Publications

Kirk EA, Cai K, Sauerbrei BA. Cortical sculpting of a rhythmic motor program. bioRxiv 2025.

Sauerbrei BA, Pruszynski JA. The brain works at more than 10 bits per second. Nature Neuroscience 2025. Comment on Zheng & Meister, Neuron 2025. See coverage of the issue in the New York Times.

Kirk EA, Hope KT, Sober SJ, Sauerbrei BA. An output-null signature of inertial load in motor cortex. Nature Communications 2024.

Kirk EA, Sauerbrei BA. Electromyography: Accessing populations of motor units. eLife 2024. Preview of Chung et al.: Myomatrix arrays for high-definition muscle recording.

Lakshminarasimhan KJ, Xie M, Cohen JD, Sauerbrei BA, Hantman AW, Litwin-Kumar A, Escola S. Specific connectivity optimizes learning in thalamocortical loops. Cell Reports 2024.

Wrobel J, Sauerbrei BA, Kirk EA, Guo J, Hantman AW, Goldsmith J. Modeling trajectories using functional linear differential equations. Annals of Applied Statistics 2024.

Garcia De la Garza A, Sauerbrei BA, Hantman AW, Goldsmith J. Adaptive Functional Principal Component Analysis. arXiv preprint 2023.

Gaffield MA, Sauerbrei BA, Christie JC. Cerebellum encodes and influences the initiation, performance, and termination of discontinuous movements in mice. eLife 2022.

Guo J-Z*, Sauerbrei BA*, Cohen JD, Mischiati M, Graves A, Pisanello F, Branson K, Hantman, AW. Disrupting cortico-cerebellar communication impairs dexterity. eLife 2021.

Steinmetz N*, Aydin C*, Lebedeva A*, Okun M*, Pachitariu M*, Bauza M, Beau M, Bhagat J, Böhm C, Broux M, Chen S, Colonell J, Gardner RJ, Karsh B, Kloosterman F, Kostadinov D, Mora-Lopez C, O’Callaghan J, Park J, Putzeys J, Sauerbrei BA, van Daal RJJ, Vollan AZ, Wang S, Welkenhuysen M, Ye Z, Dudman JT, Dutta B, Hantman AW, Harris KD, Lee AK, Moser EI, O’Keefe J, Renart A, Svoboda K, Häusser M, Haesler S, Carandini M, Harris TD. Neuropixels 2.0: A miniaturized high-density probe for stable, long-term brain recordings. Science 2021.

Sauerbrei BA*, Guo J-Z*, Cohen JD*, Mischiati M, Guo W, Kabra M, Verma N, Mensh B, Branson K, Hantman AW. Cortical pattern generation during dexterous movement is input-driven. Nature 2020.

Sauerbrei BA, Lubenov EV, Siapas AG. Structured Variability in Purkinje Cell Activity during Locomotion. Neuron 2015.