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
Augustyn, J. S. & Rosenbaum, D. A. (in press). Metacognitive control
of action: Preparation for aiming reflects knowledge of Fitts' Law. Psychonomic
Bulletin & Review.
Bosga, J., Meulenbroek, R. G., & Rosenbaum, D. A. (in press). Deliberate
control of continuous motor performance. Journal of Motor Behavior.
Keller, P., Wascher, E., & Prinz. W., Koch, I., & Rosenbaum, D.
A. (in press). Differences between intention-based and stimulus-based
actions. Journal of Psychophysiology.
Rosenbaum, D. A. (2005). The Cinderella of psychology: The neglect of
motor control in the science of mental life and behavior. American
Psychologist, 60, 308-317.
Waszak, F., Wascher, E., Keller, P., Koch, I., Aschersleben, G., Rosenbaum,
D. A., & Prinz. W. (2005). Intention-based and stimulus-based mechanisms
in action selection. Experimental Brain Research, 162, 346-356.
Cohen, R. G. & Rosenbaum, D. A. (2004). Where objects are grasped reveals
how grasps are planned: Generation and recall of motor plans. Experimental
Brain Research, 157, 486-495.
Glover, S., Rosenbaum, D. A., Graham, J., & Dixon, P. (2004). Grasping
the meaning of words. Experimental Brain Research, 154, 103-108.
Rosenbaum, D. A. & Dawson, A. M. (2004). The motor system computes
well but remembers poorly. Journal of Motor Behavior, 36, 390-392.
Rosenbaum, D. A., Meulenbroek, R. G., & Vaughan, J. (2004). What is
the point of motor planning? [Invited paper for a special issue: "The
Construction Of Action - New Perspectives In Movement Science" (Thomas
Schack, Editor)]. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology,
2, 439-469.
Steenbergen, B., Meulenbroek, R.G. J. & Rosenbaum, D.A. (2004). Constraints
on grip selection in hemiparetic cerebral palsy: Effects of lesional side,
end-point accuracy and context. Cognitive Brain Research, 19,
145-159.
Brown, L. E., Rosenbaum, D. A., & Sainburg, R. L. (2003). Limb position
drift: Implications for control of posture and movement. Journal
of Neurophysiology, 90, 3105-3118.
Brown, L. E., Rosenbaum, D. A., & Sainburg, R. L. (2003). Movement
speed effects on limb position drift. Experimental Brain Research,
153, 266-274.
Elsinger, C. L. & Rosenbaum, D. A. (2003). End posture selection in
manual positioning: Evidence for feedforward modeling based on a movement
choice method. Experimental Brain Research, 152,
499-509.
Jax, S. A., Rosenbaum, D. A., Vaughan, J., & Meulenbroek, R. G. J.
(2003). Computational motor control and human factors: Modeling movements
in real and possible environments. [Special issue, "Quantitative
Formal Models of Human Performance," M. Byrne & W. G. Gray, Eds.].
Human Factors, 45, 5-27.
Rantanen, E. & Rosenbaum, D. A. (2003). Drift in blind reciprocal
aiming movements. Motor Control, 7, 199-228.
Brown, L. E., Moore, C. M., & Rosenbaum, D. A. (2002). Feature-specific
processing dissociates action from recognition. [Accepted April 14, 2002
by Tom Carr, special ad hoc editor]. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Human Perception and Performance, 28, 1330-1344.
Rosenbaum, D. A. (2002). Time, space, and short term memory. Brain
and Cognition, 48, 52-65.
Rosenbaum, D. A. (2002). Motor control. In H. Pashler (Series Ed.) & S.
Yantis (Vol. Ed.), Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology: Vol.
1. Sensation and Perception (3rd ed., pp. 315-339). New York: Wiley.
Rosenbaum, D. A. & Gregory, R. W. (2002). Development of a method
for measuring moving-related effort: Biomechanical considerations and
implications for Fitts' Law. Experimental Brain Research, 142,
365-373.
Shin, J. & Rosenbaum, D. A. (2002). Reaching while calculating: Scheduling
of cognitive and perceptual -motor processes. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: General, 131, 206-219.
Rosenbaum, D. A., Carlson, R. A. & Gilmore, R. O. (2001) Acquisition
of intellectual and perceptual -motor skills. Annual Review
of Psychology, 52, 453-470.
Rosenbaum, D. A. & Chaiken, S. (2001). Frames of reference in
perceptual-motor learning: Evidence from a blind manual positioning task.
Psychological Research/Psychologische Forschung, 65, 119-127.
Rosenbaum, D. A., Meulenbroek, R. G. J., & Vaughan, J. (2001). Planning
reaching and grasping movements: Theoretical outlines and practical implications.
Motor Control 5, 99-115.
Rosenbaum, D. A., Meulenbroek, R. G., Vaughan, J., & Jansen, C. (2001).
Posture-based motion planning: Applications to grasping. Psychological
Review, 108, 709-734.
Vaughan, J. Rosenbaum, D. A., & Meulenbroek, R. G. J. (2001). Planning
reaching and grasping movements: The problem of obstacle avoidance. Motor
Control, 5, 116-135.
