Kurt Thoroughman
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Kurt A. Thoroughman | |
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| Born | January 31 1972 |
| Nationality |  American |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Known for | Trial-by-Trial Approach to Motor Learning |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computational Neuroscience, Motor Control |
| Institutions | Washington University Johns Hopkins Univerisity Brandeis University University of Chicago |
| Doctoral advisor | Reza Shadmehr |
Kurt A. Thoroughman (born 31 January 1972) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is known for his work in the study of motor control, motor learning, and computational neuroscience.
Thoroughman investigates how humans plan, control, and learn new movements. Understanding normal motor behavior and its neural basis will further the development of insightful clinical tests in movement neurology, and facilitate the early detection and treatment of motor diseases.
Thoroughman graduated with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1999. After completion of his PhD, Thoroughman worked in a two year postdoctoral position with Eve Marder at Brandeis University.
Selected publications
Thoroughman KA, Shadmehr R (1999). "Electromyographic correlates of learning an internal model of reaching movements". Journal of Neuroscience. 19: 8573–8588.
Thoroughman KA, Shadmehr R (2000). "Learning of action through adaptive combination of motor primitives". Nature. 407: 742–747.
Soto-Treviño C, Thoroughman KA, Marder E & Abbott LF (2001). "Activity-dependent modification of inhibitory synapses in models of rhythmic neural networks". Nature Neuroscience. 4: 297–303.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Thoroughman KA (2004). "Flexible control of flexible objects. Focus on "An experimentally confirmed mathematical model for human control of a non-rigid object"". Journal of Neurophysiology. 91 (3): 1109–10.
Thoroughman KA, Taylor JA (2005). "Rapid reshaping of human motor generalization". Journal of Neuroscience. 25 (39): 8948–53.
Fine MS, Thoroughman KA (2006). "Motor Adaptation to Single Force Pulses: Sensitive to Direction but Insensitive to Within-Movement Pulse Placement and Magnitude". Journal of Neurophysiology. 96: 710–20.
External links
- Laboratory of Neural Computation and Motor Behavior
- Washington University Biomedical Engineering Website
- Biomedical engineer shows how people learn motor skills
- Researchers find new learning strategy: A size of a mistake makes no difference
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