2012 schedule

January 5, 2012 Presented by Manu Madhav Luu T, Cheung A, Ball D, Srinivasan MV. Honeybee flight: a novel 'streamlining' response. J Exp Biol. 2011 Jul 1;214(Pt 13):2215-25.

January 12, 2012 Presented by Jerome Sanes "Basal ganglia dependent processes in learning motor control"

January 19, 2012 Presented by Hannah Block Vahdat S, Darainy M, Milner TE, Ostry DJ. Functionally specific changes in resting-state sensorimotor networks after motor learning. J Neurosci. 2011 Nov 23;31(47):16907-15.

January 26, 2012 Presented by Heidi Weeks RA Scheidt, C Ghez, S Asnani, Patterns of hypermetria and terminal cocontraction during point-to-point movements demonstrate independent action of trajectory and postural controllers, J Neurophysiol 106: 2368-2382, 2011.

February 2, 2012 No Journal Club

February 9, 2012 Presented by David Huberdeau Afshar A, Santhanam G, Yu BM, Ryu SI, Sahani M, Shenoy KV. Single-trial neural correlates of arm movement preparation. Neuron. 2011 Aug 11;71(3):555-64.

February 16, 2012 Presented by Mark Churchland

February 23, 2012 No Journal Club

March 1, 2012 Presented by James Finley HJ Huang, R Kram, AA Ahmed.Reduction of Metabolic Cost during Motor Learning of Arm Reaching Dynamic. J Neurosci. 2012 Fed 8;32 (6): 4003-11.

March 8, 2012 Presented by Kristin Musselman Houldin A, Luttin K, Lam T. Locomotor adaptations and aftereffects to resistance during walking in individuals with spinal cord injury. J Neurophysiol. 2011 Jul;106(1):247-58

March 15, 2012 No Journal Club

March 22, 2012 Presented by Adrian Haith Selen LP, Shadlen MN, Wolpert DM. Deliberation in the motor system: reflex gains track evolving evidence leading to a decision. J Neurosci. 2012 Feb 15;32(7):2276-86.

March 29, 2012 Presented by Gabriela Cantarero: The Role of GABA in Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)

April 5, 2012 Presentation by Okihide Hikosaka of the National Institutes of Health: The Reward System of the Brain at 4:30pm in Wood Basic Science Building, West Lecture Hall, Basement floor

April 12, 2012 Presented by Mark Tommerdahl, Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC: Sensory information processing and autism

April 19, 2012 Presented by Danny Spampinato Hamada M, Strigaro G, Murase N, Sadnicka A, Galea JM, Edwards MJ, Rothwell JC. Cerebellar modulation of human associative plasticity. J Physiol. 2012 Apr 2.

April 26, 2012 Neural Control of Movement Conference

May 3, 2012 Presented by Gowri Jayaram Márquez-Ruiz J, Leal-Campanario R, Sánchez-Campusano R, Molaee-Ardekani B,Wendling F, Miranda PC, Ruffini G, Gruart A, Delgado-García JM. Transcranial direct-current stimulation modulates synaptic mechanisms involved in associative learning in behaving rabbits. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Apr 24;109(17):6710-5.

May 10, 2012 No Journal Club

May 17, 2012 Presented by Sarah Pekny Hirashima M, Nozaki D. Distinct motor plans form and retrieve distinct motormemories for physically identical movements. Curr Biol. 2012 Mar 6;22(5):432-6.

May 24, 2012 Presented by David Herzfeld Schaefer SY, Shelly IL, Thoroughman KA. Beside the point: motoradaptation without feedback-based error correction in task-irrelevantconditions. J Neurophysiol. 2012 Feb;107(4):1247-56.

May 31st, 2012 No Journal Club

June 7, 2012 Presentation by Alaa Ahmed from the University of Colorado "Risk-Sensitivity in Motor Adaptation"

June 14, 2012 Presentation by Jeff Yau "Dissociable crossmodal recruitment of visual and auditory cortex for tactile perception"

June 21, 2012 Presented by Nasir Bhanpuri Rohenkohl G, Cravo AM, Wyart V, Nobre AC. Temporal expectation improves the quality of sensory information. J Neurosci. 2012 Jun 13;32(24):8424-8.

June 28, 2012 Presented by Andrew Long O'Connor SM, Donelan JM. Fast visual prediction and slow optimization of preferred walking speed. J Neurophysiol. 2012 May;107(9):2549-59.

