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2009 Advances in Computational Motor Control

Symposium at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting

 Friday, October 16, 2009, 1:00 PM - 7:40 PM

Chicago Convention Center, Room S504ABCD

1:00 - 1:05       Opening Remarks

1:05 - 2:45       Session 1: platform presentations

• Invited talk:  Michael Graziano  (Princeton University)

• Mapping behavioral repertoire onto the motor cortex

• Sara Steenrod and Michael Goldberg  (Columbia University)

• Environmental memory in parietal cortex: A possible substrate for guidance of movement in the absence of visual stimulation

• James Rebesco, Sara Solla and Lee Miller  (Northwestern University)

• Rewiring neural connectivity by micro-stimulation

• Maarten Frens, Beerend Winkelman and Opher Donchin  (Ben Gurion University)

• Forward models and state estimation in compensatory eye movements

3:00 - 4:30       Session 2: platform presentations

• • Julian Tramper, Bert Kappen, and Stan Gielen (Radboud University Nijmegen)

  • Predicting human motor performance using stochastic optimal control

  • Miriam Zacksenhouse, Koren Beiser, Joseph O'Doherty, Mikhail Lebedev and Miguel Nicolelis (Technion and Duke University)

  • Optimal control framework successfully explains changes in neural modulations during experiments with Brain Machine Interfaces

  • Gary Sing, Simon Orozco and Maurice Smith  (Harvard University)

  • Adaptive responses in the human motor system interpret arbitrary force perturbations as state-dependent dynamics

  • Jörn Diedrichsen, Niall Lally and Ian O’Sullivan  (UCL and Bangor University)

  • When two systems work as one: Minimizing signal-dependent noise through Nash-Equilibria

4:30 - 6:00       Posters and coffee

• Gary Sing, Bijan Najafi, Adenike Adewuyi and Maurice Smith  (Harvard University)

  • A novel mechanism for the spacing effect: Competitive inhibition between adaptive processes can explain the increase in motor skill retention associated with prolonged inter-trial spacing

  • S. Schaefer, I. Shelly and Kurt Thoroughman  (Washington University)

  • Beside the point: Motor adaptation in task-irrelevant conditions

  • Jordan Taylor, Azeen Ghorayshi and Richard Ivry  (UC Berkeley)

  • The Cost of Strategic Control: Attenuation of Adaptation

  • Jasper Schuurmans, Winfred Mugge, Alfred Schouten and Frans van der Helm  (University of Tewnte)

  • Sensory weighting of force and position feedback in human motor control tasks

  • Jonathan Dingwell, Joby John and Joseph Cusumano  (UT Austin)

  • Computational models of goal equivalent control in human treadmill walking

  • Jun Izawa and Reza Shadmehr  (Johns Hopkins University)

  • The disparate roles of reward and sensory prediction errors in learning motor control

  • Ian Stevenson, Hugo Fernandes, Iris Vilares, Kunlin Wei and Konrad Körding  (Northwestern University)

  • Bayesian integration and non-linear feedback control in a full-body motor task

• Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi, M. Casadio and A. Pressman  (Northwestern University)

• Adaptive force control

• Lucas McKay and Lena Ting  (Georgia Tech)

• The nervous system maps high-dimension sensory inflow to low-dimension motor outputs during postural responses

  • Natalia Dounskaia, Keith Nogueira and Elizabeth Drummon  (Arizona State University)

  • Hierarchical control of bimanual movements revealed by arm dominance challenges the muscle homology principle

6:00 - 7:40       Session 3: platform presentations

• Invited talk:  Zoran Popovic  (University of Washington)

• Towards high-fidelity high-dimensional natural controllers 

• Vishwanathan Mohan, Pietro Morasso, Giorgio Metta and Jacopo Zenzeri  (Italian Institute of Technology)

• Equilibrium point hypothesis revisited: Advances in the computational framework of Passive Motion Paradigm

• Tom Erez  (Washington University)

  • An interpretive model of hand-eye coordination

• Giby Raphael, George Tsianos and Gerald Loeb  (University of Southern California)

• Spinal-like regulator for controlling wrist movements

Registration:

          There is no registration fee for this symposium, thanks to the NIH.  Simply come and enjoy the science.

Symposium Organizers:

Emo Todorov, University of Washington

Reza Shadmehr, Johns Hopkins University