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Overview

Reza Shadmehr is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States and specializes in the field of neuroscience. Their research primarily explores topics involving neural dynamics and brain function, motor control and adaptation, and vestibular and auditory disorders. Additional areas of their work include neural and behavioral psychology studies, muscle activation and electromyography studies, action observation and synchronization, as well as EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Among the recent publications by Shadmehr are the following:

  • An implicit memory of errors limits human sensorimotor adaptation, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Synchronous spiking of cerebellar Purkinje cells during control of movements, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Postural control of arm and fingers through integration of movement commands, 2020, eLife
  • P-sort: an open-source software for cerebellar neurophysiology, 2021, Journal of Neurophysiology
  • The Origins of Anterograde Interference in Visuomotor Adaptation, 2020, Cerebral Cortex

Shadmehr's collaborations involve frequent co-authorship with several researchers, including Mohammad Amin Fakharian, Paul Hage, Ehsan Sedaghat-Nejad, Jay S. Pi, and Scott T. Albert.

Their publications are commonly found in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Neurophysiology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, eLife, and Current Biology.

In addition to articles, Shadmehr has contributed to book publications, including a work titled Vigor, published by The MIT Press in 2020.

The scientist's research spans several subfields within neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, neurology, social psychology, biomedical engineering, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Adaptive representation of dynamics during learning of a motor task

    Reza Shadmehr;Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi

  • Error Correction, Sensory Prediction, and Adaptation in Motor Control

    Reza Shadmehr;Maurice A. Smith;John W. Krakauer

  • Neural Correlates of Motor Memory Consolidation

    Reza Shadmehr;Henry H. Holcomb

  • Consolidation in human motor memory

    Thomas Brashers-Krug;Reza Shadmehr;Emilio Bizzi

  • A computational neuroanatomy for motor control

    Reza Shadmehr;John W. Krakauer

  • Interacting adaptive processes with different timescales underlie short-term motor learning.

    Maurice A Smith;Ali Ghazizadeh;Reza Shadmehr

  • Learning of action through adaptive combination of motor primitives

    Kurt A. Thoroughman;Reza Shadmehr

  • Sensory Prediction Errors Drive Cerebellum-Dependent Adaptation of Reaching

    Ya-weng Tseng;Joern Diedrichsen;John W Krakauer;Reza Shadmehr

  • Functional Stages in the Formation of Human Long-Term Motor Memory

    Reza Shadmehr;Thomas Brashers-Krug

  • The Computational Neurobiology of Reaching and Pointing: A Foundation for Motor Learning

    Reza Shadmehr;Steven P. Wise

  • Neural Correlates of Reach Errors

    Jörn Diedrichsen;Yasmin Hashambhoy;Tushar Rane;Reza Shadmehr

  • The coordination of movement: optimal feedback control and beyond

    Jörn Diedrichsen;Jörn Diedrichsen;Reza Shadmehr;Richard B. Ivry

  • Consolidation of motor memory.

    John W. Krakauer;Reza Shadmehr

  • Electromyographic correlates of learning an internal model of reaching movements.

    Kurt A. Thoroughman;Reza Shadmehr

  • Intact ability to learn internal models of arm dynamics in Huntington's disease but not cerebellar degeneration.

    Maurice A. Smith;Reza Shadmehr

  • Learning from sensory and reward prediction errors during motor adaptation.

    Jun Izawa;Reza Shadmehr

  • Quantifying Generalization from Trial-by-Trial Behavior of Adaptive Systems that Learn with Basis Functions: Theory and Experiments in Human Motor Control

    Opher Donchin;Joseph T. Francis;Reza Shadmehr

  • The dynamics of memory as a consequence of optimal adaptation to a changing body

    Konrad Paul Kording;Joshua B. Tenenbaum;Reza Shadmehr

  • Computational nature of human adaptive control during learning of reaching movements in force fields.

    Nikhil Bhushan;Reza Shadmehr

  • Augmented Feedback Presented in a Virtual Environment Accelerates Learning of a Difficult Motor Task.

    Emanuel Todorov;Reza Shadmehr;Emilio Bizzi

Frequent Co-Authors

John W. Krakauer
John W. Krakauer Johns Hopkins University
Opher Donchin
Opher Donchin Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
David S. Zee
David S. Zee Johns Hopkins University
Jörn Diedrichsen
Jörn Diedrichsen University of Western Ontario
Stewart H. Mostofsky
Stewart H. Mostofsky Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Amy J. Bastian
Amy J. Bastian Kennedy Krieger Institute
Mark M. Churchland
Mark M. Churchland Columbia University
Philippe Lefèvre
Philippe Lefèvre Université Catholique de Louvain
Ritsuko Hanajima
Ritsuko Hanajima Tottori University

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