Selected Publications



  • Arellano CJ, Gidmark NJ, Konow N, Azizi E, & Roberts TJ (2016). Determinants of aponeurosis shape change during muscle contraction (in press, Journal of Biomechanics).

  • Arellano CJ, Caha D, Henessey JE, Ioannis, A, Baudry S, & Enoka RM (2016). Fatigue-induced adjustment in antagonist coactivation by old adults during a steadiness task. Journal of Applied Physiology, doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00908.2015

  • Arellano CJ, McDermott WJ, Kram R, & Grabowski AG (2015). Effect of running speed and leg prostheses on mediolateral foot placement and its variability. PloS One. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0115637

  • Arellano CJ & Kram R (2014). Partitioning the metabolic cost of human running: A task-by-task approach. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 54 (6): 1084-98.

  • Arellano CJ & Kram R (2014). On the metabolic cost of human running: is swinging the arms worth it? Journal of Experimental Biology. 217 (14): 2456-61. Featured in the “New York Times” and other national/international media outlets.

  • Look NE, Arellano CJ, Grabowski A, McDermott B, Kram R, & Bradley E (2013). Nonlinear dynamics of running: Speed, stability, symmetry and the effects of leg amputations. Chaos. 23:043131.

  • Arellano CJ & Kram R (2012). The energetic cost of maintaining lateral balance during human running. Journal of Applied Physiology. 112: 427-434.

  • Kram R, Arellano CJ, & Franz JR (2011). The metabolic cost of locomotion: muscle by muscle. Exercise and Sports Science Reviews. 39(2): 57-58.

  • Arellano CJ & Kram R (2011). The effects of step width and arm swing on energetic cost and lateral balance during running. Journal of Biomechanics. 44(7): 1291-95.

  • Arellano CJ, Layne CS, O’Connor DP, & Kurz MJ (2009). The independent effect of added mass on the stability of the sagittal plane leg kinematics during steady-state human walking. Journal of Experimental Biology. 212(12): 1965-70.

  • Arellano CJ, Layne CS, O’Connor DP, Scott-Pandorf M, & Kurz MJ (2009). Does load carrying influence sagittal plane locomotive stability? Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.41(3): 620-27.

  • Kurz MJ, Scott-Pandorf M, Arellano CJ, Olsen D, & Whittaker G (2008). The penguin waddling gait pattern has a more consistent step width than step length. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 252(2): 272-76.

  • Kurz MJ, Judkins TN, Arellano CJ, & Scott-Pandorf M (2008). A passive dynamic walking robot that has a deterministic nonlinear gait. Journal of Biomechanics. 41(6): 1310-16.

  • Kurz MJ, Pothakos K, Jamaluddin S, Scott-Pandorf M, Arellano CJ, & Lau YS (2007). A chronic mouse model of Parkinson’s disease has a reduced gait pattern certainty. Neuroscience Letters. 429(1): 39-42.

  • Meng, H., O’Connor, D.P., Lee, B.C., Layne, C.S., Gorniak, S.L. (2016). Effects of adiposity on postural control and cognition. Gait & Posture 43: 31-37. PMID: 26669948.

  • Khan, A., Gorniak, S.L. (2015). Effects of visual template type on force production in healthy young adults. Motor Control (in press). PMID: 26407451.

  • Madansingh, S., Gorniak, S.L. (2015). Using non-linear tools to evaluate movement of fragile objects. Journal of Applied Biomechanics 31(2): 95-101. PMID: 25386733.

  • Gorniak, S.L., Plow, M., McDaniels, C., Alberts, J.L. (2014). Impaired object handling during bimanual task performance in Multiple Sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis International 2014: 450420. PMID: 25170424.

  • Ochoa, N., Gorniak, S. L. (2014). Changes in sensory function and force production in adults with Type II Diabetes. Muscle & Nerve 50(6): 984-990. PMID: 24710967.

  • Gorniak, S.L., Khan, A., Ochoa, N., Sharma, M.D., Phan, C.L. (2014). Detecting subtle fingertip sensory and motor dysfunction in adults with Type II Diabetes. Experimental Brain Research 232(4): 1283-1291. PMID: 24468726.

  • Gorniak SL, McIntyre CC, Alberts JL (2013). Bimanual force coordination in Parkinson's disease patient with bilateral subthalamic deep brain stimulation. PLoS One 8(11): e78934.

  • Gorniak SL, Alberts JL (2013). Effects of aging on force coordination in bimanual tasks. Experimental Brain Research 229(2): 273-284.

  • Gorniak SL, Machado A, Alberts JL (2013). Force coordination during bimanual task performance in Parkinson's disease. Experimental Brain Research 229(2): 261-271.

