Jonathon S. Schofield
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Cleveland Clinic
Papers
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Total Citations
286
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About
Jonathon S. Schofield is a leading researcher at the intersection of neural engineering, sensory feedback, and motor control, with a focus on revolutionizing upper-limb prosthetics. His work addresses a fundamental challenge: restoring the natural, subconscious sense of movement and touch that the brain requires to control a prosthetic limb as if it were one’s own. Schofield’s most impactful contribution, with over 200 citations, demonstrates that delivering illusory movement perception to users significantly improves motor control of prosthetic hands, effectively closing the sensory-motor loop. He further showed, in a highly cited 2020 study, that long-term, home use of bidirectional bionic arms—which integrate both motor command and cutaneous sensation—drives profound functional, perceptual, and even cognitive changes in users. Schofield has also pioneered methods to characterize the "sense of agency," the feeling of ownership over a prosthetic’s actions, and has extended his expertise to pediatric rehabilitation, characterizing hand grasps in children to inform next-generation robotic therapies. His work is not merely technical; it is deeply human, aiming to restore not just function, but a seamless, embodied connection between person and machine.
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- 1Illusory movement perception improves motor control for prosthetic hands201 citations · 2018
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