Ricerca Laboratori di RicercaKinesiology and Motor Control LabPublications

Publications

 

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2025

Guarducci S., Jayousi S.*, Caputo S., Mucchi L. (2025). Key Fundamentals and Examples of Sensors for Human Health: Wearable, Non-Continuous, and Non-Contact Monitoring Devices. Sensors. 25, 556. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25020556

 

Panconi G.*, Grasso S., Guarducci S., Mucchi L., Minciacchi D., Bravi R.* (2025). DeepLabCut Custom-Trained Model and the Refinement Function for Gait Analysis. Scientific Reports. 15, 2364.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-85591-1

 

2024

Panconi G.*, Sorgente V., Guarducci S., Bravi R., Minciacchi D.* (2024). The Role of Visual Information Quantity in Fine Motor Performance. Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology. 9, 267. https://doi.org/10.3390/jfmk9040267

 

Amore M., Minciacchi D.*, Panconi G., Guarducci S., Bravi R., Sorgente V.* (2024). Impact of of Sled-Integrated Resisted Sprint Training on Sprint and Vertical Jump Performance in Young U-14 Male Football Players. Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology. 9, 256. https://doi.org/10.3390/jfmk9040256

 

Jayousi S., Barchielli C., Alaimo M., Guarducci S., Caputo S., Paffetti M., Zoppi P., Mucchi L.* (2024). Health Community 4.0: An Innovative Multidisciplinary Solution for Tailored Healthcare Assistance Management. Sensors (Basel). 24: 6059. doi: 10.3390/s24186059.

 

Sorgente V.*, Minciacchi D.* (2024). Efficiency in Kinesiology: Innovative Approaches in Enhancing Motor Skills for Athletic Performance 2.0. Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology. 2024; 9(3):137. https://doi.org/10.3390/jfmk9030137

 

Gonzalez-Rave J.M.*, Sorgente V., Agudo-Ortega A., Rodrigo-Carranza V., Psycharakis S., Turner A.P. (2024). Countermovement-Jump and Pull-Up Performance Before and After a Swimming Race in Preparatory and Competitive Phases of a Swimming Season.  International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 19, 471-479. doi: https://doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2023-0329

 

2023

 

Sorgente V.*, Lopez-Hernandez A., Minciacchi D., González-Ravé J.M. (2023). Diving into Recovery. The Effects of Different Post-Competition Protocols for Enhancing Physio-Psychological Parameters in National Level Youth Swimmers. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 22, 739 - 747.
doi: https://doi.org/10.52082/jssm.2023.739

 

Sorgente V.*, Minciacchi D. (2023). Efficiency in Kinesiology: Innovative Approaches in Enhancing Motor Skills for Athletic Performance. Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology, 8 (3), 111. doi: 10.3390/jfmk8030111

 

Muñoz de la Cruz V., Agudo-Ortega A., Sorgente V.*, Turner A., González-Ravé J.M.* (2023). The effectiveness of adjusting resistance training loads through velocity-based techniques in experienced sprinters: a case series study. Frontiers in physiology, 14, 1241459. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2023.1241459

 

Minciacchi D.*, Bravi R., Rosenboom D. (2023). Editorial: Sonification, Aesthetic Representation of Physical Quantities. Front Neurosci. 17: 1162383. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1162383

 

 

Sorgente V.*, Agudo-Ortega A., Lopez-Hernandez A., Santos del Cerro J., Minciacchi D.*, González-Ravé J.M. (2023). Relationship between Maximum Force-Velocity Exertion and Swimming Performances among Four Strokes over Medium and Short Distances. J Funct Morphol Kinesiol. 8: 20. doi: 10.3390/jfmk8010020

 

2022

 

Bravi R.*, Gavazzi G., Benedetti V., Giovannelli F., Grasso S., Panconi G., Viggiano M.P., Minciacchi D.* (2022). Effect of different sport environments on proactive and reactive motor inhibition: A study on open- and closed-skilled athletes via mouse-tracking procedure. Front Psychol. 13: 1042705. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1042705

 

Cohen E.J.*, Righi G., Conti C., De Santis C., Sciarrone G., Del Popolo G. (2022). Quantification of hand functional recovery in spinal cord injury patients. J Spinal Cord Med. doi: 10.1080/10790268.2022.2066384

 

Sorgente V., Cohen E.J., Bravi R.*, Minciacchi D.* (2022). The Best of Two Different Visual Instructions in Improving Precision Ball-Throwing and Standing Long Jump Performances in Primary School Children. J Funct Morphol Kinesiol. 7(1): 8. doi: 10.3390/jfmk7010008

 

2021

 

Sorgente V., Cohen E.J., Bravi R.*, Minciacchi D.* (2021). Crosstalk between Gross and Fine Motor Domains during Late Childhood: The Influence of Gross Motor Training on Fine Motor Performances in Primary School Children. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 18(21): 11387. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182111387

 

Cohen E.J., Wei K., Minciacchi D.* (2021). Examining Modifications of Execution Strategies During a Continuous Task. Sci Rep. 11: 4829. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-84369-5

 

Cohen E.J.*, Bravi R., Minciacchi D. (2021). Assessing the Development of Fine Motor Control in Elementary School Children Using Drawing and Tracing Tasks. Percept Mot Skills. 128(2): 605-624. doi:10.1177/0031512521990358

 

Quarta E., Bravi R., Minciacchi D., Cohen E.J.* (2021). Circle drawing and tracing dataset for evaluation of fine motor control. Data in Brief. 35: 106763 doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.106763

 

