Dr. Juergen Konczak, professor in biomechanics, has published an article in the November issue of Journal of Motor Behavior:

Konczak J, Corcos DM, Horak F, Poizner H, Shapiro M, Tuite P, Volkmann J, Maschke M. Proprioception and motor control in Parkinson's disease. J Mot Behav. 2009 Nov;41(6):543-52.

The article originated from an interdisciplinary University-sponsored workshop on Proprioception and Motor Control in Parkinson's Disease that Prof. Konczak organized in September 2008 and represents the collective expertise from several national and international experts in this area.

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Juergen Konczak, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, will give a talk Wednesday, November 4, on "Lesion-symptom mapping of the human cerebellum." His presentation, part of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience Colloquium Series, will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in Room 2-101, Hasselmo Hall.

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Michael Wade, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, is in Taiwan October 6-12 to give two invited presentations at Cheng-Kung University in the city of Tainan. He will also be visiting students and faculty at National Taiwan Normal University and Kaohsiung University. Several former Kinesiology Ph.D. students have faculty positions in both universities.

Wade has also been invited to give the keynote address at the 2010 AAHPERD Convention March 17, 2010, in Indianapolis. The conference will be sponsored by the Motor Development and Learning Academy. The title of his address will be, "Lifespan Motor Development: Movement by Design and Movement that Informs."

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The organizers of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics have invited Juergen Konczak, Ph.D., professor of biomechanics, and colleagues to present a paper that will subsequently be published in a peer-reviewed engineering journal. This is the second paper this year originating from Konczak's collaboration with the Italian Institute of Technology, where he spent a recent sabbatical. Konczak is the senior author of the paper. The conference will be held November 12-14.

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Kinesiology doctoral candidate Jane Yank is presenting at the International Graphonomics Society meeting at the University of Bourgogne, Dijon, France, September 13-16, 2009. The topic of her talk is "Visuomotor Tracking in a Pursuit Loop-drawing Task," in which she discusses the effects of concurrent visual feedback on timing and fluidity in hand movements.

Ms. Yank co-authored the paper with Arend Van Gemmert, Ph.D., Louisiana State University. Ms. Yank's adviser is Dr. Michael Wade.

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Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, announces the publication of an article he wrote with a colleague and a graduate student in the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL). Sebastien Villard, Ph.D., was an NIH-funded post-doc in APAL. Yawen Yu is a graduate student in APAL.

Stoffregen, T. A., Villard, S., & Yu, Y. (2009). Body sway at sea for two visual tasks and three stance widths. Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, in press.

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Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, will present Body Sway and Motion Sickness at the Department of Otolaryngology Research Seminar at 5:00 PM on September 16, 2009 in the Phillips Wangensteen Building room 8-335.

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Juergen Konczak, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, announces the publication of an article he wrote with a research group from the Department of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, at the Italian Institute of Technology. This work was performed during Konczak's single-semester leave last spring in Genova, Italy.

Sciutti A, Squeri V, Gori M, Masia L, Sandini G, & Konczak J. Predicted sensory feedback derived from motor commands does not improve haptic sensitivity. Experimental Brain Research, 2009 Sep 4. [Epub ahead of print]

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Michael Wade, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology, and his former graduate student, James Hackney Ph.D., have published a new article.

Hackney, J. M., Wade,M. G., Larson, C., Smith, J. P., & Rakow,J., Impairment in anterior cruciate ligament reconstructed subjects in adjusting ground reaction forces in running. Physical Therapy Theory and Practice, in press.

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Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, has published two new articles in the field of movement science. Several of his current and former students also contributed to these articles.

Fu-Chen Chen and Ya-Wen Yu are kinesiology graduate students in working in the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL). Sebastien Villard, Ph.D., was an NIH-funded post-doc in APAL. Chunggon Kim, Ph.D., received his doctoral degree under Stoffregen's guidance. Drs. Ito and Bardy are (respectively) Japanese and French research collaborators.

His most recent articles follow.

