Kurt A. Thoroughman (born 31 January 1972) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.

Thoroughman investigates how humans plan, control, and learn new movements.

Understanding normal motor behavior and its neural basis will further the development of insightful clinical tests in movement neurology, and facilitate the early detection and treatment of motor diseases.

Thoroughman graduated with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1999, completing a thesis in the Laboratory of Computational Motor Control, under the mentorship of Reza Shadmehr.

After completion of his PhD, Thoroughman was a postdoctoral fellow with Eve Marder at Brandeis University.

"Motor adaptation scaled by the difficulty of a secondary cognitive task".

"Trial-by-trial transformation of error into sensorimotor adaptation changes with environmental dynamics".

Thoroughman KA, Wang W, Tomov DN (Aug 2007).

"Divided attention impairs human motor adaptation but not feedback control".

Focus on "An experimentally confirmed mathematical model for human control of a non-rigid object"".

Soto-Treviño C, Thoroughman KA, Marder E, Abbott LF (Mar 2001).

"Activity-dependent modification of inhibitory synapses in models of rhythmic neural networks".

"Learning of action through adaptive combination of motor primitives".

"Electromyographic correlates of learning an internal model of reaching movements".

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