Publications

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Pre-registrations, code, and data

All pre-registrations and some of the code and data from the lab can be found here: OSF repository

Lab's GitHub account with more code...

Pre-print publications

2024
Blohm G, Cheyne DO, Crawford JD
MEG signals reveal arm posture coding and intrinsic movement plans in parietofrontal cortex
[bioRxiv]
2024
Farahmandi A, Abedi Khoozani P, Blohm G
Multisensory integration across reference frames with additive feed-forward networks
[bioRxiv]
2024
Caie B, Blohm G
Intra-individual variability in the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on free choice saccade behaviour
[bioRxiv]
2024
Guang H, Nashed JY, Pruszynski A, Kalidindi HT, Crevecoeur F, Cross KP, Blohm G, Scott SH
Parallel feedback processing for voluntary control: knowledge of spinal feedback in motor cortex
[bioRxiv]
2024
Caie B, Blohm G
History-dependence shapes causal inference of brain-behaviour relationships
[arXiv]
2023
Caie B, Endres D, Khan AZ, Blohm G
Choice anticipation as gated accumulation of sensory expectations
[bioRxiv]
2022
Xu S, Gallivan G, Blohm G
Differential reach vector computations in mIPS and PMd as revealed through HD-tDCS
[bioRxiv]
2019
Goettker A, Caie B, Jeyachandra J, Xu S, Gallivan J,  Dmochowski J, Fiehler K,  Blohm G
HD-tDCS over mIPS causally modulates online reach correction
[bioRxiv]
2019
Seethapathi N, Wang S, Saluja R, Blohm G, Kording KP
Movement science needs different pose tracking algorithms
[arXiv]
2019
Schrater PR, Peters MK, Kording KP, Blohm G
Modeling in Neuroscience as a Decision Process
[OSFpre-print]




