Hannah Lefumat
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Hannah Lefumat is a leading researcher in human sensorimotor control, whose work has fundamentally advanced our understanding of how the nervous system integrates sensory feedback for movement. Her primary research areas include proprioception, motor learning, and the neural mechanisms underlying arm movement adaptation. Lefumat’s most influential contribution comes from her landmark 2018 study, which examined how individuals with profound proprioceptive loss—due to sensory neuronopathy—perceive, control, and learn arm movements. This work, cited 93 times, demonstrated that while healthy individuals can adapt to novel forces using only proprioception, those without it rely heavily on vision, revealing the critical, non-redundant role of body-based sensory feedback. By systematically dissecting the contributions of vision and proprioception, Lefumat has provided essential insights for rehabilitation robotics and neuroprosthetics. Her findings challenge long-held assumptions about sensory substitution and highlight the brain’s remarkable, yet constrained, plasticity. For students and researchers, Lefumat’s work is a compelling example of how studying rare clinical populations can illuminate fundamental principles of motor control, with direct implications for restoring movement in patients with sensory loss.
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