Robert Sainburg

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

Robert Sainburg

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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.

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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 Time

Most 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