Advances in Computational Motor Control VI

 

Symposium at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting

Friday, November 2, 2007, 1:00 PM – 9:30 PM

Convention Center, Room 23A, San Diego CA

 

1:00-1:05       Opening Remarks

 

1:05-3:15       Session 1

·         Invited talk: Peter Dayan (Univ. College London)
Goal-Directed Actions, Controllability and Depression

·         D. Braun, D. Wolpert, A. Aertsen, S. Rotter, R. Pas, E. Vaadia, C. Mehring (Cambridge University, Hebrew University, and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg)
Adaptive optimal control approaches to sensorimotor learning

·         Joern Diedrichsen and Noreen Dowling (Univ. of Wales)
Optimal task-dependent changes of bimanual feedback control and adaptation

·         Jun Izawa and Reza Shadmehr (Johns Hopkins University)
It takes time for beliefs to converge on reality: an example from the motor system

 

3:00-3:15       Coffee break

 

3:15-5:15       Session 2

·         Invited talk: Dora Angelaki (Washington University)
The Bayesian brain: Lessons from the vestibular system

·         Tianming Yang and Michael Shadlen (University of Washington)
Evidence accumulation and stopping bounds: lessons from a probabilistic categorization task

·         Stan Gielen and Joke Welten (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Different dynamics of eye-hand coordination in depth and direction reflect differences in predictive control

·         Heiko Hoffmann and Stefan Schaal (University of Southern California)
Human movement generation based on convergent flow fields: a computational model and a behavioral experiment

 

5:15-7:00       Dinner (on your own)

 

7:00-9:00       Session 3

·         Gary Sing, Wilsaan Joiner, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Jordan Brauyanoc, and Maurice Smith (Harvard University)
The evolution of force profiles in a motor adaptation task reveals motor
primitives with spindle-like properties that predict the difficulty of
learning different types of force-field perturbations

·         Jordan Taylor and Kurt Thoroughman (Washington University)
Divided attention during motor memory formation affects specifically fast adaptive processes and alters mid-movement feedback control

·         Kunlin Wei and Konrad Kording (Northwestern University)
Causal inference in motor adaptation

·         Jordan Brayanov and Maurice Smith (Harvard University)
Anticipatory postural adjustments during the size-weight illusion reveal simultaneous Bayesian and 'anti'-Bayesian weight estimation