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Understanding the
workings of the brain is one of the greatest challenges in science. Key to
this is to understand how sensory information is used to control action.
The Speech and Motor Neuroscience
Group uses a combination of computational and experimental approaches in
humans to study sensorimotor control.
News
11.10.2016
PhD student Kathryn Francis has a new paper in PlosOne
Francis KB, Howard
C, Howard IS, Gummerum M, Ganis G, Anderson G, Terbeck
S. (2016)
Virtual Morality:
Transitioning from Moral Judgment to Moral Action?
PLoS One. 2016 Oct 10;11(10):e0164374.
doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0164374
FraHowHowGumGanAndTer_PO_2016.pdf
Example media coverage:
Daily Mail
Medical Daily
Medical Xpress
31.05.2016
New paper in Scientific Reports
Howard IS & Franklin DW (2016)
Adaptive tuning functions arise from visual
observation of past movement
Scientific Reports
20.01.2016
Conference paper submitted to ESSV 2016 in
Leipzig, Germany
Towards a mechanical vocal apparatus for vowel
production
01.01.2016
Onshell Relf joins
the lab as a PhD student
27.08.2015
New paper in the Journal of Phonetics
Messum P & Howard IS (2015)
Creating the cognitive
form of phonological units: the speech sound correspondence problem in
infancy could be solved by mirrored vocal interactions rather than by
imitation
Journal
of Phonetics
25.06.2015
New paper in PlosOne:
Howard IS &
Franklin DW (2015)
Neural tuning functions
underlie both generalization and interference
PLoS ONE, 10(6), e0131268.
08.01.2015
New
paper in Current Biology:
The Value
of the Follow-Through Derives from Motor Learning Depending on Future
Actions
Howard IS, Wolpert DM & Franklin
DW
Current
Biology: doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.12.037
Example media coverage:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge-researchers-practice-really-make/story-25826334-detail/story.html
University coverage:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/practice-really-does-make-perfect
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/study-shows-follow-through-can-boost-skill-acquisition
01.10.2014
New paper in PlosOne:
Howard IS & Messum P
(2014)
Learning to pronounce first words in three languages: an investigation
of caregiver and infant behavior using a computational model of an infant.
PLoS ONE 9(10): e110334. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.011033
01.07.2013
The
Speech and Motor Neuroscience Group is now setup at the University of
Plymouth. The lab is well equipped for running experimental investigation
in human motor control and facilities include a Bimanual 2BOT manipulandum with air sleds and a force transducer.
Shortly a new 3 dimensional 3BOT manipulandum will
be available. To support development, workshop facilities include
oscilloscopes, soldering irons, power supplies, signal generators and a
small milling machine and lathe.
10.07.2013
The Speech
and Motor Neuroscience Group will shortly be looking for PhD students
and postdocs in the areas of human motor control, infant speech acquisition
and computational modeling in both areas.
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