Associate Professor at Tel Aviv University
Joined November 2009
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9 Mar 2025
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/10.1007/978-3-031-82…
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9 Mar 2025
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…
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2 Apr 2024
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.a…
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3 Jun 2024
We are still accepting applications for the funded PhD position in my lab at Tel Aviv University, send your applications soon!
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23 Jan 2023
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.…. Thanks to my great collaborators from the Loewenstein hospital.
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23 Jan 2023
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
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23 Jan 2023
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.
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19 Dec 2022
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=FU5FoHYV… on movement differences between hands and which hand to treat after stroke
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17 Nov 2022
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/m…
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9 Nov 2022
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.c…
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30 Oct 2022
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.
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3 Aug 2022
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/s41598-022-1…
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3 Aug 2022
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.
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3 Aug 2022
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.
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5 Jul 2022
@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/10.1145/35032… @GifResearch @Tel_Aviv_Uni @unibielefeld
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5 Jul 2022
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/10.1145/35110…
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4 Apr 2022
Should an expected sensory response change the motor representation of the action in the brain? Thanks to Prof. Roy Mukamel from @TelAvivUni for his great recent talk on "Linking Actions to their Sensory Outcomes" in the Biomed@TAU Motor learning hub: youtube.com/watch?v=ttbmarxv…
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22 Feb 2022
Thanks to Joe Galea @GaleaLab for the great talk yesterday on "Reward-Based Improvements in Motor Control" in the @Tel_Aviv_Uni BioMed@TAU Motor learning hub, I learned a lot! It's available now on youtube: youtu.be/VjtubfxnUrI
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21 Dec 2021
Published a new paper in JNER on the differences in drawing movements between typically developing children with and without handwriting problems with colleagues from Alyn children's hospital rdcu.be/cDAQv
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21 Dec 2021
We recorded the kinematics of drawing on a graphics tablet, but also the proximal and distal joints of the arm (using a motion capture system). Each joint drew a smaller and smaller version of the shapes.
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21 Dec 2021
In the proximal joints (e.g. the shoulder) the size of the shapes was similar across groups (with and without handwriting problems), but children without handwriting problems showed more similar shapes in the joints (to the drawn shapes) than children with handwriting problems.
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