Victor Frak, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physical Activity Sciences, UQÀM;
Researcher, CRIR - Institut universitaire sur la réadaptation en déficience physique de Montréal (IURDPM, Gingras Pavilion) of the CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal (CCSMTL)
Phone: 514 340-2111
Fax: 514 987-6616
Email: [email protected]
Education
- M.D., Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1982
- Specialization in Neurology, Ministry of Health, Argentina, 1989
- D.E.A., Neuropsychology, Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France, 1991
- Ph.D., Cognitive Sciences, Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France, 2000
- Postdoctorate, Cognitive Sciences, Centre of Cognition Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, UQÀM, 2004
- Postdoctorate, Biomedical Sciences,Université de Montréal, 2005
Research interests
Grasping; evaluation and rehabilitation strategies
Recent publications
Aravena, P., Courson, M., Frak, V., Cheylus, A., Paulignan, Y., Deprez, V., et al. (2014). Action relevance in linguistic context drives word-induced motor activity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 163. (doi: 110.3389/fnhum.2014.00163).
Frak, V. & Nazir, T. (2014). Le langage au bout des doigts : les liens fonctionnels entre la motricité et le langage (240 pages). Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec.
Shiller, D.M., Bourguignon, N., Frak, V., Nazir, T., Cadoret, G., Robert, M., et al. (2013). Word-induced postural changes reflect a tight interaction between motor and lexico-semantic representations. Neuroscience Letters, 555, 129-133.
Aravena, P., Delevoye-Turrell, Y., Deprez, V., Cheylus, A., Paulignan, Y., Frak, V. & Nazir, T. (2012). Grip force reveals the context sensitivity of language-induced motor activity during “action words” processing: Evidence from sentential negation. PLos One, 7(12), e50287.
Frak, V., Nazir, T., Goyette, M., Cohen, H. & Jeannerod, M. (2010). Grip force is part of the semantic representation of manual action verbs. PLoS One, 5(3), e9728.
Bourbonnais, D., Frak, V., Pilon, J.-F. & Goyette, M. (2008). An instrumented cylinder measuring pinch force and orientation. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 5(1), 2.
Frak, V., Croteau, I., Bourbonnais, D., Duval, C., Duclos, C. & Cohen, H. (2007). Simulation modifies prehension: Evidence for a conjoined representation of the graspable features of an object and the action of grasping it. PLoS ONE, 2(3), e311.
Frak, V., Bourbonnais, D., Croteau, I. & Cohen, H. (2006). Interlimb transfer of grasp orientation is asymmetrical. The Scientific World Journal, 6, 1805-1809.
Frak, V., Paulignan, Y., Jeannerod, M., Michel, F. & Cohen, H. (2006). Prehension movements in a patient (AC) with posterior parietal cortex damage and posterior callosal section. Brain and Cognition, 60(1), 43-48.
Frak, V., Cohen, H. & Pourcher, E. (2004). A dissociation between real and simulated movements in Parkinson’s disease. Neuroreport, 15(9), 1489-1492.
Frak, V., Paulignan, Y. & Jeannerod, M., (2001). Orientation of the opposition axis in mentally simulated grasping. Experimental Brain Research, 136(1), 120-127.
Paulignan, Y., Frak, V., Toni, I. & Jeannerod, M. (1997). Influence of object position and size on human prehension movements. Experimental Brain Research, 114(2), 226-234.
Research orientation
Axis 1
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Research Site
CRIR - Institut universitaire sur la réadaptation en déficience physique de Montréal (IURDPM) of the CIUSSS CSMTL
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