Robert Sainburg
Director of the Center for Movement Science and Technology; Huck Distinguished Chair in Kinesiology and Neurology; Professor of Kinesiology and of Neurology

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29 Recreation Building
University Park, PA - rls45@psu.edu
- 814-865-7938
Research Summary
The neural mechanisms that underlie control, coordination, and learning of voluntary movements in humans. Functional neuroanatomy of lateralized processes of motor control. Neurorehabilitation and Functional Recovery in stroke patients.
Huck Affiliations
- Neuroscience
- Integrative and Biomedical Physiology
- Center for Movement Science and Technology
- Neuroscience Institute
- Center for Brain, Behavior, and Cognition
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Arm Stroke Hand Functional Laterality Extremities Performance Electric Impedance Brain Proprioception Virtual Reality Sensory Feedback Acoustic Impedance Impedance Paresis Upper Extremity Survivors Error Direction Compound Posture Trajectories Cerebrum Frontal Lobe Displacement Limbs (Animal) Reaction TimeMost Recent Publications
Adaptive control is reversed between hands after left hemisphere stroke and lost following right hemisphere stroke
Rini Varghese, James Gordon, Robert L. Sainburg, Carolee J. Winstein, Nicolas Schweighofer, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Ipsilesional arm training in severe stroke to improve functional independence (IPSI): phase II protocol
Candice Maenza, Robert L. Sainburg, Rini Varghese, Brooke Dexheimer, Marika Demers, Lauri Bishop, Shanie A.L. Jayasinghe, David A. Wagstaff, Carolee Winstein, 2022, BMC Neurology
Reaction time asymmetries provide insight into mechanisms underlying dominant and non-dominant hand selection
Brooke Dexheimer, Andrzej Przybyla, Terrence E. Murphy, Selcuk Akpinar, Robert Sainburg, 2022, Experimental Brain Research on p. 2791-2802
Neural Control of Stopping and Stabilizing the Arm
Shanie A.L. Jayasinghe, Robert A. Scheidt, Robert L. Sainburg, 2022, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
Movement Neuroscience Foundations of Neurorehabilitation
Robert L. Sainburg, Pratik K. Mutha, 2022, on p. 19-39
A rare case of deafferentation reveals an essential role of proprioception in bilateral coordination
Jacob E. Schaffer, Fabrice R. Sarlegna, Robert L. Sainburg, 2021, Neuropsychologia
Deficits in performance on a mechanically coupled asymmetrical bilateral task in chronic stroke survivors with mild unilateral paresis
Shanie A.L. Jayasinghe, Candice Maenza, David C. Good, Robert L. Sainburg, 2021, Symmetry
When the non-dominant arm dominates: the effects of visual information and task experience on speed-accuracy advantages
Brooke Dexheimer, Robert Sainburg, 2021, Experimental Brain Research on p. 655-665
Somatosensory deafferentation reveals lateralized roles of proprioception in feedback and adaptive feedforward control of movement and posture
Shanie AL Jayasinghe, Fabrice R. Sarlegna, Robert A. Scheidt, Robert L. Sainburg, 2021, Current Opinion in Physiology on p. 141-147
Remedial Training of the Less-Impaired Arm in Chronic Stroke Survivors With Moderate to Severe Upper-Extremity Paresis Improves Functional Independence: A Pilot Study
Candice Maenza, David Wagstaff, Rini Varghese, Carolee Winstein, David Good, Robert Sainburg, 2021, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Most-Cited Papers
Convergent models of handedness and brain lateralization
Robert L. Sainburg, 2014, Frontiers in Psychology
Contralesional motor deficits after unilateral stroke reflect hemisphere-specific control mechanisms
Saandeep Mani, Pratik K. Mutha, Andrzej Przybyla, Kathleen Y. Haaland, David C. Good, Robert L. Sainburg, 2013, Brain on p. 1288-1303
Rethinking Motor Lateralization: Specialized but Complementary Mechanisms for Motor Control of Each Arm
Pratik K. Mutha, Kathleen Y. Haaland, Robert L. Sainburg, 2013, PLoS One
Limb dominance results from asymmetries in predictive and impedance control mechanisms
Vivek Yadav, Robert L. Sainburg, 2014, PLoS One
Sensorimotor performance asymmetries predict hand selection
A. Przybyla, C. J. Coelho, S. Akpinar, S. Kirazci, Robert L. Sainburg, 2013, Neuroscience on p. 349-360
Effects of unilateral stroke on multi-finger synergies and their feed-forward adjustments
H. J. Jo, C. Maenza, David Good, Xuemei Huang, J. Park, Robert L. Sainburg, Mark Latash, 2016, Neuroscience on p. 194-205
Hemispheric differences in the control of limb dynamics: A link between arm performance asymmetries and arm selection patterns
Chase J. Coelho, Andrzej Przybyla, Vivek Yadav, Robert L. Sainburg, 2013, Journal of Neurophysiology on p. 825-838
Handedness results from complementary hemispheric dominance, not global hemispheric dominance: evidence from mechanically coupled bilateral movements
Elizabeth J. Woytowicz, Kelly P. Westlake, Jill Whitall, Robert L. Sainburg, 2018, Journal of Neurophysiology on p. 729-740
Handedness can be explained by a serial hybrid control scheme
V. Yadav, R. L. Sainburg, 2014, Neuroscience on p. 385-396
Frontal and parietal cortex contributions to action modification
Pratik K. Mutha, Lee H. Stapp, Robert L. Sainburg, Kathleen Y. Haaland, 2014, Cortex on p. 38-50
News Articles Featuring Robert Sainburg
Oct 14, 2021
Robert Sainburg named Huck Chair in Kinesiology and Neurology
Robert “Bob” Sainburg, professor of kinesiology and of neurology and director of the Huck Institutes’ Center for Movement Science and Technology, has been named Huck Distinguished Chair in Kinesiology and Neurology.
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Jul 30, 2019
The Other Hand
When it comes to therapy for stroke patients, sometimes treating the wrong hand is exactly right.
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