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Thomas Mergner is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany. Their research spans multiple intersecting fields, primarily focusing on Engineering, Health Professions, and Medicine. Within these, their work is concentrated in Biomedical Engineering, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Cognitive Neuroscience, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, and Pharmacology.

The scientist's primary topics of study include Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention, Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics, Muscle Activation and Electromyography Studies, Motor Control and Adaptation, Robotic Locomotion and Control, Effects of Vibration on Health, and Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation.

Thomas Mergner has contributed to several peer-reviewed journals and publication venues. Their notable publication venues comprise arXiv (Cornell University), Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Applied Sciences, Neuroscience Letters, and Gait & Posture.

Recent published papers exemplifying their research focus are:

  • A Challenge: Support of Standing Balance in Assistive Robotic Devices (2020, Applied Sciences)
  • Visual Modulation of Human Responses to Support Surface Translation (2021, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)
  • Body sway responses to pseudorandom support surface translations of vestibular loss subjects resemble those of vestibular able subjects (2020, Neuroscience Letters)
  • Human body-sway steady-state responses to small amplitude tilts and translations of the support surface - Effects of superposition of the two stimuli (2022, Gait & Posture)
  • Voluntary suppression of neck reflexes during passive head-on-trunk rotations: reflex gain control versus proprioceptive feedback (2021, Journal of Neurophysiology)

Throughout their research career, Thomas Mergner has collaborated frequently with other scientists. Regular co-authors include Vittorio Lippi, Christoph Maurer, Christoph A. Maurer, Mustafa Emre Akçay, and Lorenz Assländer.

Best Publications

  • Interaction of vestibular, somatosensory and visual signals for postural control and motion perception under terrestrial and microgravity conditions—a conceptual model

    Thomas Mergner;Thomas Rosemeier

  • Multisensory control of human upright stance.

    C. Maurer;T. Mergner;R.J. Peterka

  • A multisensory posture control model of human upright stance.

    T Mergner;C Maurer;R J Peterka

  • Human perception of horizontal trunk and head rotation in space during vestibular and neck stimulation.

    T. Mergner;C. Siebold;G. Schweigart;W. Becker

  • Vascular risk factors and arteriosclerotic disease in idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus of the elderly

    Joachim K. Krauss;Jens P. Regel;Werner Vach;Dirk W. Droste

  • Vestibular, visual, and somatosensory contributions to human control of upright stance.

    C Maurer;T Mergner;B Bolha;F Hlavacka

  • Human balance control during cutaneous stimulation of the plantar soles.

    C. Maurer;T. Mergner;B. Bolha;F. Hlavacka

  • Effect of chronic bilateral subthalamic nucleus (STN) stimulation on postural control in Parkinson’s disease

    Maurer C;Mergner T;Xie J;Faist M

  • VESTIBULAR-NECK INTERACTION AND TRANSFORMATION OF SENSORY COORDINATES

    Mergner T;Huber W;Becker W

  • Relationship between saccadic eye movements and cortical activity as measured by fMRI: quantitative and qualitative aspects.

    H. Kimmig;M. W. Greenlee;M. Gondan;M. Schira

  • Human postural responses to motion of real and virtual visual environments under different support base conditions

    T. Mergner;G. Schweigart;C. Maurer;A. Blümle

  • A neurological view on reactive human stance control

    Thomas Mergner

  • Commissural, perihypoglossal and reticular afferent projections to the vestibular nuclei in the cat. An experimental anatomical study with the method of the retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase.

    Pompeiano O;Mergner T;Corvaja N

  • The role of canal-neck interaction for the perception of horizontal trunk and head rotation.

    T Mergner;G L Nardi;W Becker;L Deecke

  • Role of vestibular and neck inputs for the perception of object motion in space

    T. Mergner;G. Rottler;H. Kimmig;W. Becker

  • Interaction of vestibular and proprioceptive inputs.

    Mergner T;Hlavacka F;Schweigart G

  • Control of the body vertical by vestibular and proprioceptive inputs

    F. Hlavacka;T. Mergner;T. Mergner;M. Krizkova;M. Krizkova

  • MR-eyetracker: a new method for eye movement recording in functional magnetic resonance imaging.

    H. Kimmig;Mark W. Greenlee;F. Huethe;T. Mergner

  • Vestibular humanoid postural control.

    Thomas Mergner;Georg Schweigart;Luminous Fennell

  • What is pathological with gaze shift fragmentation in Parkinson's disease?

    Hubert Kimmig;Katja Haußmann;Thomas Mergner;Carl H. Lücking

  • Tullio phenomenon with torsion of the eyes and subjective tilt of the visual surround

    L. Deecke;T. Mergner;D. Plester

  • Neuronal responses to natural vestibular and neck stimulation in the anterior suprasylvian gyrus of the cat

    W. Becker;L. Deecke;T. Mergner

  • Canal-neck interaction in vestibular neurons of the cat's cerebral cortex.

    T. Mergner;W. Becker;L. Deecke

  • PATTERNS OF VESTIBULAR AND NECK RESPONSES AND THEIR INTERACTION: A COMPARISON BETWEEN CAT CORTICAL NEURONS AND HUMAN PSYCHOPHYSICS*

    T. Mergner;L. Deecke;W. Becker

  • Integration of afferent inputs from neck muscles and macular labyrinthine receptors within the lateral reticular nucleus.

    J.D. Coulter;T. Mergner;O. Pompeiano

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark W. Greenlee
Mark W. Greenlee University of Regensburg
Robert J. Peterka
Robert J. Peterka Oregon Health & Science University
Lüder Deecke
Lüder Deecke Medical University of Vienna
Alfred C. Schouten
Alfred C. Schouten Delft University of Technology
Heiner Deubel
Heiner Deubel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jan Kassubek
Jan Kassubek University of Ulm
Stefan Glasauer
Stefan Glasauer Brandenburg University of Technology
Frans W. Cornelissen
Frans W. Cornelissen University Medical Center Groningen
Dario Farina
Dario Farina Imperial College London

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