2003

2003 Advances in Computational Motor Control

Symposium at the Society for Neuroscience Conference

Friday, November 7, 2003

Room 288-290, Morial Convention Center, New Orleans

2:00-3:35       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 (California Institute of Technology)

• Coordinate transformations for sensory guided movements

• Alexander 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

Symposium Organizers:  

Emo Todorov, University of California, San Diego

Reza Shadmehr, Johns Hopkins University