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Tina Stoeckmann is a rehabilitation neuroscience researcher whose work centers on motor control, sensorimotor adaptation, and upper limb recovery following stroke. Her most influential contribution, a 2007 study garnering 131 citations, fundamentally advanced understanding of how hemiparetic stroke survivors adapt reaching movements under environmental uncertainty, demonstrating that impaired individuals retain capacity for sensory-driven motor adaptation—a finding with significant implications for rehabilitation design. Building on this foundation, Stoeckmann has dedicated considerable effort to developing objective, quantitative tools for assessing proprioceptive function in stroke survivors. Her Arm Movement Detection (AMD) test, introduced in preliminary form in 2014 and rigorously validated in a 2017 robotic study, provides clinicians and researchers with a reliable ratio-scaled measure of upper limb proprioceptive acuity—a capability often overlooked in standard clinical assessments. More recently, her spatial mapping work on posture-dependent hypertonia post-stroke represents a methodological innovation for characterizing abnormal neuromuscular resistance throughout the reachable workspace, offering new precision in understanding spasticity. Across her career, Stoeckmann's research bridges fundamental motor neuroscience and clinical application, equipping the stroke rehabilitation community with better tools to measure, understand, and ultimately address sensorimotor impairments.