Refereed publications

2024
Coutinho JD, Huang J, Lefèvre P, Blohm G, Munoz DP
Main Sequence of Human Luminance-Evoked Pupil Dynamics
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (in press)
[bioRxiv]
2024
Doré S, Coutinho JD, Brooks E, Khan AZ, Lefèvre P, Blohm G
Timing and Amplitude of Catch-up Saccades to Accelerating Targets
Journal of Neurophysiology (in press)
[bioRxiv]
2024
Pearce CS, Bukovsky D, Douchant K, Katoch A, Greenlaw J, Gale DJ, Nashed JY, Brien D, Kuhlmeier VA, Sabbagh MA, Blohm G, De Felice FG, Pare M, Cook DJ, Scott SH, Munoz DP, Sjaarda CP, Tusche A, Sheth PM, Winterborn A, Boehnke S, Gallivan JP
Changes in social environment impact primate gut microbiota composition
BMC Animal Microbiome 6: 66
[get paper]
2024
Peters B*, Blohm G*, Haefner R, Isik L, Kriegeskorte N, Lieberman JS, Ponce CR, Roig G, Peters MAK
Generative Adversarial Collaborations: A practical guide for conference organizers and participating scientists (*co-first)
Trends in Cognitive Sciences (in press)
[long version: arXiv][short version: get paper]
2024
Cuthbert B, Standage D, Paré M, Blohm G
Visual working memory models of delayed estimation do not generalize to whole-report tasks
Journal of Vision 24(7): 16
[bioRxiv] [github] [get paper]
2024
Pitigoi I, Coe B, Calancie O, Brien D, Yep R, Riek H, Kirkpatrick R, Noyes B, White B, Blohm G,  and Munoz D
Attentional modulation of eye blinking is altered by sex, age, and task structure
eNeuro (in press)
[get paper]
2022
Blohm G, Cheyne DO, Crawford JD
Parieto-frontal Oscillations Show Hand Specific Interactions with Top-Down Movement Plans
Journal of Neurophysiology 128: 1518-33
[bioRxiv] [NMC 3.0 talk on Youtube][pdf]
2022
Murdison TS, Standage D, Lefèvre P, Blohm G
Effector-dependent response deterioration by stochastic transformations reveals mixed reference frames for decisions
Journal of Vision 22(8):1, 1-19
[bioRxiv] [get paper]
2022
t'Hart BM, et al.
Neuromatch Academy: a 3-week, online summer school in computational neuroscience
Journal of Open Source Education, 5(49), 118
[get paper]
2022
Monany DR, Barbiero M, Lebon F, Babic J, Blohm G, Nozaki D, White O
Motor imagery helps updating internal models during microgravity exposure
Journal of Neurophysiology 127, 434-443
[pdf]
2021
Jamšek M, Kunavar T, Blohm G, Nozaki D, Papaxanthis C, White O, Babič J
Effects of simulated microgravity and hypergravity conditions on arm movements in normogravity
Frontiers in Neural Circuits 15:750176
[get paper]
2021
Kunavar T, Jamsek M, Barbiero M, Blohm G, Nozaki D, Papaxanthis C, White O, Babic J
Effects of local gravity compensation on motor control during altered environmental gravity
Frontiers in Neural Circuits 15: 121
[get paper]
2021
Ghorbani S, Mahdaviani K, Thaler A, Kording K, Cook DJ, Blohm G, Troje N
MoVi: A Large Multipurpose Motion and Video Dataset
PLoS One 16(6): e0253157
[arXiv] [data repository] [get paper]
2021
Viegen T, Akrami A, Bonnen K, DeWitt E, Hyafil A, Ledmyr H, Lindsay GW, Mineault P, Murray JD, Pitkow X, Puce A, Sedigh-Sarvestani M, Stringer C, Achakulvisut T, Alikarami E, Selim Atay M, Batty E, Erlich JC, Galbraith BV, Guo Y, Juavinett AL, Krause MR, Li S, Pachitariu M, Straley E, Valeriani D, Vaughan E, Vaziri-Pashkam M, Waskom ML, Blohm G, Kording KP, Schrater P, Wyble B, Escola S, Peters MAK
Neuromatch Academy: Teaching Computational Neuroscience with global accessibility
Trends in Cognitive Sciences (in press)
[arXiv][paper]
2021
Mikula L, Blohm G, Khan AZ & Pisella L
Movement Drift in Optic Ataxia Reveals Deficits in Hand State Estimation in Oculocentric Coordinates
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (in press)
[pdf]
2021
Coutinho JD, Lefevre P, Blohm G
Confidence in predicted position error explains saccadic decisions during pursuit
Journal of Neurophysiology 125: 748-767
[bioRxiv] [pdf]
2020
Abedi Khoozani P, Voudouris D, Blohm G, Fiehler K
Reaching around obstacles accounts for uncertainty in coordinate transformations
Journal of Neurophysiology 123: 1920–1932
[bioRxiv] [Data] [Analysis code] [paper]
2020
Kording KP, Blohm G, Schrater P, Kay K
Appreciating the variety of goals in computational neuroscience
Neurons, Behavior, Data Analysis, and Theory 3(6)
[get paper] [OSFpreprints] - including data
2020
Blohm G, Kording KP, Schrater P
A how-to-model guide for Neuroscience
eNeuro 7(1): ENEURO.0352-19.2019, 1–12
[get paper]
2019
Nachmani O, Coutinho J, Khan AZ, Lefèvre P, Blohm G
Predicted position error triggers catch-up saccades during smooth pursuit
eNeuro 7 (1): ENEURO.0196-18.2019, 1-22 - Registered report
[pre-registration, code and data] [get paper]
April 2020 eNeuro "beyond the paper" feature [get feature]
2019
Murdison TS, Leclercq G, Lefevre P, Blohm G
Mis-perception of motion in depth originates from an incomplete transformation of retinal signals
Journal of Vision 19, 21
[bioRxiv] [get paper]
2019
Murdison TS, Blohm G, Bremmer F
Saccade-induced changes in ocular torsion reveal predictive orientation perception
Journal of Vision 19(11), 10
[get paper][open data]
2019
Standage D, Pare M, Blohm G
Hierarchical recruitment of competition alleviates working memory overload in a fronto-parietal model
