Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0344918

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0344918

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

An investigation of limb dynamics as a constraint on human motor learning. Everyday we use our limbs to interact with a variety of objects. These objects have various mechanical characteristics (dynamics), which require the human motor system to provide appropriate control. This project seeks to understand how the brain, in both normal and disease states, learns new limb dynamics as we interact with a novel mechanical environmental. Repetitive brain stimulation will be used to selectively block the contribution of various cortical regions during the learning of a new motor skill and later, the recall of that skill. This will allow us to determine definitively which areas are critical to motor skill acquisition.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-2003

End Date: 01-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $560,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Psychology | Motor Control | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Nervous system and disorders | Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified

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