Targeted stimulation of motor cortex ensembles drives learned movements.

Qiyu Chen, An Wu, Bin Yu, Soyoung Chae, Zijing Tan, Assaf Ramot, Johnatan Aljadeff, Takaki Komiyama

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Article in Nature, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Qiyu Chen *Department of Neurobiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4589-1332

An Wu *Department of Neurobiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Bin YuDepartment of Neurobiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4362-6367

Soyoung ChaeDepartment of Neurobiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Zijing TanDepartment of Neurobiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-7084-629X

Assaf RamotDepartment of Neurobiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Johnatan AljadeffDepartment of Neurobiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7145-0514

Takaki KomiyamaDepartment of Neurobiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. tkomiyama@ucsd.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9609-4600

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Abstract

During the execution of learned motor skills, the neural population in layer 2/3 (L2/3) of primary motor cortex (M1) expresses a reproducible spatiotemporal activity pattern

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PMID42875492

DOI10.1038/nn2049

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