News
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*New Lab Publication* in the journal, Sensors, based on work by doctoral student, Seongmi Song, and undergraduate research assistant, Nathaniel Fernandes.
Open Access Link: Characterizing Bodyweight-Supported Treadmill Walking on Land and Underwater Using Foot-Worn Inertial Measurement Units and Machine Learning for Gat Event Detecton
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Congratulations to doctoral student Seongmi Song, who successfully advanced to doctoral candidate after completing her comprehensive exams and dissertation proposal on May 7, 2024!
Doctoral dissertation: Neurophysiological adaptations to bodyweight unloading during gait and balance
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Dr. Andrew Nordin received research funding from the 2024 American Society of Biomechanics Junior Faculty Research Grant to study human brain and body dynamics during visually-guided locomotion in virtual and real-world environments!
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Madison Treece will be presenting her research poster at the 2024 National Strength and Conditioning Association Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, July 10-13, 2024!
Presentation title: Kinetics and lower extremity muscle activation during the maximum isometric mid-thigh pull and belt squat
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Yu-Po Cheng will be presenting his research poster at the 46th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in Orlando, Florida, July 15-19, 2024!
Presentation title: Human electrocortical dynamics while visually tracking and stepping over obstacles in virtual reality
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Seongmi Song will be presenting her research poster at the 5th International Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Conference in Piran, Slovenia, June 2-5, 2024!
Presentation title: Human electrical brain and muscle dynamics during underwater bodyweight supported locomotion
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Yu-Po Cheng presented his research poster at the Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience 15th Annual Student Symposium, on May 1, 2024!
Presentation title: Electrical brain activity while visually tracking and stepping over obstacles in projected virtually reality
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Congratulations to Carter, Yu-Po, and Madison for their accepted presentations at the 2024 Texas Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting in Waco, TX, USA (February 22-23, 2024)!
Carter & Yu-Po’s Presentation: Human electrical brain dynamics during locomotor obstacle avoidance in virtual reality
Madison’s Presentation: Assessing dual task gait asymmetries in older adults using wireless instrumented shoe insoles
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Excited to begin our Cooperative Agreement with the US Army Research Laboratory to study “Human brain and body dynamics during adaptation to lower-extremity physical augmentation”.
Doctoral student, Seongmi Song, in collaboration with Dr. J. Cortney Bradford, Research Scientist, Center for Agent-Soldier Teaming, are working to identify biomarkers from human electrical brain activity for assessing neural adaptations to walking with a powered exoskeleton surrounding the ankle joint. Longterm goals are to improve human-robotic interactions in the real-world when using assistive devices during gait.
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Dr. Andrew Nordin is Special Issue Editor for the open access journal Sensors (Impact Factor: 3.9), on the topic of “Wearable Sensors For Human Locomotion Monitoring”. Please follow the embedded link for more information and submission details.
Due Date for Submission: May 31, 2024
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Congratulations to Scott Phillips for successfully defending his thesis to earn his Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering!
Thesis title: Myoelectric EEG artifact removal validation using tripolar concentric ring electrodes and canonical correlation analysis
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Congratulations to Seongmi Song and Nathaniel Fernandes for publishing an article in the journal Sensors!
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Dr. Andrew Nordin presented research and took part in a panel discussion during the IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine & Biology OJEMB Webinar on "Healthcare for Space, Space for Healthcare”.
Presentation title: Balance perturbations in simulated low-gravity modulate human premotor and frontoparietal electrocortical theta, alpha, and beta band spectral power
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Congratulations to Song for her upcoming presentation and Conference Travel Grant to attend the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 2023 Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii!
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Congratulations to Madison Treece for her funded Student Research Grant from the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports!
Proposal: Human Spatial Electrical Muscle Dynamics During Running
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Congratulations to Yu-Po for his Taiwanese Ministry of Education Government Scholarship to Study Abroad!
Proposal: Human electrical brain dynamics during visually-guided locomotion in virtual reality
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Congratulations to Song for her oral presentation at the XXIX Congress of International Society of Biomechanics, XXIX Congress of Japanese Society of Biomechanics meeting in Fukoka, Japan (July 30-August 3, 2023)!
Presentation title: Human Electrical Brain and Muscle Activity during Underwater Standing Balance
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Support from the Kay & Jerry Cox Undergraduate Research Scholars Program through the Texas A&M University School of Education & Human Development will allow Carter Hartman to assist in research during Fall 2023, Spring and Summer 2024.
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Congratulations to Madison and Song for their funded Graduate Student Research Grants through the Texas A&M University School of Education & Human Development!
Song’s propsal: Human electrical brain and muscle dynamics during bodyweight supported walking
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Congratulations to Song and Yu-Po for their funded Student Research Grants from the Sydney & J.L. Huffines Institute for Sports Medicine & Human Performance!
Song’s proposal: Building holistic knowledge of human brain and muscle dynamics during hypo-gravity aqua walking
Yu-Po’s proposal: Human brain processes during visually guided walking in virtual reality
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Congratulations to Madison for her accepted 4-page conference paper and presentation at the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports 2023 Meeting in Milwaukee, WI, USA (July 12-16, 2023)!
