Adrian Haith

Co-Director of BLAM Lab

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University.

My research seeks to develop and test theories about how the brain makes decisions and controls movement of the body, and how it learns to improve these capabilities through experience.

Bio

I received my undergraduate degree from Cambridge University (Sidney Sussex College) in Mathematics and Computer Science. I received an MSc in Machine Learning/Informatics from the University of Edinburgh and subsequent PhD under Dr. Sethu Vijayakumar. I then worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Reza Shademhr and then in the BLAM Lab under Dr. John Krakauer. I became a Faculty in the Department of Neurology and Co-Director of the BLAM Lab in 2014.

Contact Information

209 Carnegie
550 N Wolfe Street
Baltimore
MD 21287
adrian.haith [@] jhu.edu

 

Publications

2023

Effects of Different Feedback Conditions on Sensorimotor Adaptation Revealed in a Mirror Reversal Paradigm. Jingyue Xu, Chen Yang, Mengzhan Liufu, Shuai Chang, Jinpeng Chen, Feng Lu, Alkis M Hadjiosif, Adrian M Haith, Xueqian Deng. Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science, 13(7):127-141

Strategic Processes in Sensorimotor Learning: Reasoning, Refinement, and Retrieval. Jonathan Sanching Tsay, Hyosub E Kim, Samuel D McDougle, Jordan Taylor, Adrian Haith, Guy Avraham, John Krakauer, Anne Collins, Richard Ivry. PsyArXiv prerprint.

Evidence for a common mechanism supporting invigoration of action selection and action execution. Kahori Kita, Yue Du, Adrian M Haith. Journal of neurophysiology 130(2):238-246.

Dissociable habits of response preparation versus response initiation. Y Du, A Haith. PsyArXiv preprint

Kinematic coordinations capture learning during human–exoskeleton interaction. K Ghonasgi, R Mirsky, N Bhargava, AM Haith, P Stone, AD Deshpande. Scientific Reports 13 (1), 10322

2022

Understanding implicit sensorimotor adaptation as a process of proprioceptive re-alignment. Jonathan S Tsay, Hyosub Kim, Adrian M Haith, Richard B Ivry. eLife 11:e76639.

Comparing the speed of action initiation and action inhibition. Yue Du, Alexander D Forrence, Delaney M Metcalf, Adrian M Haith. bioRxiv preprint.

Control becomes habitual early on when learning a novel motor skill. Christopher S. Yang, Noah J Cowan, Adrian M. Haith. Journal of neurophysiology 128 (5), 1278-1291.

Interactions between sensory prediction error and task error during implicit motor learning. Jonathan Tsay, Adrian M. Haith, Richard B. Ivry, Hyosub E. Kim. Plos Computational Biology.

Competition between parallel sensorimotor learning systems. Scott T Albert, Jihoon Jang, Shanaathanan Modchalingam, Bernard Marius ‘t Hart, Denise Henriques, Gonzalo Lerner, Valeria Della-Maggiore, Adrian M Haith, John W Krakauer, Reza Shadmehr. (2022). eLife
11:e65361. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.65361

The relationship between habits and skills in humans. Yue Du, John W. Krakauer, Adrian M. Haith. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 
De novo motor learning of a bimanual control task over multiple days of practice. Adrian M. Haith, Christopher S. Yang, Jina Pakpoor, Kahori Kita (2022). Journal of neurophysiology 128 (4), 982-993

2021

Dissociable habits of response preparation and response initiation. Yue Du and Adrian M. Haith. (2021). In Proc. Advances in Motor Learning and Motor Control.

De novo learning versus adaptation of continuous control in a manual tracking taskChristopher S. Yang, Noah J. Cowan, Adrian M. Haith. (2021). eLife. 10:e62578. doi: 10.7554/eLife.62578.

