Devon D Lantagne
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Devon D. Lantagne is a researcher in sensorimotor neuroscience, whose work focuses on the mechanisms underlying how humans adapt their reaching movements. Her primary research areas include motor learning, implicit and explicit memory systems, and the control of goal-directed reaching. Lantagne’s major contributions involve dissecting the distinct roles of implicit and explicit memories in sensorimotor adaptation, particularly when movements are perturbed by unpredictable spring-like loads. In her most-cited paper (2021, 5 citations), she demonstrated how these memory systems contribute to adapting movement extent during reaching, using a horizontal planar robot to apply resistance. Her subsequent work (2023, 2 citations) further revealed that implicit memory for movement adaptation is remarkably robust, persisting even when participants intentionally suppress their kinematic performance. These findings are significant for understanding the automatic, unconscious processes that stabilize motor behavior in dynamic environments. Lantagne’s research has implications for rehabilitation and human-machine interaction, highlighting the resilience of implicit learning in motor control. Her careful experimental designs and focus on memory dissociations mark her as a thoughtful contributor to the field of motor neuroscience.
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