Ali Ghavampour

Hi, I'm Ali Ghavampour.

PhD Student in Neuroscience at Western University.

I study the neural mechanisms of motor control using fMRI and computational modeling. My research focuses on how the brain plans and executes complex hand movements.

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Projects

03

Ergonomic Finger Force Device

Custom hardware for hand and finger force measurement, built with Arduino, Python and C++. Plug & play.

ArduinoHardware

Parallel Searchlight Analysis

A very fast searchlight analysis pipeline developed in the Diedrichsen lab. Check out the code on GitHub.

PythonMethodsNeuroimaging

Learning Novel Muscle Activity Patterns

How we learn novel muscle activity patterns — much like learning a new guitar chord such as F#. Read the first paper here.

NeuroimagingMotor Control

Publications

03
2025

A paradigm to study the learning of muscle activity patterns outside of the natural repertoire

Journal of Neurophysiology · Ghavampour et al., 2025

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2024

Multi-finger configurations: a paradigm to study learning novel muscle synergies

Western University Thesis · Ghavampour, 2024

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2023

Prefrontal cortex encodes value pop-out in visual search

iScience · Abbaszadeh et al., 2023

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About

I am currently a Neuroscience PhD student at Western University, supervised by Dr. Jörn Diedrichsen and Dr. Andrew Pruszynski. My background bridges electrical engineering and neuroscience, and I really enjoy building custom research hardware. Outside the lab, I enjoy playing guitar.

If you're interested in collaborating, get in touch at aghavamp@uwo.ca.