Pediatric robotic rehabilitation: Current knowledge and future trends in treating children with sensorimotor impairments

KP Michmizos, HI Krebs - NeuroRehabilitation, 2017 - content.iospress.com
BACKGROUND: Robot-aided sensorimotor therapy imposes highly repetitive tasks that can
translate to substantial improvement when patients remain cognitively engaged into the …

Robot-aided neurorehabilitation: a pediatric robot for ankle rehabilitation

KP Michmizos, S Rossi, E Castelli… - … on Neural Systems …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the pediAnklebot, an impedance-controlled low-friction, backdriveable
robotic device developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that trains the ankle …

Motivation by reward jointly improves speed and accuracy, whereas task-relevance and meaningful images do not

C Wolf, M Lappe - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2023 - Springer
Visual selection is characterized by a trade-off between speed and accuracy. Speed or
accuracy of the selection process can be affected by higher level factors—for example …

Controlling a mouse pointer with a single-channel eeg sensor

AJ Molina-Cantero, JA Castro-García, F Gómez-Bravo… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
(1) Goals: The purpose of this study was to analyze the feasibility of using the information
obtained from a one-channel electro-encephalography (EEG) signal to control a mouse …

Virtual reality for pediatric neuro-rehabilitation: adaptive visual feedback of movement to engage the mirror neuron system

R Kommalapati, KP Michmizos - 2016 38th Annual …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sensorimotor therapy gives optimal results when patients are cognitively engaged into
highly repetitive tasks, a goal that most children find hard to pursue. This paper presents the …

Evolutionary algorithms for a better gaming experience in rehabilitation robotics

KO Andrade, RC Joaquim, GAP Caurin… - … in Entertainment (CIE), 2018 - dl.acm.org
This article proposes the use of two evolutionary algorithms (EAs) to the dynamic difficulty
adjustment (DDA) of a serious game in the rehabilitation robotics application. DDA occurs in …

Exploring speed–accuracy tradeoff in reaching movements: a neurocomputational model

A Parziale, R Senatore, A Marcelli - Neural Computing and Applications, 2020 - Springer
The tradeoff between speed and accuracy of human movements has been exploited from
many different perspectives, such as experimental psychology, workspace design, human …

Signal-independent noise in intracortical brain–computer interfaces causes movement time properties inconsistent with Fitts' law

FR Willett, BA Murphy, WD Memberg… - Journal of neural …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Do movements made with an intracortical BCI (iBCI) have the same movement
time properties as able-bodied movements? Able-bodied movement times typically obey …

Experimental and theoretical study of velocity fluctuations during slow movements in humans

E Guigon, O Chafik, N Jarrassé… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
Moving smoothly is generally considered as a higher-order goal of motor control and moving
jerkily as a witness of clumsiness or pathology, yet many common and well-controlled …

A comparative analysis of speed profile models for ankle pointing movements: evidence that lower and upper extremity discrete movements are controlled by a single …

KP Michmizos, L Vaisman, HI Krebs - Frontiers in human …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Little is known about whether our knowledge of how the central nervous system controls the
upper extremities (UE), can generalize, and to what extent to the lower limbs. Our …