SFN computational motor control satellite

[Emo Todorov]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the second SFN satellite "Advances in
Computational Motor Control". The program is now finalized and attached
below. More information about the symposium, including extended
abstracts for all contributed presentations, can be found at
www.bme.jhu.edu/acmc

Yours,
Emo Todorov, UCSD
Reza Shadmehr, JHU

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Advances in Computational Motor Control II
Symposium at the Annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting
Friday, November 7, 2003, 2:00PM - 9:30PM
Room 288-290, Morial Convention Center, New Orleans


1:00-2:00       Registration
 
2:05-3:35       Session 1

INVITED TALK: Stefan Schaal. USC. "A computational approach to motor
control and learning with motor primitives"

James Patton, Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi, Y. Wei, M. Phillips, M. Stoykov.
Northwestern University.  "Exploiting sensorimotor adaptation"

Steve Massaquoi.  MIT.  "Stabilization of cerebrocerebellar feedback
control without internal dynamic models"

Opher Donchin and Reza Shadmehr.  Johns Hopkins University.  "Can
training change the desired trajectory?"


3:50-5:45       Session 2

Ken Ohta, Rafael Laboissiere, Mikhail Svinin.  Max Planck Institute for
Pscyhological Research and RIKEN.  "Optimal trajectory of human arm
reaching movements in dynamical environments"

Emmanuel Guigon, Pierre Baraduc, Michel Desmurget.  INSERM France.
"Constant effort computation as a determinant of motor behavior"

Emanuel Todorov.  University of California San Diego.  "Stochastic
optimal feedback control of nonlinear biomechanical systems"

Zhaoping Li, Alex Lewis, Silvia Scarpetta.  University College London
and University of Salerno, Italy.  "Computational understanding of the
neural circuit for the central pattern generator for locomotion and its
control in lamprey"

Madhusudhan Venkadesan, Francisco Valero-Cuevas, John Guckenheimer.
Cornell University.  "The boundary of instability as a powerful
experimental paradigm for understanding complex dynamical sensorimotor
behavior: dexterous manipulation as an example"


7:30-9:30       Session 3

INVITED TALK: Richard Andersen.  CalTech.  "Coordinate transformations
for sensory guided movements"

A. Roitman, S. Pasalar, and Tim Ebner.  University of Minnesota.
"Models of Purkinje cell discharge during circular manual tracking in
monkey"

Edward Boyden, Richard Tsien, Talal Chatila, Jennifer Raymond. Stanford
University. "Is oppositely directed motor learning implemented with
inverse plasticity mechanisms?"

Paul Cisek.  University of Montreal.  "A computational model of reach
decisions in the primate cerebral cortex"

Dana Cohen and Miguel Nicolelis.  Duke University.  "Uncertainty
reduction at the neuronal ensemble but not in single neurons during
motor skill learning"