OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Human Movement Science is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Individual differences in motor skill learning: Past, present and future	50
Combining wearable sensor signals, machine learning and biomechanics to estimate tibial bone force and damage during running	47
Does monopedal postural balance differ between the dominant leg and the non-dominant leg? A review	40
Resting-state aperiodic neural dynamics predict individual differences in visuomotor performance and learning	36
Virtual reality promotes greater improvements than video-stimulation screen on perceptual-cognitive skills in young soccer athletes	29
Gait complexity is acutely restored in older adults when walking to a fractal-like visual stimulus	25
Characterization of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) subtypes based on the relationship between motor skills and social communication abilities	23
Effect of the soft tissue artifact on marker measurements and on the calculation of the helical axis of the knee during a gait cycle: A study on the CAMS-Knee data set	22
Multifractality in postural sway supports quiet eye training in aiming tasks: A study of golf putting	22
Multifractal roots of suprapostural dexterity	22
Motor learning methods that induce high practice variability reduce kinematic and kinetic risk factors of non-contact ACL injury	21
Goalkeeping in the soccer penalty kick: The dive is coordinated to the kicker's non-kicking leg placement, irrespective of time constraints	16
Children's motor imagery modality dominance modulates the role of attentional focus in motor skill learning	16
The effect of trunk flexion angle on lower limb mechanics during running	16
Perspective on “in the wild” movement analysis using machine learning	15
Effects of hand muscle function and dominance on intra-muscle synergies	15
Detecting structural and functional neuroplasticity in elite ice-skating athletes	15
Musical pleasure beneficially alters stride and arm swing amplitude during rhythmically-cued walking in people with Parkinson's disease	14
Virtual reality as a representative training environment for football referees	14
Principal postural acceleration and myoelectric activity: Interrelationship and relevance for characterizing neuromuscular function in postural control	14
Does physical activity and BMI mediate the association between DCD and internalizing problems in early childhood? A partial test of the Environmental Stress Hypothesis	12
Balance capacity influences the effects of conscious movement processing on postural control in older adults	12
Motor competence in fundamental motor skills and sport skill learning: Testing the proficiency barrier hypothesis	12
Mu oscillations and motor imagery performance: A reflection of intra-individual success, not inter-individual ability	12
Finger interdependence and unintentional force drifts: Lessons from manipulations of visual feedback	12

“What needs to be seen”: An exploration into the visual anticipation behaviour of different skill-level football referees while observing long passes on-field	12
Muscle synergies are modified with improved task performance in skill learning	12
Dynamic networks of physiologic interactions of brain waves and rhythms in muscle activity	11
Motor skill learning in children with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder	11
Shot deception in basketball: Gaze and anticipation strategy in defence	10
Effect of dual tasking on a dynamic balance task in children with and without DCD	10
Effect of comorbid developmental dyslexia on oculomotor behavior in children with developmental coordination disorder: A study with the Developmental Eye Movement test	10
Understanding individual differences in lifting mechanics: Do some people adopt motor control strategies that minimize biomechanical exposure	10
Shot fakes as an indicator of successful offense in basketball	10
Mental rotation performance in young adults with and without developmental coordination disorder	10
Effects of age and surface instability on the control of the center of mass	10
The nature of coordination and control problems in children with developmental coordination disorder during ball catching: A systematic review	10
Multisensory postural control in adults: Variation in visual, haptic, and proprioceptive inputs	9
Effective detection of abnormal gait patterns in Parkinson's disease patients using kinematics, nonlinear, and stability gait features	9
Overground gait training using virtual reality aimed at gait symmetry	9
Adopting a holistic focus of attention promotes adherence and improves performance in college track and field athletes	9
Identifying coordination between joint movements during a throwing task with multiple degrees of freedom	9
Control of a virtual vehicle influences postural activity and motion sickness in pre-adolescent children	9
Run-up strategies in competitive long jumping: How an ecological dynamics rationale can support coaches to design individualised practice tasks	9
Influence of step-surface visual properties on confidence, anxiety, dynamic stability, and gaze behaviour in young and older adults	9
Does visual cueing improve gait initiation in people with Parkinson's disease?	9
Task specificity and neural adaptations after balance learning in young adults	9
Measures of postural control and mobility during dual-tasking as candidate markers of instability in Huntington's disease	8
Gaze, head and eye movements during somersaults with full twists	8
Perceptions of an over-ground induced temporal gait asymmetry by healthy young adults	8
The effects of supervised and non-supervised upper limb virtual reality exercises on upper limb sensory-motor functions in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease	8
Visuomotor adaptation and its relationship with motor ability in children with and without autism spectrum disorder	8
Assessing the impact of dual-task reactive step practice in people with Parkinson's disease: A feasibility study	8
The effect of attentional instructions during modeling on gaze behavior and throwing accuracy in 7 to 10 year-old children	8
