2009 schedule
January 15, 2009. Presented by Aaron Wong. Sharika KM, Ramakrishnan A, and Murthy A. Control of predictive error correction during a saccadic double-step task. J Neurophysiol 100: 2757-2770, 2008.
January 22, 2009. Presented by Jun Izawa. Franklin DW and Wolpert DM. Specificity of Reflex Adaptation for Task-Relevant Variability J. Neurosci., Dec 2008; 28: 14165 - 14175
January 29, 2009. Presented by Dimitrios Kapogiannis (NIH/NINDS): "Motor cortex reward signaling in Parkinson disease". Invited by Prof Reza Shadmehr
February 5, 2009. Presented by Robert Nickl. Fishbach & FA Mussa-Ivaldi, "Seeing versus Believing: Conflicting Immediate and Predicted Feedback Lead to Suboptimal Motor Performance", J Neurosci 28 (52): 14140-14146
February 12, 2009. Presented by Laura Malone. Sülzenbrück S and Heuer H. Functional independence of explicit and implicit motor adjustments. Consciousness and Cognition. In Press. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2008.12.001
February 19, 2009. Presented by Steven Charles. Darainy, M. and D.J. Ostry, Muscle cocontraction following dynamics learning. Experimental Brain Research, 2008. 190(2): p. 153-163.
February 26, 2009. Presented by Erin Vasudevan. Wachter et al. (2009). Differential effect of reward and punishment on procedural learning. J Neurosci 29: 436-443.
March 5, 2009. Presented by Joe Galea. Bernier PM, Burle B, Vidal F, Hasbroucq T, Blouin J. Direct Evidence for Cortical Suppression of Somatosensory Afferents during Visuomotor Adaptation. Cereb Cortex. 2009 Jan 6. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhn233
March 12, 2009. Presented by Minnan Xu. Javier F Medina and Stephen Lisberger, Links from complex spikes to local plasticity and motor learning in the cerebellum of awake-behaving monkeys. Nature Neuroscience 11, 1185 - 1192 (2008)
March 19, 2009. Presented by Aysha Keisler. Kareem A. Zaghloul, Justin A. Blanco, Christoph T. Weidemann, Kathryn McGill, Jurg L. Jaggi, Gordon H. Baltuch, and Michael J. Kahana (2009). Human Substantia Nigra Neurons Encode Unexpected Financial Rewards. Science 323 (5920), 1496.
March 26, 2009. Presented by Christina Fuentes. Ilaria Minio-Paluello, Simon Baron-Cohen, Alessio Avenanti, Vincent Walsh, and Salvatore M. Aglioti. Absence of Embodied Empathy During Pain Observation in Asperger Syndrome. Biological Psychiatry 2009, 65: 55-62.
April 2, 2009. Presented by Gabriela Cantarero. V. Rizzo, H.S. Siebner, F. Morgante, C. Mastroeni, P. Girlanda and A. Quartarone. Paired associative stimulation of left and right human motor cortex shapes interhemispheric motor inhibition based on a hebbian mechanism. Cerebral Cortex 2009 19(4): 907:915
April 9, 2009. Presented by Sarah Hemminger. E.S. Boyden,
April 16, 2009. Presented by Gelsy Torres-Oviedo. Joiner WM and Smith MA. Long-Term Retention Explained by a Model of Short-Term Learning in the Adaptive Control of Reaching. Journal of Neurophysiology (2008) 100: 2948-2955
April 23, 2009. Presented by Gelsy Torres-Oviedo: "Seeing is believing: Effects of vision and uncertainty on generalization of trained walking patterns"
April 30, 2009. NCM meeting
May 7, 2009. Presented by Pierre Daye (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) invited by Prof. D. Zee
May 14, 2009. Presented by Steven Charles. Rabe K, Livne O, Gizewski ER, Aurich V, Beck A, Timmann D, Donchin O (2009) Adaptation to Visuomotor Rotation and Force Field Perturbation is Correlated to Different Brain Areas in Patients With Cerebellar Degeneration. J Neurophysiol 101:1961-1971.
May 21, 2009. Presented by Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry. Hunter T, Sacco P, Nitsche MA and Turner DL. Modulation of internal model formation during force field induced motor learning by anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of primary motor cortex.J. Physiol. (2009) Epub ahead of print. DOI:10.1113/jphysiol.2009.169284
May 28, 2009. Presented by Aasef Shaikh. "Head holding in normals and in patients with cervical dystonia"
June 4, 2009. Presented by Eric Zarahn (Columbia University). "Assessing the stability of visuomotor adaptation rates to variation of perturbation magnitude "
June 11, 2009. Presented by Minnan Xu Michel Desmurget, Karen T. Reilly, Nathalie Richard, Alexandru Szathmari, Carmine Mottolese and Angela Sirigu. Movement Intention After Parietal Cortex Stimulation in Humans. Science. 2009 May 8;324(5928):811-3.
June 18, 2009. Presented by Aysha Keisler Darainy M, Mattar AA, Ostry DJ. Effects of human arm impedance on dynamics learning and generalization. J Neurophysiol (2009). 101(6) 3158-68.
June 25, 2009. Presented by Nasir Bhanpuri. Tumer, EC, and Brainard MS. Performance variability enables adaptive plasticity of 'crystallized' adult birdsong. Nature. (2007) 450(7173):1240-4.
July 2, 2009. Presented by Eric Wasserman (NINDS/NIH): "Is the motor cortex interested in money?" invited by Prof. Reza Shadmehr
July 9, 2009. Presented by Jing Tian. Separate neural substrates in the human cerebellum for sensory-motor adaptation of reactive and of scanning voluntary saccades. Alahyane N, Fonteille V, Urquizar C, Salemme R, Nighoghossian N, Pelisson D, Tilikete C. Cerebellum. 2008;7(4):595-601.
