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
New cTMS device arrived to MNL!
Co-op Spotlight – Spencer Jacobs-Skolik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6sWoXVbaNg
Ascent PEAK Award goes to Garrit!
We are pleased to announce that Garrit Strenge was awarded a PEAK Ascent! Congratulations! Garrit Strenge Project title: “Determination of Object Position, Orientation and Affordances using Computer Vision”. Faculty Advisor: […]
Progress in Clinical Motor Control I: Neurorehabilitation
The first conference on Progress in Clinical Motor Control: Neurorehabilitation took place at Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania (July 23-25, 2018). Dr. Gene Tunik had a presentation during the […]
Neural Control of Movement – 2018
This year Society for the Neural Control of Movement organize 28th conference in Santa Fe (New Mexico), April 30 – May 4, 2018. Mariusz, Sezen, Tarkesh, Mat, Nikita, Gene Our […]
Congratulations to Sofia for receiving the Co-op fellowship
Sophia Kirkman our current lab member presented research conducted in TunikLab during Matz Co-op Research Symposium. Congratulations to Sofia for receiving the fellowship and successfully carrying it out. The Matz Co-op Program, generously funded […]
TunikLab’s students presented posters during RISE – 2018
During Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo – RISE 2018 students from TunikLab have been presented two posters: The Comparison of Reach-to-Grasp Movement Kinematics between Reality and Virtual Reality in Healthy […]
Thushini defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations!
Thushini Manuweera defended her PhD on Tuesday April 3. Congratulations! Her PhD thesis supervisors were Dr. Tunik and Dr. Adamovich (from NJIT BME department).
Data collection at Neuroscience Lab in progress – look for our posters during RISE conference (April 05, 2018)
Lecture by Associate Professor Michael Jakowec from Keck Medicine of USC
Title: Enhancing neuroplasticity in a circuit specific manner to restore motor behavior in Parkinson’s disease Abstract: Studies in our lab have shown that exercise in the form of treadmill running […]
Seminar in TunikLab
Stanislaw Solnik, PhD, PT, from Department of Physical Therapy at University of North Georgia visits Movement Neuroscience Lab gave presentation titled: Performance stability in tasks performed by two persons.
Congratulations to Mat for his successful PhD defense!
Congratulations to Mathew Yarossi for his successful PhD defense!
Welcome to our new lab member Palig Mouradian!
We’re excited to announce that Palig Mouradian joins us in our lab!