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Overview

Joseph M. Galea is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience and engineering. Their research primarily spans cognitive neuroscience and biomedical engineering, with additional work in neurology, social psychology, and rehabilitation.

The main research topics that Joseph M. Galea focuses on include:

  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery

Joseph M. Galea has published numerous papers, with recent examples including:

  • "A methodological framework to assess the accuracy of virtual reality hand-tracking systems: A case study with the Meta Quest 2" (2023), published in Behavior Research Methods
  • "Reward-Based Improvements in Motor Control Are Driven by Multiple Error-Reducing Mechanisms" (2020), published in Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Sensorimotor feedback loops are selectively sensitive to reward" (2023), published in eLife
  • "A Methodological Framework to Assess the Accuracy of Virtual Reality Hand-Tracking Systems: A case study with the Oculus Quest 2" (2022), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "The dissociable effects of reward on sequential motor behavior" (2022), published in Journal of Neurophysiology

Their publication record also includes frequent contributions to venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Brain Stimulation, Behavior Research Methods, Journal of Neuroscience, and eLife.

Collaborations have been a regular part of Joseph M. Galea's work. Frequent co-authors include Sebastian Sporn, Ned Jenkinson, Olivier Codol, Raphaël Hamel, and Mark R. Hinder, each contributing across multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Dissociating the Roles of the Cerebellum and Motor Cortex during Adaptive Learning: The Motor Cortex Retains What the Cerebellum Learns

    Joseph M. Galea;Alejandro Vazquez;Neel Pasricha;Jean Jacques Orban De Xivry

  • Modulation of Cerebellar Excitability by Polarity-Specific Noninvasive Direct Current Stimulation

    Joseph M. Galea;Gowri Jayaram;Loni Ajagbe;Pablo Celnik

  • Consensus Paper: Towards a Systems-Level View of Cerebellar Function: the Interplay Between Cerebellum, Basal Ganglia, and Cortex.

    Daniele Caligiore;Giovanni Pezzulo;Gianluca Baldassarre;Andreea C. Bostan

  • Dopamine, affordance and active inference.

    Karl J. Friston;Tamara Shiner;Thomas H. B. FitzGerald;Joseph M. Galea

  • The dissociable effects of punishment and reward on motor learning

    Joseph M Galea;Elizabeth Mallia;John Rothwell;Jörn Diedrichsen

  • Speech Facilitation by Left Inferior Frontal Cortex Stimulation

    Rachel Holland;Alex P. Leff;Oliver Josephs;Oliver Josephs;Joseph M. Galea

  • Non-invasive Cerebellar Stimulation—a Consensus Paper

    G Grimaldi;GP Argyropoulos;A Boehringer;Pablo Celnik

  • Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (ctDCS) A Novel Approach to Understanding Cerebellar Function in Health and Disease

    Giuliana Grimaldi;Georgios P. Argyropoulos;Amy Bastian;Mar Cortes

  • Human Locomotor Adaptive Learning Is Proportional to Depression of Cerebellar Excitability

    Gowri Jayaram;Gowri Jayaram;Joseph M. Galea;Amy J. Bastian;Amy J. Bastian;Pablo Celnik

  • Brain polarization enhances the formation and retention of motor memories

    Joseph Michael Galea;Pablo Celnik

  • Disruption of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex facilitates the consolidation of procedural skills

    Joseph M. Galea;Neil B. Albert;Thomas Ditye;R. Chris Miall

  • Cerebellar modulation of human associative plasticity

    Masashi Hamada;Gionata Strigaro;Nagako Murase;Anna Sadnicka

  • Two distinct interneuron circuits in human motor cortex are linked to different subsets of physiological and behavioral plasticity.

    M. Hamada;J. M. Galea;V. Di Lazzaro;P. Mazzone

  • Dynamic Modulation of Cerebellar Excitability for Abrupt, But Not Gradual, Visuomotor Adaptation

    John E. Schlerf;Joseph M. Galea;Amy J. Bastian;Amy J. Bastian;Pablo A. Celnik

  • Reward and punishment enhance motor adaptation in stroke

    Graziella Quattrocchi;Richard Greenwood;John C Rothwell;Joseph M Galea

  • Contribution of explicit processes to reinforcement-based motor learning.

    Peter James Holland;Olivier Codol;Joseph M. Galea

  • Individual differences in explicit and implicit visuomotor learning and working memory capacity

    Antonios I. Christou;Antonios I. Christou;R. Chris Miall;Fiona McNab;Fiona McNab;Joseph M. Galea

  • No consistent effect of cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation on visuomotor adaptation

    Roya Jalali;R.Christopher Miall;Joseph M. Galea

  • Muscle and timing-specific functional connectivity between the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the primary motor cortex

    Alkomiet Hasan;Joseph M. Galea;Elias P. Casula;Peter Falkai

  • Laterality Differences in Cerebellar–motor Cortex Connectivity

    John E. Schlerf;Joseph M. Galea;Danny Spampinato;Pablo A. Celnik

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Rothwell
John C. Rothwell University College London
Pablo Celnik
Pablo Celnik Johns Hopkins University
Sven Bestmann
Sven Bestmann University College London
Amy J. Bastian
Amy J. Bastian Kennedy Krieger Institute
R. C. Miall
R. C. Miall University of Birmingham
Ulf Ziemann
Ulf Ziemann University of Tübingen
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Roberta Ferrucci
Roberta Ferrucci University of Milan
Ullrich K. H. Ecker
Ullrich K. H. Ecker University of Western Australia
Cathy J. Price
Cathy J. Price University College London

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