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Michel Desmurget is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research spans several interconnected fields including Medicine, Neuroscience, and Psychology, with a particular focus on specialized subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Surgery, Neurology, Social Psychology, and Genetics.

Their work concentrates on topics related to Motor Control and Adaptation, Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment, Vestibular and Auditory Disorders, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Action Observation and Synchronization, and Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research.

Several recent publications illustrate the range of their research interests:

  • Awake brain surgery in children-a single-center experience, 2020, Child s Nervous System
  • Cerebellar lesions at a young age predict poorer long-term functional recovery, 2020, Brain Communications
  • Anatomical bases of fast parietal grasp control in humans: A diffusion-MRI tractography study, 2021, NeuroImage
  • Somatosensory awareness in the parietal operculum, 2021, Brain
  • Le jeune âge à la chirurgie est un facteur prédictif indépendant de mauvaise récupération fonctionnelle chez les patients opérés d'une tumeur de la fosse cérébrale postérieure, 2020, Neurochirurgie

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Michel Desmurget include:

  • Alexandru Szathmári
  • C. Mottolèse
  • Federico Di Rocco
  • Pierre-Aurélien Beuriat
  • Irène Cristofori

Common venues for the dissemination of their research are:

  • Child s Nervous System
  • Brain Communications
  • NeuroImage
  • Brain
  • Neurochirurgie

Best Publications

  • Forward modeling allows feedback control for fast reaching movements

    Michel Desmurget;Scott Grafton

  • Role of the posterior parietal cortex in updating reaching movements to a visual target.

    M. Desmurget;M. Desmurget;C. M. Epstein;R. S. Turner;C. Prablanc

  • An 'automatic pilot' for the hand in human posterior parietal cortex: toward reinterpreting optic ataxia.

    L. Pisella;H. Gréa;C. Tilikete;C. Tilikete;A. Vighetto;A. Vighetto

  • Movement intention after parietal cortex stimulation in humans.

    Michel Desmurget;Michel Desmurget;Karen T. Reilly;Karen T. Reilly;Nathalie Richard;Nathalie Richard;Alexandru Szathmari

  • Contrasting acute and slow-growing lesions: a new door to brain plasticity

    Michel Desmurget;François Bonnetblanc;Hugues Duffau

  • Basal Ganglia Contributions to Motor Control: A Vigorous Tutor

    Robert S Turner;Michel Desmurget

  • A parietal-premotor network for movement intention and motor awareness

    Michel Desmurget;Angela Sirigu;Angela Sirigu

  • From eye to hand: planning goal-directed movements.

    Michel Desmurget;Denis Pélisson;Yves Rossetti;Claude Prablanc

  • A lesion of the posterior parietal cortex disrupts on-line adjustments during aiming movements.

    Hélène Gréa;Laure Pisella;Yves Rossetti;Michel Desmurget

  • Vectorial coding of movement: vision, proprioception, or both?

    Y. Rossetti;M. Desmurget;C. Prablanc

  • Computational Motor Control: Redundancy and Invariance

    Emmanuel Guigon;Pierre Baraduc;Michel Desmurget

  • Functional anatomy of nonvisual feedback loops during reaching: a positron emission tomography study.

    Michel Desmurget;Helena Gréa;Helena Gréa;Jeff S. Grethe;Claude Prablanc

  • Constrained and Unconstrained Movements Involve Different Control Strategies

    Michel Desmurget;Michel Desmurget;Michael Jordan;Claude Prablanc;Marc Jeannerod

  • Postural Control of Three-Dimensional Prehension Movements

    Michel Desmurget;Michel Desmurget;Claude Prablanc

  • The effect of viewing the static hand prior to movement onset on pointing kinematics and variability

    Yves Rossetti;George Stelmach;Michel Desmurget;Claude Prablanc

  • Motor Sequences and the Basal Ganglia: Kinematics, Not Habits

    Michel Desmurget;Robert S. Turner

  • Postural and Synergic Control for Three-Dimensional Movements of Reaching and Grasping

    M. Desmurget;C. Prablanc;Y. Rossetti;M. Arzi

  • Normalizing motor-related brain activity: Subthalamic nucleus stimulation in Parkinson disease

    S. T. Grafton;R. S. Turner;R. S. Turner;M. Desmurget;R. Bakay

  • Mapping motor representations in the human cerebellum.

    Carmine Mottolese;Nathalie Richard;Nathalie Richard;Sylvain Harquel;Sylvain Harquel;Alexandru Szathmari

  • Conscious motor intention emerges in the inferior parietal lobule.

    Michel Desmurget;Angela Sirigu;Angela Sirigu

  • Integrated control of hand transport and orientation during prehension movements.

    Michel Desmurget;Claude Prablanc;Mohammad Arzi;Yves Rossetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Angela Sirigu
Angela Sirigu Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Scott T. Grafton
Scott T. Grafton University of California, Santa Barbara
Yves Rossetti
Yves Rossetti Lyon Neuroscience Research Center
Emmanuel Broussolle
Emmanuel Broussolle Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Marc Jeannerod
Marc Jeannerod Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Stéphane Thobois
Stéphane Thobois Hospices Civils de Lyon
Hugues Duffau
Hugues Duffau University of Montpellier
Caroline Tilikete
Caroline Tilikete Hospices Civils de Lyon

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