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Donders
Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Director
of Master of Cognitive Neuroscience Programme Radboud
University Nijmegen |
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Address Donders
Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre
for Cognition Radboud
University Nijmegen P.O.
Box 9104, 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands URL:
http://www.socsci.ru.nl/~meulenbroek/ Tel:
+31.24.361.6031, Fax: +31.24.361.6066 |
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Research Since 1984 I have been involved in motor
control research, in particular in studies on the information processes that
underlie goal-directed arm, hand and finger movements. Following an
investigation of handwriting acquisition, I studied the biomechanical and
cognitive determinants of sequencing in drawing. In the 1990s my research
turned to interjoint coordination in
reaching and grasping. Together with Professor David Rosenbaum (Pennstate
University, PA, USA), Professor Jonathan Vaughan (Hamilton College, NY, USA)
and Chris Jansen, I developed a computational model of interjoint
coordination capable of simulating aiming, grasping (see demonstration
program below), drawing, and handwriting movements. My current research
interests focus on joint action, in particular how in shared task performance
such as in sports, people learn to take into account their partner’s motor
intentions. |
Projects
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1984-1989 |
Handwriting
development and training Funded
by the Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands) |
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1989-1993 |
Sequencing
in drawing Funded
by The Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO) |
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1993-1998 |
Sequencing
and coordination in complex human movements Funded
by The Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) |
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2001-2006 |
Object
manipulation from a perception-action perspective Research
programme funded by The Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO) in
collaboration with the universities of Utrecht, Amsterdam and Maastricht |
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2003-2007 |
Apprehending
the effects of alignment and orientation illusions on human action Funded
by the Faculty of Social Sciences (Radboud University Nijmegen, The
Netherlands) |
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2004-2009 |
Joint
Action Science and Technology (see ICT
Results and the JAST
Publication List) |
Publications
You can find a list
of downloadable publications here.
Teaching
Since 1996 I have
been teaching psychology courses at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Sample
courses are listed below. Since 2006 I am Director of the two-year Master of Cognitive Neuroscience Programme in
which promising young researchers are thoroughly trained to conduct research in
cognitive neuroscience.
Courses
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Year
2: |
Perception,
Action and Development (with Rob van Lier, Arno Koning and Sabine Hunnius) |
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Year
3: |
Action
and Sport (with Harold Bekkering, Pieter Medendorp and Natalie Sebanz) |
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Year
4: |
Motor
control (with Pieter Medendorp and Luc Selen) |
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Demonstration
A
demonstration program of the Posture-based Motion-Planning Model of
Human Reaching and Grasping Movements developed together with David
Rosenbaum, Jonathan Vaughan and Chris Jansen can be downloaded from here. You
will need Winzip to unpack the interactive computer program (PC-compatible
executable) and the Readme.doc (Microsoft Word) file. The program allows you,
among other things, to generate stick-figure animations of grasping movements
and subsequently to explore the workspace and joint-space kinematics of these
movements. The Readme.doc file contains instructions on how to use the
program. Besides running on a PC using a Microsoft Windows operating system
(Windows98, Windows NT), the program can also be run on a Macintosh G3 under
emulation using VirtualPC. You can find the description of the model here. |
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Links |
Donders Institute for Brain,
Cognition and Behaviour Masters of Cognitive Neuroscience Programme Donders
Graduate School for Cognitive Neuroscience Personal… |