Chris Dakin
Kinesiology and Health Science
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Office Hours: Thur 1:00-3:00 pm & by appointmentOffice Location: HPER 132
Phone: 435-797-7324
Email: chris.dakin@usu.edu
Additional Information:
Educational Background
Biography
BHK in Human Kinetics (University of British Columbia, Canada), PhD in Neuromechanics (University of British Columbia, Canada) - investigated the use of stochastic vestibular stimuli to probe the vestibular contribution to movement control. I spent four years as a Post-Doctoral fellow between the Department of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine (USA) and the Institute of Neurology at University College London (UK) studying visual and vestibular perception and its contribution to determining our orientation relative to the world. Other related topics of research have included investigation of the vestibular contribution to locomotor stability and visual orientation perception in Spinocerebellar Ataxia. My current research focuses on untangling the contribution of different sources of sensory information to the process of movement and movement perception.
- Dakin, C., (2018). Gravity Estimation and Verticality Perception: Balance, Gait and Falls. Elsevier
Publications | Book Chapters
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Publications | Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- England, D., Ruddy, K.L, Dakin, C., Schwartz, S., Butler, B., Bolton, D., (2021). Relationship between speed of response inhibition and ability to suppress a step in midlife and older adults. Gerontology
- Dakin, C., Peters, A., Giunti, P., Day, B.L, (2018). Cerebellar degeneration increases visual influence on dynamic estimates of verticality. Current Biology, 28:22, 3589-3598. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.049
- Dakin, C., Bolton, D., (2018). Forecast or fall: Prediction's importance to postural control. Frontiers in Neurology, 9, 924. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00924
- Bressel, E., Vakula, M.N, Kim, Y., Bolton, D., Dakin, C., (2018). Comparison of the speed and accuracy for learning a motor skill on land and in chest-deep water. PLoS ONE, 13:8e0202284
- Tisserand, R., Dakin, C., Van der Loos, M.H, Croft, E.A, Inglis, T.J, Blouin, J., (2018). Down regulation of vestibular balance stabilizing mechanisms to enable transition between motor states. elife, 7, e36123. doi: 10.7554/eLife.36123
Professional Journal
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Publications | Other
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