Journal of Vision 19(12): 8
[get paper]
2019
Blohm G, Alikhanian H, Gaetz W, Goltz HC, DeSouza JFX, Cheyne DO, Crawford JD
Neuromagnetic signatures of the spatiotemporal transformation for manual pointing
NeuroImage 197, 306-319
[pdf] [suppl. material]
2019
Blohm G, Schrater P, Kording KP
Ten simple rules for organizing and running a successful intensive two-week long course
Neural Computation 31(1), 1–7
[pdf]
2018
Ouerfelli-Ethier J, Elsaeid B, Desgroseilliers J, Munoz DP, Blohm G, Khan AZ
Anti-saccades predict cognitive functions in older adults and patients with Parkinson’s disease
PLoS One 13(11): e0207589
[get paper]
2018
Standage D, Pare M, Blohm G
Disinhibition as a canonical neural mechanism for flexible behavior
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference paper (CCN 2018)
[bioRxiv]
2018
Mikula L, Sahnoun S, Pisella L, Blohm G, Khan AZ
Vibrotactile information improves proprioceptive reaching target localization
PLoS One 13(7): e0199627
[get paper]
2018
Abedi Khoozani P, Blohm G
Neck muscle spindle noise biases reaches in a multi-sensory integration task
Journal of Neurophysiology 120: 893-909
[bioRxiv] [Matlab model code] [pdf]
2018
Deravet N, Blohm G, Orban de Xivry JJ, Lefèvre P
Weighted integration of short term memory and sensory signals in the oculomotor system
Journal of Vision 18(5): 16
[get paper]
2018
Tao G, Khan AZ, Blohm G
Corrective response times in a coordinated eye-head-arm countermanding task
Journal of Neurophysiology 119: 2036-2051
[pdf]
2018
Mikula L, Gaveau V, Pisella L, Khan AZ, Blohm G
Learned rather than online relative weighting of visual-proprioceptive sensory cues
Journal of Neurophysiology 119(5): 1981-1992
[pdf]
2018
Jeyachandra J, Nam Y, Kim YW, Blohm G. Khan AZ
Trans-saccadic memory of multiple spatially variant and invariant object features
Journal of Vision 18(1):6
[get paper]
2017
Wang C-A, Blohm G, Huang J, Boehnke SE, Munoz DP
Multisensory integration in orienting behavior: pupil size, microsaccades, and saccades
Biological Psychology 129: 36-44
[pdf]
2017
Klinghammer M, Blohm G, Fiehler K
Scene configuration and object reliability affect the use of allocentric information for memory-guided reaching
Frontiers in Neuroscience 11:204
[get paper]
2016
Klinghammer M, Schütz I, Blohm G, Fiehler K
Allocentric information is used for memory-guided reaching in depth: a virtual reality study
Vision Research 129: 13-24
[pdf]
2016
Cappadocia DC, Monaco S, Chen Y, Blohm G, Crawford JD
Temporal evolution of target representation, movement direction planning, and reach execution in occipital-parietal-frontal cortex: an fMRI study
Cerebral Cortex (advance online)
[pdf]
2016
Dowiasch S, Blohm G, Bremmer F
Neural basis of spatial (mis-)localization during smooth eye-movements
European Journal of Neuroscience 44: 1846-1855
[pdf]
2016
Khan AZ, Takahashi N, Munoz DP, Blohm G, McPeek RM
Effects of a pre-target distractor on saccade reaction times across space and time in monkeys and humans.
Journal of Vision 16(7): 5
[get paper]
2016
Groten CJ, Rebane JT, Hodgson HM, Chauhan AK, Blohm G, Magoski NS
Ca2+ removal by the plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPase influences the contribution of mitochondria to activity-dependent Ca2+ dynamics in Aplysia neuroendocrine cells.
Journal of Neurophysiology 115: 2615-2634
[pdf]
2016
Khan AZ, Prost-Lefebvre M, Salemme R, Blohm G, Rossetti Y, Vighetto A, Pisella L
The attentional fields of visual search in simultanagnosia and healthy individuals: How object and space attention interact
Cerebral Cortex 26: 1242-1254
[pdf]
2015
Klinghammer M, Blohm G, Fiehler K
Contextual factors determine the use of allocentric information for reaching in a naturalistic scene
Journal of Vision 15(13):24
[get paper]
2015
Alikhanian H, Carvalho S, Blohm G
Quantifying effects of stochasticity in reference frame transformations on posterior distributions
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 9:82
[get paper]
2015
Wang D, Liu Y, Hu D, Blohm G
EEG-based Perceived Tactile Location Prediction
IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development 7(4): 342-8
[pdf]
2015
Khan AZ, Blohm G, Pisella L, Munoz DP
Saccade execution suppresses discrimination at distractor locations rather than enhancing the saccade goal location
European Journal of Neuroscience 41(12): 1624-34
[pdf]
2015
Bolandzadeh N, Körding K, Salowitz N, Davis JC, Hsu L, Chan A, Sharma D, Blohm G, Liu-Ambrose T
Predicting Cognitive Function from Clinical Measures of Physical Function and Health Status in Older Adults
PLoS One 10(3): e0119075
[get paper]
2015
Murdison TS, Leclercq G, LefèvreP, Blohm G
Computations underlying the visuomotor transformation for smooth pursuit eye movements
Journal of Neurophysiology 113: 1377-1399
[pdf]
2015
Dargaei Z, Standage D, Groten C, Blohm G, Magoski N
Ca2+-induced uncoupling of Aplysia bag cell neurons
Journal of Neurophysiology 113: 808-821
[pdf]
2014
Standage D, Wang D-H, Blohm G
Neural dynamics implement a flexible decision bound with a fixed firing rate for choice: a model-based hypothesis
Frontiers in Neuroscience 8:318
[get paper]
2014
Fiehler K, Wolf C, Klinghammer M, Blohm G
