Lecturer: Raoul Bongers
Fields: Human Movement Sciences
Content
The lectures will explain fundamental issues in motor control, motor coordination and motor learning from an Action-perception perspective. To this end we employ a joint perspective from Ecological Psychology and a Dynamical Systems approach to movement coordination. Thee are all systems-perspectives. I will focus on four themes:
– The motor system is organised in synergies
– Information-movement couplings control actions
– Learning new synergies
– Embodying hand prostheses
Literature
- Kristoffersen, M. B., Franzke, A. W., Sluis, C. K. van der, Murgia, A. & Bongers, R. M. Serious gaming to generate separated and consistent EMG patterns in pattern-recognition prosthesis control. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 62, 102140 (2020).
- Pacheco MM, Lafe CW and Newell KM (2019) Search Strategies in the Perceptual-Motor Workspace and the Acquisition of Coordination, Control, and Skill. Front. Psychol. 10:1874. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01874
- Profeta, V. L. S. & Turvey, M. T. Bernstein’s levels of movement construction_ A contemporary perspective. HUMAN MOVEMENT SCIENCE 57, 111–133 (2017).
- Richardson, M.J., Shockley, K., Fajen, B.R., Riley, M.A., Turvey, M.T., 2008. Ecological psychology: six principles for an embodied–embedded approach to behavior. In: Calvo, P., Gomila, A.B.T.-H., of, C.S. (Eds.), Perspectives on Cognitive Science. Elsevier, San Diego, pp. 159–187. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-046616-3.00009-8.
- Zhao, H. & Warren, W. H. On-line and model-based approaches to the visual control of action. Vision Research 110, 190–202 (2015).
Lecturer
Dr. Bongers received his PhD from the Radboud University Nijmegen in the area of developmental psychology. For 20 years he works now at the Department of Human Movement Sciences of the University Medical Center Groningen. His research focuses on motor coordination and motor learning from an action-perception perspective. He is interested in fundamental issues in motor learning, in particular how people learn to coordinate their degrees of freedom in new synergies. He applies these insight to develop rehabilitation strategies in upper limb prosthesis for more than 15 years and recently also to stroke rehabilitation.
Affiliation: Dept of Human Movement Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
Homepage: https://www.rug.nl/staff/r.m.bongers/