Research Interests
Physiological and biomechanical mechanisms underlying human sensorimotor performance and its adaptations due to interventions and aging
Teaching Interests
Human neuromuscular control and adaptation, including the effect of aging
Awards and Recognitions
- Fellow, American College of Sports Medicine
- Dedicated and Outstanding Associate Editor, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
- Star Reviewer (2x), Journal of Applied Physiology, American Physiological Society
- Best Research Award, SICE System Integration Division
- Research Career Enhancement Award, American Physiological Society
- Visiting Scholar Award, American College of Sports Medicine
- Research Travel Award, American Society of Biomechanics
- New Investigator Award, Japanese Society for College Physical Education and Sports
Recent Publications
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Samoto M, Shinohara M, Watanabe K, Yoshitake Y. Association between correlated effective neural drive and electromechanical fluctuations during co-contraction: Insights from MU discharges and interference EMG. Journal of Neurophysiology 134:1273-1283, 2025.
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Yamashita T, Yoshitake Y, Watanabe H, Washino S, Gamada K, Shinohara M. Manual inter-structural release procedure can alter muscle shear modulus. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 57: 44-53, 2025.
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Trajkova M, Green N, Shinohara M. ‘StreamPoseML’ An End-to-End Open-Source Web Application and Python Toolkit for Real-Time Video Pose Classification and Machine Learning. Journal of Open Source Software 9 (104): 6392, 2024.
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Lee J, Kwon K, Soltis I, Matthews J, Lee Y-J, Kim H, Romero L, Zavanelli N, Kwon Y, Kwon S, Lee J, Na Y, Lee SH, Yu KJ, Shinohara M, Hammond FL, Yeo W-H. Intelligent upper-limb exoskeleton integrated with soft bioelectronics and deep learning for intention-driven augmentation. npj Flexible Electronics 8 (1): 11, 2024.
- St. Pierre MA, Shinohara M. Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation at nonspecific timings during training can compromise motor adaptation in healthy humans. Journal of Neurophysiology 130: 212-223, 2023.



