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2008 Advances in Computational Motor Control
Symposium at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting
Friday, November 14, 2008, 1:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Room 145AB, Convention Center, Washington DC
Computational theories have had a growing impact on the field of motor control. The goal of this annual symposium is to highlight advances in experimental and computational approaches to the study of motor control. The idea is to not only present interesting empirical observations, but also ask what these observations might imply in terms of how the brain controls our actions. A second goal is to provide an annual forum to hear some of the best and most interesting new experimental results on motor control, presented by people most directly responsible for it.
This year we had 44 extended abstracts. Each was ranked by 3 reviewers. The top 10 were picked for oral presentation, and 12 were picked for poster presentations.
1:00-1:05 Opening Remarks
1:05-2:35 Session 1: Platform presentations
Invited talk: Philip Sabes (University of California San Francisco)
Normative models and networks: sensorimotor learning from two perspectives.
Byron Yu, John Cunningham, Mark Churchland, Gopal Santhanam, Stephen Ryu, Maneesh Sahani, and Krishna Shenoy (Stanford University, and Univ. College London)
Single-trial analysis of neural population activity during motor preparation.
Timothy Lillicrap and Stephen Scott (Queen's University)
Emo Todorov (University of California San Diego)
2:45-4:10 Session 2: Platform presentations
Alfred Schouten, Winfred Mugge, Erwin de Vlugt, Frans van der Helm (Delft University Netherlands)
Humans optimally adapt afferent feedback to stabilize unstable loads.
Adrian Haith, Carl Jackson, Chris Miall, and Sethu Vijayakumar (University of Edinburgh, and University of Birmingham)
Interactions between sensory and motor components of adaptation predicted by a Bayesian model.
Kunlin Wei and Konrad Kording (Northwestern University)
Uncertainty in state estimate and feedback determines the rate of motor adaptation.
Minnan Xu, Haiyin Chen-Harris, David Zee, and Reza Shadmehr (Johns Hopkins)
4:15-5:45 Session 3: Poster presentations
Terry Sanger (Stanford University)
Daniel Guitton and H Galiana (Montreal Neurological Institute and McGill University, Canada)
Nicolas Gonzalez Castro, Matthew Hemphill, and Maurice Smith (Harvard University)
Heiko Hoffmann, Evangelos Theodorou, and Stefan Schaal (University of Southern California)
Jun Izawa and Reza Shadmehr (Johns Hopkins University)
Greg Stephens and William Bialek (Princeton University)
Michael Mistry, Evangelos Theodorou, Gary Liaw, Toshinori Yoshioka, Stefan Schaal, and Mitsuo Kawato (ATR CNS, Univ. Southern California, NiCT, and JST ICORP)
Herman Van der Kooij, and Robert Peterka (University of Twente, and Oregan Health & Science University)
Giby Rphael and Gerald Loeb (University of Southern California)
Jeroen Smeets, H.P. Slijper, J.M. Richter, E.A.B. Over, and Marten Frens (VU University Amsterdam, and Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Renaud Ronsse, Kunlin Wei, and Dagmar Sternad (Katholieke University Belgium, Northwestern University, and Northeastern University)
Bernard Mettler and Zhaodan Kong (University of Minnesota)
A control-theoretic investigation of dynamic spatial behavior.
6:00-7:30 Dinner (on your own)
7:30-9:15 Session 4: Platform presentations
Invited talk: Hagai Bergman (Hebrew University)
Physiological studies of the functional architecture of the basal ganglia reinforcement learning networks.
Steve Chang and Larry Snyder (Washington University)
Gain fields for the distance between the ocular fixation point and the arm.
Ziad Hafed and Rich Krauzlis (Salk Institute)
A new view of how the superior colliculus supports gaze stability.
Matthew Phillips and Mickey Goldberg (Columbia University)
The primate oculomotor system plans saccades to objects not points.
Registration: There is no registration or fees for this symposium. Simply come and enjoy the science.
Abstracts and programs from previous symposiums:
Symposium Organizers:
Emo Todorov, University of California, San Diego
Reza Shadmehr, Johns Hopkins University