Responsibilities
Chair of Human Movement Science, Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences
Contact
Chair of Human Movement Science
Georg-Brauchle-Ring 60/ 62
D-80992 Munich
Phone:
+49 (0)89 / 289-24550
Fax:
+49 (0)89 / 289-24553
Email:
joachim.hermsdoerfer@tum.de
Website:
http://www.bewegungswissenschaft.sp.tum.de/index.php?id=843&L=1
Further Information
Key words: Sensorimotor control, motor learning, elementary motor skills, object manipulation, complex tool use actions, sports, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
Selected publications:
Brandauer B, Hermsdörfer J, Geißendörfer T, Schoch B, Gizewski ER and Timmann D. (2012) Impaired and preserved aspects of independent finger control in patients with cerebellar damage. J Neurophysiol 107: 1080-1093.
Hermsdörfer J, Li Y, Randerath J, Goldenberg G and Johansson L. (2012) Tool use without a tool: kinematic characteristics of pantomiming as compared to actual use and the effect of brain damage. Exp Brain Res 218 (2): 201-214.
Roby-Brami A, Hermsdörfer J, Roy A and Jacobs S. (2012) A neuropsychological perspective on the link between language and praxis in modern humans. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 367: 144-160.
Brandauer B, Hermsdörfer J, Müller F and Timmann D. (2011) Ataxie. In: Nowak DA (ed) Gehirn und Hand: Klinik und Rehabilitation von Handfunktionsstörungen in der Neurologie. Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 130-138.
Hermsdörfer J, Marquardt C, Schneider A, Fürholzer W and Baur B. (2011) Significance of grip forces and kinematics during handwriting in writer's cramp. HumMovSci 30: 807-817.