in the primate motor system

bioRxiv (2026)
S Neupane, M Kashefi, R Kersten, JA Pruszynski, JA Grahn, JA Michaels
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Sensory expectations and prediction erro...

Sensory expectations and prediction error during feedback control in the human brain

bioRxiv (2026)
M Emanuele, PL Gribble, JA Pruszynski, JA Michaels, J Diedrichsen
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2025

Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits

Nature (2025)
JA Michaels, M Kashefi, J Zheng, O Codol, J Weiler, R Kersten, JC Lau, et al.
Paper Scholar 25 citations
York University Western University MedicalXpress Bioengineer.org

An application-based taxonomy for brain–computer interfaces

Nature Biomedical Engineering (2025)
JT Robinson, SL Norman, MR Angle, TG Constandinou, T Denison, et al.
Paper Scholar 19 citations

Computation-through-Dynamics Benchmark: Simulated datasets and quality metrics for dynamical models of neural activity

bioRxiv (2025)
C Versteeg, JD McCart, M Ostrow, DM Zoltowski, CB Washington, et al.
Paper Scholar 7 citations

A paradigm to study the learning of muscle activity patterns outside of the natural repertoire

Journal of Neurophysiology (2025)
A Ghavampour, M Emanuele, SR Sayyid, JJ Orban de Xivry, JA Michaels, et al.
Paper Scholar 3 citations

ATHENA: automatically tracking hands expertly with no annotations

Journal of Neurophysiology (2025)
DM Mulla, M Costantino, E Freud, JA Michaels
Paper Scholar 1 citation

A Context-Free Model of Savings in Motor Learning

bioRxiv (2025)
M Shahbazi, O Codol, JA Michaels, PL Gribble
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A mathematical language for linking fine-scale structure in spikes from hundreds to thousands of neurons with behaviour

arXiv (2025)
AN Busch, RC Budzinski, FW Pasini, J Mináč, JA Michaels, M Roussy, et al.
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Compositional neural dynamics during rea...

Compositional neural dynamics during reaching

bioRxiv (2025)
M Kashefi, JA Michaels, R Kersten, JC Lau, J Diedrichsen, JA Pruszynski
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2024

MotorNet, a Python toolbox for controlling differentiable biomechanical effectors with artificial neural networks

eLife (2024)
O Codol, JA Michaels, M Kashefi, JA Pruszynski, PL Gribble
Paper Scholar 27 citations

Accurate neural control of a hand prosthesis by posture-related activity in the primate grasping circuit

Neuron (2024)
A Agudelo-Toro, JA Michaels, WA Sheng, H Scherberger
Paper Scholar 10 citations
ScienceDaily Neuroscience News

2023

Myomatrix arrays for high-definition muscle recording

eLife (2023)
B Chung, M Zia, KA Thomas, JA Michaels, A Jacob, A Pack, MJ Williams, et al.
Paper Scholar 43 citations

2020

A goal-driven modular neural network predicts parietofrontal neural dynamics during grasping

PNAS (2020)
JA Michaels, S Schaffelhofer, A Agudelo-Toro, H Scherberger
Paper Scholar 150 citations

Aiming for stable control

Nature Neuroscience (2020)
O Codol, G Ariani, JA Michaels
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2018

Population coding of grasp and laterality-related information in the macaque fronto-parietal network

Scientific Reports (2018)
JA Michaels, H Scherberger
Paper Scholar 58 citations

Neural coding of intended and executed grasp force in macaque areas AIP, F5, and M1

Scientific Reports (2018)
RW Intveld, B Dann, JA Michaels, H Scherberger
Paper Scholar 38 citations

Neural dynamics of variable Grasp-Movement preparation in the macaque frontoparietal network

Journal of Neuroscience (2018)
JA Michaels, B Dann, RW Intveld, H Scherberger
Paper Scholar 32 citations

2017

Towards population coding principles in ...

Towards population coding principles in the primate premotor and parietal grasping network

Doctoral Dissertation, University of Göttingen (2017)
JA Michaels
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2016

Neural population dynamics during reaching are better explained by a dynamical system than representational tuning

PLoS Computational Biology (2016)
JA Michaels, B Dann, H Scherberger
Paper Scholar 196 citations

Uniting functional network topology and oscillations in the fronto-parietal single unit network of behaving primates

eLife (2016)
B Dann, JA Michaels, S Schaffelhofer, H Scherberger
Paper Scholar 95 citations
hebbRNN: A Reward-Modulated Hebbian Lear...

hebbRNN: A Reward-Modulated Hebbian Learning Rule for Recurrent Neural Networks

Journal of Open Source Software (2016)
JA Michaels, H Scherberger
Paper Scholar 5 citations
Separable decoding of cue, intention, an...

Separable decoding of cue, intention, and movement information from the fronto-parietal grasping-network

Sixth International BCI Meeting (2016)
B Dann, JA Michaels, H Scherberger
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2015

Predicting reaction time from the neural state space of the premotor and parietal grasping network

Journal of Neuroscience (2015)
JA Michaels, B Dann, RW Intveld, H Scherberger
Paper Scholar 89 citations

2011

Rapid motor responses quickly integrate visuospatial task constraints

Experimental Brain Research (2011)
L Yang, JA Michaels, JA Pruszynski, SH Scott
Paper Scholar 58 citations