Scientific Resources

This study uses EEG data and machine learning to identify brain function differences in long COVID and ME patients.

Assessment of visually guided motor task performance requiring transformation of visual input into motor outputs.

AI detects intentional underperformance in cognitive tasks using EEG brain signals with high accuracy.

Eye–hand coordination that requires rule-based control develops mainly in late childhood, improving significantly during early adolescence.

Children with past concussions show lasting cognitive–motor deficits that standard return-to-play tests may miss.

Youth with concussion history struggle to quickly adapt to complex eye–hand coordination tasks, especially under new task demands.

Cognitive–motor training strengthens brain networks and improves coordination in adults at risk of dementia.

Greater sports experience helps youth recover cognitive–motor skills faster after concussion, suggesting a protective “motor reserve” effect.

Cognitive–motor training improves thinking ability and visuomotor skills in older adults, especially those with mild cognitive deficits.

Young adult females with past concussions show no long-term visuomotor deficits under controlled task conditions.

Males and females show different brain activation patterns during visuomotor tasks despite similar performance.

Forcing eye and arm movements in different directions disrupts typical movement patterns, revealing the brain’s default coupling of gaze and reach.

Female action video game players show more efficient brain activity and faster visuomotor responses, especially in tasks requiring eye–hand dissociation.

Visuomotor tasks that dissociate gaze and hand movements engage widespread brain regions more strongly than standard reaching, reflecting sensorimotor recalibration.

Nonstandard sensorimotor tasks engage a distributed brain network, including motor and parietal regions, with activity patterns varying by task complexity.

Decoupled reaching relies on distinct neural networks, with explicit rule-based control and sensorimotor recalibration supporting different movement strategies.

Extensive video-game experience enhances prefrontal and visuomotor network activity, improving planning for complex eye–hand coordination tasks.

Patients with optic ataxia rely on additional eye movements to compensate for peripheral visuomotor deficits, highlighting the caudal superior parietal lobule’s role in updating hand position.

Bilateral superior parietal damage impairs decoupled visuomotor control, especially for non-canonical targets requiring sensorimotor recalibration.

Neurons in parietal area 5 are less sensitive than M1 neurons to the timing and direction of forces during reaching and isometric tasks.

Kinematic measures of complex visuomotor tasks detect early impairments in adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease with high accuracy.

Female action video game players show more efficient brain activity and faster visuomotor responses, especially in tasks requiring eye–hand dissociation.

Visuomotor tasks that dissociate gaze and hand movements engage widespread brain regions more strongly than standard reaching, reflecting sensorimotor recalibration.

Nonstandard sensorimotor tasks engage a distributed brain network, including motor and parietal regions, with activity patterns varying by task complexity.

Poorer cognitive–motor integration in adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease is linked to reduced resting-state brain connectivity.

The superior parietal lobule encodes rule-based information to transform nonstandard sensory inputs into accurate motor actions.

White matter deterioration in adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease is linked to impaired cognitive–motor control, suggesting a potential early detection marker.

In varsity athletes, SCAT3 primarily detects self-reported symptoms after concussion, with limited utility for other measures or differences by sex and concussion history.

White matter integrity correlates with cognitive–motor integration performance, even when individuals with post-concussion syndrome show no overt deficits.

Structural differences in the frontoparietal-cerebellar network relate to cognitive–motor integration, suggesting compensatory mechanisms in individuals with post-concussion syndrome.

Symptomatic individuals with concussion are more sensitive to visually induced motion sickness, highlighting considerations for VR-based assessment and rehabilitation.

A novel fNIRS and AR protocol uses virtual obstacles to study how attention affects prefrontal activity and gait during dual-task walking.

Hand proximity enhances visual processing in V2 neurons, sharpening orientation selectivity and supporting optimized motor control.

Sex and genetic risk factors influence cognitive–motor integration, with at-risk females and APOE4 carriers showing poorer performance on complex visuomotor tasks.

APOE ε4 carriers show altered resting-state connectivity in the default and dorsal attention networks, predicting poorer non-standard visuomotor performance.

In APOE ε4 carriers, reduced grey matter in medial temporal regions and lower white matter integrity in key tracts predict poorer non-standard visuomotor performance.

Sex differences in brain connectivity underlie bimanual coordination, with women showing greater interhemispheric cortical connectivity and men showing stronger cerebellar connectivity.ces by sex and concussion history.

Testosterone levels predict cognitive-motor integration performance, linked to structural differences in visuomotor brain regions.

Rostral PMd integrates rule-based aspects of decoupled reaches, while caudal PMd updates movements online during eye-hand dissociation.

Decoupled eye-hand movements alter SPL beta and gamma synchrony during planning and execution.

Concussion impairs cognitive-motor integration, but visuomotor skill improves with recovery, especially in females, highlighting sex-related differences in skilled performance networks.

Spike–field coherence in PMd and SPL varies with eye–hand coupling, revealing distinct cortical control patterns for decoupled versus coupled reaches.

Motor cortex neurons systematically adjust directional tuning and activity with hand posture during isometric force generation, reflecting transformations between extrinsic and intrinsic motor representations.

Blast and impact-related mild traumatic brain injuries impair cognitive-motor integration, affecting rule-based skilled performance, with effects modulated by age, sex, and expertise.

Caudal M1 neurons encode task-specific arm movement dynamics, dissociating neural activity from hand motion in reaching versus isometric tasks.

Alzheimer’s patients show marked deficits in visuomotor transformations, with slower, less accurate movements and greater errors even with minimal cognitive impairment.

This pilot study compares full-body and upper extremity cognitive-motor integration tasks, finding greater difficulty in full-body tasks and performance influences from age, sex, and sport experience.

Alzheimer’s patients show early deficits in integrating visual information for accurate motor responses.

rTMS of human PPC reveals that SPOC encodes retinally peripheral reach goals, while mIPS and AG overlap in saccade and reach planning, with motor details specific to hand movements.

A novel visuomotor (VM) assessment effectively distinguishes Alzheimer’s patients from healthy controls and can be efficiently used in primary healthcare settings.

TMS over dorsal–lateral PPC disrupts the integration of hand position into the reach plan, but visual feedback can recalibrate the perturbed signal.

Breaching, concussion history, and deployment in military personnel are linked to post-concussive symptoms, reduced energy, and cognitive-motor deficits.

Left parietal TMS increases pointing variability, while right parietal TMS causes a leftward shift, indicating motor-coordinate processing.

This study finds that motor planning initially uses a coarse approximation of limb dynamics, refining the plan as the movement progresses.

Research examining cognitive-motor integration deficits in older adults at heightened risk for Alzheimer's disease.

Study demonstrating impaired visuomotor coordination in patients with early-stage Alzheimer's disease.

Investigation of how video game experience modifies brain networks involved in complex cognitive-motor tasks.

Analysis of cognitive-motor integration deficits in adults with elevated Alzheimer's disease risk factors.

fMRI study revealing brain activation patterns during progressively complex visuomotor coordination tasks.

Research on how concussion history impacts cognitive-motor performance in professional athletes.

Study examining neural mechanisms underlying preparation for complex sensory-motor integration tasks..

Investigation of cognitive-motor impairments in youth athletes after concussion injuries.

Research on cognitive-motor coordination deficits in adults diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment.