Dr. Van Gemmert is the director of the Fine Motor Control and Learning Laboratory. His research interests centers around the control of fine motor tasks, such as handwriting, drawing, pointing, and reach-to-grasp movements. His research can be divided into three closely related focus areas: (1) This area of studies focuses on the mechanisms responsible for movement control during increased demands due to stress and mental load, (2) This area of projects focuses on the changes in fine movement control due to physiologic deterioration of the movement system as result of advanced age and neurological disease, (3) The final area of interest assembles knowledge gained in the areas described in 1 and 2 to understand challenges to (re)learn fine motor tasks under strenuous conditions as a consequence of stress, mental load, advanced age, and neurological disease. Dr Van Gemmert joined the Division of Motor Behavior in the School of Kinesiology in the fall of 2008, and he is assigned to teach classes in motor learning.
Hughes, B, Van Gemmert, A. W. A., & Stelmach G. E. (2011). Linguistic and perceptual-motor contributions to the kinematic properties of the braille reading finger. Human Movement Science, 30, 711-730.
Ringenbach, S. D. R., Van Gemmert, A. W. A., Shill, H. A., & Stelmach, G. E. (2011). Auditory instructional cues benefit unimanual and bimanual drawing in Parkinson’s disease patients. Human Movement Science, 30, 770-782.
Vinter, A., Van Gemmert, A. W. A., & Phillips, J. G. (2011). Special issue: Progress in graphonomics: A perceptual motor skill perspective. Human Movement Sciences, 30, 683-686.
Dounskaia, N., Van Gemmert, A. W. A., Leis, B. C., & Stelmach, G. E. (2009). Biased Wrist and finger coordination in Parkinsonian patients during performance of graphical Tasks. Neuropsychologia, 47, 2504-2514.
Poston, B., Van Gemmert, A. W. A., Barduson, B., & Stelmach, G. E. (2009). Movement structure in young and elderly adults during goal-directed movements of the left and right arm. Brain and Cognition, 69, 30-38.
Ringenbach, S. D. R., Mulvey, G. M., Van Gemmert, A. W. A., Stankus, A., & Maraj, B. K. V. (2009). Sensory feedback is beneficial for performance of continuous bimanual tasks for adults with Down syndrome. Down Syndrome Quarterly, 11(2), 3-9.
Phillips J. G., & Van Gemmert, A. W. A. (2009). Special issue: Disruptions of Handwriting. Human Movement Sciences, 28, 553-555.
Van Gemmert, A. W. A., & Teulings, H. L. (2006). Advances in graphonomics: Studies on fine motor control, its development and disorders. Human Movement Science, 25, 447-453.
Leis, B. C., Rand, M. K., Van Gemmert, A. W. A., Longstaff, M., Lou, J. S., & Stelmach, G. E. (2005). Movement precues in planning and execution of aiming movements in Parkinson’s disease. Experimental Neurology, 194, 393-409.
Paine, R. W., Grossberg, S., & Van Gemmert, A. W. A. (2004). A quantitative evaluation of the AVITEWRITE model of handwriting learning. Human Movement Science, 23, 837-860.
Selected Presentations
Pan, Z., & Van Gemmert, A. W. A. (2011). Aging reduces learning benefits as result of bilateral transfer. The 8th Progress in Motor Control (PMC VIII) biennial meeting of the International Society of Motor Control: Recent Advances in Neural, Computational and Dynamical Approaches (Poster Abstracts) (pp. 24). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Pan, Z., & Van Gemmert, A. W. A. (2011). Improvements of movement performance as result of bilateral transfer of learning. In E. Grassi and J. L. Contreras-Vidal (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the International Graphonomics Society (pp. 59-62). Nijmegen: IGS.
Prejean, P., Pan, Z., Harrison, J., Van Gemmert, A. W. A., Li, L., & Hondzinski, J. M. (2011). Potential benefits of long-term limited Tai Chi training for Parkinson’s patients. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 33(Suppl.), S101-S102.
Callihan, B. T., & Van Gemmert, A. W. A. (2010). Do Parkinson’s disease patients benefit from auditory cues when learning a movement sequence? Society for Neuroscience Abstracts (Program No. 51.17), Online.
Farley, B., Derosa, S., Koshland, G., Fox, C., & Van Gemmert, A. W. A. (2010). The LSVT BIG and LOUD training protocol transfers to an untrained handwriting task in early Parkinson disease. Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 32, S33.
Pan, Z., & Van Gemmert, A. W. A. (2010). The asymmetry of bilateral transfer of a visuo-motor rotated aiming task. Society for Neuroscience (Program No. 293.6), Online.
Hughes, B, Van Gemmert, A. W. A., & Stelmach, G. E. (2009). The intermittency of braille reading finger velocities. In A. Vinter and J. L. Velay (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th conference of the international graphonomics society (pp. 190-193). Nijmegen: IGS.
Van Gemmert, A. W. A., Ringenbach, S. D. R., Shill, H. A., & Stelmach, G. E. (2009). Complex bimanual coordination is performed accurately using verbal instructions in Parkinson’s disease patients. In A. Vinter and J. L. Velay (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th conference of the international graphonomics society (pp. 30-33). Nijmegen: IGS.
Yank, J., & Van Gemmert, A. W. A. (2009). Visuo-motor tracking in a pursuit loop-drawing task. In A. Vinter and J. L. Velay (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th conference of the international graphonomics society (pp. 171-175). Nijmegen: IGS.
Yank, J. R., Van Gemmert, A. W. A., Bailey, D., Zuur, A., & McLachlan, J. (2009). The effect of displaced visual feedback on temporal coupling in a loop drawing task. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Perception and Action (pp. 92). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota.
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