  • Gorniak SL, Alberts JL (2013). Effects of task complexity on grip-to-load coupling in bimanual actions. Experimental Brain Research. 225(4): 559-567.

  • Gorniak SL, Zatsiorsky VM, Latash ML (2011). Manipulation of a fragile object by elderly individuals. Experimental Brain Research 212(4): 505-516.

  • Gorniak SL, Zatsiorsky VM, Latash ML (2010). Manipulation of a fragile object. Experimental Brain Research 202(2): 413-430.

  • Gorniak SL, Zatsiorsky VM, Latash ML (2009). Hierarchical control of prehension: II. Multi-digit synergies. Experimental Brain Research 194(1): 1-15.

  • Gorniak SL, Zatsiorsky VM, Latash ML (2009). Hierarchical control of prehension: I. Biomechanics. Experimental Brain Research 193(4): 615-631.

  • Latash ML, Gorniak SL, Zatsiorsky VM (2008). Hierarchies of Synergies in Human Movements. Kinesiology 40(1): 29-38.

  • Gorniak SL, Duarte M, Latash ML (2008). Do synergies improve accuracy? A study of speed-accuracy trade-offs during finger force production. Motor Control.12(2): 151-172.

  • Dongyual Yoo, Younsun Son, Dae-Hee Kim, Kap-Ho Seo, and Beom-Chan Lee “Technology-assisted ankle rehabilitation improves balance and gait performance in stroke survivors: A randomized controlled study with 1-month follow-up”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2018 (In press)

  • Stacey L. Gorniak, Fangmei Yoshimi Lu, Beom-Chan Lee, Paul J. Massman, and Jing Wang, “Cognitive impairment and postural control deficits in adults with Type 2 Diabetes”, Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews, 2018 (Epub ahead of print)

  • David R. Young, Beom-Chan Lee, and Charles S. Layne, “Comparison of martial artists and healthy individuals using treadmill-induced gait perturbation”, Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 1-4, 2018

  • Charles S. Layne, Beom-Chan Lee, David R. Young, Daniel G. Glaze, and Bernhard Suter, “Temporal gait measures associated with overground and treadmill walking in Rett syndrome”, Journal of Child Neurology, Vol. 33, No. 10, pp. 667-674, 2018

  • Alberto Fung, Eugene C. Lai, and Beom-Chan Lee, “Usability and validation of the Smarter Balance System: An unsupervised dynamic balance exercises system for individuals with Parkinson’s disease”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 798-806, 2018

  • Beom-Chan Lee, Alberto Fung, and Timothy A. Thrasher, “The effects of coding schemes on vibrotactile biofeedback for dynamic balance training in Parkinson’s Disease and healthy elderly individuals”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 153-160, 2018

  • Charles S. Layne, Beom-Chan Lee, David R. Young, Aryn Knight, Daniel G. Glaze, and Bernhard Suter, “Methodologies to objectively assess gait and postural control features in Rett syndrome - With a comment on specific challenges and how to address them”, Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 1-7, 2017

  • Beom-Chan Lee, Bernard J. Martin, Timothy A. Thrasher, and Charles S. Layne, “The effect of vibrotactile cuing on recovery strategies from a treadmill-induced trip”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 235-243, 2017

  • Hao Meng, Daniel P. O’Connor, Beom-Chan Lee, Charles S. Layne, and Stacey L. Gorniak, “Alterations in over-ground walking patterns in obese and overweight adults”, Gait and Posture, Vol. 53, pp. 145-150, 2017

  • Rakshatha Kabbaligere, Beom-Chan Lee, and Charles S. Layne, “Balancing sensory inputs: Sensory reweighting of ankle proprioception and vision during a bipedal posture task”, Gait and Posture, Vol. 52, pp. 244-250, 2017

  • Beom-Chan Lee, Timothy A. Thrasher, Charles S. Layne, and Bernard J. Martin, “Vibrotactile cuing revisited to reveal a possible challenge to sensorimotor adaptation”, Experimental Brain Research, Vol. 234, No. 12, pp. 3523-3530, 2016

  • Recep Ali Ozdemir, Jose L. Contreras-Vidal, Beom-Chan Lee, and William H. Paloski, “Cortical activity modulations underlying age related performance differences during posture-cognition dual tasking conditions”, Experimental Brain Research, Vol. 234, No. 11, pp. 3321-3334, 2016

  • David R. Temple, Beom-Chan Lee, and Charles S. Layne, “Effects of tibialis anterior vibration on postural control when exposed to support surface translations”, Somatosensory and Motor Research, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 42-48, 2016

  • Marius Dettmer, Amir Pourmoghaddam, Beom-Chan Lee, and Charles S. Layne, “Do aging and tactile noise stimulation affect responses to support surface translations in healthy adults?”, Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research, Vol. 2016, No. 2941964, 9 pages, 2016

