2007

2007 Advances in Computational Motor Control

Symposium at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting

Friday, November 2, 2007, 1:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Convention Center, San Diego CA

1:00-1:05       Opening Remarks

1:05-3:15       Session 1

• Invited talk: Peter Dayan (Univ. College London)

• Goal-Directed Actions, Controllability and Depression

• D. Braun, D. Wolpert, A. Aertsen, S. Rotter, R. Pas, E. Vaadia, C. Mehring (Cambridge University, Hebrew University, and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg)

  • Adaptive optimal control approaches to sensorimotor learning

• Joern Diedrichsen and Noreen Dowling (Univ. of Wales)

  • Optimal task-dependent changes of bimanual feedback control and adaptation

• Jun Izawa and Reza Shadmehr (Johns Hopkins University)

  • It takes time for beliefs to converge on reality: an example from the motor system

3:00-3:15       Coffee break

3:15-5:15       Session 2 

• Invited talk: Dora Angelaki (Washington University)

• The Bayesian brain: Lessons from the vestibular system

• Tianming Yang and Michael Shadlen (University of Washington)

  • Evidence accumulation and stopping bounds: lessons from a probabilistic categorization task

• Stan Gielen and Joke Welten (Radboud University,Nijmegen)

  • Different dynamics of eye-hand coordination in depth and direction reflect differences in predictive control

• Heiko Hoffmann and Stefan Schaal (University of Southern California)

  • Human movement generation based on convergent flow fields: a computational model and a behavioral experiment

5:15-7:00       Dinner (on your own)

7:00-9:00       Session 3

• Gary Sing, Wilsaan Joiner, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Jordan Brauyanoc, and Maurice Smith (Harvard University)

  • The evolution of force profiles in a motor adaptation task reveals motor primitives with spindle-like properties that predict the difficulty of learning different types of force-sfield perturbation

• Jordan Taylor and Kurt Thoroughman (Washington University)

• Divided attention during motor memory formation affects specifically fast adaptive processes and alters mid-movement feedback control

• Kunlin Wei and Konrad Kording (Northwestern University)

  • Causal inference in motor adaptation 

• Jordan Brayanov and Maurice Smith (Harvard University)

• Anticipatory postural adjustments during the size-weight illusion reveal simultaneous Bayesian and 'anti'-Bayesian weight estimation

Symposium Organizers:  

Emo Todorov, University of California, San Diego

Reza Shadmehr, Johns Hopkins University