Abstracts from all previous meetings are available here.
Registration is open for the 2026 Meeting! Please register here
Welcome to Advances in Motor Learning & Motor Control 2026
This symposium provides an annual forum for presenting the best new work in motor control and motor learning, including studies of human motor behavior, imaging, motor neurophysiology, and computational modeling.
Submitted abstracts were peer reviewed by our program committee and the top 11 reviewed abstracts will be presented at the meeting.
This is the link to join the webinar remotely https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95449219646?pwd=fXkfxcETHa0kj6DlNw3WJWcThljKSC.1 , if you cannot attend in person. Donation of $20 to join remotely is optional and can be done online.
2026 Meeting Program
12:00 PM – WELCOME
Development of appropriate sensorimotor recalibration for a de novo skill
Tianhe Wang, Yuling Li, Jordan Taylor, and Richard Ivry
Practice Builds Specific, Structural, and General Motor Memories
Maoxin Xia, Timothy Verstynen, and Jonathan Tsay
Plenary Speaker: Mark Wagner (NIH)
Balancing generalization and separation across contexts in cortico-cerebellar networks
1:20 PM – 1:40 PM – Coffee Break
Motor cortical inputs are transformed in the basilar pontine nuclei before cerebellar computations
Reagan B. Shugg, Ayoub J. Khalil, Vilas Menon, Sabine Spijker, Huibert D. Mansvelder, Jeremy D. Cohen, Stefan M. Lemke, Jian-Zhong Guo, Laurens Witter, and Adam Hantman
Global action–outcome structure guides implicit error assignment
Yuto Makino, Satoshi Ohno, Takuji Hayashi, and Daichi Nozaki
Signed‑vector superposition reveals corticomotoneuronal push‑pull geometry in dexterous movements
Daniel Katz, Chen Avraham, Taima Zoabi, Nadin Elias, Dina Qais, Yosef Ali, Henn Kramer-Yancu, Marc Schieber and Firas Mawase
Temporal Context and Generalization in Motor Memory
Apoorva Sharma, Hanna Hillman, and Samuel D. McDougle
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM – Coffee Break
Plenary Speaker: Adrian Haith
Motor skills, practice, and reinforcement learning
Available action sets organise motor memories in the frontoparietal cortex
Ryo Ishibashi, Tomomichi Oya, Tomohiko Takei, and Nobuhiro Hagura
Region-specific reorganization of neural dynamics during a learned reach-to-grasp
Sanjay M. Shukla, Erica Nagase, Alan Yao, Nicolas YH Jeong Lee, Kate M. Santoso, Emily J. Stenzler, Kasey Kim, Christina Abdishoo, David Lipkin, Angela Kan, Melody Chen, Alexandra C. Saket, Elena Brierley-Green, Charisse Vu, Marjan Vasli, Jonathan C. Kao, John W. Krakauer, and Ahmet Arac
4:55 - 5:15 PM – Coffee Break
Multitasking recurrent networks utilize compositional strategies for control of movement
John Lazzari and Shreya Saxena
Plenary Speaker: Britton Sauerbrei (Case Western)
Cortical Population Dynamics for Skilled Locomotor Control
Step-width variability can change independently of foot placement control
Jasmine Mosberger and Nidhi Seethapathi
Disconnection of the executive control network is associated with post-stroke deficits in locomotor switching across contexts
N.W. Brantly, J. Choi, S. Bhaskar, D.M. Mariscal, A.M. Weinstein, H.T. Karim, and G. Torres-Oviedo
7:00 PM – END
Submission instructions:
There are no submission fees. The acceptance rate for talks has historically been around 30%. The abstract submission deadline for MLMC 2026 will be October 2.
Abstract submission consists of a 2-page PDF (1 page of text & a 2nd page primarily of figures and their captions). The main text should be ≥ 11pt with a line spacing of ≥ 1, and figure captions should be ≥ 9pt. Successful abstracts from previous years are available here. See the link at the bottom of this page to submit an abstract.
Submissions are competitively peer reviewed by our program committee of over 40 leading experts in motor control and motor learning, and reviewer comments will be provided. The top submissions will be accepted for 22-minute oral presentations (6 minutes of which is reserved for questions). If you are a faculty member willing to review about 5 abstracts, please send a message to mlmc.conference@gmail.com.