  • Marius Dettmer, Amir Pourmoghaddam, Beom-Chan Lee, and Charles S. Layne, “Associations between tactile sensory threshold and postural performance and effects of healthy aging and subthreshold vibrotactile stimulation on postural outcomes in a simple dual task”, Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research, Vol. 2016, No. 9797369, 11 pages, 2016

  • Hao Meng, Daniel P. O’Connor, Beom-Chan Lee, Charles S. Layne, and Stacey L. Gorniak, “Effects of adiposity on postural control and cognition”, Gait and Posture, Vol. 43, pp. 31-37, 2016

  • Beom-Chan Lee, Timothy A. Thrasher, Stanley P. Fisher, and Charles S. Layne, “The effects of different sensory augmentation on weight-shifting balance exercises in Parkinson’s disease and healthy elderly people: A proof-of-concept study”, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, Vol. 12, No. 75, 2015

  • Marius Dettmer, Amir Pourmoghaddam, Beom-Chan Lee, and Charles S. Layne, “Effects of tactile stochastic resonance stimulation on postural performance and postural control of younger and older adults in a sensory conflict task”, Somatosensory and Motor Research, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 128-135, 2015

  • Bernard J. Martin, Beom-Chan Lee, and Kathleen H. Sienko, “A cutaneous positioning system”, Experimental Brain Research Vol. 233, No. 4, pp. 1237-1245, 2015

  • Beom-Chan Lee, Bernard J. Martin, Allison Ho, and Kathleen H. Sienko, “Postural reorganization induced by torso cutaneous covibration”, Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 33, No. 18, pp. 7870-7876, 2013

  • Beom-Chan Lee, Bernard J. Martin, and Kathleen H. Sienko, “The effects of actuator selection on non-volitional postural responses to torso-based vibrotactile stimulation”, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, Vol. 10, No. 21, 2013

  • Beom-Chan Lee, Bernard J. Martin, and Kathleen H. Sienko, “Directional postural responses induced by vibrotactile stimulations applied to the torso”, Experimental Brain Research, Vol. 222, No. 4, pp. 471-482, 2012

  • Beom-Chan Lee, Jeonghee Kim, Shu Chen, and Kathleen H. Sienko, “Cell phone based balance trainer”, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, Vol. 9, No. 10, 2012

  • Beom-Chan Lee, Shu Chen, and Kathleen H. Sienko, “A wearable device for real-time motion error detection and vibrotactile instructional cuing”, IEEE Transactions on Neural System and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 374-381, 2011

  • Beom-Chan Lee, Kelli Bechly, and Kathleen H. Sienko, “Cell phone based vibrotactile feedback system for home-based vestibular rehabilitation balance training”, Journal of Vestibular Research, Vol. 20, No. 3-4, pp. 234-235, 2010

  • Sun-Uk Hwang, Beom-Chan Lee, Jeha Ryu, Kwan Heng Lee, and Yong-Gu Lee, “Adaptive haptic rendering for time-varying haptic and video frame rates in multi-modal interactions”, Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual World, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 25-38, 2010

  • Beom-Chan Lee and Kathleen H. Sienko, “Wireless Mimic Device for Rehabilitation and Training Applications”, Journal of Medical Devices, Vol. 3, No. 2, 027526, 2009

  • Vivek Vishwas Vichare, Beom-Chan Lee, Wendy Carender, Annamarie Asher, and Kathleen H. Sienko, “Vibrotactile Balance Rehabilitation Gait Assist Device”, Journal of Medical Devices, Vol. 3, No. 2, 027509, 2009

  • Jong-Phil Kim, Beom-Chan Lee, Hyungon Kim, Jaeha Kim, and Jeha Ryu, “Accurate and Efficient CPU/GPUBased 3-DOF Haptic Rendering of Complex Static Virtual Environments”, Presence-Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 340-360, 2009

  • Jong-Phil Kim, Beom-Chan Lee, and Jeha Ryu, “Real-time Haptic Visualization of Printed Materials”, Journal of Computational Information System, Vol. 2, pp. 81-87, 2006

  • Jong-Phil Kim, Jeung-Chul Park, Beom-Chan Lee, Kwan H. Lee, Jeha Ryu, “Digital Buddhist Image Creation by Haptic Deformation”, Edutainment 2006, pp. 989-998, 2006

  • Parikh PJ and Cole KJ (2015). Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on the control of finger force during dexterous manipulation in healthy older adults. PLOS One. 10(4): e0124137. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0124137.

  • Parikh PJ, Davare M, McGurrin P, Santello M (2014). Corticospinal excitability underlying digit force planning for grasping in humans. Journal of Neurophysiology. 111(12):2560-9. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00815.2013.

