CoActions Lab

Cognition and Actions Lab

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Ronan Denyer

PhD, Post-Doctoral Researcher

Ronan Denyer recently completed his PhD in Neuroscience at The University of British Columbia, Canada, under the supervision of Dr. Lara Boyd. His PhD thesis research combined brain stimulation, neuroimaging, and behavioural tasks to investigate the role of the dorsal premotor cortex in the control of simple and complex bimanual movements. As a postdoctoral fellow in the CoActions Lab, Ronan will use transcranial magnetic stimulation in tandem with vagus nerve stimulation to better understand the role of the locus coeruleus in movement preparation.

Representative Publications

Denyer, R., Greeley, B., Greenhouse, I., & Boyd, L. A. (2024). Interhemispheric inhibition between dorsal premotor and primary motor cortices is released during preparation of unimanual but not bimanual movements. European Journal of Neuroscience, 59(3), 415-433.
Denyer, R., Boyd, L. A. (in press). Movement strategy moderates the effect of spatially congruent cues on the stability of rhythmic bimanual finger movements. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Denyer, R., Greenhouse, I., & Boyd, L. A. (2023). PMd and action preparation: bridging insights between TMS and single neuron research. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27(8), 759-772.

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Conference Presentations

Denyer, R., Rajendran, A., Boyd, L. A. (2023). Application of 1 hertz rTMS over right PMd does not affect the production of discrete or rhythmic asymmetric bimanual movements, regardless as to whether action is cued with spatial or symbolic visual cues. Neural Control of Movement Annual Meeting 2023.
Denyer, R., Boyd, L. A. (2022). Spatially relevant visual cues reduce the planning load of discrete and rhythmic bimanual movements compared to abstract symbolic visual cues. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2022.
Denyer, R., Greeley, B., Boyd, L. A. (2021). Characterizing changes in PMd-M1 interhemispheric inhibition across execution of simple unimanual and bimanual actions. Society for Neuroscience Global Connectome 2021.