Biography:Kurt Thoroughman
Kurt A. Thoroughman | |
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| Born | January 31, 1972 Kalamazoo, MI |
| Nationality |  United States |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Known for | Trial-by-Trial Approach to Motor Learning |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computational Neuroscience, Motor Control |
| Institutions | Washington University Brandeis University Johns Hopkins University University of Chicago |
Kurt A. Thoroughman (born 31 January 1972) is an Associate 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, completing a thesis in the Laboratory of Computational Motor Control, under the mentorship of Reza Shadmehr. After completion of his PhD, Thoroughman was a postdoctoral fellow with Eve Marder at Brandeis University.
Selected publications
Taylor JA, Thoroughman KA (Jun 2008). Robertson, Edwin. ed. "Motor adaptation scaled by the difficulty of a secondary cognitive task". PLoS ONE 3 (6): e2485. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002485. PMID 18560546. 
"Trial-by-trial transformation of error into sensorimotor adaptation changes with environmental dynamics". J. Neurophysiol. 98 (3): 1392–404. Sep 2007. doi:10.1152/jn.00196.2007. PMID 17615136.
"Influence of viscous loads on motor planning". J. Neurophysiol. 98 (2): 870–7. Aug 2007. doi:10.1152/jn.01126.2006. PMID 17522176.
"Divided attention impairs human motor adaptation but not feedback control". J. Neurophysiol. 98 (1): 317–26. Jul 2007. doi:10.1152/jn.01070.2006. PMID 17460104.
"Motor adaptation to single force pulses: sensitive to direction but insensitive to within-movement pulse placement and magnitude". J. Neurophysiol. 96 (2): 710–20. Aug 2006. doi:10.1152/jn.00215.2006. PMID 16707722.
"Rapid reshaping of human motor generalization". J. Neurosci. 25 (39): 8948–53. Sep 2005. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1771-05.2005. PMID 16192385.
Thoroughman KA (Mar 2004). "Flexible control of flexible objects. Focus on "An experimentally confirmed mathematical model for human control of a non-rigid object"". J. Neurophysiol. 91 (3): 1109–10. doi:10.1152/jn.01060.2003. PMID 14973324.
"Activity-dependent modification of inhibitory synapses in models of rhythmic neural networks". Nat. Neurosci. 4 (3): 297–303. Mar 2001. doi:10.1038/85147. PMID 11224547.
"Learning of action through adaptive combination of motor primitives". Nature 407 (6805): 742–7. Oct 2000. doi:10.1038/35037588. PMID 11048720.
"Electromyographic correlates of learning an internal model of reaching movements". J. Neurosci. 19 (19): 8573–88. Oct 1999. PMID 10493757. http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=10493757.
References
- "Kurt Thoroughman - Associate Professor". Washington University in St. Louis. http://engineering.wustl.edu/facultybio.aspx?faculty=391. - university biography
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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