Alumni of the
Laboratory for Computational Motor Control
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Kurt Thoroughman, 1996
Kurt Thoroughman, Reza
Shadmehr, and Maurice Smith, Cancun, 1997
Kurt Thoroughman, 1999 |
Kurt was
the first graduate student to join the lab.
He had just completed his BS in Physics from University of Chicago and
enrolled in the Hopkins BME program.
He joined in summer of 1995 at a time when the lab consisted of an
empty room. He was instrumental in
setting up the robotic apparatus and building the laboratory. He transformed the direction of motor
learning for the next decade by inventing the state-space approach to analyze
trial-by-trial data. He completed his
PhD in Biomedical Engineering on 12/1999, with the thesis Human motor learning in stationary and
non-stationary novel dynamical environments. He subsequently did a postdoc at Brandies
University with Eve Marder. He then became a faculty member at
Washington University. He is currently
an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University. His thesis
results were published in the following papers: Learning and memory
formation of arm movements. R
Shadmehr, Thoroughman K (2000) In: Biomechanics and Neural Control of Movement,
J. M. Winters and P. E. Crago (eds), Springer-Verlag, pp.
347-353. Citations Learning of action through adaptive combination of motor primitives. KA Thoroughman and R Shadmehr (2000) Nature 407:742-747. Abstract News&Views CitationsElectromyographic correlates of learning an internal model of reaching movements. KA Thoroughman and R Shadmehr (1999) Journal of Neuroscience 19:8573-8588. Abstract Citations Human motor learning in stationary
and nonstationary novel dynamic
environments: psychophysical, electromyographic,
and computational verification and extension of the inverse model hypothesis. Kurt A.
Thoroughman (1999) PhD Thesis, Johns Hopkins University. |