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Juergen Konczak Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, has published a new article, "Arbitrary visuomotor mapping during object manipulation in Parkinson's disease." The article, published in the international journal Movement Disorders, was written in collaboration with Dennis Nowak, Ph.D., a neurologist and former research fellow in Konczak's Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory. Nowak now heads the Kipfenberg Clinic, a neurological rehabilitation center near Munich, Germany.

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Juergen Konczak, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology gave a presentation recently at a four day international workshop on Musculoskeletal Systems and Computational Neuroscience. The workshop was organized by the Polytechnical University of Milan. Konczak presented on how well children recover their motor and cognitive function after removal of a tumor in the cerebellum.

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The 15th International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA-15) will be held July 12-17, 2009, at the Continuing Education and Conference Center on the St. Paul campus. Hosted by the University's School of Kinesiology, the Center for Cognitive Sciences, and the Center for Clinical Movement Science, and the International Society for Ecological Psychology, this conference will bring together researchers from multidisciplinary backgrounds to discuss issues broadly related to perception and action. Session and poster topics cover a wide range of areas, such as robotics, human and animal cognition, human factors and tool use, speech-language production and perception, and dynamical systems modeling. The conference, which has attracted over 100 academics and professionals from around the world, is coordinated by School of Kinesiology professors Tom Stoffregen and Michael Wade.

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Juergen Konczak, professor in Kinesiology, has just published two articles as part of his ongoing collaboration with a group of neurologists at the University Medical Centre Essen, Germany.

Kronenbuerger M, Konczak J, Ziegler W, Buderath P, Frank B, Coenen VA, Kiening K, Reinacher P, Noth J, Timmann D. Balance and Motor Speech Impairment in Essential Tremor. In Cerebellum. 2009 May 19. [Epub ahead of print]

Timmann D, Konczak J, Ilg W, Donchin O, Hermsdörfer J, Gizewski E, Schoch B.
Current advances in lesion-symptom mapping of the human cerebellum. . In Neuroscience 2009 Jan 26. [Epub ahead of print]

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Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D. professor in Kinesiology has published an article with Jane Yank, Ph.D. candidate in Kinesiology.

"The Postural Responses of Adults Who Are Blind to a Moving Environment" by Thomas A. Stoffregen, Kiyohide Ito, Philip Hove, Jane Redfield Yank, and Benoit G. Bardy, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness.

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Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, published in collaboration with two colleagues: Bruno Mantel and Benoit Bardy, Ph.D., at the University of Montpellier-1, France. Mantel is a student working toward his Ph.D. under the supervision of Bardy and Stoffregen.

Mantel, B., Bardy, B. G., & Stoffregen, T. A. (2009). Locomotor assessment of whether an object is reachable. Ecological Psychology, in press.

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Nickie Chang, Ph. D., Michael Wade, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, and Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, have a recent paper to be published in the Journal of Motor Behavior. Chang is a former School of Kinesiology Ph.D. student. Wade served as Chang's adviser.

Chang, C.-H., Wade, M. G., & Stoffregen, T. A. (2009). Perceiving affordances for aperture passage in an environment-person-person system. Journal of Motor Behavior, in press.

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Carol Leitschuh, Ph.D., research associate in Kinesiology, who is on sabbatical this semester at Palacky University in the Czech Republic, gave an invited presentation on April 9th to faculty and graduate students of the Psychology Department at The University of New York at Prague. The title of her talk was "The value of a physically active life: Infancy - youth." Leitschuh also gave this presentation April 28th to faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in the School of Pedagogy at Palacky University.

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Juergen Konczak, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, who is on sabbatical in Geneva, Italy, gave two invited presentations in France on May 4 and 5. In Paris he presented to the College de France, one of the oldest premier research institutions in the country. The title of his talk was "The cerebellum and motor control: Lessons from how well children recover from injury to the cerebellum."

At the University of Dijon, Konczak spoke to an interdisciplinary group of musicians, pediatricians, and movement scientists on "Learning how to play the violin: insights into how children acquire complex motor skills."

