Area 2 of primary somatosensory cortex encodes kinematics of the whole arm

RH Chowdhury, JI Glaser, LE Miller - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Proprioception, the sense of body position, movement, and associated forces, remains
poorly understood, despite its critical role in movement. Most studies of area 2, a …

Highlights from the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement

M Russo, N Ozeri-Engelhard… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
The 30th meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM) was originally
scheduled to take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in April of 2020. Due to the COVID-19 …

Highlights from the 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement

JM Cregg, JL Mirdamadi, C Fortunato… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Individuals from all over the world recently gathered in Dublin, Ireland for the 31st Annual
Meeting of the Neural Control of Movement (NCM) society. As the first in-person NCM …

Sensory information from a slipping object elicits a rapid and automatic shoulder response

CR Hernandez-Castillo, RS Maeda… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Humans have the remarkable ability to hold, grasp, and manipulate objects. Previous work
has reported rapid and coordinated reactions in hand and shoulder muscles in response to …

Highlights from the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement

A Mathis, AR Pack, RS Maeda… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
The Society for the Neural Control of Movement arrived for the first time in Asia for their 45
29th annual meeting in Toyama, Japan (from April 22-29th, 2019). The meeting attracted …

Fundamental Approaches of Studying the Neural Origin of Muscle Synergy

A Samanta, S Bhattacharyya - Motion Analysis of Biological Systems …, 2024 - Springer
This chapter focuses on the neural basis of muscle synergy in the context of motor
neuroscience. It discusses the historical significance of the concept and the contributions of …

Highlights from the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement

GA MR, KH NE - journals.physiology.org
28 Acknowledgements. The authors wish to dedicate this article to the memory of Rodrigo
Maeda. Rodrigo 29 was a PhD student at Western University who passed away from cancer …

Eye movements as indicators of visual and cognitive processing

J Fooken - 2019 - open.library.ubc.ca
Natural tasks, such as catching a ball, involve the decision whether, when, and where to act.
This dissertation examines the relationship between eye and hand movements during goal …