NEWS:
August, 2024:
Congratulations to Lydia Hickman as her paper (Dopaminergic manipulations affect the modulation and meta-modulation of movement speed: evidence from two pharmacological interventions) has been accepted in Behavioural Brain Research.
Congratulations to Raph Hamel as his paper (Bilateral intracortical inhibition during unilateral motor preparation and sequence learning) has been accepted in Brain Stimulation.
July, 2023:
Congratulations to Raph Hamel as his paper (The intracortical excitability changes underlying the enhancing effects of rewards and punishments on motor performance) has been accepted in Brain Stimulation.
Jan, 2023:
Congratulations to Matthew Weightman as his paper (Short duration event related cerebellar tdcs enhances visuomotor adaptation) has been accepted in Brain Stimulation.
Jan, 2023:
Congratulations to Oli Codol as his paper (Sensorimotor feedback loops are selectively sensitive to reward) has been accepted in eLife.
Jan, 2023:
Congratulations to Diar Karim as his paper (A methodological framework to assess the accuracy of virtual reality hand-tracking systems) has been accepted in Behavior Research Methods.
July, 2022:
Congratulations to Seb Sporn as his paper (The dissociable effects of reward on sequential motor behaviour) has been accepted in Journal of Neurophysiology.
Feb, 2022:
Welcome to Raphael Hamel who has started a postdoctoral fellowship in the lab. Raph will be investigating the neural correlates of reward-based performance & learning.
Oct, 2021:
Congratulations to Alicia Rybicki's paper (Intact predictive motor sequence learning in autism spectrum disorder) has been accepted in Scientific Reports.
June, 2021:
Joe Galea will be giving a talk a online talk at Tel Aviv University.
April, 2021:
Congratulations to Pete Holland who will be beginning an assistant Professor position at Goldsmiths.
March, 2021:
Congratulations to Seb Sporn for passing his PhD viva. Well done Dr Sporn!
April, 2020:
New paper accepted in Experimental Brain Research:
Reward-driven enhancements in motor control are robust to TMS manipulation
Codol, Holland, Manohar & Galea
New paper accepted in Journal of Neuroscience:
Reward-based improvements in motor control are driven by multiple error-reducing mechanisms
Codol, Galea, Jalali & Holland
Feb, 2020:
New ERC proof of concept grant started. Working with obirobotics to develop and test hand-based rehabilitation equipment and tasks.
Nov, 2019:
New paper accepted in Journal of Neuroscience:
Dopamine-dependent loss aversion during effort-based decision-making
Chen, Voets, Jenkinson & Galea
Oct, 2019:
New paper accepted in Journal of Neuroscience
Domain-specific working memory, but not dopamine-related genetic variability, shapes reward-based motor learning
Holland*, Codol*, Oxley, Taylor, Hamshere, Joseph & Galea
July, 2019:
Congratulations to Seb Sporn who gave a talk at Sensorimotor UK conference (Reward and sequential movements) and won best talk.
July, 2019:
New paper accepted in Progress in Brain Research:
What can kinematic studies tell us about the mechanism of Dystonia
Sadnicka, Galea & Edwards
Feb, 2019:
Congratulations to Pete Holland who will give a talk at NCM Japan 2019 and has also been awarded a travel scholarship. Pete will talk about reward-based motor learning.
Feb, 2019:
Seb Sporn and Oli Codol will present work at neural control of movement (NCM: Japan).
Xiuli Chen will give a talk at the UK manipulation workshop (University of Leeds).
Joe will give talks at PMC, Bangor University, University of Oxford, University of Liverpool, University of Leeds (UK manipulation workshop) and German society for clinical neurophysiology and functional imaging (DGKN, Germany) in the coming months.
Feb, 2019:
Oli Codol and Joe contributed to two podcasts recently: Water cooler neuroscience podcast and Naked scientist podcast.
