Research Papers

Smith MA, Ghazizadeh A, Shadmehr R (2006)  Interacting Adaptive Processes Underlie Short-Term Motor Learning. Public Library of Science Biology, in press.   Abstract   Synopsis (pdf)   Paper (pdf)   Supplementary Materials (pdf)

Hwang EJ, Smith MA, Shadmehr R (2006)  Dissociable Effects of the Implicit and Explicit Memory Systems on Learning Control of Reaching. Experimental Brain Research, in press.   Abstract   Paper (pdf)

Chen H, Hua SE, Smith MA, Lenz FA, Shadmehr R (2006)  Effects of Cerebellar Thalamus Disruption on Adaptive Control of Reaching. Cerebral Cortex, in press.   Abstract   Paper (pdf)

Hwang EJ, Smith MA, Shadmehr R (2006)  Adaptation and Generalization in Acceleration Dependent Force Fields. Experimental Brain Research, 169, 496-506.   Abstract   Paper (pdf)

Smith MA, Shadmehr R (2005)  Intact Ability to Learn Internal Models of Arm Dynamics in Huntington's Disease But Not Cerebellar Degeneration. Journal of Neurophysiology, 93, 2809-21.   Abstract   Paper (pdf)

Smith MA, Shadmehr R (2005) Error feedback control in Huntington's disease in the absence of visual feedback. [Accepted, pending revisions, to Cerebral Cortex].

Hwang EJ, Donchin O, Smith MA, Shadmehr R (2003) A Gain-Field Encoding of Limb Position and Velocity in the Internal Model of Arm Dynamics. Public Library of Science Biology, 1, 209-220.   Abstract   Paper (pdf)   Supplementary Material   Synopsis   Review&Primer (pdf)

Smith MA and Shadmehr R. (2000)  Error Correction and the Basal Ganglia. Trends in Cognitive Science, 4, 367–369.   Paper (pdf)

Smith MA, Brandt J, and Shadmehr R. (2000)  Motor disorder in Huntington’s disease begins as a dysfunction in error feedback control. Nature, 403, 544-549.   Abstract   Paper (pdf)   News&Views (pdf)

Meeting Abstracts

Motor adaptation is a rich, multi-dimensional process.  Society for the Neural Control of Movement (2005).

A Multi-Rate Model of Memory Explains Savings and Interference in Both Saccade and Reaching Adaptation.  Society for the Neural Control of Movement (2005).

Learning to Learn: Adapting the Rate of Motor Adaptation to Properties of the Input Disturbance.  Advances in Computational Motor Control (2004).

State Space Modeling of Motor Learning Reveals that Adaption Rate Varies with the Statistical Properties of a Distubance Signal.  Computational Neuroscience Meeting (2004).

Learning to Learn: Adapting the Rate of Motor Adaptation.  Society for the Neural Control of Movement (2004).

Analysis of Error Correction Mechanisms in Huntington’s Disease and Cerebellar dysfunction.  Society for Neuroscience (2001).

Error Correction in Huntington’s Disease.  Society for the Neural Control of Movement (2000).

The Motor Disorder in Huntington’s Disease may begin as a Disorder in Error Feedback Control.  Society for Neuroscience (1999).

Motor Learning Disorders in Gene Positive but Presymtomatic Huntington’s Disease.  Society for Neuroscience (1997).

Movement Jerk is Increased in Huntington’s Disease Even Before Clinical Onset. Society for Neural Control of Movement (1997).

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