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Developing Sensorimotor Systems in Our Sleep by Blumberg, Mark S.

“…Every animal must learn how to use its limbs within the developmental context of an ever-changing body. Typically, investigations of sensorimotor development…”
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Self-Generated Movements with “Unexpected” Sensory Consequences by Tiriac, Alexandre, Del Rio-Bermudez, Carlos, Blumberg, Mark S.

“…The nervous systems of diverse species, including worms and humans, possess mechanisms for distinguishing between sensations arising from self-generated (i.e.,…”
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Twitching in Sensorimotor Development from Sleeping Rats to Robots by Blumberg, Mark S., Marques, Hugo Gravato, Iida, Fumiya

“…It is still not known how the ‘rudimentary’ movements of fetuses and infants are transformed into the coordinated, flexible and adaptive movements of adults…”
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Protracted development of motor cortex constrains rich interpretations of infant cognition by Blumberg, Mark S., Adolph, Karen E.

“…Researchers routinely use motor behaviors (e.g., eye, face, and limb movements) to index cognition in the human neonate.When developmental researchers use…”
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Sleep, plasticity, and sensory neurodevelopment by Blumberg, Mark S., Dooley, James C., Tiriac, Alexandre

“…A defining feature of early infancy is the immense neural plasticity that enables animals to develop a brain that is functionally integrated with a growing…”
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Rapid Whisker Movements in Sleeping Newborn Rats by Tiriac, Alexandre, Uitermarkt, Brandt D., Fanning, Alexander S., Sokoloff, Greta, Blumberg, Mark S.

“…Spontaneous activity in the sensory periphery drives infant brain activity and is thought to contribute to the formation of retinotopic and somatotopic maps…”
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Spatiotemporal Structure of REM Sleep Twitching Reveals Developmental Origins of Motor Synergies by Blumberg, Mark S., Coleman, Cassandra M., Gerth, Ashlynn I., McMurray, Bob

“…During active (or REM) sleep, infant mammals exhibit myoclonic twitches of skeletal muscles throughout the body, generating jerky, discrete movements of the…”
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Movements during sleep reveal the developmental emergence of a cerebellar-dependent internal model in motor thalamus by Dooley, James C., Sokoloff, Greta, Blumberg, Mark S.

“…With our eyes closed, we can track a limb’s moment-to-moment location in space. If this capacity relied solely on sensory feedback from the limb, we would…”
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Developmentally unique cerebellar processing prioritizes self- over other-generated movements by Richardson, Angela M, Sokoloff, Greta, Blumberg, Mark S

“…Animals must distinguish the sensory consequences of self-generated movements (reafference) from those of other-generated movements (exafference). Only…”
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A new view of “dream enactment” in REM sleep behavior disorder by Blumberg, Mark S, Plumeau, Alan M

“…Summary Patients with REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) exhibit increased muscle tone and exaggerated myoclonic twitching during REM sleep. In addition,…”
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Developmental 'awakening' of primary motor cortex to the sensory consequences of movement by Dooley, James C, Blumberg, Mark S

“…Before primary motor cortex (M1) develops its motor functions, it functions like a somatosensory area. Here, by recording from neurons in the forelimb…”
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What Is REM Sleep? by Blumberg, Mark S., Lesku, John A., Libourel, Paul-Antoine, Schmidt, Markus H., Rattenborg, Niels C.

“…For many decades, sleep researchers have sought to determine which species ‘have’ rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. In doing so, they relied predominantly on a…”
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Active Sleep Promotes Coherent Oscillatory Activity in the Cortico-Hippocampal System of Infant Rats by Del Rio-Bermudez, Carlos, Kim, Jangjin, Sokoloff, Greta, Blumberg, Mark S

“…Abstract Active sleep (AS) provides a unique developmental context for synchronizing neural activity within and between cortical and subcortical structures. In…”
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Infant action and cognition: what's at stake? by Blumberg, Mark S., Adolph, Karen E.

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Parallel and Serial Sensory Processing in Developing Primary Somatosensory and Motor Cortex by Gómez, Lex J, Dooley, James C, Sokoloff, Greta, Blumberg, Mark S

“…It is generally supposed that primary motor cortex (M1) receives somatosensory input predominantly via primary somatosensory cortex (S1). However, a growing…”
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Sensory Coding of Limb Kinematics in Motor Cortex across a Key Developmental Transition by Glanz, Ryan M, Dooley, James C, Sokoloff, Greta, Blumberg, Mark S

“…Primary motor cortex (M1) undergoes protracted development in mammals, functioning initially as a sensory structure. Throughout the first postnatal week in…”
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Phantom Limbs, Neuroprosthetics, and the Developmental Origins of Embodiment by Blumberg, Mark S., Dooley, James C.

“…Amputees who wish to rid themselves of a phantom limb must weaken the neural representation of the absent limb. Conversely, amputees who wish to replace a lost…”
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Gating of reafference in the external cuneate nucleus during self-generated movements in wake but not sleep by Tiriac, Alexandre, Blumberg, Mark S

“…Nervous systems distinguish between self- and other-generated movements by monitoring discrepancies between planned and performed actions. To do so, corollary…”
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Neural decoding reveals specialized kinematic tuning after an abrupt cortical transition by Glanz, Ryan M., Sokoloff, Greta, Blumberg, Mark S.

“…The primary motor cortex (M1) exhibits a protracted period of development, including the development of a sensory representation long before motor outflow…”
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Sleep as a window on the sensorimotor foundations of the developing hippocampus by Del Rio‐Bermudez, Carlos, Blumberg, Mark S.

“…The hippocampal formation plays established roles in learning, memory, and related cognitive functions. Recent findings also suggest that the hippocampus…”
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