July 16, 2009. Presented by Laura Malone The role of the basal ganglia and its cortical connections in sequence learning: Evidence from implicit and explicit sequence learning in Parkinson's disease. Wilkinson L., Khan Z. and Jahanshah M. Neuropsychologia (in press) doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.05.003
July 23, 2009. Presented by Jun Izawa Increased Dependence of Action Selection on Recent Motor History in Parkinson's Disease. Rick C. Helmich, Esther Aarts Floris P. de Lange, Bastiaan R. Bloem, and Ivan Toni. Journal of Neuroscience 2009; 29(19):6105-6113
July 30, 2009. Presented by Klaus Libertus: "Self-Produced Actions: Influences on Social and Cognitive Development" invited by Prof. Stewart Mostofsky
August 6, 2009. Presented by Woo Young Choi wil present his own paper: Firing Patterns in Superior Colliculus of Head-Unrestrained Monkey during Normal and Perturbed Gaze Saccades Reveal Short-Latency Feedback and a Sluggish Rostral Shift in Activity. Woo Young Choi and Daniel Guitton. The Journal of Neuroscience, June 3, 2009, 29(22):7166-7180
August 13, 2009. Presented by Gabriela Cantarero Learning of a Sequential Motor Skill Comprises Explicit and Implicit Components That Consolidate Differently M. Felice Ghilardi, Clara Moisello, Giulia Silvestri, and John W. Krakauer J Neurophysiol 101: 2218-2229, 2009
August 20, 2009. CANCELLED
August 27, 2009. Presented by Xiaoyan Shan How the brain obeys Hering's law: a TMS study of the posterior parietal cortex. Vernet M, Yang Q, Daunys G, Orssaud C, Eggert T, Kapoula Z. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2008 Jan;49(1):230-7.
September 3, 2009. Presented by Aaron Wong Herman JP, Harwood MR, and Wallman J. Saccade adaptation specific to visual context. J Neurophysiol 2009.
September 10, 2009. Presented by Erin Vasudevan Savion-Lemieux T, Baily JA, Penhune VB (2009) Developmental contributions to motor sequence learning. Exp Brain Res 195: 293-306.
September 17, 2009. Presented by Joe Galea Duque J, Ivry RB. Role of corticospinal suppression during motor preparation. Cereb Cortex. 2009 Sep;19(9):2013-24. Epub 2009 Jan 6.
September 24, 2009. Presented by Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry Jeong-Yoon Lee and Nicolas Schweighofer Dual Adaptation Supports a Parallel Architecture of Motor Memory. The Journal of Neuroscience, August 19, 2009, 29(33):10396-10404
October 1, 2009. Presented by Christina Fuentes Boria S, Fabbri-Destro M, Cattaneo L, Sparaci L, Sinigaglia C, Santelli E, Cossu G, Rizzolatti G. Intention understanding in autism. PLoS One. 2009, 4(5): e5596
October 8, 2009. Presented by Robert Nickl Multisensory Integration in Dynamical Behaviors: Maximum Likelihood Estimation across Bimanual Skill Learning. Ronsse R, Miall RC, and Swinnen SP. J. Neurosci 2009; 29: 8419-8428
October 15, 2009 SfN
October 22, 2009 SfN
October 29, 2009 Presented by Aysha Keisler Matthew R. Roesch, Teghpal Singh, P. Leon Brown, Sylvina E. Mullins, and Geoffrey Schoenbaum Ventral Striatal Neurons Encode the Value of the Chosen Action in Rats Deciding between Differently Delayed or Sized Rewards J. Neurosci. 2009 29: 13365-13376
November 5, 2009 Presented by Erin Vasudevan Craig D. Takahashi, Dan Nemet, Christie M. Rose-Gottron, Jennifer K. Larson, Dan M. Cooper and David J. Reinkensmeyer Neuromotor Noise Limits Motor Performance, But Not Motor Adaptation, in Children
November 12, 2009 Presented by Nasir Bhanpuri The cerebellum updates predictions about the visual consequences of one's behavior. Synofzik M, Lindner A, Thier P. Curr Biol. 2008 Jun 3;18(11):814-8.
November 19, 2009 Presented by Geoffrey Newman "Impedance Control Reduces Instability That Arises from Motor Noise" Luc P. J. Selen, David W. Franklin, and Daniel M. Wolpert; The Journal of Neuroscience, October 7, 2009, 29(40):12606-12616
November 26, 2009 Thanksgiving
December 3, 2009 Presented by Corey Ashby "Motor Task Variation Induces Structural Learning", Daniel A. Braun, Ad Aertsen, Daniel M. Wolpert and Carsten Mehring ,Curr. Biol. (Vol. 19, pp. 352 – 357)
December 10, 2009 Presented by Alejandro Vazquez "Influence of haptic guidance in learning a novel visuomotor task" Edwin H.F. van Asseldonk, Martijn Wessels, Arno H.A. Stienen, Frans C.T. van der Helm, Herman van der Kooij, Journal of Physiology-Paris, Volume 103, Issues 3-5, Neurorobotics, September 2009, Pages 276-285
December 17, 2009 Presented by Steven Charles "Integration of Predictive Feedforward and Sensory Feedback Signals for Online Control of Visually Guided Movement." Gritsenko, V., S. Yakovenko and J. F. Kalaska. Journal of Neurophysiology 2009, 102(2): 914-930.