@joshcashaback.bsky.social
Sensorimotor Neuroscience
Assistant Professor | Biomedical Engineering | University of Delaware
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Assistant Professor | Biomedical Engineering | University of Delaware
https://joshcashaback.weebly.com
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Canadian professors by selected age ranges, 1971-2021
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Canadian professors by selected age ranges, 1971-2021
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Still 11 days to submit your talk or a panel with a few of your favourite topic diving into any of the zillion topics that are relevant to our community!
#NCMKobe26
#NCMKobe26
If you're at #SfN25 make sure to meet up with colleagues or collaborators to put together a team submission for #NCMKobe26! Deadline for submissions is Dec 1.
More information - ncm-society.org/subm...
More information - ncm-society.org/subm...
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Still 11 days to submit your talk or a panel with a few of your favourite topic diving into any of the zillion topics that are relevant to our community!
#NCMKobe26
#NCMKobe26
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Deadline to submit for oral presentations at #NCMKobe26 is in just under a month!
We especially welcome Team/Panel proposals: 2 hour session w 4 talks + discussion. Historically, the acceptance rate is higher for panels than for individual talks.
Poster submission closes in February.
We especially welcome Team/Panel proposals: 2 hour session w 4 talks + discussion. Historically, the acceptance rate is higher for panels than for individual talks.
Poster submission closes in February.
Don't forget to get your submission in for #NCMKobe26! Team/panel and individual orals close at 23:59 PDT Dec 1.
Learn more - ncm-society.org/subm...
Learn more - ncm-society.org/subm...
November 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Deadline to submit for oral presentations at #NCMKobe26 is in just under a month!
We especially welcome Team/Panel proposals: 2 hour session w 4 talks + discussion. Historically, the acceptance rate is higher for panels than for individual talks.
Poster submission closes in February.
We especially welcome Team/Panel proposals: 2 hour session w 4 talks + discussion. Historically, the acceptance rate is higher for panels than for individual talks.
Poster submission closes in February.
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Faculty at Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions:
Your research matters and we want to see you at #NCMKobe26!
NCM offers a fellowship to support PUI faculty presenting at the meeting.
Up to $1,500 in travel support.
More info: ncm-society.org/dive...
Your research matters and we want to see you at #NCMKobe26!
NCM offers a fellowship to support PUI faculty presenting at the meeting.
Up to $1,500 in travel support.
More info: ncm-society.org/dive...
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Faculty at Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions:
Your research matters and we want to see you at #NCMKobe26!
NCM offers a fellowship to support PUI faculty presenting at the meeting.
Up to $1,500 in travel support.
More info: ncm-society.org/dive...
Your research matters and we want to see you at #NCMKobe26!
NCM offers a fellowship to support PUI faculty presenting at the meeting.
Up to $1,500 in travel support.
More info: ncm-society.org/dive...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Slightly different, but in my science writing class I make my students work in a Google doc so I can see the history of how the piece came together. Their grade is based on effort rather than the final product. So far, AI use is not an issue with this approach.
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Slightly different, but in my science writing class I make my students work in a Google doc so I can see the history of how the piece came together. Their grade is based on effort rather than the final product. So far, AI use is not an issue with this approach.
Maybe it is just me, but I don't really care about academics posting about the secondary things (grants / awards) on social media. But I do care about and want to see is the primary thing that matters in science, the work / papers you have done.
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Maybe it is just me, but I don't really care about academics posting about the secondary things (grants / awards) on social media. But I do care about and want to see is the primary thing that matters in science, the work / papers you have done.
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I don’t really want to see your homework. #academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky
gribblelab.org/9040/homewor...
gribblelab.org/9040/homewor...
A Note about Homeworks – Psychology 9040B FW25
gribblelab.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I don’t really want to see your homework. #academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky
gribblelab.org/9040/homewor...
gribblelab.org/9040/homewor...
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The Department of Kinesiology at Penn State is inviting applications for an open-rank faculty position in sensorimotor control and rehabilitation neuroscience. Please share this opportunity with interested colleagues in your network.
