Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of Psychology and Volen National Center for Complex Systems

Psychology

Expertise

Human spatial orientation; posture and balance; movement control and coordination; sensory-motor adaptation; motor development; multi-sensory interactions; space perception; space flight physiology; human factors in virtual environments; motion sickness.

Profile

We investigate basic biomechanical, physiological and psychological mechanisms of human motor control and spatial orientation. Practical applications of interest include development of motor control and posture across the lifespan, disorders of movement in autism, vestibular loss and other clinical conditions, and predicting and circumventing degradation of perception and performance in unusual force environments.

Awards and Honors

Baranay Society Member (2003)

Marver and Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship (1999 - 2000)

Courses Taught

NPSY	16a	Motor Control
PSYC	51a	Statistics
PSYC	300a	Proseminar in Brain, Body, and Behavior I
USEM	69a	Human Movement and the Sense of Self

Scholarship

Piovesan D, Pierobon A, DiZio P, Lackner JR. "Measuring multi-joint stiffness during single movements: Numerical validation of a novel Time-Frequency approach." PLoS One 7. 3 (2012): e33086.

Carriot J, Bryan A, DiZio P, Lackner JR.. "The oculogyral illusion: retinal and oculomotor factors.." Exp Brain Res 209. (2011): 415–423.

Piovesan D, Pierobon A, DiZio P, Lackner JR.. "Comparative analysis of methods for estimating arm segment parameters and joint torques from inverse dynamics.." J Biomech Eng. 133. 3 (2011): (Epub ahead of print).

Bortolami SB, Inglis JT, Castellani S, DiZio P, Lackner JR.. "Influence of galvanic vestibular stimulation on postural recovery during sudden falls.." Exp Brain Res 205. 1 (2010): 123-129.

Lackner, J. R. DiZio, P.. "Audiogravic and oculogravic illusions represent a unified spatial remapping." Exp Brain Res 202. 2 (2010): 513-518.

Lackner JR, DiZio P. "Angular Displacement Perception Modulated by Force Background." Exp Brain Res 195. 2 (2009): 335-343.

Lackner JR, DiZio P. "Control and calibration of multi-segment reaching movements." Adv Exp Med Biol 629. (2009): 681-698.

Piovesan D, DiZio P, Lackner JR.. A new time-frequency approach to estimate single joint upper limb impedance. Proc. of Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2009.

Bortolami, S. B., Pigeon, P., DiZio, P, Lackner, J. R.. "Dynamics model for analyzing reaching movements during active and passive torso rotation." Exp Brain Res 187. (2008): 525-534.

Bortolami, S. B., Pigeon, P., DiZio, P, Lackner, J. R.. "Kinetic analysis of arm reaching movements during voluntary and passive rotation of the torso." Exp Brain Res 187. (2008): 509-523.

Carriot J, DiZio P, Nougier V. "Vertical frames of reference and control of body orientation." Neurophysiol Clin 38. (2008): 423-437.

Bryan, A. S., Bortolami, S. B., Ventura, J., Dizio, P., Lackner, J. R.. "Influence of gravitoinertial force level on the subjective vertical during recumbent yaw axis body tilt." Exp Brain Res 183. 3 (2007): 389-397.

Lackner JR, DiZio P., Windhorst U, Binder M, Hirokawa N. "Motion Sickness.." Encyclopedic Reference of Neuroscience. CD ROM ed. 2007.

Lackner JR, DiZio P., Windhorst U, Binder M, Hirokawa N. "Proprioception: Effect of gravity.." Encyclopedic Reference of Neuroscience. CD ROM ed. 2007.

Bortolami SB, Pierobon A, DiZio P, Lackner JR.. "Localization of the subjective vertical during roll, pitch, and recumbent yaw body tilt.." Exp Brain Res. 173. 3 (2006): 364-373.

Bortolami SB, Rocca S, Daros S, DiZio P, Lackner JR.. "Mechanisms of human static spatial orientation.." Exp Brain Res. 173. 3 (2006): 374-88.

Lackner JR, DiZio P. "Space motion sickness.." Experimental Brain Research 175. 3 (2006): 377-399.

Rabin E, DiZio P, Lackner JR.. "Time course of haptic stabilization of posture.." Experimental Brain Research 170:. (2006): 122-126.

Wright WG, DiZio P, Lackner JR.. "Perceived self-motion in two visual contexts: dissociable mechanisms underlie perception.." Journal of Vestibular Research 16. 1-2 (2006): 23-28.

DiZio,Paul; with J.R. Lackner, ed. K. Stanney. "Proprioceptive adaptation and aftereffects." Handbook of Virtual Environments (2002): 751-771.

DiZio,Paul, with J.R. Lackner and E. Rabin. "Stabilization of posture by precision touch of the index finger: Role of surface area and spatial stability." Experimental Brain Research 139. (2001): 454-464.

DiZio,Paul, with J.R. Lackner, R.M. Held, B. Shinn-Cunningham. "Gravitoinertial force magnitude and direction influence head-centric auditory localization." Journal of Neurophysiology 85. (2001): 2455-2460.

DiZio,Paul, with J.R. Lackner. "Coriolis force induced trajectory and endpoint in the reaching movements of labyrinthine defective subjects." Journal of Neurophysiology 85. (2001): 784-789.

DiZio,Paul, with J.R. Lackner. "Human orientation and movement control in weightlessness and artificial gravity environments." Experimental Brain Research 130. (2000): 2-26.

DiZio,Paul, with J.R. Lackner, J.J. Jeka, F. Horak, D. Krebs. "Precision contact of the fingertip reduces postural sway of individuals with bilateral vestibular loss." Experimental Brain Research 126. (1999): 459-466.

DiZio,Paul, with J.R. Lackner and L. Matin. "Combined influences of gravitoinertial force level and visual field pitch on visually perceived eye level." Journal of Vestibular Research 7. 2 (1997): 1-12.

DiZio,Paul with J.R. Lackner. "Rapid adaptation to Coriolis force perturbations of arm trajectory." Journal of Neurophysiology 72. 1 (1995): 299-313.

DiZio,Paul, with J.R. Lackner. "Motor adaptation to Coriolis force perturbations of reaching movements: Endpoint but not trajectory adaptation transfers to the non-exposed arm." Journal of Neurophysiology 74. 4 (1995): 1787-1792.

DiZio,Paul, with J.R. Lackner. "Influence of gravitoinertial force level on vestibular and visual velocity storage in yaw and pitch." Vision Research 32 (1992): 111-120.