  • Parikh PJ, Cole KJ (2014). Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation in combination with motor practice on dexterous grasping and manipulation in healthy older adults. Physiological Reports. 2(3), DOI: 10.1002/phy2.255.

  • Parikh PJ, Cole KJ (2013). Transfer of learning between hands to handle a novel object in old age. Experimental Brain Research. 227(1):9-18. DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3451-2.

  • Parikh PJ, Cole KJ (2012). Handling objects in old age: forces and moments acting on the object. Journal of Applied Physiology. 112 (7):1095-104. DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01385.2011.
    Selected for an editorial review. Latash and Johnston (2012). Why did grandpa drop the glass? Journal of Applied Physiology. 112: 1093-1094.

  • Parikh PJ, Cole KJ (2011). Limited persistence of the sensorimotor memory when transferred across prehension tasks. Neuroscience Letters. 494(2):94-8. DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.02.066.

  • Paek A, Parikh PJ, Gailey A, Santello M, Contreras-Vidal J (2015). Predicting Hand Forces from Scalp Electroencephalography During Isometric Grip and Object Grasping. International Graphonomics Society (IGS 2015).

  • Jing X, Parikh PJ, Yuan L, Trudeau M, Dennerlein JT, Buchholz B (2009). Biomechanical evaluation of the air stretcher as an alternative for the carpet knee kicker. Proceedings of the 17th World Congress on Ergonomics (IEA 2009), Beijing, China. This work was peer-reviewed.

  • Thrasher TA, Fisher S. Burden of patients with intrathecal drug delivery systems: an administrative claims based analysis. [Oct 2012: Accepted for publication in Neuromodulation]

  • Thrasher TA, Ward JS, Fisher S. Changes in exercise capacity during a 13-week regimen of functional electrical stimulation leg cycling. [Oct 2012: Accepted for publication in NeuroRehabilitation]

  • Miyatani M, Masani K, Kawashima N, Craven BC, Thrasher TA, Popovic MR. Treadmill walking with gait patterned FES among patients with incomplete spinal cord injury increases exercise intensity: case series. [Oct 2011: Submitted for publication to ISRN Rehabilitation]

  • Uzun S, Purmoghaddam A, Hieronymus M, Thrasher TA. Evaluation of Muscle Fatigue of Wheelchair Basketball Players with Spinal Cord Injury using Recurrence Quantification Analysis of Surface EMG. Eur J Appl Physiol 2012; 112(11):3847-3857.

  • Bryant MS, Pourmoghaddam A, Thrasher TA. Gait changes with walking devices in persons with Parkinson's Disease. Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol 2012; 7(2):149-52.

  • Thrasher TA, Ward JS, Fisher S. Classification of rhythmic locomotor patterns in electromyographic signals using fuzzy sets. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2011; 8:65.

  • Vette AH, Yoshida T, Thrasher TA, Masani K, Popovic MR. A Comprehensive three-dimensional dynamic model of the human head and trunk for estimating lumbar and cervical joint torques and forces from upper body kinematics. Medical Engineering & Physics 2011; 33(1):70-79. PMID: 20980190

  • Fisher S, Lucas L, Thrasher TA. Robot-assisted gait training for patients with hemiparesis due to stroke. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation 2011; 18(3):269-276.

  • Thrasher TA, Sin VW, Masani K, Vette AH, Craven BC, Popovic MR. Kinematic responses of the trunk to multidirectional perturbations during unsupported sitting. Journal of Applied Biomechanics 2010; 26(3):332-40. PMID: 20841625

  • Masani K, Sin VH, Vette AH, Thrasher TA, Kawashima N, Morris A, Preuss R, Popovic MR. Postural reactions of the trunk muscles to multidirectional perturbations in sitting. Clin Biomech 2009; 24(2):176-82.

  • Miller RC, Popovic MR, Thrasher TA, Verrier M. Functional electrical stimulation therapy improves grasping in chronic cervical spinal cord injury: two case studies. Journal of Automatic Control 2008; 18(2):53-61.

  • Chi L, Masani K, Miyatani M, Thrasher TA, Johnston KW, Mardimae A, Kessler C, Fisher JA, Popovic MR. Cardiovascular Response to Functional Electrical Stimulation and Dynamic Tilt Table Therapy to Improve Orthostatic Tolerance. J Electromyogr Kinesiol 2008; 18(6):900-907.

  • Thrasher TA, Zivanovic V, McIlroy W, Popovic MR. Rehabilitation of reaching and grasping function in severe hemiplegic patients using Functional Electrical Stimulation Therapy. Neurorehabil Neural Repair 2008; 22(6):706-714.

  • Thrasher TA, Popovic MR. Functional Electrical Stimulation of walking: Function, exercise and rehabilitation. Ann Readapt Med Phys 2008; 51(6):452-60.