My main topic is focused on the effect of motor imagery on motor learning, performance and rehabilitation after peripheral and central injuries. My research encompasses behavioural and cognitive neuroscience and psychophysiology.
Member of the Neurology Research Group (Dir. Pr Alan Barber), Department of Medicine, Centre for Brain Research, University of Auckland
Member of the Movement Neuroscience Laboratory (Dir. Pr Winston Byblow), Faculty of Sport and Exercise Science, University of Auckland
Associate member of the Motor and Mental Performance Laboratory (Dir. Pr Christian Collet) - Centre for Sport Research (CRIS, EA647, Dir. Pr Thierry Terret) - University of Lyon (France)
Detailed Description
Supervised by Cathy Stinear (PhD) and Winston Byblow (Pr)
Grant from Fondation FYSSEN (194, rue de Rivoli, 75001 PARIS), 32 500 €
The main objective of the study was to assess the muscle-specific facilitation of the corticomotor pathway and intracortical inhibitory mechanisms underlying motor imagery. In order to understand these mechanisms, the participants will be distinguished through their ability to form vivid mental images. Good and poor imagers will thus be compared to test whether the two different populations will recruit inhibitory processes to the same extent.
