2008 schedule
January 10, 2008. Presented by Daniel Simmonds. Matsuzaka et al. (2007) Skill representation in the primary motor cortex after long-term practice. J Neurophysiol, 97:1819-32.
January 17, 2008. Presented by Minnan Xu. Golla et al. (2008) Reduced saccadic resilience and impaired saccadic adaptation due to cerebellar disease. European Journal of Neuroscience 27:132-144.
January 24, 2008. Presented by Laura Malone. Taylor and Thoroughman (2007) Divided Attention Impairs Human Motor Adaptation But Not Feedback Control. J Neurophysiol 98: 317-326.
January 31, 2008. Presented by Vincent Ethier. Kojima et al. (2008) Premotor inhibitory neurons carry signals related to saccade adaptation in the monkey.J Neurophysiol 99:220-30.
February 7, 2008. Presented by Jun Izawa. Mazzoni et al. (2007) Why don’t we move faster? Parkinson’s disease, movement vigor, and implicit motivation.J Neurosci 27:7105-16.
February 14, 2008. Presented by Christina Fuentes. Vanvuchelen et al. (2007) Nature of motor imitation problems in school-aged boys with autism: a motor or a cognitive problem?Autism 11(3): 225-40.
February 21, 2008. Presented by Sarah Hemminger. Karpicke and Roediger (2008) The critical importance of retrieval for learning. Science 319:966-968.
February 28, 2008. A presentation by Pier Francesco: Cognitive functions of ventral premotor and posterior parietal cortices.
March 6, 2008. Presented by Pablo Celnik. Rosenkranz et al. (2007) Differential modulation of motor cortical plasticity and excitability in early and late phases of human motor learning.J Neurosci 27:12058-12066.
March 13, 2008. Presented by Hannah Block. Brown et al. (2007) Motor force field learning influences visual processing of target motion.J Neurosci 27:9975-9983.
March 20, 2008. Spring break. Go out and play.
March 27, 2008. Presented by Amy Bastian. Miall et al. (2007) Disruption of state estimation in the human lateral cerebellum. PLoS Biol. 2007 5:e316.
April 3, 2008. Presented by Erin Lamont Vasudevan. Bunday & Bronstein (2008).Visuo-vestibular influences on the moving platform locomotor after-effect.J Neurophysiol 99: 1354-1365.
April 10, 2008. Presented by Joe Galea. Ingram et al. (2008) The statistics of natural hand movements.Exp. Brain Res, March 28, Epub.
April 17, 2008. Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry. Coulthard et al. (2008) Control over Conflict during Movement Preparation: Role of Posterior Parietal Cortex.Neuron 58:144-157.
May 1, 2008.Presented by Aysha Keisler. Brown and Robertson (2007) Off-line processing: reciprocal interactions between declarative and procedural memories. J Neurosci 27:10468-10475.
May 8, 2008.Presented by Robert Nickl. Seydell et al. (2008) Learning stochastic reward distributions in a speeded pointing task.J Neuroscience 28:4356-4367.
May 15, 2008. Presented by Catherine Cho: “Kinematic and dynamic analysis of Parkinsonian gait: a model-based approach”
May 22, 2008. Presented by Yajing Zhang. Sperati and Baud-Bovy (2008) Blind saccades: an asynchrony between seeing and looking.J Neurosci 28:4317-4321.
May 29, 2008. Presented by Ben Dirlikov. Cowan and Fortune (2007) The critical role of locomotion mechanics in decoding sensory systems.J Neurosci 27:1123-1128.
June 5, 2008. Presented by Masahiko Fujita. Fujita (2005) Feed-forward associative learning for volitional movement control.Neuroscience Research 52: 153-165.
June 12, 2008. Presented by Steve Eliades. Eliades and Wang (2008) Neural substrates of vocalization feedback monitoring in primate auditory cortex.Nature, in press.
June 19, 2008. Presented by Gelsy Torres-Oviedo. Ahmed et al. (2008) Flexible representations of dynamics are used in object manipulation. Current Biology 18:1-6. Room 526, Ross Building (Hearing Science Library)
June 26, 2008. Joseph Barton, Temple University: "Towards a complete human performance model: the role of vision in collision detection and response."
July 3, 2008. Presented by Aasef Shaikh. Klier et al. (2002) Midbrain control of three-dimensional head orientation.Science 295:1314-1316.
July 10, 2008. Presented by Erin Lamont Vasudevan. Tremblay et al. (2008) Specificity of speech motor learning. J Neurosci 28:2426-2433.
July 17, 2008. Sensorimotor Research Day. 9AM - 1PM. Meeting will take place in Conference Room 181, Broadway Research Building.
July 24, 2008. Presented by Robert Nickl. Sternad, et al. (2007) "Intermanual interactions during initiation and production of rhythmic and discrete movements in individuals lacking a corpus callosum". Exp Brain Res 176: 559-574. Meeting will take place in Ross/Turner G007.
July 31, 2008. Presented by Julia Choi. Ajemian et al. (2008) Assessing the Function of Motor Cortex: Single-Neuron Models of How Neural Response Is Modulated by Limb Biomechanics. Neuron 58:414-428. Meeting will take place in Ross/Turner G007.
August 7, 2008. Presented by Shin Rong Lee. Soetedjo et al. (2008) Complex spike activity in the oculomotor vermis of the cerebellum: a vectorial error signal for saccade motor learning? J Neurophysiol, in press. Meeting will take place in Ross/Turner G007.
August 14, 2008. Presented by Joe Galea. Goedert and Miller (2008) Spacing practice sessions across days earlier rather than later in training improves performance of a visuomotor skill. Exp Brain Res 189:189-97. Meeting will take place in Ross/Turner G007.
August 21, 2008. Presented by Simone Spinelli. Fischer (2007) Developmental differences in sleep's role for implicit off-line learning: comparing children with adults. J Cogn Neurosci 19:214-227. Meeting will take place in Ross/Turner G007.
August 28, 2008. Presented by Nasir Bhanpuri. Dafotakis et al. (2008) On the role of the ventral premotor cortex and anterior intraparietal area for predictive and reactine scaling of grip force. Brain Research, in press. Meeting will take place in Ross 529.
September 4, 2008. Presented by Isaac Kurtzer, Queens University. "Long latency reflexes account for arm dynamics during postural maintenance and reaching movements"
September 11, 2008. Presented by Yang Li. Villacorta et al. (2007) Sensorimotor adaptation to feedback perturbations of vowel acoustics and its relation to perception. J Acoust Soc Am. 2007 Oct;122(4):2306-19.
September 18, 2008. Presented by Jun Izawa.
September 25, 2008. Presented by Gelsy Torres-Oveido.
October 2, 2008. Presented by Pablo Celnik.
October 9, 2008. Presented by Minnan Xu.
October 16, 2008.
October 23, 2008. Presented by Jing Tian.
October 30, 2008. Presented by Laura Malone. Marinelli et al. (2008) Learning and consolidation of visuomotor adaptation in Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, in press.
November 6, 2008.
November 13, 2008.
November 20, 2008.
November 27, 2008.
December 4, 2008.
December 11, 2008
December 18, 2008.