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Present	Associate Professor, Utah State University ‐ Kinesiology and Health Science
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Articles (25)

Preliminary evidence that motor planning is slower and more difficult ...

Motor Control (2020)

Breanna Studenka

Children with ASD exhibit impairment in helping someone else with a motor action, which may arise from impairment in selecting ...

Visual Feedback is Not Important for Bimanual Human Interval Timing

Psychological Research (2020)

Breanna E. Studenka, Daisha L. Cummins and Kodey Myer

The clock variance of intervals produced by one finger is reduced when that finger taps along with another finger (termed ...

The Role of Multiple Internal Timekeepers and Sources of Feedback ...

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2018)

Breanna E. Studenka, Daisha L. Cummins and Megan A. Pope

The aim of this experiment was to document the role of multiple internal clock mechanisms and external sources of temporal ...

Motor and verbal perspective taking in children with autism spectrum ...

Research in Developmental Disabilities (2017)

Breanna E. Studenka, Sandra Laing Gillam, Daphne Hartzheim and Ronald B. Gillam

Background Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have difficulty communicating with others nonverbally, via mechanisms such as hand gestures, eye ...

Preliminary evidence for inflexibility of motor planning in children with ...

Autism - Open Access (2017)

Breanna E. Studenka and Daisha L. Cummins

Background: Children with ASD often exhibit repetitive and stereotyped behaviors as well as difficulty performing motor actions. Difficulty in performing ...

Nonlinear Assessment of Motor Variability During Practice and Competition for ...

Learning and Motivation (2017)

Breanna E. Studenka, Travis Dorsch, Natalie L. Ferguson, Cameron S. Olsen, et al.

The aim of the present study was to document how differing motivational orientation profiles, situated within environmental constraints (i.e., a ...

Narrative Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (2015)

Sandra Laing Gillam, Daphne Hartzheim, Breanna E. Studenka, Vicki Simonsmeier, et al.

Purpose: This study was conducted to determine whether a narrative intervention program that targeted the use of mental state and ...

Response to period shifts in tapping and circle drawing: A ...

Psychological Research (2015)

Breanna E. Studenka

Synchronization of movement to a metronome is a well-studied task for both discretely and smoothly produced rhythmic movement. In particular, ...

Effects of Motivation Orientation on Non-Linear Aspects of Motor Performance ...

Student Research Symposium (2015)

Natalie Lund, Cameron Olsen and Breanna Studenka

Achievement Goal Theory (Nichols, 1989) outlines three factors that affect motivation: goals, perceived ability, and behaviors. The combination of these ...

Visual information about past, current and future properties of irregular ...

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics (2015)

Molly M. Mazich, Breanna E. Studenka and Karl M. Newell

In visual-motor tracking, information about past, current, and future properties of a target path can be available but, because they ...

Differential time scales of change to learning frequency structures of ...

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (2014)

Breanna E. Studenka, Adam C. King and Karl M. Newell

Multiple processes support the persistent (learning) and transient (adaptive) change in behavior over time. We investigated whether practice and rest ...

Crossing the arms confuses the clocks: Sensory feedback and the ...

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review (2014)

Breanna E. Studenka, Kinga L. Eliasz, David I. Shore and Ramesh Balasubramaniam

The bimanual advantage refers to the finding that tapping with two fingers on opposite hands exhibits reduced timing variability, as ...

End-state comfort trumps handedness in object manipulation

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (2014)

Chase J. Coelho, Breanna E. Studenka and David A. Rosenbaum

A goal of research on human perception and performance is to explore the relative importance of constraints shaping action selection. ...

Choosing actions

Frontiers in Psychology (2013)

David A. Rosenbaum, Kate M. Chapman, Chase J. Coelho, Lanyun Gong, et al.

Actions that are chosen have properties that distinguish them from actions that are not. Of the nearly infinite possible actions ...

Motor interactions with another person: Do individuals with autism spectrum ...

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience (2013)

David A. Gonzalez, Cheryl M. Glazebrook, Breanna E. Studenka and Jim Lyons

Interpersonal motor interactions (joint-actions) occur on a daily basis. In joint-action situations, typically developing (TD) individuals consider the end-goal of ...

Visual information for prospective control of tracking irregular target paths ...

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (2013)

Breanna E. Studenka and Karl M. Newell

The prospective control of isometric force tracking was investigated as a function of the duration of visual information about past ...

Posture based motor planning in a sequential task

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (2012)

Breanna E. Studenka, Christian Seegelke, Christoph Schütza and Thomas Schack

Movement planning in sequential tasks is revealed by grasping postures. We explored aspects of planning a sequential drawer opening and ...

The distinction between tapping and circle drawing with and without ...

Journal of Experimental Psychology (2012)

Breanna E. Studenka, Howard N. Zelaznik and Ramesh Balasubramaniam

An internal clock-like process has been implicated in the control of rhythmic movements performed for short (250–2,000 ms) time scales. ...

Circle drawing does not exhibit auditory-motor synchronization

Journal of Motor Behavior (2011)

Breanna E. Studenka and Howard N. Zelaznik

Differences in timing control processes between tapping and circle drawing have been extensively documented during continuation timing. Differences between event ...

Noise and complexity in human postural control: Interpreting the different ...

PLoS ONE (2011)

Christopher K. Rhea, Tobin A. Silver, S. Lee Hong, Joong Hyun Ryu, et al.

Background: Over the last two decades, various measures of entropy have been used to examine the complexity of human postural ...

Extending end-state comfort effect: Do we consider the beginning state ...

Acta Psychologica (2011)

David A. Gonzalez, Breanna E. Studenka, Cheryl M. Glazebrook and Jim L. Lyons

Sharing a drink or passing a tool to another person is frequently done in our daily lives. However, a second ...

Synchronization in repetitive smooth movement requires perceptible events

Acta Psychologica (2011)

Breanna E. Studenka and Howard N. Zelaznik

Accurate timing performance during auditory–motor synchronization has been well documented for finger tapping tasks. It is believed that information pertaining ...

Distinct timing mechanisms are implicated in distinct circle drawing tasks

Neuroscience Letters (2010)

Raoul Huys, Breanna E. Studenka, Howard N. Zelaznik and Viktor K. Jirsa

That individual timing variability is correlated across some tasks but not others has instigated the notion of distinct timing processes, ...

Distinct timing mechanisms produce discrete and continuous movements

PLoS Computational Biology (2008)

Raoul Huys, Breanna E. Studenka, Nicole L. Rheaume, Howard N. Zelaznik, et al.

The differentiation of discrete and continuous movement is one of the pillars of motor behavior classification. Discrete movements have a ...

The influence of dominant versus non-dominant hand on event and ...

Human Movement Science (2008)

Breanna E. Studenka and Howard N. Zelaznik

It has been hypothesized that timing in tapping utilizes event timing; a clock-like process, whereas timing in circle drawing is ...