Denise Y. P. Henriques

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Denise Y. P. Henriques is a leading researcher in sensorimotor neuroscience, with expertise spanning visuomotor adaptation, proprioception, and haptic perception. Based at York University, her work has fundamentally advanced our understanding of how the brain integrates and recalibrates sensory signals to guide accurate reaching movements. Henriques is perhaps best known for her pioneering investigations into sensory recalibration following visuomotor adaptation — demonstrating that when people adapt their reaches to misaligned visual feedback, they simultaneously update proprioceptive estimates of hand position. Her 2009 paper on this topic has garnered over 230 citations and helped establish sensory recalibration as a cornerstone concept in motor learning research. Building on this, she has explored how awareness of perturbations, aging, and cross-sensory error signals shape both motor adaptation and hand localization, with multiple papers exceeding 100 citations. Beyond reach adaptation, Henriques has made important contributions to haptic perception, examining how humans perceive geometric shapes through touch and proximal arm movements. Her reviews and empirical studies in this domain have guided methodological approaches across the field. Collectively, her body of work — spanning more than two decades — provides critical insights relevant to rehabilitation science, sports training, and our fundamental understanding of sensorimotor integration.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Sensory Recalibration of Hand Position Following Visuomotor Adaptation

   231 citations · 2009
2. 2
   Reach Adaptation and Proprioceptive Recalibration Following Exposure to Misaligned Sensory Input

   140 citations · 2010
3. 3
   Proprioceptive localization of the left and right hands

   104 citations · 2009
4. 4
   Visuomotor adaptation and proprioceptive recalibration in older adults

   104 citations · 2010
5. 5
   Bias and sensitivity in the haptic perception of geometry

   83 citations · 2003
6. 6
   The effects of awareness of the perturbation during motor adaptation on hand localization

   79 citations · 2019
7. 7
   The role of the cross-sensory error signal in visuomotor adaptation

   58 citations · 2013
8. 8
   Separating Predicted and Perceived Sensory Consequences of Motor Learning

   50 citations · 2016
9. 9
   Memory for proprioceptive and multisensory targets is partially coded relative to gaze

   46 citations · 2010
10. 10
    Approaches to the Study of Haptic Sensing

    43 citations · 2005

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