Preprints

Naser Al-Fawakhiri & Samuel D. McDougle
Independent influences of movement distance and visual distance on Fitts' Law
bioRχiv, [link]

Jonathan S. Tsay, Hyosub E. Kim, Samuel D. McDougle, Jordan A. Taylor, Adrian Haith, Guy Avraham, John W. Krakauer, Anne G.E. Collins, & Richard B. Ivry
Fundamental processes in sensorimotor learning: Reasoning, Refinement, and Retrieval
PsyArXiv, [link]

Naser Al-Fawakhiri, Sarosh Kayani, & Samuel D. McDougle
Evidence of an optimal error rate for motor skill learning
bioRχiv, [link]

Juliana E. Trach, Megan T. deBettencourt, Angela Radulescu, & Samuel D. McDougle
Reward feedback enhances sustained attention on short timescales
PsyArXiv, [link]

Eugene Poh, Naser Al-Fawakhiri, Rachel Tam, Jordan A. Taylor, & Samuel D. McDougle
Top-down effects in motor generalization
bioRχiv, [link]

Xiuyuan Zhang, Samuel D. McDougle, & Julia A. Leonard
People accurately predict the shape of skill learning curves
PsyArXiv, [link]

2024

Hanna Hillman, Tabea Botthof, Alexander D. Forrence, & Samuel D. McDougle
Dissociable codes in motor working memory
Psychological Science, 35(2): 150-161 [pdf]

Sami R. Yousif & Samuel D. McDougle
Oblique warping: A general distortion of spatial perception
Cognition, 247: 105762 [pdf]

2023

Sami R. Yousif, Alexander D. Forrence, & Samuel D. McDougle
A common format for representing spatial location in visual and motor working memory
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02366-3 [pdf]

Christopher L. Hewitson, Naser Al-Fawakhiri, Alexander D. Forrence, & Samuel D. McDougle
Metacognitive judgments during visuomotor learning reflect the integration of error history
Journal of Neurophysiology, 130: 264-277 [pdf]

Ashleigh V. Rutherford, Samuel D. McDougle, & Jutta Joormann
"Don't [ruminate], be happy": A cognitive perspective linking depression and anhedonia
Clinical Psychology Review, 101:102255 [pdf]

Juliana E. Trach & Samuel D. McDougle
Structured dynamics of hierarchical action selection
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society [pdf]

Sami R. Yousif & Samuel D. McDougle
A common oblique bias in perception and action
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society [pdf]

2022

Olivia A. Kim, Alexander D. Forrence, & Samuel D. McDougle
Motor learning without movement
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(30): e2204379119 [pdf]

Guy Avraham, Jordan A. Taylor, Assaf Breska, Richard B. Ivry, & Samuel D. McDougle
Contextual effects in sensorimotor adaptation adhere to associative learning rules
eLife, 11:e75801 [pdf]

Samuel D. McDougle*, Jonathan Tsay*, Benjamin Pitt, Maedbh King, William Saban, Jordan A. Taylor, & Richard B. Ivry
Continuous manipulation of mental representations is compromised in cerebellar degeneration
Brain, 145(12): 4246-4263 *co-first authors [pdf]

Juan A. Gallego, Tamar R. Makin, & Samuel D. McDougle
Going beyond primary motor cortex to improve brain-computer interfaces
Trends in Neurosciences, 45(3): 176-183 [pdf]

Samuel D. McDougle, Ian C. Ballard, Beth Baribault, Sonia J. Bishop & Anne G.E. Collins
Executive function assigns value to novel goal-congruent outcomes
Cerebral Cortex, 32(1): 231:247 [pdf]

Samuel D. McDougle, Sarah A. Wilterson, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne, & Jordan A. Taylor
Revisiting the role of the medial temporal lobe in motor learning
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(3): 532-549 [pdf]

Samuel D. McDougle
Post-error slowing during instrumental learning is shaped by working memory-based choice strategies
Neuroscience, 486: 37-45 [pdf]

Faisal Mushtaq, Samuel D. McDougle, Matt P. Craddock, Darius E. Parvin, Jack Brookes, Alexandre Schaefer, Mark Mon-Williams, Jordan A. Taylor, & Richard B. Ivry
Distinct processing of selection and execution errors in neural signatures of outcome monitoring
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(5): 748-765 [pdf]

Juliana E. Trach & Samuel D. McDougle
Climbing the Tree: structured hierarchical representations in visuomotor maps
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society [pdf]

