| Kurt A. Thoroughman | |
| Birth Date: | January 31, 1972 |
| Birth Place: | Kalamazoo, MI |
| Nationality: | American |
| Field: | Computational Neuroscience, Motor Control |
| Work Institution: | Washington University Brandeis University Johns Hopkins University University of Chicago |
| Alma Mater: | University of Chicago |
| Known For: | Trial-by-Trial Approach to Motor Learning |
Kurt A. Thoroughman (born 31 January 1972) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is known for his work in the study of motor control, motor learning, and computational neuroscience.
Thoroughman investigates how humans plan, control, and learn new movements. Understanding normal motor behavior and its neural basis will further the development of insightful clinical tests in movement neurology, and facilitate the early detection and treatment of motor diseases.
Thoroughman graduated with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1999, completing a thesis in the Laboratory of Computational Motor Control, under the mentorship of Reza Shadmehr. After completion of his PhD, Thoroughman was a postdoctoral fellow with Eve Marder at Brandeis University.
Taylor JA, Thoroughman KA . Motor adaptation scaled by the difficulty of a secondary cognitive task . PLOS ONE . 3 . 6 . Jun 2008 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0002485. e2485. 18560546. 2413425. 2008PLoSO...3.2485T . Robertson. Edwin . free .
Fine MS, Thoroughman KA . Trial-by-trial transformation of error into sensorimotor adaptation changes with environmental dynamics . J. Neurophysiol. . 98 . 3 . 1392–404 . Sep 2007 . 17615136 . 10.1152/jn.00196.2007 .
Thoroughman KA, Wang W, Tomov DN . Influence of viscous loads on motor planning . J. Neurophysiol. . 98 . 2 . 870–7 . Aug 2007 . 17522176 . 10.1152/jn.01126.2006 . 10.1.1.120.4936 .
Taylor JA, Thoroughman KA . Divided attention impairs human motor adaptation but not feedback control . J. Neurophysiol. . 98 . 1 . 317–26 . Jul 2007 . 17460104 . 10.1152/jn.01070.2006 . 1944853 .
Fine MS, Thoroughman KA . Motor adaptation to single force pulses: sensitive to direction but insensitive to within-movement pulse placement and magnitude . J. Neurophysiol. . 96 . 2 . 710–20 . Aug 2006 . 16707722 . 10.1152/jn.00215.2006 . 10.1.1.134.5541 .
Thoroughman KA, Taylor JA . Rapid reshaping of human motor generalization . J. Neurosci. . 25 . 39 . 8948–53 . Sep 2005 . 16192385 . 6725605 . 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1771-05.2005 .
Thoroughman KA . Flexible control of flexible objects. Focus on "An experimentally confirmed mathematical model for human control of a non-rigid object" . J. Neurophysiol. . 91 . 3 . 1109–10 . Mar 2004 . 14973324 . 10.1152/jn.01060.2003 .
Soto-Treviño C, Thoroughman KA, Marder E, Abbott LF . Activity-dependent modification of inhibitory synapses in models of rhythmic neural networks . Nat. Neurosci. . 4 . 3 . 297–303 . Mar 2001 . 11224547 . 10.1038/85147 . 2745956 .
Thoroughman KA, Shadmehr R . Learning of action through adaptive combination of motor primitives . Nature . 407 . 6805 . 742–7 . Oct 2000 . 11048720 . 10.1038/35037588. 2556237 . 2000Natur.407..742T .
Thoroughman KA, Shadmehr R . Electromyographic correlates of learning an internal model of reaching movements . J. Neurosci. . 19 . 19 . 8573–88 . Oct 1999 . 10493757 . 6783008 . 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.19-19-08573.1999.