July 5, 2012 No Journal Club

July 12, 2012 Presented by Thomas Reppert Seo M, Lee E, Averbeck BB. Action selection and action value infrontal-striatal circuits. Neuron. 2012 Jun 7;74(5):947-60.

July 19, 2012 No Journal Club

July 26, 2012 Presented by Kurt Thoroughman: "Human Transformation of Environmental Information into Action: Neuroscience and Education"

August 2, 2012 Presented by Pavan Vaswani Franklin S, Wolpert DM, Franklin DW. Visuomotor feedback gains upregulateduring the learning of novel dynamics. J Neurophysiol. 2012 Jul;108(2):467-78.

August 9, 2012 Presented by Aaron Wong Honda T, Hirashima M, Nozaki D. Adaptation to visual feedback delay influences visuomotor learning. PLoS One. 2012;7(5):e37900.

August 16, 2012 Presented by Tricia Gibo Danziger Z, Mussa-Ivaldi FA. The influence of visual motion on motor learning. J Neurosci. 2012 Jul 18;32(29):9859-69.

August 23, 2012 Presented by Adrian Haith de Rugy A, Loeb GE, Carroll TJ. Muscle coordination is habitual rather than optimal. J Neurosci. 2012 May 23;32(21):7384-91.

August 30, 2012 Presented by Danny Spampinato Lepage JF, Morin-Moncet O, Beaulé V, de Beaumont L, Champoux F, Théoret H. Occlusion of LTP-like plasticity in human primary motor cortex by action observation. PLoS One. 2012;7(6):e38754.

Sept 6, 2012 Presented by Gowri Jayaram Hamada M, Murase N, Hasan A, Balaratnam M, Rothwell JC. The Role of Interneuron Networks in Driving Human Motor Cortical Plasticity. Cereb Cortex.2012 Jun 1.

Sept 13, 2012 Presented by James Finley Ueno M, Hayano Y, Nakagawa H, Yamashita T. Intraspinal rewiring of the corticospinal tract requires target-derived brain-derived neurotrophic factor and compensates lost function after brain injury. Brain. 2012 Apr;135(Pt 4):1253-67.

Sept 20, 2012 Presented by Hannah Block Wong JD, Kistemaker DA, Chin A, Gribble PL. Can proprioceptive training improve motor learning? J Neurophysiol. 2012 Sep 12.

Sept 27, 2012 Presented by Dav Clark “Conceptual change for behavioral change: towards educational approaches to climate change and human motor function”

Oct 4, 2012 Presented by Mary Beth Nebel Salowitz NM, Eccarius P, Karst J, Carson A, Schohl K, Stevens S, Van Hecke AV,Scheidt RA. Brief Report: Visuo-spatial Guidance of Movement during Gesture Imitation and Mirror Drawing in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. J AutismDev Disord. 2012 Aug 17.

Oct 11, 2012 No Journal Club

Oct 18, 2012 No Journal Club

Oct 25, 2012 Presented by Kara Beaton White O, Lefèvre P, Wing AM, Bracewell RM, Thonnard JL. Active collisions in altered gravity reveal eye-hand coordination strategies. PLoS One.2012;7(9):e44291.

Nov 1, 2012 No Journal Club

Nov 8, 2012 Presented by Sascha Du Lac from the Salk Institute

Nov 15, 2012 Presented by Jennie Choi Filevich E, Haggard P. Grin and bear it! Neural consequences of a voluntary decision to act or inhibit action. Exp Brain Res. 2012 Nov;223(3):341-51.

Nov 22, 2012 No Journal Club

Nov 29, 2012 Presented by Aymeric Blanc Context-dependent learning interferes with visuomotor transformations for manipulation planning, Q. Fu and M. Santello, J Neurosci, Oct 24, 2012, 32(43): 15086-15092

Dec 6, 2012 No Journal Club

Dec 13, 2012 Presented by Gabriela Cantarero Vlachos A, Müller-Dahlhaus F, Rosskopp J, Lenz M, Ziemann U, Deller T.Repetitive magnetic stimulation induces functional and structural plasticity of excitatory postsynapses in mouse organotypic hippocampal slice cultures. JNeurosci. 2012 Nov 28;32(48):17514-23.

Dec 20, 2012