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Overview

James R. Tresilian is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of neuroscience, with specific attention to cognitive neuroscience and biomedical engineering. Their work also covers related subfields such as neurology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, and psychiatry and mental health.

They have contributed to several main topics within neuroscience including motor control and adaptation, muscle activation and electromyography studies, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, neural dynamics and brain function, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and hemispheric asymmetry in neuroscience.

Notable recent publications by James R. Tresilian include:

  • "Cumulative distribution functions: An alternative approach to examine the triggering of prepared motor actions in the StartReact effect" (2020) published in European Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Premovement inhibition can protect motor actions from interference by response-irrelevant sensory stimulation" (2021) published in The Journal of Physiology
  • "Early Motor Trajectories Predict Motor but not Cognitive Function in Preterm- and Term-Born Adults without Pre-existing Neurological Conditions" (2020) published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Preparatory suppression and facilitation of voluntary and involuntary responses to loud acoustic stimuli in an anticipatory timing task" (2020) published in Psychophysiology
  • "Acoustic stimulation increases implicit adaptation in sensorimotor adaptation" (2021) published in European Journal of Neuroscience

Frequent collaborators in their research include Welber Marinovic, Ottmar V. Lipp, An T. Nguyen, Aaron N. McInnes, and Ann-Maree Vallence.

Their work has appeared in several publication venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Psychophysiology
  • European Journal of Neuroscience
  • The Journal of Physiology
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Best Publications

  • Perceptual and cognitive processes in time-to-contact estimation: analysis of prediction-motion and relative judgment tasks.

    J. R. Tresilian

  • Visually timed action: time-out for `tau'?

    James R. Tresilian

  • Grip-load force coupling: a general control strategy for transporting objects

    James Randall Flanagan;James R. Tresilian

  • Empirical and theoretical issues in the perception of time to contact.

    James R. Tresilian

  • Coupling of grip force and load force during arm movements with grasped objects

    J.Randall Flanagan;James Tresilian;Alan M. Wing

  • Improving vision: neural compensation for optical defocus

    Mark Mon-Williams;Mark Mon-Williams;James R Tresilian;Niall C Strang;Puja Kochhar

  • Four questions of time to contact: a critical examination of research on interceptive timing.

    James R Tresilian

  • Increasing confidence in vergence as a cue to distance

    James R. Tresilian;Mark Mon-Williams;Benjamin M. Kelly

  • Perceptual information for the timing of interceptive action.

    James R Tresilian

  • Some Recent Studies on the Extraretinal Contribution to Distance Perception

    Mark Mon-Williams;James R Tresilian

  • Attention in action or obstruction of movement? A kinematic analysis of avoidance behavior in prehension

    James R. Tresilian

  • Hitting a moving target: perception and action in the timing of rapid interceptions.

    James R. Tresilian

  • The effect of obstacle position on reach-to-grasp movements.

    Mark Mon-Williams;James R. Tresilian;Vanessa L. Coppard;Richard G. Carson

  • Approximate information sources and perceptual variables in interceptive timing.

    J. R. Tresilian

  • Ordinal depth information from accommodation

    Mark Mon-Williams;James R. Tresilian

  • The contribution of visual feedback to visuomotor adaptation: How much and when?

    Mark R. Hinder;James R. Tresilian;James R. Tresilian;Stephan Riek;Richard G. Carson;Richard G. Carson

  • Bimanual aiming and overt attention: one law for two hands

    Stephan Riek;James R. Tresilian;M. Mon-Williams;Vanessa L. Coppard

  • Monocular and binocular distance cues: insights from visual form agnosia I (of III)

    Mark Mon-Williams;James R. Tresilian;Robert D. McIntosh;David A. Milner

  • Dual adaptation to two opposing visuomotor rotations when each is associated with different regions of workspace

    Daniel G. Woolley;James R. Tresilian;Richard G. Carson;Richard G. Carson;Stephan Riek

  • Stability of reach-to-grasp movement patterns in Parkinson's disease.

    James R. Tresilian;George E. Stelmach;Charles H. Adler

  • Intercepting a moving target: effects of temporal precision constraints and movement amplitude.

    James R. Tresilian;Andrew Lonergan

  • Motor Control and Learning

    Mark Mon‐Williams;James R Tresilian;John P Wann

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Riek
Stephan Riek University of Queensland
Mark Mon-Williams
Mark Mon-Williams University of Leeds
Richard G. Carson
Richard G. Carson Trinity College Dublin
Ottmar V. Lipp
Ottmar V. Lipp Curtin University
John P. Wann
John P. Wann Royal Holloway University of London
Markus Kofler
Markus Kofler Innsbruck Medical University
Dieter Wolke
Dieter Wolke University of Warwick
George E. Stelmach
George E. Stelmach Arizona State University
Robert D. McIntosh
Robert D. McIntosh University of Edinburgh
J. Randall Flanagan
J. Randall Flanagan Queen's University

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