| Ramesh Balasubramaniam, PhD |
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Associate Professor
Location: Ivor Wynne Centre, Room 203 Laboratory website: http://sensorimotor.mcmaster.ca
ResearchResearchI study the organization of human action. The goal of my research is to develop a comprehensive science of embodied cognition through the study of movement. My research brings together Cognitive, Neurophysiological and Dynamical systems approaches in the study of action. I am interested in all aspects of Perception-Action systems, but especially in three programs of research: (1) Posture and Balance (2) Voluntary goal directed actions and (3) Timing in repetitive and rhythmic movements. My research borrows from principles of complex systems, where the behaviour of a system of many components is significantly different, yet simpler than the behaviour of the components themselves. My work is supported by funding from NSERC, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Ministry for Research and Innovation, Ontario, SSHRC and other sources. Further details of this work can be found at my lab’s website http://sensorimotor.mcmaster.ca PublicationsPublications*indicates student/trainee author Ahken, S.*, Comeau, G., Hébert, S. & Balasubramaniam, R. (2011). Eye-movement patterns during the
processing of musical and linguistic syntactic incongruities. Psychomusicology. (in press: accepted, Nov 8, 2011).
Studenka, B.E.*, Balasubramaniam, R. & Zelaznik, H.N. (2011). The distinction between tapping and circle drawing
with and without tactile feedback: An examination of the sources of timing variance. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. (in press: accepted, Nov 1, 2011).
Therrien, A.S.*, Richardson, B.A.* & Balasubramaniam, R. (2011). cTBS to the primary motor cortex reduces the overproduction of forces following the removal of visual feedback. Neuropsychologia 49: 2941-2946.. PDF
Cluff, T. *, Boulet, J.W.* & Balasubramaniam, R. (2011). Learning a stick balancing task involves task-specific coupling between posture and hand displacements. Experimental Brain Research 213: 55-65 . PDF
Mak, L. *, Yeh, T-T.*, Boulet, J.W.*, Cluff, T.*, & Balasubramaniam, R. (2011). Interaction between delayed visual feedback and secondary cognitive tasks on posture control in older adults. Science et Motricité: Special Issue on Posture Control. DOI: 10.1051/sm/2011113. PDF
Richardson, B.A.*, Ratneswaran, A.*, Lyons, J.L. & Balasubramaniam, R. (2011). The time course of online trajectory corrections in memory-guided saccades. Experimental Brain Research 212: 457-469 .PDF Torre, K.*, Balasubramaniam, R., Rheaume, N., Lemoine, L. & Zelaznik, H.N. (2011). Long-range correlation properties in motor timing are individual and task specific. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 18: 339-346. PDF Torre, K.* & Balasubramaniam, R. (2011). Disentangling stability, variability and adaptability in human performance: Focus on the interplay between local variance and serial correlation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 37: 539-550. PDF Yeh, T-T.*, Boulet, J.W.*, Cluff, T.* & Balasubramaniam, R. (2010). Contributions of delayed visual feedback and cognitive task load to postural dynamics. Neuroscience Letters 483: 173-177. PDF Torre, K.*, Balasubramaniam, R. & Delignières, D. (2010). Oscillating in synchrony with a metronome: serial dependence, limit cycle dynamics, and modeling. Motor Control 14: 323-343. PDF Therrien, A.S.*, Lyons, J.L. & Balasubramaniam, R. (2010). Repetitive finger force production in predictable environments. Neuroscience Letters 479: 69-73. PDF Cluff, T.*, Gharib, T.* & Balasubramaniam, R. (2010) Attentional influences on the performance of secondary physical tasks during posture control. Experimental Brain Research 203: 647-658. PDF Richardson, B.A.* & Balasubramaniam, R. (2010) The effect of entrainment on the timing of periodic eye movements. Neuroscience Letters 469:117-121. PDF Therrien, A.S.* & Balasubramaniam, R. (2010) Timing and visual feedback constraints on repetitive finger force production. Experimental Brain Research 201: 673-679. PDF Boulet, J.*, Balasubramaniam, R., Daffertshofer, A. and Longtin, A. (2010) Stochastic two delay-differential model of delayed visual feedback effects on postural dynamics.Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 368 (1911) :423-438. PDF Torre, K.* & Balasubramaniam, R. (2009) Two different processes for sensorimotor synchronization in continuous and discontinuous rhythmic movements. Experimental Brain Research 199: 157-166.PDF Cluff, T.*, Riley, M.A., & Balasubramaniam, R. (2009) Dynamical structure of hand trajectories during pole balancing. Neuroscience Letters 464: 88-92. PDF Cluff, T.* & Balasubramaniam, R. (2009). Motor Learning characterized by changing Lévy distributions. Public Library of Science: ONE, 2009: e5998. PDF Van den Heuvel, M.*, Balasubramaniam, R., Daffertshofer, A., Longtin, A. & Beek, P.J. (2009) Delayed visual feedback reveals distinct time scales in balance control. Neuroscience Letters, 452: 37-41. PDF EducationEducation
Grad Students
TeachingTeaching2011-2012Undergraduate KINESIOL 1G03 - Research Methodologies & Data Analysis KINESIOL 3E03 - Neurol Control of Human Movement KINESIOL 4P03 - The Brain and Human Movement
Graduate Kin 711 - Motor Control |