Age-related increases in reaction time result from slower preparation, not delayed initiation. Robert M Hardwick, Alexander D. Forrence, Maria Gabriella Costello, Kathy Zackowski, Adrian M Haith. bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.12.448183

Did We Get Sensorimotor Adaptation Wrong? Implicit Adaptation as Direct Policy Updating Rather than Forward-Model-Based LearningAlkis M. Hadjiosif, John W. Krakauer, Adrian M. Haith. Journal of Neuroscience. March 2021, 41 (12) 2747-2761; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2125-20.2021

2020

When going can be faster than stopping: Rethinking response inhibition as a flexible decision about whether or not to act. Yue Du, Alexander D. Forrence, Delaney M. Metcalf, Adrian M. Haith. Proc. Advances in Motor Learning and Motor Control 2020.

2019

Time-dependent competition between habitual and goal-directed response preparation. Robert M. Hardwick, Alexander D. Forrence, John W. Krakauer, Adrian M. Haith. Nature Human Behavior.  (September 20, 2019). doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0725-0. CommentarySupplementary InformationData + analysis code.

Motor Learning. John W. Krakauer, Alkis M. Hadjiosif, Jing Xu, Aaron L. Wong, Adrian M. Haith. Comprehensive Physiology 9:613-663.

Preparation of Movement. Adrian M. Haith and Sven Bestmann. To appear in The Cognitive Neurosciences, 6th edition. Eds. David Poeppel, George R. Mangun, Michael S. Gazzaniga.

Practice induces a qualitative change in the memory representation for visuomotor learning. David M. Huberdeau, John W. Krakauer, Adrian M. Haith. J Neurophys 122(3):1050-1059.

2018

Contrasting de novo learning with adaptation by the expression of aftereffects. Christopher Yang, Noah Cowan, Adrian M. Haith. Proc. Motor Learning and Motor Control, San Diego, 2018.

Movement repetition facilitates response preparation. Firas Mawase, Daniel Lopez, Pablo Celnik and Adrian M. Haith. Cell Reports 24(4):801-808.

The multiple effects of practice: skill, habit and reduced cognitive load. Adrian M. Haith and John W. Krakauer. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 2018

2017

Reaction times can reflect habits rather than computations (2017). Aaron L. Wong, Jeff Goldsmith, Alexander D. Forrence, Adrian M. Haith, John W. Krakauer. eLife. doi:10.7554/eLife.28075

Preparation time determines response selection when acting under conflict (2017). Adrian M. Haith Montrell Vass, Robert M. Hardwick. Proc. Motor Learning and Motor Control 2017.

Motor planning flexibly optimizes performance under uncertainty about task goals (2017). Aaron L. Wong and Adrian M. Haith. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14624.

2016

Repetition enhances movement preparation (2016). Firas Mawase, Adrian M. Haith, Pablo Celnik. In Proc. Motor Learning and Motor Control 2016.

Independence of movement preparation and movement initiation (2016). Adrian M Haith, Jina Pakpoor, and John W Krakauer. Journal of Neuroscience 36(10):3007-3015.

2015

Formation of a long-term memory for visuomotor adaptation following only a few trials of practice (2015). Huberdeau DM, Haith AM, Krakauer JW. Journal of Neurophysiology 114(2):969-77. doi: 10.1152/jn.00369.2015.. ​

Explicit knowledge enhances motor vigor and performance: motivation versus practice in sequence tasks (2015). Wong A, Lindquist M, Haith A, Krakauer JW. Journal of Neurophysiology 114(1):219-32. doi: 10.1152/jn.00218.2015.. ​

Persistent residual errors in motor adaptation tasks: Reversion to baseline and exploratory escape (2015). Vaswani, Pavan A., Lior Shmuelof, Adrian M. Haith, Raymond J. Delnicki, Vincent S. Huang, Pietro Mazzoni, Reza Shadmehr, and John W. Krakauer. Journal of Neuroscience 35, no. 17 (April 29, 2015): 6969–77.