Presentation title: Evaluating the influence of knee joint angle on maximum isometric belt squat performance
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Congratulations to Scott and Song for their accepted presentations at the 11th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering in Baltimore, MD, USA (April 25-27, 2023)!
Scott’s Presentation: Myoelectric EEG artifact removal validation using tripolar concentric ring electrodes and canonical correlation analysis
Song’s Presentation: Electrical brain activity during mechanical bodyweight-supported walking does not differ between sexes
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Congratulations to Song for publishing an article in IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology!
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Congratulations to Song for her accepted presentation at the Society for the Neural Control of Movement 2023 Annual Meeting in Victoria, BC, Canada (April 17-23, 2023)!
Presentation title: Mechanical bodyweight support during gait increases human sensorimotor electrocortical alpha and beta band spectral power
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Congratulations to Matthew Ghebranious, Suhani Patel, Seongmi Song, Madison Treece, Scott Phillips, and Yu-Po Cheng for their excellent work and poster presentations at the Texas A&M University Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience Winter Symposium.
Matthew Ghebranious, Suhani Patel, & Seongmi Song presentation title: Mechanical bodyweight support increases human electrocortical alpha and beta band spectral power during gait
Madison Treece & Scott Phillips presentation title: High-density electromyography for assessing lower limb spatial electrical muscle activity during human locomotion
Yu-Po Cheng presentation title: Spatial navigation in projected virtual reality reduces human frontoparietal electrocortical spectral power
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Congratulations to Yu-Po for presenting his research at the 2022 Society for Neuroscience meeting (Nov. 12-16, 2022) in San Diego, California!
Presentation title: Spatial navigation in projected virtual reality reduces human frontoparietal electrocortical spectral power
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Congratulations to Scott for presenting his research at the 2022 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting (Oct. 12-15, 2022) in San Antonio, Texas!
Presentation title: EEG noise removal using tripolar concentric ring electrodes and canonical correlation analysis
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Congratulations to Song for presenting her research at the 4th International Mobile Brain/Body Interaction Conference in San Diego, California (June 7-10, 2022)!
Presentation title: Underwater balance perturbations modulate human frontoparietal theta band spectral power
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Congratulations to Scott for receiving the 2nd Place Best Oral Presentation Award at the 13th Annual Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience Symposium!
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Congratulations to Song, who received a National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored fellowship to attend the 19th International Summer School BIO-X on Data Science and Engineering in Medicine & Biology, hosted by IEEE EMB Society and IEEE BRAIN. Song is one of 32 selected students to attend the summer school (May 30-June 5, 2022) in Chania, Crete, Greece.
An amazing accomplishment and recognition for outstanding work!
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Congratulations to Nathaniel for being recognized with the 3rd Place Best Oral Presentation Award in the Earth, Chemical & Material Sciences section of Student Research Week at Texas A&M University!
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Congratulations to Suhani Patel, Blaine Peters, Alex Long, Nathaniel Fernandes, and Seongmi Song for their excellent work and presentations at Student Research Week, on the second floor of the Texas A&M University Memorial Student Center (MSC).
Nathaniel Fernandes will be delivering an oral presentation at 1:50-2:05pm on Monday (3/21) in MSC 2503
Alex Long will be presenting a poster at 3:30-4:20pm on Monday (3/21)
Suhani Patel & Blaine Peters will be presenting a poster at 11am-12:40pm on Wednesday (3/23) MSC 2400
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Congratulations to Song for receiving the 2022 Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Research Award! The award was provided by WISE (Women in Science & Engineering) at Texas A&M University and honors women graduate students who have demonstrated excellence in research.
Very much deserved. Outstanding accomplishment, Song!
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Texas A&M University, College of Education & Human Development,, has provided support through the Renew, Reinvest, & Resubmit Program for our studies on “Human brain and body dynamics during locomotion in hyper and hypogravity”
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Congratulations to Seongmi Song, Alex Long, Suhani Patel, Blaine Peters, and Madison Treece on their 1-page conference paper and poster presentation at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Conference on Healthcare Innovations, Point of Care Technologies in Houston (March 10-11, 2022) that was co-hosted by the Texas A&M University Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Presentation title: Mobile technologies for monitoring real-world human ambulatory brain, muscle, and body dynamics
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The Sydney & J.L. Huffines Institute for Sports Medicine & Human Performance at Texas A&M University has provided support for our studies on “Human brain and body dynamics during locomotor movements”.
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Texas A&M University, College of Education & Human Development has provided support for two undergraduate student research assistants to take part in our research multidisciplinary studies on “Human brain processes during complex locomotor navigation”.
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Dr. Nordin and Dr. Heather Burte (Psychological Brain Sciences) received support from the Texas A&M University, Unit of Undergraduate Studies, Innovation[X] Program to hire nine undergraduate research assistants to take part in our research multidisciplinary studies on “Human brain processes during complex locomotor navigation”.
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Excited to provide the link to Song's newly published review article in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience covering the use of mobile EEG for studying neural control of human locomotion. Very relevant for our ongoing work and a nice overview of EEG signal acquisition, data processing, recent discoveries from mobile EEG studies, and future directions for our research.
Great work, Song! Congrats!
Mobile Electroencephalography for Studying Neural Control of Human Locomotion
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2020 Brain Products Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI) Award for Excellence in the Field of MoBI Research.