OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Motor Behavior is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Effect of Social Context on Cognitive and Motor Behavior: A Systematic Review	22
Environmental Influence on Cognitive-Motor Interaction During Wheelchair Propulsion	17
Quantification of Goal-Directed Stepping Behavior Under Two Limb Choice Conditions in Neurotypical Adults: A Preliminary Investigation	14
Force Perception Across Dominant and Non-Dominant Hands in Healthy Individuals: A Gender-Based Analysis	12
How Positional Constraints Affect Footedness in Football: A Notational Analysis of Five Leagues in Europe	11
The Relationship between Postural Control and Muscle Quality in Older Adults	11
Motor Control in Parkinson’s Disease During the Performance of Multi-Joint Reversal Movements	11
Structural Learning Benefits in a Visuomotor Adaptation Task Generalize to a Contralateral Effector	11
The Effect of Walking in High Heels on the Activation and Deactivation of Upper Trunk Muscles	9
Mental Chronometry: Do Imagined Times Merely Relate to Task Duration?	8
Effects of Upper Limb Robot Therapy with Action Observation Training on Subacute Stroke Patients: A Randomised Controlled Trial	8
Effects of Age and Attentional Focus on the Performance and Coordination of the Sit-to-Stand Task	7
Is Dyadic Fitts’ Law Task Affected by Action Observation?	7
Self-Controlled Feedback in Motor Learning: The Effects Depend on the Frequency of Request	6
Approaching Process in Walking through an Aperture for Individuals with Stroke	6
Determining the Corticospinal Responses and Cross-Transfer of Ballistic Motor Performance in Young and Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	6
Motion Analysis of the Mug Transportation Task Through Upper Limb Kinematics	6
The Reciprocal Nature of Fitts’ Law in Space and Time	6
The Relationship between Inclination for Conscious Movement Monitoring and Control and Stopping a Golf Stroke	6
Systemic Effects of Molar and Incisor Biting on Walking Direction With and Without Visual Feedback	5
Effects of Attentional Focus on Dual-Task Walking Performance in Older and Young Adults	5
The Effects of Constraints on the Variability of Throwing Patterns in Young Children	5
Partial-Hand Prosthesis Users Show Improved Reach-to-Grasp Behaviour Compared to Transradial Prosthesis Users with Increased Task Complexity	5
Reciprocal Inhibition and Coactivation of Ankle Muscles in Low- and High-Velocity Forward and Backward Perturbations	5
Examining Learner-Controlled Role-Switching in Dyad Practice for the Learning of a Speed Cup-Stacking Task	4

A Violation of Fitts’ Law is Maintained in Ecologically Valid Settings	4
Strategies Adopted by Stroke Patients to Maintain Balance in Dynamic Tasks in a Video Game	4
Association between the Effects of Positive Social-Comparative Feedback and Learners’ Competitiveness	4
The Effects of tDCS with NDT on the Improvement of Motor Development in Cerebral Palsy	4
Accuracy of Force Generation and Preparatory Prefrontal Oxygenation in Ballistic Hand Power and Precision Grips	4
Postural Stability When Grasping an Object While Standing: Younger and Older Adults (Fallers and Non-Fallers)	4
Neurophysiological and Biomechanical Determinants of Successful Basketball Throws	4
Investigating the EEG Profile of Elite and Non-Elite Players in the Basketball Free Throw Task	4
Effects of Moderate-to-Vigorous Acute Exercise on Conscious Perception and Visual Awareness	4
More Predictable and Less Automatized Movements during Walking -not during Repetitive Punching- in Knee Osteoarthritis	4
Acute Effects of Strength and Skill Training on the Cortical and Spinal Circuits of Contralateral Limb	3
Does Phase of the Menstrual Cycle Affect Balance and Postural Control?	3
Kinematic Analysis of Reaching Tasks at Different Execution Speeds in Children with Neonatal Brachial Plexus Palsy	3
Effects of External Pacing Type on the Cross-Education of Motor Skill	3
Reducing Grip Uncertainty During Initial Prosthetic Hand Use Improves Eye-Hand Coordination and Lowers Mental Workload	3
Computer-Assisted Rehabilitation Shows Greater Efficacy Than Traditional in Visuospatial Skills and Cognition in Neglect Patients	3
Midfrontal Theta and Cognitive Control During Interlimb Coordination Across the Adult Lifespan	3
Infant Sitting and Multi-Directional Reaching Skill	3
Online Anticipatory Cues During Practice Disrupt Intentional and Incidental Sequence Learning	3
Treadmill Handrail-Use Increases the Anteroposterior Margin of Stability in Individuals’ Post-Stroke	3
Influences of VR-Based Optokinetic Stimulation on Head and Trunk Instability on a Sinusoidal Moving Platform	3
Implicit Versus Explicit Learning a Novel Skill for High School Students	3
Optimizing Motor Learning: Difficulty Manipulation Combined with Feedback- Frequency Enhance Under-Time-Pressure Fine-Motor-Coordination Skill Acquisition and Retention	3
Reaching Task in Rats: Quantitative Evaluation and Effects of 6-OHDA into the Striatum	3
Interlimb Coordination during Double Support Phase of Gait in People with and without Stroke	3
Control of paretic and non-paretic upper extremity during bimanual reaching after stroke	3
Neural Correlates of Dual-Task Processing following Motor Sequence Learning: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Study	2
Attentional Demand of a Movement Sequence Guided by Visual-Spatial and by Motor Representations	2
Combined Imagery/Physical Practice Yields Comparable Benefits to Physical Practice in Snare Drum Performance	2
