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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Instituto de Biociências (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Licenciatura Educação Física e Técnico Desportivo from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1987), master's at Fitness from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1992) and ph.d. at Ph.D. Motor Development from University of Maryland System (1997). Has experience in Fitness, focusing on Fitness, acting on the following subjects: controle postural, desenvolvimento motor, percepção-ação, postural control and vision. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The prevalence of learning disabilities disorders has reached critical levels specially in school age children. Considering all the consequences, several actions have been proposed and implemented aiming to minimize and/or to reduce the undesirable impacts in the school development of these children. Recently, we have demonstrated that a sensory motor intervention, with cognitive engageme…
The São Paulo State University (UNESP) is one of the largest and most important Brazilian universities, with outstanding performance in teaching, research, and extension of services to the community. Maintained by the state of São Paulo government, it is one of the three public universities with free education, along with USP (University of São Paulo) and Unicamp (State University of Camp…
Reading is not a trivial task and involves cognitive aspects and mechanisms in order to identify letter and words and appropriate eye movements. Several strategies have been proposed and used aiming to reduce and minimize reading and writing difficulties in dyslexic children. Recently, reading performance was observed due to a computer-based oculomotor program and motor activity intervent…
This proposal has a goal make possible the participation of Dr. John Jeka as a visiting professor, from March 16th to June 20th, 2024. During this period, Dr. Jeka will contribute to the discussion of results from several ongoing projects that have been performed by several laboratory groups at UNESP, Campus of Rio Claro and Bauru, and at Cruzeiro do Sul University. Regarding the research…
Reading is not a trivial task, which involves several cognitive aspects and mechanisms in order to identify letter and words and their meaning. An important mechanism is the appropriate eye movements. Studies have identified eye movement coordination differences in Dyslexic children and adults. Several strategies have been proposed and used aiming to reduce and minimize reading and writin…
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Introduction: Changes in gait and postural control are common impairments in Parkinson's disease (PD). Although pharmacological treatment is the most widely used for the rehabilitation of people with PD, these impairments appear to be poorly responsive to this treatment. Complementary therapies have therefore been the subject of research into the rehabilitation of people with PD. Evidence…
Master student will develop and will implement a physical activity program with the goal to promote inclusive activities directed to children with learning disabilities and dyslexia. The program activities will have as main goal the development of cognitive capabilities, reading performance, attention, and person relationship. Special attention will be directed to the sleep quality and it…
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Determining the factors that can predict falls is one of the greatest scientific challenges. Although previous studies have made efforts to identify tools to predict falls in older people with Parkinson's disease (PD), these studies have focused only on the final outcome (e.g., gait and balance performance), without understanding the factors involved in the execution of the task, such as …
Introduction: Postural changes are common impairments in Parkinson's disease (PD). Although pharmacological treatment is the most used for rehabilitation in people with PD, impairments in postural control are unresponsive to this treatment. Therefore, complementary therapies have been targeted in rehabilitation research for people with PD. Evidence suggests that physical exercise and tran…
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The purpose of this project is to examine the impact of reinforcement and error feedback on locomotion of individuals with Parkinson disease (PD). Adults with and without PD will walk on a instrumented treadmill, imersed in a virtual reality enrionment. Body segment displacements will be monitored and captured, real time, during the walking. After a period of adaptation, step length and w…
Dyslexic children, in addition to having difficulty in reading and writing, also have poor postural control performance. Recent studies suggest that dyslexic children show poor oculomotor performance that might affect behavioral performance. The goal of this study will investigate the effect of eye movement in different visual tasks in postural control in dyslexic children. Twenty dyslexi…