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Research Activity
Theoretical and experimental analysis of multi-effector coordination
- Analysis of motor synergies during reaching, postural, and force production tasks
- Studies of the Uncontrolled Manifold Hypothesis (UCM)
- Use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to analyze multi-finger coordination
Equilibrium-point hypothesis of motor control
- Comparison among competing thoroies in motor control
- Reconstruction of equilibrium trajectories during multi-joint movements
- Analysis of the kinematic and dynamic patterns during multi-joint movements
- Analysis of electromyographic patterns within the framework of the EP-hypothesis
Finger coordination during force production
- Multi-finger synergies during force production
- The effects of self-generated and information perturbations on multi-finger synergies
- The role of different muscle groups in finger coordination
- Using the Uncontrolled Manifold Hypothesis (UCM) to study finger coordination
- Finger coordination in two-hand tasks
- Thumb-finger interactions
- Digit control in prehensile tasks
- Changes in finger coordination and hand fucntion with age
Motor disorders and rehabilitation
- Coordination of movements in persons with Down Syndrome
- General issues of motor rehabilitation
Postural control and its relation to voluntary movement
- The organization of anticipatory postural adjustments
- The role of sensory information in anticipatory postural adjustments
- Multi-muscle synergies in preparation and responese to postural perturbations
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