If you are wondering how long you personally are willing to stand in line to buy that hot new holiday gift, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say the answer may be found in the biological rules ...

Children usually spill if trying to drink from a full cup, but adults rarely do. How we learn to almost automatically complete complex movements -- like how to lift a cup and tip it so the liquid is ...

In studies with monkeys, researchers report that they have uncovered significant new details about how the cerebellum -- the 'learning machine' of the mammalian brain -- makes predictions and learns ...

Reza Shadmehr, Ph.D., is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University where he directs the Laboratory for Computational Motor Control. Reza was born in Iran and ...

A team of biomedical engineers has developed a computer model that makes use of more or less predictable “guesstimates” of human muscle movements to explain how the brain draws on both what it ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to a Neural Prosthesis Seminar with Reza Shadmehr, professor of biomedical engineering and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University ...

We have a new paper, in collaboration with Prof. Reza Shadmehr, on the role of effort in both our decisions and in controlling our movements. See our Publications page and let us know what you think!

HOW a new action feels is more important than how it looks for children with autism. This could be why they find imitation tough. Reza Shadmehr and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, ...