Advances in Computational Motor Control IV

Symposium at the Society for Neuroscience Conference

Friday, November 11, 2005

Room 149A, Washington DC Convention Center

12:00-1:00 Registration

1:00-1:05 Opening Remarks

1:05-3:15 Session 1

· Invited talk: Daniel Wolpert (Cambridge University)
”Probabilistic mechanisms in human sensorimotor control”

· E. Todorov, B. D. Huh (UC San Diego)
”Bridging the gap between optimal feedback control and sensorimotor neurophysiology”

· M. Chhabra, D. Knill (Univ. of Rochester)
“Optimal control predicts task-dependent feedback control of human hand movements”

· D. B. Lockhart, L. H. Ting (Georgia Tech and Emory University)
“Optimal sensorimotor transformations for balance”

· J. Diedrichsen, R. Shadmehr (Johns Hopkins University)
"The coordination of complex movements"

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30-5:30 Session 2

· L. C. Osborne, S. G. Lisberger, W. Bialek (UC San Francisco and Princeton)
"A sensory source for motor variation? An analysis of noise in pursuit eye movements"

· J. B. J. Smeets, J. J. van den Dobbelsteen, R. J. van Beers, E. Brenner (Afdeling Neurowetenschappen, The Netherlands)
"Movement drift is the result of optimal sensory combination"

· A. Fishbach, F. A. Mussa-Ivaldi (Northwestern University)
“"Neither hand nor cursor motions converge to linear paths under some visuomotor rotations: an adaptation study and model"

· A. A. G. Matter, D. J. Ostry (McGill University)
"Motor learning as a weighted average of past experience"

· V. S. Huang, R. Shadmehr (Johns Hopkins University)
"Motor learning during the delay period between movements"

5:30-7:00 Dinner (on your own)

7:00-9:25 Session 3

· Invited talk: Andrew Schwartz (University of Pittsburgh)
“Useful signals from the motor cortex”

· E. Stark, R. Drori, I. Asher, M. Abeles (Hebrew University and Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
"Distinct movement features are represented by distinct neurons in the motor cortex"

· E. B. Torres, R. Quian Quiroga, R. Andersen (Caltech and University of Leiscester, UK)
"Trajectory formation before movement in the posterior parietal cortex"

· D. Z. Wetmore, E. A. Mukamel, M. J. Schnitzer (Stanford University)
"A theory of cerebellum-dependent motor learning and timing based on rebound conductances in deep cerebellar nuclei neurons"

· J. Jing, K. R. Weiss (Mt Sinai School of Medicine)
"Modular computations in a hierarchical motor network"

9:25-9:30 Closing Remarks