A paper, “Coupling of postural activity with motion of a ship at sea” will be published in Experimental Brain Research. The project was led by researchers in the Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL).
The research was conducted on board the M/V Explorer, as a part of the Semester at Sea program. The journey took participants from the Commonwealth of Dominica to Brazil.
Co-authors on the paper include Manuel Varlet, post-doctoral associate at the MARCS Institute in Australia and former doctoral student at EuroMov in Montepellier, France. EuroMov director Benoît G. Bardy, Ph.D., is also a co-author, along with doctoral student at the University of Sao Paulo, Cristina Alcantara.
Recent Ph.D. graduate from the School of Kinesiology Dr. Fu-Chen Chen, who was then-advised by Dr. Michael Wade, Ph.D., and Dr. Thomas A. Stoffregen, Ph.D., is a co-author. Chen is now an Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at National Pingtung University of Science and Technology in Taiwan. Stoffregen, APAL director, is also a co-author on the paper.
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