Authors:
Reviewers:
Chair:
Registration is open for the 2026 Meeting! Please register here
Marriott Marquis Washington DC: Liberty Ballroom Salons MNOP
Hybrid Option Available
Friday November 13th, Noon-7pm
Submitted abstracts were peer reviewed by our program committee and the top 11 reviewed abstracts will be presented at the meeting.
This is the link to join the webinar remotely https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95449219646?pwd=fXkfxcETHa0kj6DlNw3WJWcThljKSC.1 , if you cannot attend in person. Donation of $20 to join remotely is optional and can be done online.
2026 Meeting Program
12:00 PM – WELCOME
Development of appropriate sensorimotor recalibration for a de novo skill
Tianhe Wang, Yuling Li, Jordan Taylor, and Richard Ivry
Practice Builds Specific, Structural, and General Motor Memories
Maoxin Xia, Timothy Verstynen, and Jonathan Tsay
Plenary Speaker: Mark Wagner (NIH)
Balancing generalization and separation across contexts in cortico-cerebellar networks
1:20 PM – 1:40 PM – Coffee Break
Motor cortical inputs are transformed in the basilar pontine nuclei before cerebellar computations
Reagan B. Shugg, Ayoub J. Khalil, Vilas Menon, Sabine Spijker, Huibert D. Mansvelder, Jeremy D. Cohen, Stefan M. Lemke, Jian-Zhong Guo, Laurens Witter, and Adam Hantman
Global action–outcome structure guides implicit error assignment
Yuto Makino, Satoshi Ohno, Takuji Hayashi, and Daichi Nozaki
Signed‑vector superposition reveals corticomotoneuronal push‑pull geometry in dexterous movements
Daniel Katz, Chen Avraham, Taima Zoabi, Nadin Elias, Dina Qais, Yosef Ali, Henn Kramer-Yancu, Marc Schieber and Firas Mawase
Temporal Context and Generalization in Motor Memory
Apoorva Sharma, Hanna Hillman, and Samuel D. McDougle
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM – Coffee Break
Plenary Speaker: Adrian Haith
Motor skills, practice, and reinforcement learning
Available action sets organise motor memories in the frontoparietal cortex
Ryo Ishibashi, Tomomichi Oya, Tomohiko Takei, and Nobuhiro Hagura
Region-specific reorganization of neural dynamics during a learned reach-to-grasp
Sanjay M. Shukla, Erica Nagase, Alan Yao, Nicolas YH Jeong Lee, Kate M. Santoso, Emily J. Stenzler, Kasey Kim, Christina Abdishoo, David Lipkin, Angela Kan, Melody Chen, Alexandra C. Saket, Elena Brierley-Green, Charisse Vu, Marjan Vasli, Jonathan C. Kao, John W. Krakauer, and Ahmet Arac
4:55 - 5:15 PM – Coffee Break
Multitasking recurrent networks utilize compositional strategies for control of movement
John Lazzari and Shreya Saxena
Plenary Speaker: Britton Sauerbrei (Case Western)
Cortical Population Dynamics for Skilled Locomotor Control
Step-width variability can change independently of foot placement control
Jasmine Mosberger and Nidhi Seethapathi
Disconnection of the executive control network is associated with post-stroke deficits in locomotor switching across contexts
N.W. Brantly, J. Choi, S. Bhaskar, D.M. Mariscal, A.M. Weinstein, H.T. Karim, and G. Torres-Oviedo
7:00 PM – END
Submission instructions:
There are no submission fees. The acceptance rate for talks has historically been around 30%. The abstract submission deadline for MLMC 2026 will be October 2.
Abstract submission consists of a 2-page PDF (1 page of text & a 2nd page primarily of figures and their captions). The main text should be ≥ 11pt with a line spacing of ≥ 1, and figure captions should be ≥ 9pt. Successful abstracts from previous years are available here. See the link at the bottom of this page to submit an abstract.
Submissions are competitively peer reviewed by our program committee of over 40 leading experts in motor control and motor learning, and reviewer comments will be provided. The top submissions will be accepted for 22-minute oral presentations (6 minutes of which is reserved for questions). If you are a faculty member willing to review about 5 abstracts, please send a message to mlmc.conference@gmail.com.