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Bradley R. King, PhD

After completing a B.S. in Movement Science at Texas Christian University, Dr. King joined the Developmental Motor Control Laboratory led by Dr. Jane Clark at the University of Maryland where he earned both a Master’s and PhD. He completed a postdoctoral fellowships in the laboratories of Dr. Julien Doyon at the University of Montreal (Canada) and Dr. Stephan Swinnen at KU Leuven (Belgium). Dr. King started as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health & Kinesiology at the University of Utah in August 2020 where he leads the Lifespan Motor Neuroscience laboratory.

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Monteiro TS, King BR (05/15/2022). Network-specific differences in transient brain activity at rest are associated with age-related reductions in motor performance. Neuroimage, 252, 119025.
  2. Veldman M (06/2021). Somatosensory targeted memory reactivation modulates oscillatory brain activity but not motor memory consolidation. Neuroscience, 465, 203-218.
  3. Psurek F, King BR (12/17/2021). Offline low-frequency rTMS of the primary and premotor cortices does not impact motor sequence memory consolidation despite modulation of corticospinal excitability. Sci Rep, 11, 24186.
  4. Willms S, Abel M, Karni A, Gal C, Doyon J, King BR (08/01/2021). Motor sequence learning in patients with ideomotor apraxia: Effects of long-term training. Neuropsychologia, 159, 107921.
  5. Gann MA, King BR, Dolfen N, Veldman MP (10/18/2021). Prefrontal stimulation prior to motor sequence learning alters multivoxel patterns in the striatum and the hippocampus. Sci Rep, 11, 20572.
  6. Dolfen N (02/01/2021). Stress Modulates the Balance between Hippocampal and Motor Networks during Motor Memory Processing. 31, 1365¿1382.
  7. Gann, MA (08/2021). Hippocampal and striatal responses during motor learning are modulated by prefrontal cortex stimulation. Neuroimage, 237, 118158.
  8. Fang Z, Smith DM, Albouy G, King BR (10/28/2021). Differential Effects of a Nap on Motor Sequence Learning-Related Functional Connectivity Between Young and Older Adults. Front Aging Neurosci, 13, 747358.
  9. Dolfen N, Veldman MP, Gann MA, von Leupoldt A, Puts NAJ (12/01/2021). A role for GABA in the modulation of striatal and hippocampal systems under stress. 4, 1033.
  10. King B.R. (09/01/2020). Baseline sensorimotor GABA levels shape neuroplastic processes induced by motor learning in older adults. Hum Brain Mapp, 41, 3680-3695.
  11. King BR (12/01/2020). Lateralized effects of post-learning transcranial direct current stimulation on motor memory consolidation in older adults: An fMRI investigation. Neuroimage, 223, 117323.
  12. Monteiro T.S. (06/30/2020). Reduced Modulation of Task-Related Connectivity Mediates Age-Related Declines in Bimanual Performance. Cereb Cortex, 30, 4346-4360.
  13. Gabitov E. (01/01/2019). Susceptibility of consolidated procedural memory to interference is independent of its active task-based retrieval. PLoS One, 14.
  14. Monteiro T.S. (07/01/2019). Age-related differences in network flexibility and segregation at rest and during motor performance. Neuroimage, 194, 93-104.
  15. Levin O. (11/15/2019). Sensorimotor cortex neurometabolite levels as correlate of motor performance in normal aging: evidence from a 1H-MRS study. Neuroimage, 202.
  16. King B.R. (07/01/2019). Schema and Motor-Memory Consolidation. Psychol Sci, 30, 963-978.
  17. Dolfen N. (02/01/2019). Glucocorticoid response to stress induction prior to learning is negatively related to subsequent motor memory consolidation. Neurobiol Learn Mem, 158, 32-41.
  18. Hermans L. (05/01/2018). GABA levels and measures of intracortical and interhemispheric excitability in healthy young and older adults: an MRS-TMS study. Neurobiol Aging, 65, 168-177.
