FACULTY & STAFF DIRECTORY
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Arend Van Gemmert
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Dr. Van Gemmert’s 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 Division of Motor Behavior in the Department of Kinesiology in the fall of 2008, and he is assigned to teach classes in motor learning.
Dr. Van Gemmert is part of the Motor Behavior concentration: http://mb.lsu.edu
EDUCATION:
1997 PhD Experimental Psychology, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
1992 M.A. Experimental Psychology, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
1988 B.A. Psychology, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Poston, B., Van Gemmert, A. W. A., Barduson, B., & Stelmach, G. E. (In Press). Movement structure in young and elderly adults during goal-directed movements of the left and right arm. Brain and Cognition.
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.
Meulenbroek, R. G. J., & Van Gemmert, A. W. A. (2003). Advances in the study of drawing and handwriting. Human Movement Science, 22, 131-135.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS:
Alvarez, M. V., Van Gemmert, A. W. A., Evidente, V. G. H., Caviness, J. N., Driver-Dunckley, E. D., Lyons, M. H., & Adler, C. H. (2008). Deep brain stimulation of STN improves some handwriting movement in Parkinson’s disease patients. Movement Disorders, 23(Suppl 1), S126.
Hughes, B. & Van Gemmert, A. W. A. (2008). "What finger movements reveal about braille reading". Perception, 37(Suppl ECVP), 133.
Hughes, B., & Van Gemmert, A. W. A. (2008). Perceptual-motor control and language processing contributions to braille reading velocity. 20th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (Program No. VII-133), Online
Van Den Heuvel, C. E., & Van Gemmert, A. W. A. (2006). On the break-down of spatial and temporal characteristics in forged handwriting. Programme and Abstracts of the 4th European Academy of Forensic Science. Helsinki: ENFSI.
Van Gemmert, A. W. A., Adler, C. H., Teulings, H. L., & Stelmach, G. E. (2006). Stroke size modulation in spiral drawing and handwriting of de novo and levodopa treated Parkinson’s disease patients. Arizona Biosciences Leadership Symposium: Building Collaborations, Addendum, 122.
For a full list of publications and presentations, please see: Curriculum Vitae
FINE MOTOR CONTROL AND LEARNING LABORATORY:
The Fine Motor Control and Learning Lab is a 112 sq.ft. space located in room 48 HP Long Fieldhouse setup for data collection and analysis of upper-body movements.
Equipment:
- 30” Widescreen Flat panel LCD monitor
- Two 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 UD1218RE Electrostatic Digitizer 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
- Latitude D830 laptop for “mobile” data collection and presentation
- Several PCs including two high power PCs for extreme performance demands for the display, collection, and analysis of data.
- Specialized software for the collection and processing of fine motor movements (MovAlyzeR and OASIS).
- Several other software packages for collection, processing, analysis, reporting, and presentation of data.
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