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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Tamar Flash is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their research spans multiple disciplines, including engineering, neuroscience, and psychology. The main fields of study encompass Engineering, Neuroscience, and Psychology, with notable subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Social Psychology, and Control and Systems Engineering.

Their work addresses a variety of topics, including:

  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Multisensory perception and integration

Recent publications by Tamar Flash include:

  • Biomechanics, motor control and dynamic models of the soft limbs of the octopus and other cephalopods (2023, Journal of Experimental Biology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tamar Flash are:

  • Martin A. Giese
  • Alain Berthoz
  • Avi Barliya
  • Nili E. Krausz
  • Hila Naaman

Tamar Flash has published in several venues, including:

  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Communications Biology
  • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
  • The Cerebellum
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist has also contributed to the academic literature through book publications. One notable book, published by Springer International Publishing in 2021, is titled Space-Time Geometries for Motion and Perception in the Brain and the Arts.

Among recognitions, Tamar Flash was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.

Best Publications

  • The coordination of arm movements: an experimentally confirmed mathematical model.

    Tamar Flash;Neville Hogan

  • Dynamic interactions between limb segments during planar arm movement

    John M. Hollerbach;Tamar Flash

  • The control of hand equilibrium trajectories in multi-joint arm movements

    T. Flash

  • Motor primitives in vertebrates and invertebrates.

    Tamar Flash;Binyamin Hochner

  • Minimum-jerk, two-thirds power law, and isochrony: converging approaches to movement planning.

    Paolo Viviani;Tamar Flash

  • Arm trajectory modifications during reaching towards visual targets

    Tamar Flash;Ealan Henis

  • Multiple shifts in the representation of a motor sequence during the acquisition of skilled performance

    Maria Korman;Naftali Raz;Tamar Flash;Avi Karni

  • Moving gracefully: quantitative theories of motor coordination

    Neville Hogan;Tamar Flash

  • Controlling multijoint motor behavior.

    Neville Hogan;Emilio Bizzi;Ferdinando A. Mussa-ivaldi;Tamar Flash

  • Continuum Robot Arms Inspired by Cephalopods

    Ian D. Walker;Darren M. Dawson;Tamar Flash;Frank W. Grasso

  • Control of octopus arm extension by a peripheral motor program.

    German Sumbre;Yoram Gutfreund;Graziano Fiorito;Tamar Flash

  • HUMAN ARM STIFFNESS CHARACTERISTICS DURING THE MAINTENANCE OF POSTURE

    T. Flash;F. Mussa-Ivaldi

  • Dynamic Model of the Octopus Arm. I. Biomechanics of the Octopus Reaching Movement

    Yoram Yekutieli;Roni Sagiv-Zohar;Ranit Aharonov;Yaakov Engel

  • Comparing Smooth Arm Movements with the Two-Thirds Power Law and the Related Segmented-Control Hypothesis

    Magnus J. E. Richardson;Magnus J. E. Richardson;Tamar Flash

  • A model of handwriting.

    Shimon Edelman;Tamar Flash

  • Neurobiology: motor control of flexible octopus arms.

    Germán Sumbre;Graziano Fiorito;Tamar Flash;Binyamin Hochner

  • Robotic melon harvesting

    Y. Edan;D. Rogozin;T. Flash;G.E. Miles

  • When practice leads to co-articulation: the evolution of geometrically defined movement primitives.

    Ronen Sosnik;Bjoern Hauptmann;Avi Karni;Avi Karni;Tamar Flash

  • Organization of Octopus Arm Movements: A Model System for Studying the Control of Flexible Arms

    Yoram Gutfreund;Tamar Flash;Yosef Yarom;Graziano Fiorito

  • Octopuses use a human-like strategy to control precise point-to-point arm movements.

    Germán Sumbre;Graziano Fiorito;Tamar Flash;Binyamin Hochner

  • Neural representations of kinematic laws of motion: Evidence for action-perception coupling

    Eran Dayan;Antonino Casile;Nava Levit-Binnun;Martin A. Giese

  • A Computational Model for Redundant Human Three-Dimensional Pointing Movements: Integration of Independent Spatial and Temporal Motor Plans Simplifies Movement Dynamics

    Armin Biess;Dario G Liebermann;Tamar Flash

  • Computational approaches to motor control.

    Tamar Flash;Terrence J Sejnowski

Frequent Co-Authors

Binyamin Hochner
Binyamin Hochner Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Martin A. Giese
Martin A. Giese University of Tübingen
Amir Amedi
Amir Amedi Reichman University
Alain Berthoz
Alain Berthoz Collège de France
Talma Hendler
Talma Hendler Tel Aviv University
Amos D. Korczyn
Amos D. Korczyn Tel Aviv University
Yael Edan
Yael Edan Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Shimon Edelman
Shimon Edelman Cornell University
Aude Billard
Aude Billard École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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