Linkage - International - Grant ID: LX0776009

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LX0776009

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Understanding how the brain uses sensory information to guide reaching and grasping movements. Reaching, grasping and manipulating objects are crucial aspects of our daily lives, which are performed so effortlessly that they tend to be taken for granted. We know however that these functions take a relatively long time to mature (think of a baby learning how to get an object), and that they can be impaired by brain lesions involving a region called the posterior parietal cortex. We also know that this region has multiple subdivisions, but how exactly these interact in allowing the sensory information to guide arm and hand muscles is unknown. Discovering how this happens in terms of cellular interaction can have profound implications for the creation of new technologies such as artificial limbs and autonomous robots, and result in health benefits.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2007

End Date: 31-08-2009

Funding Scheme: Linkage - International

Funding Amount: $28,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Animal Physiology—Systems | Central Nervous System | Physiology | Neurobiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Nervous system and disorders | Biological sciences | Scientific instrumentation |

Other Keywords

Animal Physiology—Systems | Biological sciences | Central Nervous System | Nervous system and disorders | Neurobiology | Physiology | Scientific instrumentation

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