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Motor Control and Learning Lab (Shota Hagio)
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The lab explores how humans produce movements and acquire new motor skills.
AboutAbout the lab
How movements are produced and acquired
The Motor Control and Learning Lab (Hagio Lab) studies how humans produce movements (motor control) and how they acquire new movements (motor learning).
Its research covers all everyday movements, including sports and playing musical instruments.
The lab combines behavioral experiments, physiological experiments, and simulations using mathematical models.
It also investigates how people learn new movements and how a microgravity environment that simulates space affects body movement.
Key terms
- Degrees of freedom
- The number of independent ways the body can move. The more joints and muscles there are, the greater the degrees of freedom, and the wider the variety of movements possible.
- Mathematical model
- A description of how a phenomenon works, expressed in mathematical equations. It can be run on a computer and compared with experimental results.
- Bed rest experiment
- An experiment in which participants lie in bed with their heads tilted down by 6 degrees for 10 days to create a state close to weightlessness, and changes in the body are examined before and after.
- Microgravity
- A state in which the effect of gravity is almost imperceptible, as in space; a condition close to weightlessness.
NewsLab news
A paper by a doctoral student was accepted by eNeuro
A doctoral student received the Young Researcher Encouragement Award at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Biomechanics
A doctoral student received the Young Investigator Encouragement Award at the 19th Motor Control Research Meeting
A master's student received the Encouragement Award at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Biomechanics
A paper co-authored with Keio University was accepted by Frontiers in Neurology
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies how humans produce movements (motor control) and how they acquire new movements (motor learning). Its research covers all everyday movements, including sports and playing musical instruments.
Control and learning of movement in a body with many degrees of freedom
The aim is to clarify how the brain controls and learns movements of the human body, which has many joints and muscles and therefore a large number of degrees of freedom. The lab combines behavioral experiments, physiological experiments, and simulations using mathematical models.
Learning new movements
The lab examines the process of learning entirely new movements that people have never experienced before, using tasks such as controlling a virtual arm. It studies individual differences in how movements are acquired during new motor learning, and how coordinated control develops when learning new movements that involve redundancy.
Microgravity and body movement
The lab investigates how a microgravity environment affects the control of body movement. To create simulated microgravity, lab members and students took part in a bed rest experiment in which participants lay with their heads tilted down by 6 degrees for 10 days, and carried out measurements.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Motor Control and Learning Lab consist of faculty and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorShota Hagio
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