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Jürgen Konczak presented the lab's latest research on the use of vibro-tactile stimulation to treat focal dystonia of the head, neck and voice in a university-wide seminar at the University of Rome. The talk was organized as a hybrid meeting by the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience and had over 60 attendees from clinical, engineering and basic sciences.

Viola Winter, doctoral candidate in the Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory in the School of Kinesiology, is the lead author of a new publication titled "Dyad motor learning in a wrist-robotic environment: Learning together is better than learning alone," that appeared in the journal Human Movement Sciences.

Researchers for the Human Sensorimotor Control Lab (HSCL), led by director Jürgen Konczak, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology, recently published an article titled, "Ankle proprioception in children with cerebral palsy," to the Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine.

Dr. Su is a specialist in hand biomechanics and is involved in medical device development. 

Jacquelyn Sertic, PhD student in the School of Kinesiology and member of the Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory (HSCL) and the Center for Applied & Translational Sensory Science, has been awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for the 2023-24 school year.

In cooperation with U of M otolaryngologist Stephanie Misono, MD, MPH and her team, Jürgen Konczak, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology, and director of the Human Sensorimotor Control Lab (HSCL), and recent HSCL graduates Jiapeng Xu, PhD, Jinseok Oh, PhD, and Arash Mahnan, PhD, published an article in JAMA Otolaryngology.

https://hsc.umn.edu/hscl-researchers-publish-brain-processing-abnormalities-people-chronic-cough

Qiyin Huang, PhD, a recent graduate from the Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory (HSCL), is the lead author of a recent paper titled, "A Robotic Device for Measuring Human Ankle Motion Sense", published in Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, that investigated the use of a robotic device to measure ankle proprioception.

Viola Winter and Jacquelyn Sertic, doctoral students of the Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory in the School of Kinesiology, gave oral presentations at the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity in Toronto.