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Behavioral Control Lab (Keisuke Kushiro)
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The lab uses behavioral experiments to explore how humans move their bodies under gravity.
AboutAbout the lab
Investigating the mechanisms of human sensation, cognition, and movement
The Behavioral Control Lab studies the mechanisms of human sensation, cognition, and movement.
Human body movements are produced by unconscious control so that they are carried out accurately and energy-efficiently.
Through behavioral experiments, the lab quantifies body movements and explores the mechanisms of the control system underlying them.
It investigates the effects of gravity on movement, the perception of space under gravity, and collective strategies in sports.
Key terms
- Behavioral experiment
- An experiment in which people perform a task and their movements and responses are measured to study the workings of the mind and body
- Fitts's law
- A law that expresses the ease of movement as a formula using the movement distance and the target size
- Motion capture
- A system that measures body movements and records them as data
NewsLab news
A doctoral student's paper was published in Experimental Brain Research
A doctoral student received the Best Presentation Award at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Sport Psychology
ResearchResearch themes
This lab studies the mechanisms of human sensation, cognition, and movement. Using behavioral experiments to quantify human body movements, it explores how the body is skillfully controlled under gravity and how space is perceived.
Effects of Gravity on Body Movement
The lab quantifies and visualizes how gravity affects body movement. In up-and-down hand movements, it found that the temporal changes in hand acceleration and deceleration, and in the movement of the fingers grasping an object, differ depending on the direction of movement. This suggests that humans unconsciously make use of gravity when they move.
Ease of Movement Around the Body
The lab extended Fitts's law, which expresses ease of movement in terms of distance and target size, to a two-dimensional plane, and evaluated the ease of movement toward various points around the body. It found considerable differences between directions that are easy to move in and directions that are hard to move in.
Self-Assessment of One's Own Motor Ability
The lab quantifies how people themselves judge whether they can reach a point around the body within a given time. This measure is thought to be a factor in deciding, for example, whether to go for a ball right in front of you in soccer.
Spatial Perception and Motor Performance
Using motion capture to measure arm movements, the lab explores how humans skillfully control their arms in a gravitational space. It also induces an illusion by tilting the frame around a dartboard and examines how throwing performance changes.
MembersFaculty
The Behavioral Control Lab consists of faculty members, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, research students, and external collaborators.As of 2026
- ProfessorKeisuke Kushiro
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