The way that people move through the world is informed by their conscious and unconscious decisions. These decisions are informed by a neural model of the person’s interaction with the environment, which includes a prediction of how gravity will affect their movement. Our group of researchers (dubbed the Graviteam) is interested in probing how the neural model of gravity is updated and deployed following exposure to altered gravity. If gravity is adapted in one task (like jumping), does that affect how a person moves their upper body? Or does that same adaptation affect how their cognitive prediction of a projectile’s movement?

Lab Members: Chase Rock

Undergraduates: Tushar Singh, Lynn Kim