Amy Bastian, Ph.D.

Dr. Bastian’s research focuses on improving understanding of childhood motor learning. Specifically, she will aim to elucidate how interacting brain mechanisms drive children’s learning of movement. She will leverage recently developed home-based experimental tasks and new laboratory methods to generate high-resolution time courses of childhood motor learning. She will then determine how these time courses are affected by neurological lesions. Using these findings, she will create a detailed flowchart of movement learning capacity and the effects of disease. This research will provide a foundation for the development of tailored therapeutic training strategies for age, developmental maturity, gender, and disease state.