Dr. Arend W. A. Van Gemmert

Fine Motor Control and Learning Laboratory

Arend

ASU 1998

Motor Control Laboratory, Arizona State University, Drs. Stelmach, Contreras-Vidal, Van Gemmert, & Teulings (1998).

Experiment setup 1

Experiment Setup 2

Fine Motor Control and Learning Laboratory at Louisiana State University

Eventhough, drawing, handwriting, grasping, and pointing are tasks that individuals usually perform seemingly effortless, these tasks are very complex.

The Fine Motor Control and Learning laboratory focuses on how we are able to perform and (re)learn these fine motor tasks when the control of movements is challenged by an increase of demands due to (cognitive / environmental / physiologic) stress and/or the motor system is confronted with physiologic deterioration as result of advanced age and/or neurological disease.

School of Kinesiology

Louisiana State University

112 HP Long Fieldhouse (Room 74 & 70)

Baton Rouge, LA 70803.

Phone: 225-578-4701

gemmert@lsu.edu

Arend Van Gemmert Experiment setup

RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES/JOINING THE FMCL LAB

Students interested in research opportunities available in the Fine Motor Control and Learning laboratory are encouraged to send a concise resume with a brief statement detailing your goals and interests. Send the short statement and resume to gemmert@lsu.edu; put in the subject line "Research FMCL lab".

Brian Callihan Experiment Setup

Click here to see a map to the Fine Motor Control and Learning Laboratory.

Experiment setup 3

The Fine Motor Control and Learning Laboratory is located in Room 74 and 70-lab of the HP Long Fieldhouse. These rooms are dedicated to data collection and analysis of upper-body movements.

Equipment:

24” Widescreen Flat panel LCD monitor.
Several 22” Widescreen Flat panel LCD monitors.
Wacom Intuos3 9x12 Digitizer Tablet.
Wacom Intuos3 12x19 Digitizer Tablet.
Wacom Intuos 12x18 Digitizer Tablet in portable frame for “mobile” data collection.
Wacom Cintiq 24HD Pen Display Tablet.
Several Wacom Digitizer Ink and non-inking pens, including a modified pen to measure ranges of force exceeding the normal ranges of axial pen force.
Oasis digitizer collection box.
Laptops for “mobile” data collection and presentation.
Several PCs, including two high power PCs, for extreme performance demands needed to display, collect, and analyze data.
Specialized software for the collection and processing of fine motor movements (MovAlyzeR and OASIS).
Several other software packages, including MatLab, SPSS, and MS Office programs, for collection, processing, analysis, reporting, and presentation of data.

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