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Dr. John Krakauer is the John C. Malone Professor, and Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and a visiting professor at The Santa Fe Institute. 

His main research interest areas are experimental and computational studies of motor control and motor learning in humans, tracking long-term motor skill learning and its relation to higher cognitive processes such as decision-making, prediction of motor recovery after stroke, mechanisms of spontaneous motor recovery after stroke in humans and in mouse models, and new neuro-rehabilitation approaches for patients in the first 3 months after stroke. 

He is also the co-founder of the video gaming company Max and Haley, an immersive video game “predicated on the idea that animal movement based on real physics is highly pleasurable and that this pleasure is hugely heightened when the animal movement is under the control of our own movements”. 

“A simulated dolphin and other cetaceans developed by KATA has led to a therapeutic game, interfaced with an FDA-approved 3D exoskeletal robot, which is being used in an ongoing multi-site rehabilitation trial for early stroke recovery.“

Check his previous lectures where he speaks about the interaction of the human brain with the world, movement intelligence, and the mind-body false dichotomies.

John Krakauer’s book, “Broken Movement: The Neurobiology of Motor Recovery after Stroke” has been published by the MIT Press.

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