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Raoul Huys
Post-doc
As a member of the Theoretical Neuroscience Group in the “Institut des Sciences du Mouvement” in Marseille (France) I investigate movement timing as well as interference and coordination between simultaneous movements from a dynamical perspective. In our research we investigate whether distinct movement classes exist – which we claim to be the case – and whether movements from distinct classes are differently timed. Obviously, movements are generally functional (one moves with the aim to …), which implies establishing a particular relation between the actor and his/her ‘environment’. Do the properties of the environment (‘information’) favor the usage of one movement class above others? If so: why and how? How does the neural system support distinct movements and timing mechanisms? We know that simultaneous movements (at least for some kind of movements) are not executed independently of each other. Do all movements interfere? Is there a common cause underlying interference and coordination between movements belonging to different classes? Interference and coordination implies coupling. Through which neural communication pathways is the coupling realized? These are the main questions we are currently examining.
Publications
Updated : 3 July 2008Huys R, Studenka BE, Rheame N, Zelaznik HN, Jirsa, VK (2008). Distinct timing mechanisms produce discrete and continuous movements. PLOS Computational Biology, 4: e1000061.
Huys R, Smeeton NJ, Hodges NJ, Beek PJ & Williams AM (accepted for publication in Perception & Psychophysics) On the dynamic information underlying visual anticipation skill.
Huys R, Cañal-Bruland R, Hagemann N, Smeeton NJ, Beek PJ & Williams AM (accepted for publication in Journal of Motor Behavior) Global information pick up underpins anticipation of tennis shot direction.
Lamoth CJC, Daffertshofer A, Huys R & Beek PJ (accepted for publication in Human Movement Science) Steady and transient coordination structures of walking and running.
De Oliveira RF, Huys R, Oudejans RR, van de Langenberg R & Beek PJ (2007) Basketball jump shooting is controlled on-line by vision. Experimental Psychology 54: 180-186.
Hayes SJ, Hodges NJ, Huys R & Williams AM (2007) End-point focus manipulations to determine what information is used during observational learning. Acta Psychologica 126: 120-137.
Ford P, Hodges NJ, Huys R & Williams AM. (2006) The role of external action-effects in the execution of a soccer kick: A comparison across skill-level. Motor Control 10: 386 - 404.
Huys R, Williams AM & Beek PJ (2005) Visual perception and gaze control in judging and producing phase relations. Human Movement Science 24: 403-428.
Daffertshofer A, Huys R & Beek, PJ (2004) Dynamical coupling between locomotion and respiration. Biological Cybernetics 90: 157-164. Huys R, Daffertshofer A & Beek PJ (2004) Multiple time scales and multiform dynamics in learning to juggle. Motor control 8: 188-212.
Huys R, Daffertshofer A & Beek PJ (2004) Multiple time scales and subsystem embedding in the learning of juggling. Human Movement Science 23: 315-336.
Huys R, Daffertshofer A, Beek PJ, Saunderson D & Siegmund G (2004) Locomotion-respiration coupling – an account of the underlying dynamics. Journal of Applied Physiology 96: 2341-2341.
Huys R, Daffertshofer A & Beek PJ (2003) Learning to juggle: on the assembly of functional subsystems into a task-specific dynamical organization. Biological Cybernetics 88: 302-318.
Huys R & Beek PJ (2002) The coupling between point-of-gaze and ball movements in three-ball cascade juggling: the effects of expertise, tempo and pattern. Journal of Sport Sciences 20:171-186.
Adam JJ, Nieuwenstein JH, Huys R, Paas FGWC, Kingma H, Willems P & Werry M (2000) Control of rapid aimed hand movements: The one target-advantage. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 26: 295-312.
Adam JJ, Huys R, van Loon EM, Kingma H, & Paas FGWC (2000) Effects of spatial and symbolic precues on localization performance. Psychological Research 64: 66-80.
