I-Ling Yeh, PhD (’17), assistant professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology and former doctoral student and member of the School of Kinesiology’s Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory (HSC), is the lead author of a new Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation publication, “Effects of a robot‐aided somatosensory training on proprioception and motor function in stroke survivors.” The study, conducted at the HSC lab, examined if the body awareness of people who survived a cortical stroke is still trainable and if such training will also improve their motor function. Yeh and colleagues found that this was indeed the case, which is good news for those who suffered a stroke. This knowledge broadens the scientific basis to design and implement new neurorehabilitation regimes. The project was a collaboration with engineering researchers Lorenzo Masia, PhD (Heidelberg University) and Leonardo Capello, PhD (Scuola Superiore Sant’anna).

Also authoring the article were Anna Vera Cuppone, PhD (Istituto Italiano di Technologia), and Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, MBBS, PhD, MS (UMN), as well as UMN HSC members Jessica Mae Holst-Wolf, PhD, Naveen Elangovan, PhD, and Jürgen Konczak, PhD.