Minoru "Shino" Shinohara

Dr. Shinohara’s research interests include neurophysiological and biomechanical mechanisms underlying motor skills and their adaptations to altered afferent input, aging, fatigue, attention, and practice/rehabilitation in humans.  He is also interested in human-robot interaction, human augmentation, and their potential application to physical activity, sports, health, and rehabilitation.  He uses state-of-the-art techniques in neuroscience, neuroengineering, physiology, and biomechanics (e.g., tVNS, TMS, EEG, single motor unit recordings, high-density and interference EMG, microneurography, mechanomyography, ultrasound elastography/B-mode, exoskeleton robot, machine learning) in his research.