Laboratory for
Computational Motor Control
Sarah Pekny
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Sarah Pekny, 2009
Pavan Vaswani
and Sarah Pekny, 2010.
Sarah Pekny,
2011
Sarah Pekny
and Maurice Smith, 2011 |
Sarah joined the lab in 2009 as
a graduate student in the BME PhD program, after completing her BS from Penn
State University. Her research
interests include the role of reinforcement in formation of motor memories. Sep205 @ gmail dot com Her research results were published in the
following papers: Stimulation of
the human motor cortex alters generalization patterns of motor learning. JJ Orban
de Xivry, MK Marko, SE Pekny, D Pastor, J Izawa, P Celnik, and R Shadmehr (2011) Journal of Neuroscience 31:7102-7110. Protection and expression of human motor memories. SE Pekny, SE Criscimagna-Hemminger,
and R Shadmehr (2011) Journal
of Neuroscience 31:13829-13839. Motor learning relies on integrated sensory inputs in
ADHD, but over-selectively on proprioception in Autism spectrum conditions. J Izawa, SE Pekny, MK Marko, C Haswell, R Shadmehr, and SH Mostofsky
(2012) Autism Research in press. |
