PhD Position: Brain, Computation and Technology at the Donders Institute | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD Candidate: Brain, Computation and Technology at the Donders Institute? Check our vacancy!

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Postdoc Position: Sensorimotor Neuroscience and Rehabilitation Technology at the Donders Institute | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a Postdoc Sensorimotor Neuroscience and Rehabilitation Technology at the Donders Institute? Check our vacancy!

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Nearly 1 million euros for neurological research into sensory disorders | Radboud University

Prof. Pieter Medendorp and colleagues have received a grant of nearly 1 million euros to investigate sensory disorders resulting from disease, accidents or ageing. The grant is part of the Open Techno...

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Road width effects on feedback control in human steering behavior

The minimum intervention principle (MIP) in motor control suggests that feedback corrections are made only for deviations that prevent achieving task goals. While most supporting evidence derives from...

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Dynamics of sensorimotor plasticity during exoskeletal finger augmentation

How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions into its somatosensory representation? While prior work has shown that tool use alters body representation, little is known about how artificial...

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The spatial coding of touch is defined in intrinsic, limb-specific coordinates: an EEG study

The brain localizes touch in space by integrating tactile and proprioceptive signals, a process known as tactile remapping. While it is often assumed that the remapped touch is encoded in an extrinsic...

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Rapid modulation of choice behavior by ultrasound on the human frontal eye fields

A fundamental challenge in neuroscience is establishing causal brain-function relationships with spatial and temporal precision. Transcranial ultrasonic stimulation (TUS) offers a unique opportunity t...

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Are we ready for the robotic revolution? by Oane Visser and Pieter Medendorp - Bliss

Japan has a hotel where guests are served by robots, and in Australia self-driving tractors autonomously harvest crops, day and night. Robots help with care for residents in some Dutch nursing homes; ...

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Online interference of declarative memory on fast and slow adaptive processes in force field motor learning

Error-based motor adaptation is currently understood as a dual-rate process involving a fast adaptive process that learns quickly but also decays rapidly and a slow process that learns slowly but has good retention. While the fast process is typically categorized as procedural learning, recent evidence suggests that it relies on the declarative memory system. To test this hypothesis, we investigated in what manner a declarative memory task interferes with two processes that supposedly underly force field adaptation in reaching. This declarative memory task, which involved learning of a list of words, was assessed through either recognition or recall, and was compared to a non-declarative, vowel counting task, using a within-subject design (n=32). We employed a Bayesian hierarchical dual-rate process model to capture the observed force compensation across trials, expecting that the parameters of the fast process would be affected by the declarative memory task. We examined the 95% highest density interval of the posterior distribution of the difference between the experimental and control condition for each parameter. While most parameters remained unaffected by the declarative memory task, the retention rate of the fast process showed a hint of reduction, suggesting a complex interplay between declarative memory and ongoing motor adaptation processes. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.

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