2007 Schedule
June 14, 2007. Presented by Mark Shelhamer. Trommershauser et al. (2005) Optimal compensation for changes in task-relevant movement variability. J Neurosci 25:7169-7178.
June 21, 2007. Presented by Minnan Xu. Smeets et al. (2006) Sensory integration does not lead to sensory calibration. PNAS 103:18781-6.
June 28, 2007. Presented by Reza Shadmehr. Cohen and Pourcher (2007) Intact encoding, impaired consolidation in procedural learning in Parkinson’s disease. Exp Brain Res 179:703-8.
July 5, 2007. Presented by David Solomon. Goldfield et al. (1993) Infant bouncing: the assembly and tuning of action systems. Child Development 64:1128-1142.
July 12, 2007. Presented by Ya-weng Tseng. Nozaki et al. (2006) Limited transfer of learning between unimanual and bimanual skills within the same limb. Nature Neuroscience 9:1364.
July 19, 2007. Presented by Vincent Ethier. Harris and Wolpert (2006) The main sequence of saccades optimizes speed-accuracy trade off. Biol Cybern 95:21-29.
July 26, 2007. Presented by Jing Tian. Robinson et al. (2006) Distinct short-term and long-term adaptation to reduce saccade size in monkey. J Neurophysiol 96:1030-1041.
August 2, 2007. Presented by Hannah Block. Hagura et al. (2007) Activity in the posterior parietal cortex mediates visual dominance over kinesthesia. J Neurosci 27:7047-53.
August 9, 2007. Presented by Jun Izawa. Day and Brown (2001) Evidence for subcortical involvement in the visual control of human reaching. Brain 124:1832-1840.
August 16, 2007. Presented by Aaron Wong. Dore-Mazars and Collins (2005) Saccadic adaptation shifts the pre-saccadic attention focus. Exp Brain Res 162:537-542.
August 23, 2007. Presented by Daniel Simmonds. Isoda and Hikosaka (2007) Switching from automatic to controlled action by monkey medial frontal cortex. Nature Neuroscience 10:240-248.
August 30, 2007. Presented by David Zee. Fernandez-Ruiz (2007) Prism adaptation in spinocerebellar ataxia type 2. Neuropsychologia 45:2692-2698.
September 6, 2007. Presented by Julia Choi. Field et al. (2007) Neural systems in the visual control of steering. J Neurosci 27:8002-8010.
September 13, 2007. Presented by Amy Bastian. Nitsche et al. (2003) Facilitation of implicit motor learning by weak transcranial direct current stimulation of the primary motor cortex in the human. J Cogn Neurosci 15(4):619-26.
September 20, 2007. Presented by Christina Fuentes. Hospod et al. (2007) Changes in human muscle spindle sensitivity during a proprioceptive attention task. J Neurosci 27:5172-5178.
September 27, 2007. Presented by Pablo Celnik. Korman et al. (2007) Daytime sleep condenses the time course of motor memory consolidation. Nat Neurosci 10:1206-13.
October 4, 2007. Presented by Xiaoyan Shan. Kono et al. (2002) Impaired vertical phoria adaptation in patients with cerebellar dysfunction. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 43:673-8.
October 11, 2007. Presented by Ben Crane. Lepecq et al. (2006) Galvanic vestibular stimulation modifies vection paths in healthy subjects. J Neurophysiol 95:3199-3207.
October 18, 2007. Presented by Hadi Fatemi. Rokni et al. (2007) Motor learning with unstable neural representations. Neuron 54:500-2.
October 25, 2007. Presented by Erin Vasudevan. Mattar and Ostry (2007) Modifiability of generalization in dynamics learning. J Neurophysiol, in press.
November 15, 2007. Presented by Gelsy Torres-Oviedo. Bair et al. (2007) Development of multisensory reweighting for posture control in children. Exp. Brain Res. 183:435-446.
November 29, 2007. Presented by Reza Shadmehr. Goble et al. (2007) Directional bias reveal utilization of arm’s biomechanical properties for optimization of motor behavior. J Neurophysiol 98:1240-1252.
December 6, 2007. Presented by Courtney Haswell. Cattaneo et al. (2007) Impairment of actions chains in autism and its possible role in intention understanding. PNAS 104:17825-17830.
December 13, 2007. Presented by Sarah Hemminger. Nader et al. (2000) Fear memories require protein synthesis in the amygdala for reconsolidation after retrieval. Nature 406:722-726.