Integration of egocentric and allocentric information during memory-guided reaching to images of a natural environment
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8:636
[get paper]
2014
Standage D, Blohm G, Dorris MC
On the neural implementation of the speed-accuracy trade-off
Frontiers in Neuroscience 8:236
[get paper]
2014
Daye PM, Optican LM, Blohm G, Lefèvre P
Hierarchical control of two-dimensional gaze saccades
Journal of Computational Neuroscience 36:355-382
[pdf]
2014
Standage D, Trappenberg T, Blohm G
Calcium-dependent calcium decay explains STDP in a dynamic model of hippocampal synapses
PLoS One 9(1): e86248
[get paper]
2014
Daye PM, Blohm G, Lefèvre P
Catch-up saccades in head-unrestrained conditions reveal that saccade amplitude is corrected using an internal model of target movement
Journal of Vision 14(1): 12
[get paper]
2013
Orban de Xivry JJ, Coppe S, Blohm G, Lefèvre P
Kalman filtering naturally accounts for visually-guided and predictive smooth pursuit dynamics
Journal of Neuroscience 33(44): 17301-17313
[pdf]
2013
Leclercq G, Blohm G, Lefèvre P
Accounting for direction and speed of the eye motion in planning visually guided manual tracking
Journal of Neurophysiology 110(8): 1945-1957
[pdf]
2013
Murdison TS, Paré-Bingley CA, Blohm G
Evidence for a retinal velocity memory underlying the direction of anticipatory smooth pursuit eye movements
Journal of Neurophysiology 110(3): 732-747
[pdf]
2013
Alikhanian H, Crawford JD, DeSouza JFX, Cheyne DO, Blohm G
Adaptive cluster analysis approach for functional localization using magnetoencephalography
Frontiers in Neuroscience 7:73
[get paper]
2013
Groten C, Rebane J, Blohm G, Magoski N
Separate Ca2+ sources are buffered by distinct Ca2+ handling systems in Aplysia neuroendocrine cells
Journal of Neuroscience 33(15): 6476-6491
[pdf]
2013
Wang D, Miao DQ, Blohm G
A New Method for EEG-based Concealed Information Test
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security 8(3): 520-7
[pdf]
2013
Leclercq G, Lefèvre P, Blohm G
3D kinematics using dual quaternions: theory and applications in neuroscience
Frontiers in Neuroscience 7:7, special issue on "Movement in 3D space"
[get paper] [Matlab toolbox]
2013
Khan AZ, Pisella L, Blohm G
Causal evidence for posterior parietal cortex involvement in visual-to-motor transformations of reach targets
Cortex 49, 2439-2448
[pdf]
2012
Wang D, Miao DQ, Blohm G
Multi-class motor imagery EEG decoding for brain-computer interfaces
Frontiers in Neuroscience 6:151
[get paper]
2012
Blohm G
Simulating the cortical 3D visuomotor transformation of reach depth
PLoS One 7(7): e41241
[get paper]
2012
Leclercq G, Blohm G, Lefèvre P
Accurate planning of manual tracking requires a 3D visuomotor transformation of velocity signals
Journal of Vision, 12(5): 6
[get paper]
2012
Daye P, Blohm G, Lefèvre P
Target motion direction influence on tracking performance and head tracking strategies in head-unrestrained conditions
Journal of Vision, 12(1): 23
[get paper]
2011
DeSouza JFX, Keith GP, Yan X, Blohm G, Wang H, Crawford JD
Intrinsic reference frames of superior colliculus visuomotor receptive fields during head-unrestrained gaze shifts
Journal of Neuroscience 31(50): 18313-18326
[pdf]
2011
Burns JK, Nashed JY, Blohm G
Head roll influences perceived hand position
Journal of Vision 9(11): 3
[get paper]
2010
Burns JK, Blohm G
Multi-sensory weights depend on contextual noise in reference frame transformations
Frontiers in Neuroscience 4: 221; in special issue "Cognitive control, uncertainty and the brain"
[get paper][model code]
Commentary: Sober SJ and Körding K (2012). What silly postures tell us about the brain. Front. Neurosci. 6:154 [get commentary]
2010
Khan AZ, Lefèvre P, Heinen SJ, Blohm G
The default allocation of attention is broadly ahead of smooth pursuit
Journal of Vision 10(13): 7
[get paper]
2010
Blohm G, Lefèvre P
Visuomotor velocity transformations for smooth pursuit eye movements.
Journal of Neurophysiology 104: 2103-2115
[pdf]
2010
Daye P, Blohm G, Lefèvre P
Saccadic compensation for smooth eye and head movements during head-unrestrained 2D tracking.
Journal of Neurophysiology 103(1), 543-556
[pdf]
2010
Keith GP, Blohm G, Crawford JD
Influence of Saccade Efference Copy on the Spatiotemporal Properties of Remapping: A Neural Network Study
Journal of Neurophysiology 103(1), 117-139
[pdf]
2009
Khan AZ, Blohm G, McPeek RM, Lefèvre P
Differential influence of attention on gaze and head movements
Journal of Neurophysiology 101(1), 198-206
[pdf]
2009
Blohm G, Keith GP, Crawford JD
Decoding the cortical transformations for visually-guided reaching in 3D space
Cerebral Cortex 19, 1372-1393
[pdf] [supplementary material]
2008 Blohm G, Khan AZ, Ren L, Schreiber KM, Crawford JD
Depth estimation from retinal disparity requires eye and head orientation signals
Journal of Vision 8(16): 1-23
[get paper]
2007
Khan AZ, Crawford JD, Blohm G, Urquizar C, Rossetti Y, Pisella L
Influence of initial hand and target position on reach errors in optic ataxic and normal subjects
Journal of Vision 7(5):8, 1-16; in special issue "Sensorimotor processing of goal-directed movements"