Constraining the arms during a slip perturbation results in a higher fall frequency in young adults	8
Effects of attentional focus and cognitive load on novice dart throwing: Evidence from quiet eye duration and pupillary responses	8
Kinematic descriptions of upper limb function using simulated tasks in activities of daily living after stroke	8
Attention focus modulates afferent input to motor cortex during skilled action	8
Synchronous vs. non-synchronous imitation: Using dance to explore interpersonal coordination during observational learning	8
The underlying mechanisms of improved balance after one and ten sessions of balance training in older adults	8
Freezing of gait, gait initiation, and gait automaticity share a similar neural substrate in Parkinson's disease	7
Mechanisms of postural control in older adults based on surface electromyography data	7
A comparison of characteristics, developmental disorders and motor progression between children with and without developmental coordination disorder	7
Multi-tasking deteriorates trunk movement control during and after obstacle avoidance	7
Increased visual bias in children with developmental coordination disorder: Evidence from a visual-tactile temporal order judgment task	7
Gradually learning to increase gait propulsion in young unimpaired adults	6
Forward thinking: When a distal external focus makes you faster	6
Relatedness support enhances motivation, positive affect, and motor learning in adolescents	6
Development of eye-hand coordination in typically developing children and adolescents assessed using a reach-to-grasp sequencing task	6
Age differences in brain activity in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and supplementary motor areas during three different walking speed tasks	6
Influence of muscle fatigue on motor task performance of the hand and wrist: A systematic review	6
Comparing the torque- and power-velocity relationships between children and adolescents during isokinetic leg extension muscle actions	6
Acute responses to locomotor tasks differ according to gait-asymmetry patterns in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy: An exploratory analysis	6
Earlier detection facilitates skilled responses to deceptive actions	6
Hitting movement patterns organized by different pitching movement speeds as advanced kinematic information	6

Association of mobility capacity with the masses and amounts of intramuscular non-contractile tissue of the trunk and lower extremity muscles in community-dwelling older adults	6
Correlation between subcutaneous adipose tissue of the head and body mass index: Implications for functional neuroimaging	6
Effects of attentional focus and gaze instruction during observational learning of a basketball free-throw	6
Deep and superficial cervical muscles respond differently to unstable motor skill tasks	6
Self-esteem, self-efficacy, and social support mediate the relationship between motor proficiency and internalizing problems in adults: Exploring the environmental stress hypothesis in adulthood	6
Balance effects of tactile stimulation at the foot	6
Varied speeds of video demonstration do not influence the learning of a dance skill	6
Effect of movement speed on lower and upper body biomechanics during sit-to-stand-to-sit transfers: Self-selected speed vs. fast imposed speed	6
Time course of learning sequence representations in action imagery practice	6
Cooperation enhances motor learning	6
Sex differences in the impact of state and trait fatigue on gait variability	6
Locomotion training contributes to 6-month-old infants' mental rotation ability	6
Kinematic patterns during walking in children: Application of principal component analysis	5
Effects of unilateral and bilateral lower extremity fatiguing exercises on postural control during quiet stance and self-initiated perturbation	5
Using error-estimation to probe the psychological processes underlying contextual interference effects	5
The effects of postural threat induced by a virtual environment on performance of a walking balance task	5
Nonlinear analysis of the movement variability structure can detect aging-related differences among cognitively healthy individuals	5
Effects of age on the visuo-locomotor control used to circumvent a virtual pedestrian with different limb movements	5
The role of predictability of the magnitude of a perturbation in control of vertical posture when catching an object	5
The relationship of motive disposition and situational incentives to individual differences in choking under pressure	5
A new protocol for assessing action observation and imitation abilities in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A feasibility and reliability study	5
Gait in younger and older adults during rhythmic auditory stimulation is influenced by groove, familiarity, beat perception, and synchronization demands	5
Corticomotor excitability of gluteus maximus and hip extensor strength: The influence of sex	5
Benefits of nonlinear analysis indices of walking stride interval in the evaluation of neurodegenerative diseases	5
Upper limb proprioception and fine motor function in young pianists	5
The nature of savings associated with a visuomotor adaptation task that involves one arm or both arms	5
Restricting ankle dorsiflexion does not mitigate the benefits of external focus of attention on landing biomechanics in healthy females	5
Writing while walking: The impact of cognitive-motor multi-tasking on collision avoidance in human locomotion	5
Hemodynamic responses of quiet standing simultaneously performed with different cognitive loads in older adults	5
The autonomy and focus of attention strategies under distraction: Frequency and sample entropy analyses in a dynamic balance task	5
Repeated exposure to tripping like perturbations elicits more precise control and lower toe clearance of the swinging foot during steady walking	5
Predicting aperture crossing behavior from within-trial metrics of motor control reliability	5
Effects of visual-motor illusions with different visual stimuli on the sit-to-stand of people with hemiplegia following stroke: A randomized crossover controlled trial	5
Effects of an external focus of attention and target occlusion on performance in virtual reality	5