Bravi R.*, Caputo S., Jayousi S., Martinelli A., Biotti L., Nannini I., Cohen E.J., Quarta E., Grasso S., Lucchesi G., Righi G., Del Popolo G., Mucchi L.*, Minciacchi D. (2021). An Inertial Measurement Unit-Based Wireless System for Shoulder Motion Assessment in Patients with Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: A Validation Pilot Study in a Clinical Setting. Sensors. 21(4): 1057. doi: 10.3390/s21041057

 

2020

 

Quarta E., Cohen E.J., Bravi R., Minciacchi D.* (2020). Future Portrait of the Athletic Brain: Mechanistic Understanding of Human Sport Performance Via Animal Neurophysiology of Motor Behavior.                  Front Sys Neurosci. 14: 596200. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2020.596200

 

Benedetti V., Gavazzi G., Giovannelli F., Bravi R., Giganti F., Minciacchi D., Mascalchi M., Cincotta M., Viggiano M.P.* (2020). Mouse tracking to explore motor inhibition processes in go/no-go and stop signal tasks. Brain Sci. 10(7): 464. doi: 10.3390/brainsci10070464

 

Minciacchi D.*, Rosenboom D., Bravi R., Cohen E.J. (2020). Editorial: Sonification, Perceptualizing Biological Information. Front Neurosci. 14: 550. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00550

 

2019

 

Cohen E.J., Wei K., Minciacchi D.* (2019). Visuomotor perturbation in a continuous circle tracing task: novel approach for quantifying motor adaptation. Sci Rep. 9: 18679. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-55241-4

 

Bravi R.*, Ioannou C.I., Minciacchi D., Altenmüller E. (2019). Assessment of the effects of Kinesiotaping on musical motor performance in musicians suffering from focal hand dystonia: a pilot study. Clin Rehabil. 33(10): 1636-1648. doi: 10.1177/0269215519852408

 

2018

 

Bravi R., Cohen E.J., Martinelli A., Gottard A., Minciacchi D.* (2018). The Less You are, the More You are Helped: Effect of Kinesio Tape on Temporal Coordination. Int J Sports Med. 39(12): 944-953. doi: 10.1055/a-0668-0041

 

Cohen E.J., Bravi R., Bagni M.A., Minciacchi D.* (2018). Precision in drawing and tracing tasks: Different measures for different aspects of fine motor control. Hum Mov Sci. 61: 177-188. doi: 10.1016/j.humov.2018.08.004

 

Quarta E., Fulgenzi G., Bravi R., Cohen E.J., Yanpallewar S., Tessarollo L., Minciacchi D.* (2018). Deletion of the endogenous TrkB.T1 receptor isoform restores the number of hippocampal CA1 parvalbumin-positive neurons and rescues long-term potentiation in pre-symptomatic mSOD1(G93A) ALS mice. Mol Cell Neurosci. 89: 33-41. doi: 10.1016/j.mcn.2018.03.010

 

Cohen E.J., Bravi R., Minciacchi D.* (2018). The effect of fidget spinners on fine motor control. Sci Rep. 8(1): 3144. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-21529-0

 

2017

 

Cohen E.J., Bravi R., Minciacchi D.* (2017). 3D Reconstruction of Human Movement in a Single Projection by Dynamic Marker Scaling. PLoS One. 12(10): e0186443. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186443

 

Bravi R., Cohen E.J., Martinelli A., Gottard A., Minciacchi D.* (2017). When Non-Dominant is Better than Dominant: Kinesiotape Modulates Asymmetries in Timed Performance during a Synchronization-Continuation Task. Front Integr Neurosci. 11: 21. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2017.00021

 

Cohen E.J., Quarta E., Bravi R., Granato A., Minciacchi D.* (2017). Neural Plasticity and Network Remodeling: From Concepts to Pathology. Neuroscience. 344: 326-345. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.12.048

 

2016

 

Bravi R., Cohen E.J., Quarta E., Martinelli A., Minciacchi D.* (2016). Effect of Direction and Tension of Kinesio Taping Application on Sensorimotor Coordination. Int J Sports Med. 37: 1–6. doi: 10.1055/s-0042-109777

 

2015

 

Cohen E.J., Quarta E., Fulgenzi G., Minciacchi D.* (2015). Acetylcholine, GABA and neuronal networks: a working hypothesis for compensations in the dystrophic brain. Brain Res Bull 110: 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2014.10.004

 

Quarta E., Bravi R., Scambi I., Mariotti R., Minciacchi D.* (2015). Increased anxiety-like behavior and selective learning impairments are concomitant to loss of hippocampal interneurons in the presymptomatic SOD1(G93A) ALS mouse model. J Comp Neurol. 523(11):1622-38. doi: 10.1002/cne.23759

 

Bravi R., Quarta E., Del Tongo C., Carbonaro N., Tognetti A., Minciacchi D.* (2015). Music, clicks, and their imaginations favor differently the event-based timing component for rhythmic movements. Exp Brain Res. 233(6):1945-1961. doi: 10.1007/s00221-015-4267-z

 

2014

 

Bravi R., Quarta E., Cohen E.J., Gottard A., Minciacchi D.* (2014). A little elastic for a better performance: kinesiotaping of the motor effector modulates neural mechanisms for rhythmic movements. Front Syst Neurosci 8: 181. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00181

 

Bravi R., Del Tongo C., Cohen E.J., Dalle Mura G., Tognetti A., Minciacchi D.* (2014). Modulation of isochronous movements in a flexible environment: links between motion and auditory experience. Exp Brain Res. 232: 1663-1675. doi: 10.1007/s00221-014-3845-9