Dr. McPherson’s work identifies neural mechanisms associated with movement dysfunction following neurological injury and investigates neural control of muscles with different biomechanical functions, primarily by studying spinal motor output in human subjects. Students working with Dr. McPherson will learn neural and biomechanical contributors to healthy and pathologic movement, advanced signal processing of time series and point process biophysical data, high-density surface electromyography decomposition, and development of open-source software, best practices, and standardization guidelines for motor unit decomposition approaches.