  19. King B.R. (12/01/2018). Age-related declines in motor performance are associated with decreased segregation of large-scale resting state brain networks. Cereb Cortex, 28, 4390-4402.
  20. King B. (09/01/2017). Sleeping on the motor engram: The multifaceted nature of sleep-related motor memory consolidation. Neurosci Biobehav Rev, 80, 1-22.
  21. Santos Monteiro T. (10/01/2017). Relative cortico-subcortical shift in brain activity but preserved training-induced neural modulation in older adults during bimanual motor learning. Neurobiol Aging, 58, 54-67.
  22. Fogel S. (04/01/2017). Reactivation or transformation? Motor memory consolidation associated with cerebral activation time-locked to sleep spindles. PLoS One, 12.
  23. King B. (02/01/2017). Cerebral Activation During Initial Motor Learning Forecasts Subsequent Sleep-Facilitated Memory Consolidation in Older Adults. Cereb Cortex, 27, 1588-1601.
  24. Rumpf J. (01/01/2017). Enhancement of motor consolidation by post-training transcranial direct current stimulation in older people. Neurobiol Aging, 49, 1-8.
  25. Vahdat S. (02/21/2017). Editorial: Online and offline modulators of motor learning. Front Hum Neurosci, 11.
  26. Gabitov E. (12/01/2017). Re-stepping into the same river: Competition problem rather than a reconsolidation failure in an established motor skill. Sci Rep, 7.
  27. Appleman E. (06/01/2016). Sleep quality influences subsequent motor skill acquisition. Behav Neurosci, 130, 290-297.
  28. Albouy G. (10/11/2016). Cerebral activity associated with transient sleep-facilitated reduction in motor memory vulnerability to interference. Sci Rep, 6.
  29. Dan X. (07/29/2015). Motor sequence learning and consolidation in unilateral de novo patients with Parkinson's disease. PLoS One, 10.
  30. Albouy G. (03/01/2015). Maintaining vs. enhancing motor sequence memories: Respective roles of striatal and hippocampal systems. Neuroimage, 108, 423-434.
  31. Fogel S.M. (01/01/2014). fMRI and sleep correlates of the age-related impairment in motor memory consolidation. Hum Brain Mapp, 35, 3625-3645.
  32. King B. (04/01/2013). Neural correlates of the age-related changes in motor sequence learning and motor adaptation in older adults. Front Hum Neurosci, 11.
  33. Albouy G. (11/01/2013). Hippocampus and striatum: Dynamics and interaction during acquisition and sleep-related motor sequence memory consolidation. 23, 985-1004.
  34. King B.R. (06/01/2012). Development of state estimation explains improvements in sensorimotor performance across childhood. J Neurophysiol, 107, 3040-3049.
  35. King B.R. (10/01/2012). Developmental delay of finger torque control in children with developmental coordination disorder. Dev Med Child Neurol, 54, 932-937.
  36. King B.R. (07/01/2011). Multisensory adaptation of spatial-to-motor transformations in children with developmental coordination disorder. Exp Brain Res, 212, 257-265.
  37. Rietschel J.C. (01/01/2011). Cerebral cortical dynamics and the quality of motor behavior during social evaluative challenge. Psychophysiology, 48, 479-487.
  38. King B.R. (07/01/2011). Statistically characterizing intra- and inter-individual variability in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder. Res Dev Disabil, 32, 1388-1398.
  39. King B.R. (10/01/2010). Improvements in proprioceptive functioning influence multisensory-motor integration in 7- to 13-year-old children. Neurosci Lett, 483, 36-40.
  40. King B.R. (01/01/2009). Evidence for multisensory spatial-to-motor transformations in aiming movements of children. J Neurophysiol, 101, 315-322.

Book Chapter

  1. Doyon, J (09/2015). Neural correlates of motor skill acquisition and consolidation. In Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference. Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference.