Movement Neuroscience Laboratory
The mission of the lab is to advance knowledge of human neural control of movement and leverage this information to improve motor function for those with neurological impairment
Goals
1. To study the neural processes that govern perception and action in health and disease.
2. To translate principles of neuroscience into practical interventions for individuals with motor impairment.
3. To advance techniques for studying human motor neurophysiology.
Approaches
1. State of the art virtual reality and robotics to study the effects of visual and haptic feedback on motor behavior.
2. High-precision optical cameras, instrumented gloves, inertial sensors, and force sensors to study human movement biomechanics.
3. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and electromyography (EMG) to study human neurophysiology.
Meet the Team
News/Blog Section
Goodbye Summer Scholars
Thank you to our summer scholars (Diego not included) Mia, Anna, and Sarah for all your help in the lab this summer! We are so proud of the projects you were able to work on and finish while in the...
Goodbye Mariusz!
URI is welcoming an amazing researcher to their staff this year. We are wishing Mariusz good luck in his next job at URI! You will be missed.
View from the researcher
Another day of data collection in the lab. Today, measuring anticipatory postural adjustments.
ICRA 2020 – Virtual Workshop
ICRA is the largest robotics meeting in the world and is the flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society. Due to current exceptional circumstances, the conference couldn’t be organized in […]
Huntington 100!
Congratulation to Spencer Jacobs-Skolik (Lake) on being a recipient of this year’s Huntington 100 Award! The Huntington 100 is a prestigious honor awarded to a group of students who are […]
Virtual RISE: 2020
This year the due to COVID-19 the RISE-2020 took place in a virtual form. Movement Neuroscience Laboratory presents three posters: Validating a Real World Trail Making Task to Characterize Hidden Impairments […]
Updates on the COVID-19
Northeastern University is closely tracking the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and university leaders are making contingency plans and decisions in accordance with global public health authorities. Movement Neuroscience […]
Memories of the last 2019 year. Happy New Year!
An unexpected visitor in the lab…
Prof. Tunik and his colleagues received a grant from the NSF
“We want the robots to act more like a human collaborator,” says Tunik, who is a Professor of Physical Therapy, Movement, and Rehabilitation Science and Associate Dean of Research & Innovation […]
Jigna Patel defended her Ph.D. Congratulations!
On September 27, 2019 our friend from Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Sciences, School of Health Professions, Rutgers University – Jigna Patel difended her Ph.D. disertation titled: “Virtual reality and […]
Huntington 100
Huntington 100 is a group of Northeastern University community members who are selected each academic year that truly embody the mission, ideals, and values of NU. At the induction ceremony, […]
RISE-2019
On Thursday (April 04) four posters were presented by student members of the Movement Neuroscience Lab at the 2019 Research, Innovation, and Scholarship Expo (RISE). Congratulations to all students that participated. […]