2004

2004 Advances in Computational Motor Control

Symposium at the Society for Neuroscience Conference

Friday, October 22, 2004

Room 32AB, San Diego Convention Center

1:00-3:00       Session 1

• Invited talk: Mitsuo Kawato (ATR)

• Movement variability: a touchstone for competing computational theories

• Emo Todorov, W. Li  (UC San Diego)

• Hierarchical optimal feedback control of redundant systems

• M. Shapiro, R. Kenyon  (University of Illinois)

• Time-optimal control of fast point-to-point movements

• M. MacIver, M. Nelson, J. Burdick  (Northwestern, University of Illinois, Caltech)

  • Matching of sensing and motor volumes in active sensory systems

• D. Reinkensmeyer, J. Liu, J. Emken, J. Bobrow  (UC Irvine)

  • The nervous system appears to minimize a weighted sum of kinematic error, force, and change in force when adapting to viscous environments during reaching and stepping

3:00-3:15       Break

3:15-5:30      Session 2

• Maurice Smith and Reza Shadmehr  (Johns Hopkins)

• Modulation of the rate of error-dependent learning by the statistical properties of the task

• Kurt Thoroughman, J. Taylor  (Washington University)

• Experience-dependent adaptation of the spatial generalization of human motor adaptation

• Robert Scheidt  (Marquette University)

• A vector ARX model of motor adaptation during reaching

• V. Della-Maggiore, N. Malfait, D. Ostry, T. Paus  (Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill

  • Stimulation of the posterior parietal cortex interferes with arm trajectory adjustments during the learning of new dynamics

• H. Gomi, N. Saijo, N. Abekawa, I. Murakami, S. Nishida  (NTT Communication Science Labs)

• Quick manual following response induced by large-field visual motion: What drives the response and how is it driven?

• D. Pai, S. Sueda, Q. Wei  (Rutgers)

• Simulation of 3D neuro-musculo-skeletal systems with contact

5:30-7:00       Dinner (on your own)

7:00-9:00      Session 3

• Invited talk: John Donoghue  (Brown)

• Neural Ensemble Signals from Human Motor Cortex

• M. Churchland, B. Yu, S. Ryu, G. Santhanam, A. Afshar, K. Shenoy  (Stanford)

• Role of movement preparation in movement generation

• E. Torres, C. Buneo, R. Andersen  (Caltech)

• On-line spatiotemporal learning and adaptation in the posterior parietal region during obstacle avoidance: Theory, behavior, and neurophysiology

• S. Bressler  (Florida Atlantic University)

• Synchronized sensorimotor beta oscillations in motor maintenance behavior

• J. Porrill, P. Dean  (University of Sheffield)

• Recurrent cerebellar loops simplify adaptive control of redundant and non-linear motor systems

Symposium Organizers:  

Emo Todorov, University of California, San Diego

Reza Shadmehr, Johns Hopkins University