USC/CNE Workshop

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		 	   Neural Mechanisms of 
		     Looking, Reaching and Grasping


		     A Workshop sponsored by the 

		Human Frontier Science Research Program  
				 and the 
		Center for Neural Engineering - U.S.C.
				 

			    Michael A. Arbib
			        Organizer


			   October 21-22, 1992

		      HEDCO NEUROSCIENCES AUDITORIUM
		USC, University Park Campus, Los Angeles, CA




	=================  Session 1, October 21  ================
			   Chair:  Hideo Sakata

08:30 - 09:00 am	
Marc Jeannerod (INSERM, Lyon, France)

09:00 - 09:30 am		
"Functional Parcellation of Human Parietal and Premotor Cortex 
during Reach and Grasp Tasks"
Scott Grafton
School of Medicine, USC, 
Los Angeles, CA, USA		
			
09:30 - 10:00 am		
"Anatomo-functional Organization of the 'Supplementary Motor Area' 
and the Adjacent Cingulate Motor Areas"
Massimo Matelli
Universita Degli Studi di Parma, Italy

**** 10:00 - 10:30		BREAK

10:30 - 11:00 am		
"Inferior Area 6: New findings on Visual Information 
Coding for Reaching and Grasping"
Giacomo Rizzolatti,
Universita Degli Studi di Parma, Italy

11:00 - 11:30 am		
"Neural Strategies for Controlling Fast Movements"
Jim-Shih Liaw 
CNE/Computer Science Department, USC
Los Angeles, CA, USA

11:30 - 12:00 am	
"Cortex and Haptic Memory" 
Joaquin Fuster, UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA, USA

12:00 - 12:30 pm
"Trajectory Learning from Spatial Constraints"		
Michael Jordan
Brain and Cognitive Science Department
MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

**** 12:30 - 01:30 pm		LUNCH

	=====================  Session 2  ====================
		 	      Chair:  Jean-Paul Joseph

01:30 - 02:00 pm	
"Selectivity of Hand Movement-Related Neurons of the 
Parietal Cortex in Shape, Size and Orientation of Objects and 
Hand Grips"
Hideo Sakata, Nihon University School of Medicine
Tokyo, Japan

02:00 - 02:30 pm	
"Modeling the Dynamic Interactions between Subregions of 
the Posterior Parietal and Premotor Cortices"
Andrew Fagg
CNE/Computer Science Department, USC, 
Los Angeles, CA, USA

02:30 - 03:00 pm	
"Optimal Control of Reaching Movements Using Neural Networks"
Alberto Borghese
Center for Neural Engineering, USC and I.F.C.N.-C.N.R., Milano, Italy

**** 03:00 - 03:30		BREAK

03:30 - 04:00 pm	
" How the Frontal Eye Field can impose a saccade goal on 
Superior Colliculus Neurons"
Madeleine Schlag-Rey
Brain Research Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

04:00 - 04:30 pm		
"Variations on a Theme of Hallett and Lightsone"
John Schlag
Department of Anatomy, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA, USA

04:30 - 05:00 pm		
"The saccade and its Context"
Lucia Simo
Center for Neural Engineering, USC, Los Angeles, CA
05:00 - 05:30		
"An Integrative View on Modeling"
Michael Arbib
Center for Neural Engineering/Computer Science Department, USC
Los Angeles, CA, USA


	=================  Session 3, October 22  ===================
			   Chair:  Giacomo Rizzolatti

08:30 - 09:00 am	
"Neural Activity in the Caudate Nucleus of Monkeys during Motor 
and Oculomotor Sequencing"
Jean-Paul Joseph 
INSERM, Lyon, France

09:00 - 09:30
"Models of Cortico-Striatal Plasticity for Learning Associations in Space 
and Time"
Peter Dominey
Computer Science Department, USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA

09:30 - 10:00	
"Eye-Head-Hand Coordination in a Pointing Task"
Claude Prablanc
INSERM, Lyon, France

**** 10:00 - 10:30		BREAK

10:30 - 11:00		
"Modeling Kinematics and Interaction of Reach and Grasp"
Bruce Hoff
CNE/Computer Science Department, USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA

11:00 - 11:30		
"Towards a Model of the Cerebellum"
Nicolas Schweighofer
Center for Neural Engineering, USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA

11:30 - 12:00		
"Does the Lateral Cerebellum Map Movements onto Spatial Targets?", 
Thomas Thach
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

**** 12:00 - 			LUNCH



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