Motor skills are central to the daily lives of many species as they depend on, but also constrain, sensory information processing and perception. The main research line of our team is to study these interactions between motor skills, sensory processing and perceptual processing in humans. 

Our overall objective is to determine the brain bases and the (neural) mechanisms underlying the planning and production of motor responses, in inter-relation with processes related to sensory-information extraction, perception and attention.

To this end, we use both realistic environments and virtual reality devices to study a wide range of everyday and laboratory tasks such as reading, standing & walking, manual exploration. Three types of motor behaviors are studied in particular: eye movements in a range of tasks including reading, hand movements during surface exploration or manual grasping, and lower limb movements during walking or balance maintenance. Importantly, these movements are studied in relation with visual, vestibular, auditory and tactile information. 

We focus our studies on both healthy populations and pathological contexts, using psychophysics and neurophysiological recordings (e.g., eye tracking, EEG, MRI or TMS), as well as modeling. This integrated approach will help determine the processes and brain areas/networks that are modality specific and the ones that are shared between modalities.