Adam Smoulder, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Center for Systems Neuroscience




My current research focuses on how the brain translates increases in motivation to invigorated movements. I study the encoding of movement information in populations of motor cortex neurons during tasks where performance is modulated by varying cued rewards.

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  1. Smoulder AL, Marino PJ, Oby ER, Snyder SE, Batista AP, Chase SM. Reward influences movement vigor through multiple motor cortical mechanisms. bioRxiv. 2025 Apr 09. PMID: 40291660; PMCID: PMC12027334; DOI: 10.1101/2025.04.09.648001;
     
  2. Ye J, Rizzoglio F, Smoulder A, Mao H, Ma X, Marino P, Chowdhury R, Moore D, Blumenthal G, Hockeimer W, Kunigk NG, Mayo JP, Batista A, Chase S, Rouse A, Boninger ML, Greenspon C, Schwartz AB, Hatsopoulos NG, Miller LE, Bouchard KE, Collinger JL, Wehbe L, Gaunt R. A Generalist Intracortical Motor Decoder. bioRxiv. 2025 Feb 06. PMID: 39975007; PMCID: PMC11838490; DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.02.634313;
     
  3. Smoulder AL, Marino PJ, Oby ER, Snyder SE, Miyata H, Pavlovsky NP, Bishop WE, Yu BM, Chase SM, Batista AP. A neural basis of choking under pressure. Neuron. 2024 Oct 23; 112(20):3424-3433.e8. PMID: 39270654; PMCID: PMC11791831; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.08.012;
     
  4. Marino PJ, Bahureksa L, Fisac CF, Oby ER, Smoulder AL, Motiwala A, Degenhart AD, Grigsby EM, Joiner WM, Chase SM, Yu BM, Batista AP. A posture subspace in primary motor cortex. bioRxiv. 2024 Aug 12. PMID: 39185208; PMCID: PMC11343157; DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.12.607361;
     
  5. Love K, Cao D, Chang JC, Dal'Bello LR, Ma X, O'Shea DJ, Schone HR, Shahbazi M, Smoulder A. Highlights from the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement. J Neurophysiol. 2024 Jan 01; 131(1):75-87. PMID: 38057264; DOI: 10.1152/jn.00428.2023;
     
  6. Smoulder AL, Marino PJ, Oby ER, Snyder SE, Miyata H, Pavlovsky NP, Bishop WE, Yu BM, Chase SM, Batista AP. A neural basis of choking under pressure. bioRxiv. 2023 Apr 16. PMID: 37090659; PMCID: PMC10120738; DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.16.537007;
     
  7. Smoulder AL, Pavlovsky NP, Marino PJ, Degenhart AD, McClain NT, Batista AP, Chase SM. Monkeys exhibit a paradoxical decrease in performance in high-stakes scenarios. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Aug 31; 118(35). PMID: 34426504; PMCID: PMC8536322; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2109643118;
     
  8. Keane TJ, Dziki J, Sobieski E, Smoulder A, Castleton A, Turner N, White LJ, Badylak SF. Restoring Mucosal Barrier Function and Modifying Macrophage Phenotype with an Extracellular Matrix Hydrogel: Potential Therapy for Ulcerative Colitis. J Crohns Colitis. 2017 Mar 01; 11(3):360-368. PMID: 27543807; DOI: 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjw149;
     

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