Doctoral students in the School of Kinesiology’s Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory (HSCL), and Affordance Perception-Action Laboratory (APAL) will present posters at the University’s new Center of Applied and Translational Sensory Science (CATSS) first scientific event, the CATSS Opening Scientific Symposium, on Friday, October 30. Naveen Elangovan, I-ling Yeh, Jessica Holst-Wolf, and Sanaz Khosravani represented HSCL, while APAL was represented by Justin Munafo and Meg Diedrick, undergrad honors student and UROP awardee.

The HSCL students will share a wide-range of related research in vision, hearing, neural prostheses, balance, and tinnitus. Munafo will present a poster on sex differences in motion sickness among users of the Oculus Rift virtual reality system.

The vision of CATSS is to harness the University of Minnesota’s world-leading scientific expertise in sensory science to tackle the problems faced by millions of people with sensory deficits, such as low vision or hearing loss. With our aging population, sensory deficits that cut people off from their social and physical environment will have an increasingly devastating impact at both the individual and societal levels