2005

2005 Advances in Computational Motor Control

Symposium at the Society for Neuroscience Conference

Friday, November 11, 2005

Room 149A, Washington DC Convention Center

3:30-5:30       Session 1

• Invited talk: Daniel Wolpert (Cambridge University)

• Probabilistic mechanisms in human sensorimotor control

• Emo 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

• Joern 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

• Vincent S. Huang and Reza 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

Symposium Organizers:  

Emo Todorov, University of California, San Diego

Reza Shadmehr, Johns Hopkins University