[get paper]
2007 Ren L, Blohm G, Crawford JD
Comparing limb proprioception and oculomotor signals during hand-guided saccades
Experimental Brain Research 182, 189-198
[pdf]
2007 Blohm G, Crawford JD
Computations for geometrically accurate visually guided reaching in 3-D space
Journal of Vision 7(5):4, 1-22; in special issue "Sensorimotor processing of goal-directed movements"
[get paper]
2006 Ren L, Khan AZ, Blohm G, Henriques DYP, Sergio LE, Crawford JD
Proprioceptive Guidance of Saccades in Eye-Hand Coordination
Journal of Neurophysiology 96, 1464-1477
[pdf]
2006 Blohm G, Optican LM, Lefèvre P
A model that integrates eye velocity commands to keep track of smooth eye displacements
Journal of Computational Neuroscience 21, 51-70
[pdf]
2005 Blohm G, Missal M and Lefèvre P
Direct evidence for a position input to the smooth pursuit system
Journal of Neurophysiology 94, 712-721
[pdf]
2005 Blohm G, Missal M and Lefèvre P
Processing of retinal and extraretinal signals for memory-guided saccades during smooth pursuit
Journal of Neurophysiology 93, 1510-1522
[pdf]
2003 Blohm G, Missal M and Lefèvre P
Interaction between smooth anticipation and saccades during ocular orientation in darkness
Journal of Neurophysiology 89, 1423-1433
[pdf]
2003 Blohm G, Missal M and Lefèvre P
Smooth anticipatory eye movements alter the memorized position of flashed targets
Journal of Vision 3, 764-773; in special issue "Linking eye movements and perception"
[get paper]
2002 de Brouwer S, Yuksel D, Blohm G, Missal M and Lefèvre P
What triggers catch-up saccades during visual tracking?
Journal of Neurophysiology 87, 1646-50
[pdf]