Oct, 2018:
New paper accepted in Movement Disorders:
Delineating cerebellar mechanisms in DYT11 myoclonus-dystonia
Sadnicka, Galea, Chen, Warner, Bhatia, Rothwell & Edwards
July, 2018:
New paper accepted in PLOS CB:
Age-dependent Pavlovian biases influence motor decision-making
Chen, Rutledge, Brown, Dolan, Bestmann & Galea
June, 2018:
New paper accepted in Scientific Reports :
The relationship between reinforcement and explicit control during visuomotor adaptation
Codol, Holland & Galea
May, 2018:
Joe will be speaking at Pint of Science (Birmingham), University of Dusseldorf, University of Essen and the British Cognitive Neuroscience association meeting in the coming months. See our youtube channel for my pint of science talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcQHBZjajeM
May, 2018:
New paper accepted in eNeuro
Pharmacological dopamine manipulation does not alter reward-based improvements in memory retention during a visuomotor adaptation task
Quattrocchi, Monaco, Ho, Irmen, Strube, Ruge, Bestmann & Galea
March, 2018:
New paper accepted in Journal of Neurophysiology:
The contribution of explicit processes to reinforcement-based motor learning
Holland, Codol & Galea
February, 2018:
New paper accepted in Nature Scientific Reports:
High motor variability in DYT1 dystonia is associated with impaired visuomotor adaptation
Sadnicka, Stevenson, Bhatia, Rothwell, Edwards & Galea
January, 2018:
The sensorimotor learning network UK website is now live: link
January, 2018:
New paper accepted in Experimental Brain Research:
Neural changes associated with cerebellar tDCS studied using MR spectroscopy
Jalali, Wilson, Chowdhury, Miall & Galea
November 2017:
We now have a lab youtube channel where we will have videos of lab tours and poster presentations from the lab: link here
November 2017:
New review paper accepted in Current Opinion in Behavioral Science:
The effects of reward and punishment on motor skill learning
Chen X*, Holland P* & Galea JM *Joint 1st authors
September 2017:
A big welcome to Sebastian Sporn who will start his PhD in the lab at the end of September.
September 2017:
Oli has been invited to give a talk at a PhD conference at Donders Institute in October about his reward-based motor learning work.
July 2017:
Roya has successfully defended her thesis and will be starting a post doctoral position with Dr. Fernandez-Espejo in September.
May 2017:
Joe has been awarded the British association for cognitive neuroscience early-career award.
May 2017:
Joe, Xiuli, Peter and Oli will all be presenting at NCM Dublin
April, 2017:
New paper accepted in PLOS computational biology:
Predicting explorative motor learning using decision-making and motor noise
Chen X, Mohr K & Galea JM
March, 2017:
New paper accepted in Journal of Neurophysiology:
No consistent effect of cereballar tDCS on visuomotor adaptation
Jalali R, Miall RC & Galea JM
March 2017:
Joe is speaking at the Brain Awareness public lecture, University of Birmingham about our brain's amazing ability to predict.
March 2017:
Joe is speaking at the Karniel computational motor control workshop, Beer-Sheva, Israel about reward & punishment in motor learning.
January 2017:
During the coming few months Joe will be speaking about MotMotLearn at the University of York (School of Psychology), Neural Control of Movement (Dublin), British Neuroscience Association (Birmingham) and Computational Motor Control (Israel).
December, 2016:
The lab now has an Open Science Framework page. From now on, we will be registering our studies and providing all data and code for a large majority of our work. See our first registered study here: https://osf.io/ceqjn/
December, 2016:
Adam Steele from Charlie Stagg's group will talking in the lab this week regarding motor learning and reward.
Novemeber, 2016:
Xiuli and Joe attended Society for Neuroscience in San Diego and presented work from MotMotLearn.
October, 2016:
New paper accepted in Nature Scientific Reports:
Individual differences in explicit and implicit visuomotor learning and working memory capacity
Christou AI, Miall RC, McNab F & Galea JM
October, 2016:
Joe has been elected a member of the Young Academy of Europe: http://yacadeuro.org/
October, 2016:
Dr Tim Carroll visited the lab and gave a very interesting talk regarding implicit reward and adaptation. Thanks for visiting!
August, 2016:
New paper accepted in Journal of Vision:
Age-dependent distractor suppression across the vision and motor domain
Mevorach C, Spaniol MM, Soden M & Galea JM
August, 2016:
A big welcome to Peter Holland (postdoc; ERC), Olivier Codol (PhD; ERC) and Diar Karim (PhD: EPSRC) who will all be starting in the lab in September/October 2016.
July, 2016:
I will be giving a talk at the University of Oxford for Charlie Stagg's group.
June, 2016:
Xiuli and Roya will be presenting at the UK sensorymotor meeting in Newcastle.
May, 2016:
A new a 3-year postdoc for October, 2016 is now being advertised. Deadline is 3rd June, 2016: See:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANP415/research-fellow/ or contact me: [email protected]
May, 2016:
A new fully-funded PhD position with myself and Chris Miall is now being advertised: 'Quantification of motor performance in patients with impaired upper limb.' Deadline is 22nd May. Contact me: [email protected]
Feb, 2016:
New review on cerebellum, basal ganglia and cortex with some great co-authors (Miall/Strick/Doya and many more): link
Dec, 2015:
A big welcome to Xiuli Chen, who has just started as a postdoc in the lab.
Nov, 2015:
New commentary (Chris Miall & Joe Galea) on Therrien, Wolpert & Bastain in Brain:
Cerebellar damage limits reinforcement learning
Nov, 2015:
Joe will be giving a talk at the School of Psychology, University of Nottingham
Sept, 2015:
New paper accepted in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience:
The role of dopamine in temporal uncertainty
Tomassini A, Ruge D, Galea JM, Penny W, Bestmann S
Congratulations to Lydia Hickman as her paper (Dopaminergic manipulations affect the modulation and meta-modulation of movement speed: evidence from two pharmacological interventions) has been accepted in Behavioural Brain Research.
