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Research Interests

David Rosenbaum is interested in the cognitive substrates of skilled performance, especially those underlying human motor control and perceptual-motor integration. He focuses on the planning and control of manual performance (mainly reaching and grasping objects), using computer modeling and recording of behavior. He also works on rhythm and timing, temporal coordination of cognitive and perceptual-motor activities, and how people organize their external environments.

Recent Publications

Van der Wel, R. P., Sternad, D., & Rosenbaum, D. A. (In press). Moving the hand at different rates: Avoiding slow movements. Journal of Motor Behavior.

Walsh, M. M. & Rosenbaum, D. A. (In press). Deciding how to act is not achieved by watching mental movies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Rosenbaum, D. A. (2010). Human Motor Control (Second Edition). San Diego: Academic Press/Elsevier.

Jax, S. A., & Rosenbaum, D. A. (2009). Hand path priming in manual obstacle avoidance: Rapid decay of dorsal stream information. Neuropsychologia, 47, 1573-1577.

Rosenbaum, D. A. (2009). Walking down memory lane: Where walkers look as they descend stairs provides hints about how they control their walking behavior. American Journal of Psychology, 122, 425-430.

Rosenbaum, D. A., Vaughan, J., Meulenbroek, R. G. J., Jax, S., & Cohen, R. (2009). Smart moves: The psychology of everyday perceptual-motor acts. In E. Morsella, J. A. Bargh, & P. M. Gollwitzer, & (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Human Action, pp. 121-135. New York: Oxford University Press.

van der Wel, R., Eder, J. R., Mitchel, A. D., Walsh, M. W. & Rosenbaum, D. A. (2009). Trajectories emerging from discrete versus continuous processing models in phonological competitor tasks: A commentary on
Spivey, Grosjean, and Knoblich (2005). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 588-594.

Weigelt, W., Rosenbaum, D. A., Huelshorst, S. & Schack T. (2009). Moving and memorizing: Motor planning modulates the recency effect in serial and free recall. Acta Psychologica, 132, 68–79.

Rosenbaum, D. A. (2007). MATLAB For Behavioral Scientists. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.