Advances in Computational Motor Control II

Symposium at the Society for Neuroscience Conference

Friday, November 7, 2003

Room 288-290, Morial Convention Center, New Orleans

 

1:00-2:00       Registration

 

2:00-2:05       Opening Remarks

 

2:05-3:35       Session 1

·        Invited talk: Stefan Schaal. University of Southern California.  “A computational approach to motor control and learning with motor primitives”

·        James Patton, Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi, Y. Wei, M. Phillips, M. Stoykov.  Northwestern University.  “Exploiting sensorimotor adaptation”

·        Steve Massaquoi.  MIT.  “Stabilization of cerebrocerebellar feedback control without internal dynamic models”

·        Opher Donchin and Reza Shadmehr.  Johns Hopkins University.  “Can training change the desired trajectory?”

 

3:35-3:50       Break

 

3:50-5:45       Session 2

·        Ken Ohta, Rafael Laboissiere, Mikhail Svinin.  Max Planck Institute for Pscyhological Research and RIKEN.  “Optimal trajectory of human arm reaching movements in dynamical environments”

·        Emmanuel Guigon, Pierre Baraduc, Michel Desmurget.  INSERM France.  “Constant effort computation as a determinant of motor behavior”

·        Emanuel Todorov.  University of California San Diego.  “Stochastic optimal feedback control of nonlinear biomechanical systems”

·        Zhaoping Li, Alex Lewis, Silvia Scarpetta.  University College London and University of Salerno, Italy.  “Computational understanding of the neural circuit for the central pattern generator for locomotion and its control in lamprey”

·        Madhusudhan Venkadesan, Francisco Valero-Cuevas, John Guckenheimer.  Cornell University.  “The boundary of instability as a powerful experimental paradigm for understanding complex dynamical sensorimotor behavior: dexterous manipulation as an example”

 

5:45-7:30       Break

 

7:30-9:30       Session 3

·        Invited talk: Richard Andersen.  CalTech.  “Coordinate transformations for sensory guided movements”

·        A. Roitman, S. Pasalar, and Tim Ebner.  University of Minnesota.  “Models of Purkinje cell discharge during circular manual tracking in monkey”

·        Edward Boyden, Richard Tsien, Talal Chatila, Jennifer Raymond. Stanford University. “Is oppositely directed motor learning implemented with inverse plasticity mechanisms?”

·        Paul Cisek.  University of Montreal.  “A computational model of reach decisions in the primate cerebral cortex”

·        Dana Cohen and Miguel Nicolelis.  Duke University.  “Uncertainty reduction at the neuronal ensemble but not in single neurons during motor skill learning”

 

9:30-9:35       Closing Remarks