Congratulations to Raph Hamel as his paper (Bilateral intracortical inhibition during unilateral motor preparation and sequence learning) has been accepted in Brain Stimulation.
July, 2023:
Congratulations to Raph Hamel as his paper (The intracortical excitability changes underlying the enhancing effects of rewards and punishments on motor performance) has been accepted in Brain Stimulation.
Jan, 2023:
Congratulations to Matthew Weightman as his paper (Short duration event related cerebellar tdcs enhances visuomotor adaptation) has been accepted in Brain Stimulation.
Jan, 2023:
Congratulations to Oli Codol as his paper (Sensorimotor feedback loops are selectively sensitive to reward) has been accepted in eLife.
Jan, 2023:
Congratulations to Diar Karim as his paper (A methodological framework to assess the accuracy of virtual reality hand-tracking systems) has been accepted in Behavior Research Methods.
July, 2022:
Congratulations to Seb Sporn as his paper (The dissociable effects of reward on sequential motor behaviour) has been accepted in Journal of Neurophysiology.
Feb, 2022:
Welcome to Raphael Hamel who has started a postdoctoral fellowship in the lab. Raph will be investigating the neural correlates of reward-based performance & learning.
Oct, 2021:
Congratulations to Alicia Rybicki's paper (Intact predictive motor sequence learning in autism spectrum disorder) has been accepted in Scientific Reports.
June, 2021:
Joe Galea will be giving a talk a online talk at Tel Aviv University.
April, 2021:
Congratulations to Pete Holland who will be beginning an assistant Professor position at Goldsmiths.
March, 2021:
Congratulations to Seb Sporn for passing his PhD viva. Well done Dr Sporn!
April, 2020:
New paper accepted in Experimental Brain Research:
Reward-driven enhancements in motor control are robust to TMS manipulation
Codol, Holland, Manohar & Galea
New paper accepted in Journal of Neuroscience:
Reward-based improvements in motor control are driven by multiple error-reducing mechanisms
Codol, Galea, Jalali & Holland
Feb, 2020:
New ERC proof of concept grant started. Working with obirobotics to develop and test hand-based rehabilitation equipment and tasks.
Nov, 2019:
New paper accepted in Journal of Neuroscience:
Dopamine-dependent loss aversion during effort-based decision-making
Chen, Voets, Jenkinson & Galea
Oct, 2019:
New paper accepted in Journal of Neuroscience
Domain-specific working memory, but not dopamine-related genetic variability, shapes reward-based motor learning
Holland*, Codol*, Oxley, Taylor, Hamshere, Joseph & Galea
July, 2019:
Congratulations to Seb Sporn who gave a talk at Sensorimotor UK conference (Reward and sequential movements) and won best talk.
July, 2019:
New paper accepted in Progress in Brain Research:
What can kinematic studies tell us about the mechanism of Dystonia
Sadnicka, Galea & Edwards
Feb, 2019:
Congratulations to Pete Holland who will give a talk at NCM Japan 2019 and has also been awarded a travel scholarship. Pete will talk about reward-based motor learning.
Feb, 2019:
Seb Sporn and Oli Codol will present work at neural control of movement (NCM: Japan).
Xiuli Chen will give a talk at the UK manipulation workshop (University of Leeds).
Joe will give talks at PMC, Bangor University, University of Oxford, University of Liverpool, University of Leeds (UK manipulation workshop) and German society for clinical neurophysiology and functional imaging (DGKN, Germany) in the coming months.
Feb, 2019:
Oli Codol and Joe contributed to two podcasts recently: Water cooler neuroscience podcast and Naked scientist podcast.
