Jibaben Patel Chair Associate Professor, IIT Gandhinagar

Pratik Mutha

Department : Biological Engineering

Research Interests

● Sensorimotor control and learning
● Movement disorders after neurological damage
● Brain lateralization

Professional Summary

Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Feb 2019 to present)
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Nov 2013 to Jan 2019)
Post Doctoral Fellow, New Mexico Veterans Affairs Healthcare System (Jan 2009 – Oct 2013)

Publications

1. Kumar A, Panthi G, Divakar R, Mutha PK (2020). Mechanistic determinants of effector-independent motor memory encoding. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117: 17338-17347.
2. Yadav G, Mutha PK (2020). Symmetric interlimb transfer of newly acquired motor skills. Journal of Neurophysiology, 124: 1364-1376.
3. Yadav G, Haaland KY, Mutha PK (2019). Laterality of damage influences the relationship between impairment and arm use after Stroke. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 25:470-478.
4. Kumar N, Kumar A, Sonane B, Mutha PK (2018). Interference between competing motor memories developed through learning with different limbs. Journal of Neurophysiology, 120:1061-1073.
5. Mutha PK, Stapp LH, Sainburg RL, Haaland KY (2017). Motor adaptation deficits in ideomotor apraxia. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 23:139-149.
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