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December 2004

NEW AWARD

"Detecting and measuring eye movement abnormalities in children with neurometabolic disease"

The Lab has been awarded a 2 year grant by the charity Cerebra to develop ways to quantitatively measure eye movements in brain-injured infants and young children, with special emphasis on inherited metabolic diseases.

The project starts 1 December 2004.

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September 2004

NEW AWARD

"Remote eye tracking, contingent visual displays and their application in investigating adaptive oculomotor control"

 
We are pleased to announce a new 3 year industrial PhD studentship awarded to William Payne by the
Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. The goal of this partnership between the SensoriMotor Laboratory and Cambridge Research Systems Ltd
is to develop remote video-based eye tracking for infants and to develop contingent displays for adaptive control experiments in eye movements. The project starts 1 September 2004

June 2004

NEW AWARD

"Brain Imaging of Human Errors"



We are pleased to announce a 2 year grant awarded by the EU 6th Framework Programme under the Marie Curie Host Fellowship for the Transfer of Knowledge scheme. The goal of this exciting new project is to develop event-related fMRI techniques for imaging the human brain during adaptive control eye movement experiments.

 July 2004

GAUCHER DISEASE

Deterioration of the auditory brain

stem response in children with type-3 Gaucher disease undergoing enzyme replacement therapy.

Campbell P, Harris CM, Vellodi A (2004)

Deterioration of the auditory brainstem response in children with type-3 Gaucher disease undergoing enzyme replacement therapy.

Neurology 63: 385

January 2004

ARE HUMAN MOVEMENTS REALLY SMOOTH?

It is a popular idea that human movements are smooth and graceful, but what happens at the start and end of a movement ?  Do movements start and end smoothly or abruptly? To answer this basic question we show how Fourier analysis can be used to examine discontinuities in human movement. We use an example of speech movements to show that movements can have discontinuities of low order. Our conclusion is that movements are close to being as least smooth as possible. The apparent smoothness occurs only because of the slow response of muscles, not because of some evolutionary advantage to making movements as smooth as possible.

Harris CM (2004)