Jason Friedman

@gidsy @levink2

A new conference proceedings paper is out using neural networks to simulate motor tasks using networks trained to have hemispheric specialization. The model comparisons suggest that this strategy can take advantage of each hemisphere's strengths doi.org/10.1007/978-3-…

We published a new paper showing that people with Parkinson's disease produce more submovements than controls. In contrast to previous experiments, we used a tracking task so all participants would move at the same speed and for the same duration. jneuroengrehab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

We are still accepting applications for the funded PhD position in my lab at Tel Aviv University, send your applications soon!

PhD position: I’m looking for a PhD candidate to lead a project on how modulating variability can improve motor learning in my lab at Tel Aviv University. The position will be part of the TReND doctoral network with 11 other PhD students from around Europe movementsciences.sites.tau.ac.il/open-positions

@TarkeshRSingh Thanks @TarkeshRSingh! While the hour was difficult (starting at 10:45pm Israel time!), once I got started it didn't feel so late. I got some useful feedback, and will be happy to discuss any of the ideas from the talk further.

Thanks @writetojason for an Action Club talk last Friday. For those of you who attended, here are links to two of the papers: 1) doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp.… 2) doi.org/10.1007/s00426… For those of you who requested a recording, sorry I forgot to record the talk.

@ProfGorniak Congratulations! I'm glad to be joining you as an executive editor on JMB! Send us your great motor control papers

I did a thing! Just joined the executive editorial board of The Journal of Motor Behavior. uh.edu/class/hhp/news…

We think these differences are likely due to the different areas of brain damage typically seen in CP (motor areas) and TBI (frontal lobe), and the time following injury and plasticity at different ages.

We quantified finger coordination using the uncontrolled manifold (UCM) and found opposite results for children with CP and TBI. As children with CP get older, their synergy index increases (better coordination) whereas for children after TBI, the synergy index decreases with age

Our study on finger coordination in children with cerebral palsy and traumatic brain injury is out today in @FrontiersIn Human Neuroscience frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…. Thanks to my great collaborators from the Loewenstein hospital.

Thanks to Prof. Robert Sainburg from Penn State for his great recent talk in biomed@TAU motor learning hub: "It's the Wrong Hand, Bob" Why treat the good hand in Stroke Patients? youtube.com/watch?v=FU5FoH… on movement differences between hands and which hand to treat after stroke

@Liad_Mudrik Congratulations Liad! Looking forward to see what new great research you do

This time last year I was on the disappointed side of this list. Extremely thankful to have been awarded this year, and very grateful for all the help I received from friends and colleagues to make this happen (you know who you are 💜). And now the real work begins 🎉🎉🎉

Looking forward to the next zoom talk in the Biomed@TAU Motor learning hub this Monday at 1600 Israel time (=1400 UTC) from Prof. Bob Sainburg on "It’s the Wrong Hand, Bob!" Why treat the good hand in Stroke Patients?" en-biomed.tau.ac.il/events/motor/l…

@mukamelab Looking forward to it - hope to see you there

Listen up! Registration and abstract submission deadline for our Multisensory Integration in Action workshop has been extended until November 20th! Don’t miss it! Motorcognition2022.wixsite.com/workshop

Today I finally got the phone call from our dean - I was promoted to Associate Professor! I was in the middle of teaching and had to wait an hour to call her back and make sure it was the news I was hoping to hear. Thanks to all my great colleagues, collaborators, and students.

While the intervention did cause more variance during training, it did not lead to improved performance after training. It seems that in such tasks, self-generated timing variability is more effective than prescribed variability.

The intervention was a series of beeps with a random rhythm - the participant needed to copy the timing. We used this intervention because previous studies have shown that the inter-movement timing causes most of the improvement in this task.

Published a new paper today with @MariaKormanPhD and Assaf Amiaz in @SciReports on whether forcing people to be more or less variable when training on a motor sequence task leads to improved learning doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

Also - Nina Ziegenbein will be presenting another piano-related study at the HAAPIE workshop at #UMAP2022 on Monitoring the Learning Progress in Piano Playing with Hidden Markov Models dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…

@AMoringen will be presenting on Thursday our study on automatic evaluation of piano playing at #UMAP2022 in Barcelona: how to automatically rate different features of performance for use in piano learning systems dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35… @GifResearch @Tel_Aviv_Uni @unibielefeld