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r.c.miall @ bham.ac.uk

PRISM LAB
Behavioural Brain Sciences, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT


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My research focuses on motor learning and motor coordination, usually in visually guided actions (such as tracking moving objects, or using a computer mouse). Much of my recent work has been directed towards questions of predictive knowledge and predictive control, and how these issues reflect on the use of 'internal models' in the nervous system. We are using tests of human motor psychophysics, with functional MRI and TMS as brain mapping techniques.
 

 


Background

I have been studying sensory motor control for about 30 years. My PhD was a mix of behavioural studies and developmental endocrinology in locusts, with John Moorhouse at Imperial College London. I started off my post-doctoral research in the electrophysiology of crayfish, working with Jim Larimer in Austin, Texas. I was then trained in signal analysis by Dick Kitney at Imperial College and worked on primate neurophysiology with John Stein at Oxford. In 1986 I studied flight control in locusts and dabbled in neural networks while at King’s College Research Centre in Cambridge. And in 1989 I returned to Oxford, where I stayed till 2004. Then I moved to the Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre in the University of Birmingham, and that's where I am ...
 

 
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Feb 29, 2008

 

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A few recent publications

  • Balslev, D., Cole, J. & Miall R.C. (2007) Proprioception contributes to the sense of agency during visual observation of hand movements: evidence from temporal judgments of action. J Cogn. Neuroscience, 19: 1535-1541.  
  • Galea J., Miall R.C., Woolley, D.  (2007) Asymmetric interlimb transfer of concurrent adaptation to opposing dynamic forces. Exp. Brain Res., 182: 267-273. 
  • Gowen E. & Miall R.C. (2007) Differentiation between external and internal cuing: An fMRI study comparing tracing with drawing. NeuroImage 36: 396-410
  • Gowen.E, Stanley.J &  Miall.R.C. (2008) Movement interference in autism spectrum disorder. Neuropsychologia, 46: 1060-1068.
  • Jackson CPT, Albert NB, Roberts RD, Galea JM,Swait G (2007) Target Selection: Choice or Response?  J. Neurosci. 27: 6079-6080.
  • Miall R.C. (2007) Walking the walk. Nature Neuroscience, 10: 940-941.
  • Miall R.C., Christensen L.O.D., Cain O. & Stanley J. (2007) Disruption of state estimation in the human lateral cerebellum. PLoS Biology 5: 2733-2744.
  • Stanley J., Gowen E.  & Miall R.C. (2007) Interference in performed movement during observation of a moving dot stimulus. J Exp Psychol. HPP, 33:  915-926.
  • Stanley J & Miall R.C. (2007) Functional activation in parieto-premotor and visual areas dependent on congruency between hand movement and visual stimuli during motor-visual priming. NeuroImage 34: 290-299.
  • Swait G., Rushton A.B., Miall R.C. (2007) Evaluation of cervical proprioceptive function: Optimising protocols and comparison between tests in normal subjects. Spine 32(24): E692-701.

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