Jason Friedman

Research

My postdoctoral research involves studying how we produce forces during grasping and other finger tasks, and with the arm. In particular, I am interested in how the Central Nervous System coordinates finger forces to perform given tasks, and how these desired forces are planned (for example, by using the Equilibrium point hypothesis).

A collection of my references related to grasping and motor control in general can be viewed. More general articles on arm movement and focussing on Listing's and Donders' law can be found here.

Publications

Refereed Journal papers

J Friedman and T Flash.
Task-dependent selection of grasp kinematics and stiffness in human object manipulation.
Cortex, 43(3):444-460, 2007.

DG Liebermann, A Biess, J Friedman, CCAM Gielen, and T Flash.
Intrinsic joint kinematic planning - I: Reassessing the Listing's law constraint in the control of three-dimensional arm movements.
Experimental Brain Research, 171(2):139-154, 2006.

Refereed papers in conference proceedings

S Berman, J Friedman, and T Flash.
Object-action abstraction for teleoperation.
In IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), Hawaii, 2005.

G Kowadlo, J Friedman, and T Flash.
Predicting grasp inertia with a geometric model.
In Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Sydney, Australia, 2005.

Selected conference presentations

Neuroscience 2006: Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Geogria, October 2006.

Annual meeting of Israel Society for Neuroscience, Eilat, Israel, December 2005.

Progress in Motor Control, Pennsylvania State University, USA, August 2005.

Computational Motor Control Workshop, Ben Gurion University, Israel, May 2005.

French-Israeli Binational Neurosciences Meeting, Ma'aleh Hachamisha, Israel, November 2004.

Three-Dimensional Sensory and Motor Space, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, April 2003.

Technical tidbits

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A collection of tips on computer related topics

Personal

Photos in memory of my mother, Diana

My older brother Jeremy's web page

My younger brother Tim's blog

My mother-in-law Susan Gal's web page on Shamanism (in hebrew)

My favourite links on del.icio.us

Contact info

Email:	jason.friedman@psu.edu
Office:	39 Rec Hall
Office phone:	+1-814-863-0354
Position:	Postdoctoral scholar
	Biomechanics lab / Motor control lab
	Department of Kinesiology
	Pennsylvania State University
	University Park, PA, USA

Last updated on Monday, October 15th 2007