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Juergen Konczak, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, who is on sabbatical this semester in Geneva, Italy, gave an invited presentation on April 22 to clinicians at a teaching hospital in Trier, Germany. The title of his talk was "Funktionelle Erholung nach Kleinhirnschaedigung (Functional recovery after injury to the cerebellum)."

Results from his research laboratory and from his international collaboration were recently published in Journal of Motor Behavior and Gait and Posture.

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The Center for Clinical Movement Science, whose membership includes many faculty and graduate students in the School of Kinesiology, held its first Research Day on Friday, Aprli 17. Photos of the event may be seen at the CCMS Web site.

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Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, gave an invited colloquium in the Department of Cognitive Science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, on the topic of "Postural instability and motion sickness" on March 25.

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The research of Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, is the subject of an article in the News Scan section of the April, 2009, Scientific American. Stoffregen's controversial theories on postural instability as the cause of motion sickness are featured.

In addition, Prof. Stoffregen has had the following article accepted by Motor Control. Two of the authors, Russ Giveans and Jane Yank, are his doctoral students.Sebastien Villard spent worked with him as a post-doctoral student.

Stoffregen, T. A., Giveans, M. R., Villard, S., Yank, J. R., & Shockley, K. (2009). Interpersonal postural coordination on rigid and non-rigid surfaces.

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Tom Stoffregen, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology has published two new journal articles.

Stoffregen, T. A., Yang, C.-M., Giveans, M. R., Flanagan, M., & Bardy, B. G. (2009). Movement in the perception of an affordance for wheelchair locomotion. Ecological Psychology, 21, 1-36.

Faugloire, E., Stoffregen, T. A., & Bardy, B. G. (2009). (De)Stabilization of required and spontaneous postural dynamics with learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 35, 170-187.

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Juergen Konczak, Ph.D., professor in Kinesiology, has had a collaborative paper with colleagues from Israel (Ben Gurion University, Negev) and Germany (University of Essen, University of Tuebingen, and EKN Munich) accepted by Neuroscience. Titled "Current Advances in Lesion-Symptom Mapping of the Human Cerebellum," the paper summarizes the methodology of MRI-based lesion symptom mapping of the human cerebellum and discusses its potential for gaining insights into cerebellar function.

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Carol Leitschuh, Ph.D. research associate in the Department of Kinesiology, was invited to present in September at Italy's Universita Degli Sudi Roma "La Sapienza," Dipartimento di Psicologia (Psychology Department). Carol's presentation was entitled "Movement of Babies Born Premature." In addition, productive meetings were held with graduate faculty and students on the progress of their research on assessing infants, toddlers, and preschoolers using Carol's tool for monitoring movement skill development at these very young ages.

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Professor Tom Stoffregen (Kinesiology) has had two articles accepted for publication and three recent publications on findings from research supported by his NIH, NSF, and/or European grants.

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Professor Jürgen Konczak (Kinesiology) has just published two journal articles.

• "Increased basal-ganglia activation performing a non-dystonia-related task in focal dystonia" was published in European Journal of Neurology, 2008, vol. 15, pp. 831-838. Authors are M.Obermann, O.Yaldizi, A. de Greiff, J. Konczak, M.L. Lachenmayer, F. Tumczak, A.R. Buhl, N. Putzki, J. Vollmer-Haase, E.R. Gizewski, H.C. Diener, and M. Maschke.


• "Haptic perception of object curvature in Parkinson's Disease" was published in Public Library of Science ONE, 2008. Authors are Jürgen Konczak, Kuan-yi Li, Paul J. Tuite, and Howard Poizner (Kuan-yi Li is a doctoral student of Jürgen's.)

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Carol Leitschuh, research associate and lecturer in adapted physical education in the School of Kinesiology, has received a coveted Fulbright Award for 2009. She will be teaching and conducting research in the Czech Republic. According to the Fulbright office, Leitschuh is the first Kinesiology academic in the United States to win the award.

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