Oct, 2018:
New paper accepted in Movement Disorders:
Delineating cerebellar mechanisms in DYT11 myoclonus-dystonia
Sadnicka, Galea, Chen, Warner, Bhatia, Rothwell & Edwards
July, 2018:
New paper accepted in PLOS CB:
Age-dependent Pavlovian biases influence motor decision-making
Chen, Rutledge, Brown, Dolan, Bestmann & Galea
June, 2018:
New paper accepted in Scientific Reports :
The relationship between reinforcement and explicit control during visuomotor adaptation
Codol, Holland & Galea
May, 2018:
Joe will be speaking at Pint of Science (Birmingham), University of Dusseldorf, University of Essen and the British Cognitive Neuroscience association meeting in the coming months. See our youtube channel for my pint of science talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcQHBZjajeM
May, 2018:
New paper accepted in eNeuro
Pharmacological dopamine manipulation does not alter reward-based improvements in memory retention during a visuomotor adaptation task
Quattrocchi, Monaco, Ho, Irmen, Strube, Ruge, Bestmann & Galea
March, 2018:
New paper accepted in Journal of Neurophysiology:
The contribution of explicit processes to reinforcement-based motor learning
Holland, Codol & Galea
February, 2018:
New paper accepted in Nature Scientific Reports:
High motor variability in DYT1 dystonia is associated with impaired visuomotor adaptation
Sadnicka, Stevenson, Bhatia, Rothwell, Edwards & Galea
January, 2018:
The sensorimotor learning network UK website is now live: link
January, 2018:
New paper accepted in Experimental Brain Research:
Neural changes associated with cerebellar tDCS studied using MR spectroscopy
Jalali, Wilson, Chowdhury, Miall & Galea
November 2017:
We now have a lab youtube channel where we will have videos of lab tours and poster presentations from the lab: link here
November 2017:
New review paper accepted in Current Opinion in Behavioral Science:
The effects of reward and punishment on motor skill learning
Chen X*, Holland P* & Galea JM *Joint 1st authors
September 2017:
A big welcome to Sebastian Sporn who will start his PhD in the lab at the end of September.
September 2017:
Oli has been invited to give a talk at a PhD conference at Donders Institute in October about his reward-based motor learning work.
July 2017:
Roya has successfully defended her thesis and will be starting a post doctoral position with Dr. Fernandez-Espejo in September.
May 2017:
Joe has been awarded the British association for cognitive neuroscience early-career award.
May 2017:
Joe, Xiuli, Peter and Oli will all be presenting at NCM Dublin
April, 2017:
New paper accepted in PLOS computational biology:
Predicting explorative motor learning using decision-making and motor noise
Chen X, Mohr K & Galea JM
March, 2017:
New paper accepted in Journal of Neurophysiology:
No consistent effect of cereballar tDCS on visuomotor adaptation
Jalali R, Miall RC & Galea JM
March 2017:
Joe is speaking at the Brain Awareness public lecture, University of Birmingham about our brain's amazing ability to predict.
March 2017:
Joe is speaking at the Karniel computational motor control workshop, Beer-Sheva, Israel about reward & punishment in motor learning.
January 2017:
During the coming few months Joe will be speaking about MotMotLearn at the University of York (School of Psychology), Neural Control of Movement (Dublin), British Neuroscience Association (Birmingham) and Computational Motor Control (Israel).
December, 2016:
The lab now has an Open Science Framework page. From now on, we will be registering our studies and providing all data and code for a large majority of our work. See our first registered study here: https://osf.io/ceqjn/
December, 2016:
Adam Steele from Charlie Stagg's group will talking in the lab this week regarding motor learning and reward.
Novemeber, 2016:
Xiuli and Joe attended Society for Neuroscience in San Diego and presented work from MotMotLearn.
October, 2016:
New paper accepted in Nature Scientific Reports:
Individual differences in explicit and implicit visuomotor learning and working memory capacity
Christou AI, Miall RC, McNab F & Galea JM
October, 2016:
Joe has been elected a member of the Young Academy of Europe: http://yacadeuro.org/
October, 2016:
Dr Tim Carroll visited the lab and gave a very interesting talk regarding implicit reward and adaptation. Thanks for visiting!
August, 2016:
New paper accepted in Journal of Vision:
Age-dependent distractor suppression across the vision and motor domain
Mevorach C, Spaniol MM, Soden M & Galea JM
August, 2016:
A big welcome to Peter Holland (postdoc; ERC), Olivier Codol (PhD; ERC) and Diar Karim (PhD: EPSRC) who will all be starting in the lab in September/October 2016.
July, 2016:
I will be giving a talk at the University of Oxford for Charlie Stagg's group.
June, 2016:
Xiuli and Roya will be presenting at the UK sensorymotor meeting in Newcastle.
May, 2016:
A new a 3-year postdoc for October, 2016 is now being advertised. Deadline is 3rd June, 2016: See:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANP415/research-fellow/ or contact me: [email protected]
May, 2016:
A new fully-funded PhD position with myself and Chris Miall is now being advertised: 'Quantification of motor performance in patients with impaired upper limb.' Deadline is 22nd May. Contact me: [email protected]
Feb, 2016:
New review on cerebellum, basal ganglia and cortex with some great co-authors (Miall/Strick/Doya and many more): link
Dec, 2015:
A big welcome to Xiuli Chen, who has just started as a postdoc in the lab.
Nov, 2015:
New commentary (Chris Miall & Joe Galea) on Therrien, Wolpert & Bastain in Brain:
Cerebellar damage limits reinforcement learning
Nov, 2015:
Joe will be giving a talk at the School of Psychology, University of Nottingham
Sept, 2015:
New paper accepted in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience:
The role of dopamine in temporal uncertainty
Tomassini A, Ruge D, Galea JM, Penny W, Bestmann S
