Francesco Lacquaniti

The paper investigates adaptation to surface movement during hand reaching and finds limited adaptation without visual feedback.

This study investigates how the brain processes vertical motion using visual and vestibular cues, finding that downward motion is perceived as shorter than upward motion, with variability in visual-vestibular integration.

This study shows that motion kinematics, not naturalness, determines rhythm synchronization when tapping to visual metronomes, with accelerating motion leading to more precise tapping.

The paper shows that small stochastic whole-body perturbations improve vestibular motion discrimination thresholds in young healthy humans, suggesting a stochastic resonance mechanism.

This study investigates whether co-contraction of antagonist muscles is controlled by a common synaptic input or independent inputs, finding separate neural pathways for torque and impedance modulation.

This paper introduces a Hessian-based decomposition method to analyze how performance in complex motor skills depends on individual strategy and variability in high-dimensional action distributions.

This study shows humans can discriminate tactile speed on smooth surfaces using deformation and vibration cues, with similar precision to textured surfaces, but high-frequency vibrations impair performance.

This study shows that Drosophila larval locomotion follows a speed-curvature power law with an exponent of 3/4, similar to human motor control, suggesting shared behavioral principles across species.