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How neurologically healthy and impaired humans learn new movements

Richard Ivry - Professor, Psychology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Research in our laboratory addresses how people learn new motor skills. We study this topic using behavioral and computational methods with healthy and neurologically impaired humans. The neurological studies examine the contribution of different brain structures, especially the cerebellum and basal ganglia, in motor learning to develop functional hypotheses regarding...

 Biological & Health Sciences   Education, Cognition & Psychology

Computational mechanisms underlie motor decision-making and skill learning.

Richard Ivry - Professor, Psychology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Aims: While humans are remarkably adept at adjusting their movements to operate in uncertain environments, motor control remains a major challenge for AI systems. This project aims to study the computational rules underlying human motor control to improve algorithms for human-like robots: 1. We will conduct longitudinal studies to...

 Biological & Health Sciences   Education, Cognition & Psychology

Testing a novel non-invasive brain stimulation device to safely modulate human brain function

Richard Ivry - Professor, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

The goal of this project is to test the efficacy of a new non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) device that has been developed at Berkeley. NIBS methods have been around for about 40 years and involve applying weak electrical or magnetic fields to the scalp (non-invasive) in order to...

 Biological & Health Sciences   Education, Cognition & Psychology

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