Mollie graduated from Rutgers University in 2009. She was distinguished as a Robert Byrd Scholar, ann an Edward Bloustein Scholar. She joined the lab in 2009 as a BME PhD student.

Mollie advanced our understanding of motor learning by demonstrating that sensitivity to prediction error depends on the statistics of prior experience of errors. Mollie’s major work was focused on autism. Her imaging work uncovered significant abnormalities in the cerebellum of children with autism spectrum disorders. Her behavioral work in these children demonstrated that they learned internal models of action in a way that was quite different than typically developing children: they relied more on proprioception that visual sensory information. 

She completed her PhD in 2014 and subsequently joined Synchrogenix.  
​​Behavioral and neural basis of anomalous motor learning in children with autism. MK Marko, D Crocetti, T Hulst, O Donchin, R Shadmehr, and SH Mostofsky (2015) Brain 138:784-797.

A memory of errors in sensorimotor learning. DJ Herzfeld, PA Vaswani, MK Marko, and R Shadmehr (2014) Science 345:1349-1353.

Sensitivity to motor error in children with autism. Mollie Marko (2014) PhD Thesis, Johns Hopkins University.

Motor learning relies on integrated sensory inputs in ADHD, but over-selectively on proprioception in Autism spectrum conditions. J Izawa, SE Pekny, MK Marko, C Haswell, R Shadmehr, and SH Mostofsky (2012) Autism Research 5:124-136.

Sensitivity to prediction error in reach adaptation. MK Marko, AM Haith, MD Harran, and R Shadmehr (2012) Journal of Neurophysiology 108:1752-1763.

Stimulation of the human motor cortex alters generalization patterns of motor learning.  JJ Orban de Xivry, MK Marko, SE Pekny, D Pastor, J Izawa, P Celnik, and R Shadmehr (2011) Journal of Neuroscience 31:7102-7110. 

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Mollie Marko