Sports-Related Motor Processing at Different Rates of Force Development	2
Visual Information Processing in Older Adults: Force Control and Motor Unit Pool Modulation	2
The Role of the Corpus Callosum (Micro)Structure in Bimanual Coordination: A Literature Review Update	2
Pilates and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Stability, Balance, and Depression in Patients with Stroke	2
Limb-Target Control Increases With Effective Index of Difficulty	2
Effects of Muscular Fatigue on the Performance of Handgrip Tasks During Force Generation and Relaxation	2
Guiding the Hand to an Invisible Target	2
The Effect of Different Combinations of Practice Schedules on Motor Response Stability during Practice	2
Non-Linearity in Development of Dynamic Balance Repertoire in Middle Childhood	2
Development of an Effector-Specific Stop Signal Task with Higher Complexity: A Proof-of-Concept Study	2
Effect of Virtual Reality Upper Limb Rehabilitation Training on Older Adults	2
Concussed Neural Signature is Substantially Different than Fatigue Neural Signature in Non-concussed Controls	2
Temporal and Spatial Accuracy of Reaching Movements do not Improve Off-line	2
Motor Skill, Motor Planning, and Motor Performance in Adults with Severe Mental Illnesses and Obesity	1
Load Carriage Modes and Limb Crossing Patterns Altered Gait during Obstacle Negotiation	1
Grasp Posture Variability Leads to Greater Ipsilateral Sensorimotor Beta Activation During Simulated Prosthesis Use	1
Smartphone Proprioception for Ankle Navigation (SPAN): Reliability and Effect of Position Exposure Time	1
Torque Regularity is not Affected by the Nature of Visual Feedback During Hold Type of Isometric Contractions in Adults	1
The Effect of Motor Imagery Practice on an Aiming Task with Attentional Focus Cues	1
Influence of Single Bouts of Aerobic Exercise on Dual-Tasking Performance in Healthy Adults	1
Examining the Equivalence Between Imagery and Execution—Does Imagery Comprise the Intended Spatial Trajectory?	1

Somatosensory Information in Skilled Motor Performance: A Narrative Review	1
Estimation Error Consisting of Motor Imagery and Motor Execution in Patients with Stroke	1
The Effect of Target Velocity on the Fast Corrective Response during Reaching Movement	1
Assessment of the Acute Effects of Wearable Sensor Derived Auditory Biofeedback on Gross Lumbar Proprioception	1
Speed and Variability of Chair Stepping and Morphological and Neural Characteristics in Community-Dwelling Older Adults	1
Motor Performers Need Task-relevant Information: Proposing an Alternative Mechanism for the Attentional Focus Effect	1
Imitation of Touching Dangerous Animals Triggers Motor Inhibition in a Primed Target Grasping-Categorization Task	1
Coordination Rigidity in the Gait, Posture, and Speech of Persons with Parkinson’s Disease	1
Influence of Visual and Haptic Cues on Motor Learning: Insights from Tennis Skill Acquisition in Children	1
Effects of Gender Stereotypes on Balance Performance and Learning in Men	1
Influence of Visual Stimulus Changes in a Virtual Environment on Postural Control: Focusing on a Hallway Walking Simulation	1
Optimization in Manual Aiming: Relating Inherent Variability and Target Size, and Its Influence on Tendency	1
The Strategy of Human Movement Control and Teaching Motor Skills in Norm and Pathology	1
Effects of Short-Term Novice Archery Training on Reaching Movement Performance and Interlimb Asymmetries	1
Gaze Control and Tactical Decision-Making Under Stress in Active-Duty Police Officers During a Live Use-of-Force Response	1
Effects of Cross-Education on Neural Adaptations Following Non-Paretic Limb Training in Stroke: A Scoping Review with Implications for Neurorehabilitation	1
Comparing Virtual Reality and Balance Beam Training vs. Virtual Reality Alone for Balance Improvement	1
Factors Mediating or Moderating the Effects of Obesity on Walking: Targeting Areas for Rehabilitation	1
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of Motor Cortex Enhances Spike Performances of Professional Female Volleyball Players	1
The Influence of Age on the Intermanual Transfer and Retention of Implicit Visuomotor Adaptation	1
Evaluation of the Relationship between Static Balance and Mental Fatigue in Healthy Adults: Preliminary Study	1
Bilateral Transfer of a Visuomotor Task in Different Workspace Configurations	1
Lower Limb Asymmetry Evaluation Using the Balance Tracking System (BTrackS) Single Leg Stance Protocol	1
Effects of Different Observational Angles in Learner-Chosen Video Self-Modeling on Task Acquisition and Retention	1
Effects of Sensory Input Interactions on Components of Nonlinear Dynamics of Postural Sway in Aging	1
Effects of Light Finger Touch on Postural Sway during Standing and Crouching Tasks	1
Explicit Instruction May Impair the Transfer of Motor Adaptation in an Upper Extremity Motor Task	1
Does Body Postural Configuration Affect Upper Limb Performance During Point-to-Point Hand Movements?	1
Corticospinal and Clinical Effects of Muscle Tendon Vibration in Neurologically Impaired Individuals. A Scoping Review	1
Training Response Abilities of Children With Intellectual Disabilities: A Randomized Controlled Trial	1
Factors Influencing Gait Performance: Comfortable Linear Gait and Complex Gait in School-Aged Children in a Dual-Task Model	1
Comparison of Functional Connectivity during Visual-Motor Illusion, Observation, and Motor Execution	1
Effects of Type II Diabetes on Proprioception during a Reach to Pinch Task	1
Effects of Elevated Height in Virtual Reality on Postural Control in the Semi-Tandem Stance	1