Welcome to the Computation, Cognition, and Movement (CCM) Lab at The University of British Columbia! We are a research group studying human motor learning.
the human bodyCCM Lab hyosub.kim@ubc.ca
moves with purpose, ease and grace
how does it do so?
Recent News
- (October 22, 2025) Congratulations to Jack for his abstract, "Bayesian causal inference as a common principle for perception and action", being accepted at this year's Advances in Motor Learning and Motor Control (MLMC) conference, where he will get to give a talk on this work! Congrats also go to Dusty for her important contributions to this project, as well as many thanks to our collaborators Mike Landy and Romeo Chua.
- (October 22, 2025) A belated welcome to Yousun Park, the newest member of the CCM Lab! Yousun is a third-year Integrated Sciences major with a focus on Computer Science and Neuroscience. She will be completing her Honours Thesis in the lab this year, and we're excited to have her with us.
- (August 8, 2025) Very excited to announce that our paper on the PIECE model has just been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B! Here, we present a model of how the sensorimotor system parses total movement error into internally- and externally-generated components in order to implicitly adapt only to the latter. This phenomenon was first reported in an abstract by Tanvi Ranjan & Maurice Smith, where they highlighted the incredible precision with which our brains accomplish this feat. Our work indicates that highly accurate predictions, combined with causal inference and state estimation, underlie this capability. We also show that models which posit a perceptual error as the driving signal for adaptation cannot account for these results, suggesting sensory recalibration may be a correlate, rather than a cause, of implicit adaptation. Future work with PIECE aims to shed further light on these questions!
- (June 7, 2025) Hyosub was recently awarded an NSERC Discovery Grant, which provides 5 years of funding for the lab's research into the the computational principles underlying motor skills! Thank you, NSERC! We are also very grateful to the Canada Foundation for Innovation for awarding Hyosub the John Evans Leadership Fund last year, and the B.C. government for their support through the B.C. Knowledge Development Fund (BCKDF). Thanks to these sponsors we were able to purchase a new KinArm Endpoint Lab. We'll receive our new toy later this year when our lab, and department, move into our new home within the Gateway Building.
- (May 2, 2025) Go check out this paper on evidence for an efferent-based prediction contributing to implicit motor adaptation, which just got published in PLoS One. Shout out to collaborators Romeo Chua and Tim Inglis, and especially Annika Szarka, Romeo's PhD student and the leader of this project!
- (May 2, 2025) Welcome to Emily Chen, the newest member of the CCM Lab! Emily is going to be a fourth-year double major in Cognitive Systems and Linguistics and will be helping out as lab manager during the summer.
- (February 2, 2025) New preprint alert! Our work on A Bayesian decision-making model of implicit motor learning from internal and external errors is now available on bioRxiv.
- (February 2, 2025) Welcome to our newest CCM lab member, Dusty Fox, a fourth-year Cognitive Science major at UBC who will be completing a capstone project in the lab!
- (January 8, 2025) Our meta-analysis on how cortical stroke impacts motor adaptation is now published in Neurorehabilitation & Neural Repair.
Acknowledgments
We acknowledge the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and the B.C. government for their generous support.
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