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Open-Rank Faculty Position in Sensorimotor Control and Rehabilitation Neuroscience
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The Department of Kinesiology at Penn State is inviting applications for an open-rank faculty position in sensorimotor control and rehabilitation neuroscience. Please share this opportunity with interested colleagues in your network.
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
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Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits
Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...
www.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
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If you are at @acrmrehab.bsky.social I will be presenting this morning (8am)
SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM: Ai-powered Movement Analysis and a Causal Framework for Precision Rehabilitation SS1 #ACRM2025 cdmcd.co/5npwMR
SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM: Ai-powered Movement Analysis and a Causal Framework for Precision Rehabilitation SS1 #ACRM2025 cdmcd.co/5npwMR
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
If you are at @acrmrehab.bsky.social I will be presenting this morning (8am)
SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM: Ai-powered Movement Analysis and a Causal Framework for Precision Rehabilitation SS1 #ACRM2025 cdmcd.co/5npwMR
SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM: Ai-powered Movement Analysis and a Causal Framework for Precision Rehabilitation SS1 #ACRM2025 cdmcd.co/5npwMR
Nice paper: Infinite horizon control captures modulation of movement duration in reaching movements
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Nice paper: Infinite horizon control captures modulation of movement duration in reaching movements
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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wow, I'm proud of PhD student Jake Stephens' work with Tim Cope and me on understanding multi sensory proprioceptive integration on this work.
🎓EDITOR'S PICK🎓
In this #ShortCommunications Stephens, @lenating.bsky.social and Cope (Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology) question how can combinations of feedback from multiple propriosensor types signal muscle mechanical state variables for control.
📜 buff.ly/PLi6tYp
In this #ShortCommunications Stephens, @lenating.bsky.social and Cope (Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology) question how can combinations of feedback from multiple propriosensor types signal muscle mechanical state variables for control.
📜 buff.ly/PLi6tYp
October 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
wow, I'm proud of PhD student Jake Stephens' work with Tim Cope and me on understanding multi sensory proprioceptive integration on this work.
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Excited that this work discovering cross-species signatures of stabilizing foot placement control is now out in PNAS!
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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October 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Excited that this work discovering cross-species signatures of stabilizing foot placement control is now out in PNAS!
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Great paper. A must read!
New Pre-Print:
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We’re all familiar with having to practice a new skill to get better at it, but what really happens during practice? The answer, I propose, is reinforcement learning - specifically policy-gradient reinforcement learning.
Overview 🧵 below...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We’re all familiar with having to practice a new skill to get better at it, but what really happens during practice? The answer, I propose, is reinforcement learning - specifically policy-gradient reinforcement learning.
Overview 🧵 below...
Policy-Gradient Reinforcement Learning as a General Theory of Practice-Based Motor Skill Learning
Mastering any new skill requires extensive practice, but the computational principles underlying this learning are not clearly understood. Existing theories of motor learning can explain short-term ad...
www.biorxiv.org
October 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Great paper. A must read!
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Seeing lots of reactions to this compelling paper - showing VTA dopamine is linked to cue and outcome induced behavioral reactions: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I have some thoughts…
I have some thoughts…
Dopamine dynamics during stimulus-reward learning in mice can be explained by performance rather than learning - Nature Communications
VTA dopamine activity control movement-related performance, not reward prediction errors. Here, authors show that behavioral changes during Pavlovian learning explain DA activity regardless of reward ...
www.nature.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Seeing lots of reactions to this compelling paper - showing VTA dopamine is linked to cue and outcome induced behavioral reactions: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I have some thoughts…
I have some thoughts…
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One of my two last (ever) papers on tDCS:
Does anodal tDCS over M1 really enhance motor sequence learning? A non-replication of earlier findings in a double-blind, pre-registered large-sample study in humans
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Does anodal tDCS over M1 really enhance motor sequence learning? A non-replication of earlier findings in a double-blind, pre-registered large-sample study in humans
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Does anodal tDCS over M1 really enhance motor sequence learning? A non-replication of earlier findings in a double-blind, pre-registered large-sample study in humans
Background Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is one of the most widely used noninvasive neuromodulation methods. Despite its popularity, some recent studies highlighted issues about the r...
