November 2, 2009

    • Next semester pick 4 papers that influenced the way you think.
    • End-note and papers
      • Write up how you can download PDFs
    • Projector setup
      • Make a better setup?
    • Backup of data
      • Get another backup server?
    • Platform lab
      • Cleanliness and heating
    • Seyed - Neurons in the reticulo-spinal tract respond to postural disturbances (Stapley 2009)
      • Finley - Postural responses in soleus long-latency response, varies with acceleration
    • Keith - Hybrid non-linear optimization - Optimal gait and form of animal locomotion (Popovic)
    • Julia - Understanding how people choose a solution based on redundant motor system
      • Bjorn Diedrekson - Minimization of noise or effort (which is it?) in a finger loading experiment decided that effort was more important than variability
    • Stacie - Slow vs Fast walking
      • Walking faster it is more feedforward
      • Walking slower it is more feedback
      • Is slow walking more stable? (Bruijn 2009) Don't know which is more stable.
    • Lucas - (Dingwell 2000) - Nonlinear time-series analysis. Is variability in motor signal actually noise?
      • Effort alone is not capable of explaining experimental data
      • Trying to figure out consolidation in motor systems
        • (Carmina 2009) - Same ensemble of neurons can produce different behavior depending on the context.
    • Jeff - Nicolelis (Duke) - On Saturday at SfN 2009 - M1 activity occurs after EMG activity
      • Coordinated control with lagrangians
    • Douglas - Valero-Cuevas 2009 - Computational modeling in neuromechanics
    • Lena - Milner & Franklin literature - Impedance control helps stabilize motor noise
      • Genetic algorithms to evolve structures - Valero-Cuevas 2009