Publications

27 publications · 829 total citations · Updated March 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...

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, ...
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Reward-driven emergence of auditory...

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...

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

bioRxiv (2026)
M Emanuele, P 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, ...
Paper Scholar 22 citations
York University Western University Bioengineer.org MedicalXpress

An application-based taxonomy for brain–computer interfaces

Nature Biomedical Engineering (2025)
JT Robinson, SL Norman, MR Angle, TG Constandinou, T Denison, ...
Paper Scholar 16 citations
Computation-through-Dynamics Benchmark: Simulated datasets...

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, ...
Paper Scholar 5 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, ...
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 citations
Compositional neural dynamics during...

Compositional neural dynamics during reaching

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

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

Elife 12 (2024)
O Codol, JA Michaels, M Kashefi, JA Pruszynski, PL Gribble
Paper Scholar 26 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 8 citations

2023

Myomatrix arrays for high-definition muscle recording

Elife 12 (2023)
B Chung, M Zia, KA Thomas, JA Michaels, A Jacob, A Pack, MJ Williams, ...
Paper Scholar 41 citations

2020

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

Proceedings of the national academy of sciences (2020)
JA Michaels, S Schaffelhofer, A Agudelo-Toro, H Scherberger
Paper Scholar 146 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 56 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 35 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...

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

Niedersächsische Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek 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 193 citations

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

Elife 5 (2016)
B Dann, JA Michaels, S Schaffelhofer, H Scherberger
Paper Scholar 95 citations
hebbRNN: A Reward-Modulated Hebbian...

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

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

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

Proceedings of the Sixth International Brain-Computer Interface Meeting: BCI… (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 88 citations

2011

Rapid motor responses quickly integrate visuospatial task constraints

Experimental Brain Research (2011)
L Yang, JA Michaels, JA Pruszynski, SH Scott
Paper Scholar 57 citations