Jürgen Konczak, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory (HSCL) and Jessica Holst-Wolf, PhD, postdoctoral associate of HSCL have partnered with Lucie Turcotte, MD, UMN Pediatrics Department and Hannah Block, PhD, Assistant Professor from the Department of Kinesiology of Indiana University.

This group received a grant to continue a project characterizing the development of limb position sense in children as part of the University of Minnesota’s Driven to Discover program at the 2019 Minnesota State Fair. HSCL lab members will be conducting a study during the Fair’s two-week run. Researchers will recruit children to measure how body awareness develops during childhood. HSCL has developed a set of tests that will show recruits how accurately they “know” where their hands or feet are in space. The young participants will get to experience being involved in a research project and earn a fun prize for participating.