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Can you learn not to respond to irrelevant motion while making fast arm movements? (2025)
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Brenner, E., de Jonge, L. M., Tiems, N. J. J., Rosenquist, G., Wiggers, T., Smeets, J. B. J., & Crowe, E. M. (2025). Can you learn not to respond to irrelevant motion while making fast arm movements?. PLoS ONE, 20(9), e0332171. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0332171

If the target of a goal-directed arm movement is suddenly displaced, the movement is quickly adjusted in accordance with the target’s new position. Such quick adjustments are even observed if the target is moving, so the arm is moving towards a futur... Read More about Can you learn not to respond to irrelevant motion while making fast arm movements?.

Congruency between viewers’ movements and the region of the display being sampled speeds up search through an aperture (2025)
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Crowe, E. M., Vorgia, D. T., & Brenner, E. (2025). Congruency between viewers’ movements and the region of the display being sampled speeds up search through an aperture. Perception, 54(4), 226-238. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066251314181

Searching for a target amongst distractors is faster when moving an aperture over the search display than when moving the search display beneath an aperture. Is this because when moving the aperture, each item is sampled at a different position, whil... Read More about Congruency between viewers’ movements and the region of the display being sampled speeds up search through an aperture.

Performance metrics outperform physiological indicators in robotic teleoperation workload assessment (2024)
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Odoh, G., Landowska, A., Crowe, E. M., Benali, K., Cobb, S., Wilson, M. L., Maior, H. A., & Kucukyilmaz, A. (2024). Performance metrics outperform physiological indicators in robotic teleoperation workload assessment. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 30984. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-82112-4

Robotics holds the potential to streamline the execution of repetitive and dangerous tasks, which are difficult or impossible for a human operator. However, in complex scenarios, such as nuclear waste management or disaster response, full automation... Read More about Performance metrics outperform physiological indicators in robotic teleoperation workload assessment.

Transcranial magnetic stimulation over supramarginal gyrus stimulates primary motor cortex directly and impairs manual dexterity: implications for TMS focality (2024)
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Holmes, N. P., Di Chiaro, N. V., Crowe, E. M., Marson, B., Göbel, K., Gaigalas, D., Jay, T., Lockett, A. V., Powell, E. S., Zeni, S., & Reader, A. T. (2024). Transcranial magnetic stimulation over supramarginal gyrus stimulates primary motor cortex directly and impairs manual dexterity: implications for TMS focality. Journal of Neurophysiology, 131(2), 360-378. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00369.2023

Based on human motor cortex, the effective spatial resolution of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is often described as 5-20 mm, because small changes in TMS coil position can have large effects on motor-evoked potentials (MEPs). MEPs are ofte... Read More about Transcranial magnetic stimulation over supramarginal gyrus stimulates primary motor cortex directly and impairs manual dexterity: implications for TMS focality.

Spatial contextual cues that help predict how a target will accelerate can be used to guide interception (2023)
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Crowe, E. M., Smeets, J. B. J., & Brenner, E. (2023). Spatial contextual cues that help predict how a target will accelerate can be used to guide interception. Journal of Vision, 23(12), 7. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.23.12.7

Objects in one's environment do not always move at a constant velocity but often accelerate or decelerate. People are very poor at visually judging acceleration and normally make systematic errors when trying to intercept accelerating objects. If the... Read More about Spatial contextual cues that help predict how a target will accelerate can be used to guide interception.

Online updating of obstacle positions when intercepting a virtual target (2023)
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Crowe, E. M., Smeets, J. B. J., & Brenner, E. (2023). Online updating of obstacle positions when intercepting a virtual target. Experimental Brain Research, 241(7), 1811–1820. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-023-06634-5

People rely upon sensory information in the environment to guide their actions. Ongoing goal-directed arm movements are constantly adjusted to the latest estimate of both the target and hand's positions. Does the continuous guidance of ongoing arm mo... Read More about Online updating of obstacle positions when intercepting a virtual target.

Slightly perturbing the arm influences choices between multiple targets (2023)
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Hadjipanayi, V., Brenner, E., & Crowe, E. M. (2023). Slightly perturbing the arm influences choices between multiple targets. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 85, 1777-1783. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02680-x

We constantly make choices about how to interact with objects in the environment. Do we immediately consider changes in our posture when making such choices? To find out, we examined whether motion in the background, which is known to influence the t... Read More about Slightly perturbing the arm influences choices between multiple targets.

How similar are responses to background motion and target displacements? (2022)
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Crowe, E. M., Vellekoop, P., van Meteren, C., Smeets, J. B. J., & Brenner, E. (2022). How similar are responses to background motion and target displacements?. Experimental Brain Research, 240(10), 2667-2676. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-022-06436-1

When making a goal-directed movement towards a target, our hand follows abrupt background motion. This response resembles that of a shift in the target’s position. Does background motion simply change the position towards which the movement is guided... Read More about How similar are responses to background motion and target displacements?.

Hand movements respond to any motion near the endpoint (2022)
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Crowe, E. M., Smeets, J. B. J., & Brenner, E. (2022). Hand movements respond to any motion near the endpoint. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 84(6), 1820-1825. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-022-02471-w

Hand movements are pulled in the direction of motion near their planned endpoints. Is this an automatic response to motion signals near those positions, or do we consider what is moving? To find out, we asked participants to hit a target that moved r... Read More about Hand movements respond to any motion near the endpoint.

A calming hug: Design and validation of a tactile aid to ease anxiety (2022)
Journal Article
Haynes, A. C., Lywood, A., Crowe, E. M., Fielding, J. L., Rossiter, J. M., & Kent, C. (2022). A calming hug: Design and validation of a tactile aid to ease anxiety. PLoS ONE, 17(3), e0259838. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259838

Anxiety disorders affect approximately one third of people during their lifetimes and are the ninth leading cause of global disability. Current treatments focus on therapy and pharmacological interventions. However, therapy is costly and pharmacologi... Read More about A calming hug: Design and validation of a tactile aid to ease anxiety.

The influences of target size and recent experience on the vigour of adjustments to ongoing movements (2022)
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Brenner, E., Hardon, H., Moesman, R., Crowe, E. M., & Smeets, J. B. J. (2022). The influences of target size and recent experience on the vigour of adjustments to ongoing movements. Experimental Brain Research, 240(4), 1219-1229. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-022-06325-7

People adjust their on-going movements to changes in the environment. It takes about 100 ms to respond to an abrupt change in a target’s position. Does the vigour of such responses depend on the extent to which responding is beneficial? We asked part... Read More about The influences of target size and recent experience on the vigour of adjustments to ongoing movements.