Reviews, Chapters & Monographs

2014
Klier EM, Blohm G, Crawford JD
Neural mechanisms of eye movements: Three-dimensional control, binocular coordination and perceptual consequences
The New Visual Neurosciences, ed. Werner JS & Chalupa LM, MIT Press, pp. 579-92
[pdf]
2009
Blohm G, Crawford JD
Fields of gain in the brain
Neuron 64(5), 598-600
[pdf]
2009
Blohm G, Khan AZ, Crawford JD
Spatial transformations for eye-hand control
Chapter in Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, vol 9, pp 203-211, ed. Squire LR, Elsevier
[pdf] [web site]
2005
Thonnard JL, Smith A, McIntyre J, Lefèvre P, White O, Augurelle AS, Langlais JS, Witney A, Blohm G, Penta M, Elmann-Larsen B, Bracewell RM, Stramigioli S
Eye-hand coordination: dexterous object manipulation in new gravity fields
Topical Teams in Life & Physical Sciences: Towards new research applications. Edited by Andrew Wilson, coordination: Benny Elmann-Larsen. ESA SP-1281, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands: ESA Publications Division, ISBN 92-9092-974-X, 2005, p. 148 - 163
[pdf]
2004 Blohm G
The use of extraretinal information to compensate for self-movement
Ph. D. Thesis, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
[pdf]


Theses

2020
Parisa Abedi (PhD)
Coding body and world for reaching movements
2019
Omri Nachmani (MSc)
Predicted position error triggers catch-up saccades during smooth pursuit
2017
Basma Elsaeid (MSc)
The effect of anti-saccade training on cognitive function in healthy adults and Parkinson's Disease patients
2016
Mathias Klinghammer (PhD)
Investigating spatial reference frames for reaching in a naturalistic scenario
2016
Scott Murdison (PhD)
3D considerations for motion perception and visuomotor transformations
[QSpace]
2016
Sisi Xu (MSc)
Differential contributions of the MIPS and PMd in the movement planning of reaches investigated through hd-tDCS
2014
Hooman Alikhanian (MSc)
Localization of brain activity using permutation analysis
2013
Guillaume Leclercq (PhD)
The visuomotor velocity transformation for manual tracking
2011
Meghan C Watson (MSc)
Influence of direction and eccentricity on pro- and anti-saccade metrics
2010
Jessica K Burns (MSc)
Head Roll Influences on Multi-Sensory Integration for Perception and Action
[QSpace]
2010
Pierre M Daye (PhD)
Behavioral and modeling studies of eye and head coordination
[pdf]