We are investigating if balance control in elderly individuals improves after an intervention that focuses on training sensory information for balance. Over an 8-week period, these individuals are asked to stand in the Balance Master under progressively more challenging sensory conditions. We then test how such sensory training influences overall balance control. Reaching involves processes that span the entire spectrum of intelligent behavior from sensation to perception to movement. A typical task is for the subject to reach as fast as possible to a target when it appears.
Different tasks vary the location and probability of different targets.
Behavioral and electrocortical evidence of an interaction between probability and task metrics in movement planning. Submitted to Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. This is an automatic search for PubMed listings of John Jeka's research publications and their abstracts. You can order here as well as find related articles. Dijkstra, T.M.H. DiZio, P. Horak, F.H. Kelso, J.A.S .