If you are at #SfN25 and interested in proprioception or motor skill learning, stop by our posters! Sunday morning (L14) and Tuesday morning (T5).
🧠Want to start a #PhD in sensorimotor #neuroscience in Fall 2026? Our NIH- and NSF-funded lab at @iubloomington.bsky.social uses human behavior and noninvasive brain stimulation to study motor learning and perception. More info: blocklab.net/openings.html or hjblock@iu.edu. Deadline is Dec. 15.
Preprint alert! Individual preferences in relying on vision or proprioception in reaching show distinct patterns in connectivity across sensorimotor network. Happy to have contributed to this nice piece of work by Kess, @hjblock.bsky.social and other cool people! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Network dynamics for sensory prioritization: Functional connectivity related to individual sensory weighting of vision versus proprioception during upper limb control
Precise control of the hand requires the dynamic integration of visual and proprioceptive (body position sense) sensory cues with internal models, task goals, and motor plans. Individual differences i...
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🚨It's published! 🚨Our results support highly-simplified-model "B", if you're wondering. The Somatosensory Cortex and Body Representation: Updating the Motor System during a Visuoproprioceptive Cue Conflict www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3...
What happens to motor adaptation—the way we correct errors with feedback—when feedback is indirect, like a number on a screen? In our new paper in @royalsociety.org, we found that indirect feedback hinders learning compared to sensory feedback. tinyurl.com/5d32c99e
(1/5)📢Now with bonus experiment!📢Somatosensory cortex and body representation. When hand representation is modified by introducing a conflict between visual and proprioceptive cues, the motor system receives updates directly from primary somatosensory cortex (SI). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
📢New preprint! The brain may handle visuo-proprioceptive cue conflicts differently for a dynamic hand undergoing visuomotor adaptation than for a static hand. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Our lab is hiring a post-doc at Emory University, working on sensorimotor neuroimaging after stroke and/or multisensory integration, touch and embodiment. Start date: approximately late summer 2024. Please email me with any questions you have about the position.
