2002

2002 Advances in Computational Motor Control

Symposium at the Society for Neuroscience Conference

Saturday, November 2, 2002

Room 204A, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando FL

9:00-10:35     Session 1

• Invited talk: Eb Fetz (University of Washington)

• Distributed and multiplexed coding of movement parameters in neural populations

• Paul Cisek (University of Montreal)

• Think before you act, but prepare an assortment of partial actions before you think

• Joshua Brown, Daniel Bullock, Stephen Grossberg.  Boston University

• A computational neural model of laminar frontal cortex and basal ganglia interactions in movement control

• Rony Paz, Thomas Boraud, Chen Natan, Hagai Bergman, and Eilon Vaadia.  Hebrew University, CNRS, and Universite Victor Segalen

• Preparatory activity in motor cortex reflects consolidation of specific internal models

10:35-10:50   Break

10:50-12:20   Session 2

• Invited talk: Jerry Loeb (University of Southern California)

• Model based analysis of sensimotor control strategies

• Dmitry Ivashko, Boris I. Prilutsky, John K. Chapin, and Ilya A. Rybak (Drexel University, Georgia Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Brooklyn)

• Modeling neural control of hindlimb movement during cat locomotion

• Yoram Yekutieli, R. Sagiv, B. Hochner, and Tamar Flash (Hebrew University and Weizmann Institute of Science)

• Studying octopus motor control using a computerized dynamic model

• Andrea D’Avella and Emilio Bizzi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

• Time-varying muscle synergies as low-level control modules

12:20-2:00     Lunch (on your own)

2:00-3:30      Session 3

• Invited talk: Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi (Northwestern University)

• Learning and adaptive control of arm dynamics

• Opher Donchin and Reza Shadmehr (Johns Hopkins University)

• Uncovering representation from trial-to-trial changes in performance during adaptation

• David Franklin, Rieko Osu, Etienne Burdet, Mitsuo Kawato, and Theodore E. Milner  (ATR, Simon Fraser University, and National University of Singapore)

• A computational model of adaptation to novel stable and unstable dynamics

• Emanuel Todorov (University of California San Diego)

• Interpreting motor adaptation results within the framework of optimal feedback control

3:30-3:45       Break

3:45-5:15       Session 4

• Invited talk: Andy Barto (University of Massachusetts)

• Reinforcement learning in motor control

• Kurt Thoroughman, Wei Wang (Washington University)

• Minimization of jerk, not torque change or end point error, mimics human movement in dynamically perturbing environments

• Elizabeth Torres (California Institute of Technology)

• A model of dimensionality reduction in goal-oriented motions

• Brandon Rohrer, Hermano Igo Krebs, Bruce Volpe, Walter Frontera, Joel Stein, Neville Hogan (Sandia National Labs, MIT, Cornell University, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital)

• Patterns in stroke patients’ submovements support adaptive forward/inverse learning model

Symposium Organizers:  

Emo Todorov, University of California, San Diego

Reza Shadmehr, Johns Hopkins University