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    General

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    Below is a list of tasks that you, as a second-year IEAP master’s student, must complete BEFORE attending the first class in each course.

    All of these prerequisites correspond to the end-of-first-year level of the IEAP master’s program, but completing them may take some time.

    Please get started as soon as possible.

    All prerequisites must be completed by the end of August. 

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    Measurement and Analysis Chain for Biofeedback

    Before coming to the first class you have to clarify the following concepts: 

    • what is a Raspberry Pi 3B+ running Linux
    • what are the fundamental principles of digital data acquisition
    • What is object-oriented programming with python

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    System plasticity and rehabilitation

    Please check Moodle for your assigned article and detailed instructions : "M2: System Plasticity and Rehabilitation" : https://moodle.umontpellier.fr/course/view.php?id=47400

    Read the article assigned to you on post-stroke recovery, neuroplasticity, upper-limb rehabilitation, or real-world arm use and prepare a 1-page summary addressing the following questions:

    • What is the clinical problem addressed in the article?
    • What plasticity mechanism is involved?
    • How is recovery measured?
    • What intervention or concept is proposed?

    Submission requirements, your assigned article, and additional course materials are available on Moodle.

     

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    Human Machine Interaction

    Before the first class, you have to:

    Task 1 — Choose your domain (e.g., rehabilitation, sport, aging, ergonomics, etc.)

    Task 2 — Bring one example of an interface (an app, a wearable device, a rehabilitation device, a robot, a sports training device, a musical interface, a hospital device) with answers to the following questions: Who is the user? What does the machine sense? What does the machine return to the user? What movement does the interface try to guide, measure, improve, or constrain? What makes the interface good or bad?

    Task 3 — Write a one-sentence project seed “I would like to design an interface that helps [type of user] to [perform, learn, recover, coordinate, avoid, or improve something] in [context].”

    Example: “I would like to design an interface that helps older adults improve walking stability at home through adaptive rhythmic feedback.” This sentence will evolve across the course and become the basis of the final one-slide presentation.

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    Brain and Behavior Connections

    Start point: 

    Before the first class, students are expected to use the resources below, identify the concepts that are essential for understanding how the brain controls movement and write your own synthetic outline.

    Your outline should include:

    • The main neural structures involved in movement.

    • Their proposed functions.

    • The strengths and limitations of a structure-function approach.

    Introductory resources

    https://openstax.org/books/introduction-behavioral-neuroscience/pages/10-3-our-brain-gets-involved-responsibilities-of-upper-motor-systems

     

    Further reading

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8448684/pdf/429_2021_Article_2362.pdf

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568163724002320?via%3Dihub

     

    Reflection question

    If damage to a brain region alters movement, does it necessarily mean that this region is responsible for producing that behaviour?

    Be prepared to justify your answer using examples from the readings.