UC Davis Sensorimotor Integration Lab

Last week we were able to celebrate a bittersweet farewell to our graduate student, @rose_dekock, and several talented undergraduates. We are so proud of their accomplishments and can't wait to see the amazing things they do next!

Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Jonathon Schofield has been recognized with a NSF CAREER Award for his research on engineering effective prosthetics for children born without fully formed limbs! Read more: engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/jonathon-…

Our very talented undergraduate, Sonia, presented her senior design project. She helped create a light-weight and compact device that supports the upper limbs of patients while in the hospital. Sonia will be attending graduate school this fall and we wish her the best of luck!

Incredible action shot depicting the Joiner lab in attendance at the annual Neuroengineering & Medicine Symposium. Special thanks to @Gabriela_LeeP for organizing the event and the @ucd_neuroeng for hosting

We have some amazing undergraduates working in our lab! They were able to display their research at the UC Davis Undergraduate Research Symposium @ucdavis

The SMI Lab's March Madness brackets

Our first-year Winter quarter rotation student, Aya, did a great job giving her rotation talk! Her research (via collaboration with @JoyJGeng !) set the foundation to investigate key differences in visual and motor system processing.

Our 3rd year graduate student @KAJ_Jordan is setting up her study, utilizing motion capture and virtual reality to investigate body schema. We can't wait to see the results!

We had such a great time volunteering at NeuroFest. Thank you to the event organizers and to all who attended! @UCDavisCNS

Having fun at NeuroFest with students from the BEAR Lab and Neurotech@Davis. @UCDavisCNS @UCDavisNC @UCDavisCOE

Dr. Audrey Fan presenting at NeuroFest. @UCDavisCNS @UCDavisNC @UCDavisBME @UCD_Neurology

In this 📃 Weiwei Zhou et al. investigated the spatiotemporal characteristics of short-term #MotorLearning to determine the properties of the respective learning mechanisms. ow.ly/YhfN50QIz1b @UCDmotorlab @HalyKatelyn @ElizabethAKruse #VisualFeedback #TemporalStability

I’m honored to be a recipient of the Chicana Latina Foundation Scholarship! Truly a great cohort full of inspiring leaders and advocates. Here’s some pics from the award celebration where I happily invited my amazing mentor who is so supportive of the time I spend giving back 🤩

Our graduate student, Justin Fitzgerald, found evidence that motor control still develops in the absence of an upper limb. This provides guidance for prosthetic development in children with a unilateral congenital below elbow deficiency. jneuroengrehab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

An amazing review on the neural mechanisms underlying motor learning in dementia populations by our third-year graduate student @jessakorte direct.mit.edu/jocn/article/d…

Great paper from our lab on how explicit visual feedback improves motion state-dependent changes to motor output. Headed by our incredible project scientist, Dr. Weiwei Zhou journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11…

@KAJ_Jordan just published her first 1st-author paper! She found that having multimodal cues can improve bumblebees' responses to noisy versions of trained cues Check it out: researchgate.net/profile/Jordan…

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@kareelynnn just got her abstract accepted to the @ABRCMS conference in Phoenix, AZ. This acceptance came with a travel award! Go Kareelynn!!

Professor Wilsaan Joiner @UCDmotorlab talks about his research at the UC Davis Sensorimotor Integration Lab with students attending the NSF NRT NeuralStorm workshop. #UCDavis #neuroengineering @ucdavisbiology @UCD_Neurology @UCDavisCOE @UCDavisResearch @UCDavisNC @UCDavisCNS