Xiuyuan Zhang, Samuel D. McDougle, & Julia A. Leonard
Thinking about Doing: representations of skill learning
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society [pdf]

Sami R. Yousif, Samuel D. McDougle, & Robb B. Rutledge
A task-general model of human randomization
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society [pdf]

2021

Anne G.E. Collins & Samuel D. McDougle
Context is key for learning motor skills
Nature, 600: 387-388 [News & Views] [link]

James W. Antony, Thomas H. Hartshorne, Ken Pomeroy, Todd M. Gureckis, Uri Hasson,
Samuel D. McDougle, & Kenneth A. Norman
Behavioral, physiological, and neural signatures of surprise during naturalistic sports viewing
Neuron, 109: 377-390 [pdf]

Olivia A. Kim, Alexander D. Forrence, & Samuel D. McDougle
Sensory prediction errors are sufficient for implicit adaptation of withheld movements
Motor Learning & Motor Control, [pdf]

Lisa Langsdorf, Jana Maresch, Mathias Hegele, Samuel D. McDougle*, & Raphael Schween*
Prolonged response time helps eliminate residual errors in visuomotor adaptation
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28: 834-844 [pdf]
*co-senior author

Samuel D. McDougle & Anne G.E. Collins
Modeling the influence of working memory, reinforcement, and action uncertainty on reaction time and choice during instrumental learning
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28: 20-39 [pdf]

2020

Milena Rmus, Samuel D. McDougle, & Anne G.E. Collins
The role of executive function in shaping reinforcement learning
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 38: 66-73 [pdf]

Raphael Schween, Samuel D. McDougle, Mathias Hegele, & Jordan A. Taylor
Assesing explicit strategies in force field adaptation
Journal of Neurophysiology, 123: 1552-1565 [pdf]

Jordan A. Taylor & Samuel D. McDougle
Visuomotor adaptation tasks as a window into the interplay between explicit and implicit cognitive processes
The Cognitive Neurosciences, 6th edition (ed. Michael S. Gazzaniga). MIT Press. [pdf]

2019

Samuel D. McDougle, Peter A. Butcher, Darius Parvin, Faisal Mushtaq, Yael Niv, Richard B. Ivry, & Jordan Taylor (2019)
Neural signatures of prediction errors in a decision-making task are modulated by action execution failures
Current Biology, 29: 1606-1613 [pdf]

Samuel D. McDougle & Jordan A. Taylor (2019)
Dissociable cognitive strategies for sensorimotor learning
Nature Communications, 10(1), 40 [pdf]

Alexander Mathis, Andrea R. Pack, Rodrigo S. Maeda, & Samuel D. McDougle (2019)
Highlights from the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement
The Journal of Neurophysiology, 122: 1777-1783 [pdf]

2018

Darius E. Parvin, Samuel D. McDougle, Jordan A. Taylor, & Richard B. Ivry (2018)
Credit assignment in a motor decision making task is influenced by agency and not sensorimotor prediction errors
Journal of Neuroscience, 38(19): 4521-4530 [pdf]

2017

Samuel D. McDougle, Krista M. Bond, & Jordan A. Taylor (2017)
Implications of plan-based generalization in sensorimotor adaptation
The Journal of Neurophysiology, 118(1): 383-393 [pdf]

2016

Samuel D. McDougle, Matthew J. Boggess, Matthew J. Crossley, Darius Parvin, Richard B. Ivry, & Jordan A. Taylor (2016)
Credit assignment in movement-dependent reinforcement learning
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(24): 6797:6802 [pdf]

Samuel D. McDougle, Richard B. Ivry, & Jordan A. Taylor (2016)
Taking aim at the cognitive side of learning in sensorimotor adaptation tasks
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20(7): 535-544 [pdf]


Samuel D. McDougle & Jordan A. Taylor (2016)
Mental rotation as a behavioral and neural model of explicit aiming during visuomotor learning
Motor Learning & Motor Control 2016 [pdf]

2015

Samuel D. McDougle, Krista M. Bond, & Jordan A. Taylor (2015)
Explicit and implicit processes constitute the fast and slow processes of sensorimotor learning
Journal of Neuroscience, 35(26): 9568-9579 [pdf]

2011

Selmaan N. Chettih, Samuel D. McDougle, Luis I. Ruffolo, & Javier F. Medina (2011)
Adaptive timing of motor output in the mouse: the role of movement oscillations in eyelid conditioning
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 5(72) [pdf]

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