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NeuRAL lab publishes in Journal of Neurophysiology
Dr. Rachel Hawe, Master's alumna Ally Richardson, and RA Triet Liu have published their work on a novel paradigm allowing examination of how vision affects children's complex arm movements.
The NeuroRehabilitation Across the Lifespan (NeuRAL) Lab published a manuscript in the Journal of Neurophysiology entitled "Characterizing Complex Upper Limb Movements with and without Visual Feedback in Typically Developing Children.. The paper was authored by Rachel Hawe, PhD, assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology and NeuRAL Lab director, master's and lab alumna Ally Richardson, and research assistant Triet Lu. The authors designed a novel paradigm using the Kinarm exoskeleton robot to require children to navigate a maze to reach a target. This paradigm allowed the authors to examine more complex motor planning and movements than typical point-to-point reaches, as well as determine how children rely on visual feedback to perform complex movements.