The influence of movement preparation time on the expression of visuomotor learning and savings (2015) Haith AM, Huberdeau DM, Krakauer JW. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(13):5109-5117. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3869-14.2015.

Hedging your bets: intermediate movements as optimal behavior in the context of an incomplete decision (2015) Haith AM, Huberdeau DM, Krakauer JW. PLOS Computational Biology. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004171.

Dual-process decomposition in human sensorimotor adaptation (2015). Huberdeau DM, Krakauer JW and Haith AM. Current Opinion in Neurobiology.

Motor control of the hand before and after stroke (2015). Xu J, Haith AM, Krakauer JW. In: Systems Neuroscience: From Laboratory to Clinical Practice. Kansaku, K Cohen LG, Birbaumer N. (Eds).  First Ed. Springer

2014

Motor learning by sequential sampling of actions (2014). Adrian M. Haith, John W. Krakauer. In Proc. Translational and Computational Motor Control.

Motor Planning (2014). Wong AL, Haith AM and Krakauer JW. The Neuroscientist (2014) In Press

Motor learning: The great rate debate. Haith AM and Krakauer JW. Curr Biol. (2014) 24(10)386-8. (Commentary on Gonzalez-Castro et al., Curr Biol (2014) 24(10)1050-61).

Contributions of the cerebellum and the motor cortex to acquisition and retention of motor memories. Herzfeld DJ, Pastor D, Haith AM, Rossetti Y, Shadmehr R, O’Shea J. Neuroimage (2014). In Press.

2013

Unlearning versus savings in visuomotor adaptation: comparing effects of washout, passage of time, and removal of errors on motor memory. Kitago T, Ryan SL, Mazzoni P, Krakauer JW, Haith AM. Front Hum Neurosci. (2013) 7:307.

Theoretical models of motor control and motor learning. Haith AM and Krakauer JW. In: Gollhofer A, Taube W, Bo Nielsen J, (Eds). The Routledge Handbook of Motor Control and Motor Learning. (2013) 7-28. Routledge, London.

Model-based and model-free mechanisms of human motor learning (2013). Haith AM and Krakauer JW. In: Progress in Motor Control VII: Neural Computational and Dynamic Approaches. Richardson MJ, Riley MA, Shockley K (Eds.). (2013) 1-21.

2012

Overcoming motor forgetting through reinforcement of learned actions. L Shmuelof, V Huang, AM Haith, RJ Delnicki, P Mazzoni, JW Krakauer. J Neurosci. (2012), 32(42)14617-21.

Evidence for hyperbolic discounting in control of movements. AM Haith, TR Reppert and R Shadmehr (2012) J Neurosci. (2012) 32(34):11727-36.

Sensitivity to prediction error in reach adaptation. M Marko, AM Haith, MD Harran and R Shadmehr (2012) J Neurophysiol (2012) 108(6):1752-63.

Changes in saccade kinematics associated with the value and novelty of a stimulus. TR Reppert, JES Choi, AM Haith, and R Shadmehr (2012) Conference on Information Sciences and Systems 46:1-5.

2007 – 2011

Rethinking motor learning and savings in adaptation paradigms: model-free memory for successful actions combines with internal models. Huang VS, Haith AM, Mazzoni P and Krakauer JW. Neuron (2011), 70(4):787-801.

Unifying the sensory and motor components of sensorimotor adaptation. AM Haith, CPT Jackson, RC Miall, S Vijayakumar. (2008) Proc. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems.

Implications of different classes of sensorimotor disturbance for cerebellar-based motor learning models. AM Haith and S Vijayakumar. (2009) Biological Cybernetics.

Robustness of VOR and OKR adaptation under kinematics and dynamics transformations. AM Haith and S Vijayakumar. Proc. Sixth IEEE international Conference on Development and Learning.

Integral equation methods for computing likelihoods and their derivatives in the stochastic integrate-and-fire modelL Paninski, AM Haith and G Szirtes. (2007) Journal of Computational Neuroscience.