Helene M. Sisti

Dr. Sisti integrates machine learning and artificial intelligence approaches with her domain expertise in neuroscience to develop translational research. Using GenAI to augment sparse data sets will allow scientists to leverage the power of AI to generate testable hypotheses in larger populations. A consistent theme of her work over the past three decades is optimal human performance. What drives it? What sustains it? How do we empower others to achieve it? Students are actively involved in all aspects of scientific research: from ideation to publication.

Dr. Sisti is a contributing author to the Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience, Human Brain Mapping, and Learning & Memory, among others. Her area of expertise is learning and neuroplasticity — a topic she has investigated using cellular models and human brain imaging. Before joining the Norwich Faculty, she held teaching appointments at Rutgers University and Villanova University, where she taught Statistics, Motor Learning, and Biopsychology. She has served as a reviewer for several scholarly journals, including Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, Neurorehabilitation and Repair, and Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. In 2023, she served as guest Executive Editor of the Journal of Motor Behavior.

Between 2013 and 2015, she was a management consultant at Gap International. As a member of their Genius Institute, her team investigated how language impacts action using the company’s Breakthrough Methodology.® She facilitated leadership conferences throughout the U.S., as well as in Australia and Dubai.

Ph.D. Rutgers University
Postdoctoral Fellow KU Leuven, Belgium

• PY 220 Developmental Psychology
• PY 230 Biopsychology
• PY 263 Perception
• PY 313 Experimental Psychology  
• PY 344 Cognition
• PY 398 Thesis Preparation
• PY 498 Senior Thesis

Sisti HM, Beebe A, Gabrielsson E, Bishop M. Postmovement Beta Rebound in Real and Imagined Movement. Motor Control. 2024 Aug 22;29(1):53-68. doi: 10.1123/mc.2023-0033. PMID: 39179240

Sisti HM. Editorial Comment. J Mot Behav. 2023;55(5):443. doi:10.1080/00222895.2023.2233745. Epub 2023 Jul 11. PMID: 37433561.

Sisti HM, Beebe A, Bishop M, Gabrielsson E. A brief review of motor imagery and bimanual coordination. Front Hum Neurosci. 2022 Nov 11;16:1037410. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2022.1037410. PMID: 36438642; PMCID: PMC9693758.