By factorially manipulating landmark scale (global vs. local) and environmental regularity, this study shows that local landmarks serve as immediate route anchors while global landmarks become critical in irregular, unpredictable environments — resolving a longstanding inconsistency in the navigation literature.

This chapter introduces information-theoretic tools — including Shannon entropy and mutual information — as principled metrics for quantifying the regularity, variability, and computational demands of motor behavior, with applications to motor learning and aging research.

Using a response repetition paradigm with EMG monitoring, we demonstrate that motor imagery and motor execution produce inequivalent and — after controlling for subthreshold muscle activity — uncorrelated repetition effects, challenging the dominant functional equivalence hypothesis.

Using information-theoretic measures, this study quantifies how neural specificity (differentiation) of motor and executive functions declines with age — shedding light on the mechanisms of cognitive aging.

This study establishes the first normative data for the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A (HGSHS:A) in the Taiwanese Mandarin-speaking population, validating the scale against 15 international reference samples and identifying cross-cultural factors affecting item performance.

This study compares general cognitive performance across athletes trained in open-skill sports (requiring reactive, unpredictable responses) versus closed-skill sports (stereotyped, self-paced), finding that open-skill training is associated with superior attention switching and executive flexibility.

Comparing moderate versus vigorous aerobic training, this study examines how exercise intensity differentially benefits executive function components — including working memory, cognitive flexibility, and inhibitory control — in middle-to-old age adults.

Using a novel, motivationally engaging battlefield scenario and simultaneous fMRI-EEG, this study identifies the neural circuits supporting successful response inhibition, revealing distinct contributions of prefrontal, parietal, and cingulate regions to inhibitory control under real-world-like conditions.

This study investigates how the modality (visual vs. auditory) and type (knowledge of results vs. knowledge of performance) of augmented feedback affect the acquisition and retention of a bimanual coordination skill, revealing interaction effects between feedback modality and information specificity.

Using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), we reveal sport-specific structural differences in basal ganglia white matter pathways between elite endurance runners and open-skill martial arts athletes, suggesting that different types of motor expertise shape subcortical brain structure differently.

Using fMRI, we show that the perception of object weight and the prediction of force required for lifting are supported by distinct neural circuits — providing key evidence for separate visuomotor and perceptual streams.

When lifting objects with one hand, the brain builds internal models predicting the force required. This study shows these predictive grip force models transfer across hands independently of how heavy the object feels — dissociating motor prediction from perceptual weight estimates.

Using TMS applied to the posterior parietal cortex, we demonstrate a causal role for this region in visual stability — the ability to perceive a stable world despite the constant displacement of images on the retina during eye movements.

This study systematically examines whether inhibition of return (IOR) — the delayed processing of previously attended locations — affects both perceptual judgments and action responses similarly, addressing whether IOR is a unitary or task-specific phenomenon.

Using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over the frontal eye fields, we demonstrate that this oculomotor region plays a causal role in generating inhibition of return — the slowing of attention to previously cued spatial locations.