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Time:

Every other Friday at 2:00pm

Place:

Neurological Institute Library, 14th Floor

2010 SCHEDULE:

June 4, 2010. Presented by Gregory Wayne. "Update on learning sensitivities for feedforward neural networks"

May 24, 2010. Presented by Vikram Chib. "Neural mechanisms underlying the effects of financial incentives on performance"

May 21, 2010. Presented by Hamid Bagce. "What you see is more than what you get: visual error enhances M1 excitability during movement."

May 7, 2010. Presented by Robert McGovern. "The quantitative pull test: a method to measure Parkinsonian postural instability."

May 3, 2010. Presented by Avi Barliya. "Control strategies revealed through representations."

April 16, 2010. Presented by Tomoko Kitago. "Kinematics of reaching in chronic stroke."

March 26, 2010. Presented by Britne Shabbott. "Learning a visuomotor rotation: simultaneous visual and proprioceptive information is crucial for visuomotor remapping."

March 12, 2010. Presented by Lavi Secundo. "Complex directional tuning properties as revealed by human subdural recordings"

February 5, 2010. Presented by Gregory Wayne. "Learning Sensitivities for Feedforward Neural Networks."

January 15, 2010. Presented by Juan Camilo Cortes. The Striatum's Role in Online Movement Correction: Insights from Huntington's Disease.

Columbia Motor Performance Laboratory Lab Meetings

2009 SCHEDULE:

December 4, 2009. Presented by Joanna Offord. Speed-accuracy project: early data review.

November 25, 2009. Presented by various lab members. Society For Neuroscience MPL Posters presentation.

November 13, 2009. Presented by Aniruddha Das and Yevgeniy Sirotin. "What Brain Hemodynamics May or May Not Tell Us about Neural Activity"

October 30, 2009. Neuroscience 2009 discussion.

October 2, 2009. Presented by Pietro Mazzoni. Repeated measures ANOVA: review of calculation methods

September 4, 2009. Presented by Vincent Huang. "Motor savings: a result of error-adaptation or something else?"

August 21, 2009. Presented by various lab members. Mini-data presentations.

August 12, 2009. Presented by various lab members. Mini-data presentations.

August 7, 2009. Presented by various lab members. Mini-data presentations.

July 24, 2009. Presented by various lab members. Mini-data presentations.

May 29, 2009. Presented by Preeti Raghavan. "Challenges in the recovery of hand function post-stroke."

April 3, 2009. Presented by Pietro Mazzoni. Discussion of statistical analysis with JMP and other packages.

March 6, 2009. Presented by Uri Shwed. "When do we know? Structural analysis of citation networks".

February 20, 2009. Presented by Pietro Mazzoni and Toni Pearson. "How not to generalize in sensorimotor transformations."

January 16, 2009. Presented by Bob McGovern. "Quantitative Motor Examination in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Patients".

2008 SCHEDULE:


December 12, 2008. Presented by Lior Shmuelof. "Representation of motor and visual aspects of movement in the human primary motor cortex".

November 21, 2008. Presented by Kenji Kansaku. "Neuroimaging: from systems neuroscience to rehabilitation".

October 31. 2008. Presented by Pietro Mazzoni. Meyer DE, Abrams RA, Kornblum S, Wright CE (1988). Optimality in Human Motor Performance: Ideal Control of Rapid Aimed Movements. Psychological Review 95(3): 340-370.

October 24, 2008. Presented by Ilana Nisky. "Proximo-distal gradient in perception of delayed stiffness - A combined force position control?".

October 20, 2008. Presented by Britne Shabbott. "Interlimb differences in visual based error corrections"; "Mechanisms underlying visual based error corrections".

October 3, 2008. Presented by Clay Curtis. Saccade adaptation.

September 15, 2008. Presented by Richard Fitzpatrick. Chew JZZ, Gandevia SC, Fitzpatrick RC (2008). Postural control at the human wrist. J. Physiology 586: 1265-75.

September 12 , 2008. Presented by Tomoko Kitago. Miall RC, Christensen LOD, Cain O, Stanley J (2007). Disruption of State Estimation in the Human Lateral Cerebellum. PLoS Biol 5(11): e316, 2733-2744.

August 13, 2008. Presented by Ning Qian. Liu D, Todorov E (2007). Evidence for the flexible sensorimotor strategies predicted by optimal feedback control. J. Neuroscience 27(35): 9354-68.

August 1, 2008. Presented by Vincent Huang. Effect of trial-to-trial task structure on retention of motor adaptation; Human active learning.

July 25, 2008. Presented by Eric Zarahn. Burge et al. (2008). Part II.

July 11, 2008. Presented by Eric Zarahn. Burge et al. (2008) The statistical determinants of adaptation rate in human reaching. Journal of Vision 8(4):20, 1-19.

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