Proprioception and kinesthesia
How people sense limb position and movement.
Research
How we know where our body is.
I study how people use sensory feedback to judge position, correct movement, and adapt when feedback changes.
Sensorimotor integration
How vision, touch, and proprioception work together during action.
Motor learning and adaptation
How people adjust when feedback changes.
Neuromechanics and reflexes
How sensory pathways and muscle responses support movement.
Research throughline
Most of my work focuses on sensory feedback loops.
I use tendon vibration, reaching tasks, reflex measures, and models to study how the brain uses sensory feedback during motor control tasks.
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Tendon vibration studies test how altered muscle afferent signals bias perceived position and movement endpoint. I use these methods to understand how proprioceptive feedback is being processed in the brain.
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Kinesthetic targeting and discrimination tasks examine how the nervous system weights sensory information when feedback becomes noisy or ambiguous.
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Bimanual and visual-proprioceptive tasks examine explicit and implicit components of sensorimotor adaptation.
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Reflex and posture experiments connect sensory pathways with muscle responses during stance and movement.