Welcome to the
Motor-Cognition and Neurorehabilitation Lab
In our laboratory we develop and refine paradigms with the prospect of using the approaches either as diagnostic tools or for neurorehabilitation purposes. Major topics in our group target difficulties with planning actions or effects of exhaustion. With our translational approach we aim to support application-transfer from the University to our Society. Many of our group members are Scientist Practitioners.
Our laboratory is affiliated with the Section Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology as well as the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz and the Outpatient Unit for Research, Teaching and Practice at the University of Vienna. We closely collaborate with our colleagues at the Kliniken Schmieder in Allensbach and Konstanz and at the APB center for psychotherapy in Konstanz. We are associated with the Lurija Institute for Rehabilitation Sciences and Health Research.
New article published in the 'Does it fit?'-series
To appropriately decide whether certain actions are at all possible (e.g. crossing the street, reaching for the coffee mug or sticking the hand into the slot of a letterbox in order to quickly grab the mail) is an essential ability for dealing with everyday life activities.
In our series 'Does it fit' we demonstrated that patients with brain damage perform worse in deciding whether the hand may fit into a given opening compared to healthy age matched controls (link). In another study we demonstrated that healthy older participants responded more conservatively compared to young adults. However, both healthy young and older participants were able to improve their judgment performance after training (link). The current study investigated healthy young versus older adults in their ability to adapt their affordance judgments to suddenly artificially altered body properties. See here how young versus older participants responded when judging whether their hand may fit into a given opening while wearing a handsplint: