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Jose L Contreras-Vidal

University of Maryland-College Park
Associate Professor

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Research

Systems and Approaches
motor control & learning, computational neuroscience, bioengineering, movement disorders, neuroimaging

Interests
brain-computer interfaces, neural decoding, Parkinson's disease, signal processing, EEG/MEG/fNIR, large-scale neural network models

Summary
Dr. Contreras-Vidal earned his Engineer’s degree in Electronics and Communications in 1987 from Monterrey Institute of Technology (Mexico), his M.Sc in Electrical Engineering in 1990 from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems in 1994 at Boston University with Prof. Daniel Bullock. His Ph.D. work focused on a large-scale, biologically-plausible neural network of cortico-spinal-cerebellar dynamics. He went on to do his postdoctoral work with Prof. George Stelmach at Arizona State University in Parkinson’s disease and Prof. Wolfram Schultz at the University of Fribourg on modeling of the dopamine system. In the Fall 1999, Dr. Contreras-Vidal joined the faculty of the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland-College Park, where is now also in the faculty of the Bioengineering Department and the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Graduate Program (NACS). Dr. Contreras-Vidal’s research program integrates behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational neuroscience methods to study the neural mechanisms and computational principles underlying adaptive sensory-motor control in humans during normal and neurological conditions. To accomplish the above goal we use motion recording, high-density scalp electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIR), and computer simulations of large-scale, biologically-plausible, neural networks of motor systems including the spinal cord, fronto-parietal networks, the basal ganglia and the cerebellum. His translational research involves the development of smart neuroprosthetics, and the transfer of relevant biological principles (hardware and algorithms) to the design and development of a new generation of artificial hands and arms (bio-robotics).

Published by Jose L Contreras-Vidal

Development of visuomotor representations for hand movement in young children.

Experimental brain research. Experimentelle Hirnforschung. Expérimentation cérébrale 162(2):155, 2005 AprWho cited this? | PubMed ID: 15586275 | Fulltext
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Dynamic estimation of hand position is abnormal in Parkinson's disease.

Parkinsonism & related disorders 10(8):501, 2004 DecWho cited this? | PubMed ID: 15542011 | Fulltext
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Effects of Parkinson's disease on visuomotor adaptation.

Experimental brain research. Experimentelle Hirnforschung. Expérimentation cérébrale 150(1):25, 2003 MayWho cited this? | PubMed ID: 12698213 | Fulltext
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Adaptation to display rotation and display gain distortions during drawing.

Human movement science 22(2):173, 2003 AprWho cited this? | PubMed ID: 12667748 | Fulltext
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Visuomotor adaptation in normal aging.

Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) 10(1):55 - Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 12551964 | Fulltext
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Visuo-motor adaptation in smokeless tobacco users.

Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 1(3):219, 1999 SepWho cited this? | PubMed ID: 11072418 | Fulltext
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Adaptation to gradual as compared with sudden visuo-motor distortions.

Experimental brain research. Experimentelle Hirnforschung. Expérimentation cérébrale 115(3):557, 1997 JulWho cited this? | PubMed ID: 9262212 | Fulltext
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Effects of Parkinsonism on motor control.

Life sciences 58(3):165, 1996Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 9499157 | Fulltext
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Micrographia in Parkinson's disease.

Neuroreport 6(15):2089, 1995 Oct 23Who cited this? | PubMed ID: 8580447 | Fulltext
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