www.medrxiv.org
October 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
One of my two last (ever) papers on tDCS:
Does anodal tDCS over M1 really enhance motor sequence learning? A non-replication of earlier findings in a double-blind, pre-registered large-sample study in humans
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Does anodal tDCS over M1 really enhance motor sequence learning? A non-replication of earlier findings in a double-blind, pre-registered large-sample study in humans
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Preprint alert 🚨:Measured and modelled transitions between self-paced walking and synchronization with rhythmic auditory cues
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Measured and modelled transitions between self-paced walking and synchronization with rhythmic auditory cues
Constraining gait rhythm with a metronome has been shown to influence gait pattern in many different ways. While rhythmic cues can improve several parameters in some clinical populations, they do alte...
www.biorxiv.org
October 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Preprint alert 🚨:Measured and modelled transitions between self-paced walking and synchronization with rhythmic auditory cues
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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First first author paper of Anouck Matthijs on the fact that aging does not affect the ability to compensate for interaction torques during movement planning. Both the timing and scaling of anticipatory EMG activity are preserved with age.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Adults up to 80 years old maintain effective movement planning when facing complex body dynamics
Aging can significantly impact motor performance, especially in highly complex tasks such as multi-joint movements where the nervous system needs to adequately coordinate mechanical interactions betwe...
www.biorxiv.org
October 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
First first author paper of Anouck Matthijs on the fact that aging does not affect the ability to compensate for interaction torques during movement planning. Both the timing and scaling of anticipatory EMG activity are preserved with age.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I'd never heard Richard Sutton speak before. He's sharp! And I think this discussion has changed how I think about the bitter lesson.
youtu.be/21EYKqUsPfg?... #AI #ML #RL
youtu.be/21EYKqUsPfg?... #AI #ML #RL
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel
youtu.be
October 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I'd never heard Richard Sutton speak before. He's sharp! And I think this discussion has changed how I think about the bitter lesson.
youtu.be/21EYKqUsPfg?... #AI #ML #RL
youtu.be/21EYKqUsPfg?... #AI #ML #RL
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Best p-hacking demonstrations for a ppt slide: go!
September 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Best p-hacking demonstrations for a ppt slide: go!
Validation of the energetics of a Huxley muscle–tendon complex model using experimental data obtained from mouse soleus muscle: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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September 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Validation of the energetics of a Huxley muscle–tendon complex model using experimental data obtained from mouse soleus muscle: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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New pre-print!
We attempt to survey the two different universes of motor learning research: basic (meetings like NCM, MLMC) and applied (e.g. NASPSA), and consider what these fields can learn from each other and what the future might look like if they can be better integrated.
More in Eric's 🧵 👇
We attempt to survey the two different universes of motor learning research: basic (meetings like NCM, MLMC) and applied (e.g. NASPSA), and consider what these fields can learn from each other and what the future might look like if they can be better integrated.
More in Eric's 🧵 👇
September 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
New pre-print!
We attempt to survey the two different universes of motor learning research: basic (meetings like NCM, MLMC) and applied (e.g. NASPSA), and consider what these fields can learn from each other and what the future might look like if they can be better integrated.
More in Eric's 🧵 👇
We attempt to survey the two different universes of motor learning research: basic (meetings like NCM, MLMC) and applied (e.g. NASPSA), and consider what these fields can learn from each other and what the future might look like if they can be better integrated.
More in Eric's 🧵 👇
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This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2025-09-12-list303.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor
September 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
This week's sensorimotor superlab reading list is out https://superlab.ca/posts/2025-09-12-list303.html @andpru.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor
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“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.”
City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design.
I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero
City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design.
I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero
Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death
A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.
yle.fi
September 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.”
City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design.
I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero
City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design.
I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero