January 6

No lab meeting

January 13

Flip presentation

February 10

Sam:
Van Beers, Haggard and Wolpert
The role of execution noise in movement variability
J Neurophys 2004, Feb 91(2) 1050-63

February 17

Flip:
Saunders JA, Knill DC.
Humans use continuous visual feedback from the hand to control fast
reaching movements.
Exp Brain Res. 2003 Oct;152(3):341-52. Epub 2003 Aug 06

Sam:
Kording KP, Wolpert DM.
Bayesian integration in sensorimotor learning.
Nature. 2004 Jan 15;427(6971):244-7.

Ganel T, Goodale MA.
Visual control of action but not perception requires analytical
processing of object shape.
Nature. 2003 Dec 11;426(6967):664-7.

Sen:
"Statistical decision theory and trade-offs in the control of motor
response" by Trommershauser, Maloney, Landy. Spatial Vision 16:255-275
(2003)

"Statistical decision theory and the selction of rapid, goal-directed
movements" by Trommershauser, Maloney, Landy. J Opt Soc Am A,
20:1419-1433 (2003)

February 24

Flip:
Shimazu H, Maier MA, Cerri G, Kirkwood PA, Lemon RN.
Macaque ventral premotor cortex exerts powerful facilitation of motor
cortex outputs to upper limb motoneurons.
J Neurosci. 2004 Feb 4;24(5):1200-1

Sen: (previous two papers)

Sam:
Kording KP, Wolpert DM.
Bayesian integration in sensorimotor learning.
Nature. 2004 Jan 15;427(6971):244-7.

Flip:
Shimazu H, Maier MA, Cerri G, Kirkwood PA, Lemon RN.
Macaque ventral premotor cortex exerts powerful facilitation of motor
cortex outputs to upper limb motoneurons.
J Neurosci. 2004 Feb 4;24(5):1200-1

Sen:
Nanayakkara T, Shadmehr R.
Saccade adaptation in response to altered arm dynamics.
J Neurophysiol. 2003 Dec;90(6):4016-21.

Highlights from COSYNE (Sen), new experiment (Sam)

Return of journal review (see above links), intro to adaptive filtering (Sen)
"An analysis of neural receptive field plasticity by point process adaptive
filtering" Brown, Nguyen, Frank, Wilson and Solo. PNAS 98:12261.

Sen:
Schwartz AB, Moran DW, Reina GA.
Differential representation of perception and action in the frontal cortex.
Science. 2004 Jan 16;303(5656):380-3.

Reina GA, Schwartz AB.
Eye-hand coupling during closed-loop drawing: evidence of shared motor planning?
Hum Mov Sci. 2003 Apr;22(2):137-52.

May 25

May journal review: Audrey, Flip, Marina, Sam, Sen

Paper presentation:
Osu R, Kamimura N, Iwasaki H, Nakano E, Harris CM, Wada Y, Kawato M
Optimal Impedance Control for Task Achievement in the Presence of Signal-Dependent Noise.
J. Neurophysiology. 2004 Mar 31 (Epub ahead of print)

Paper presentation (Sam):
 
Wu DA, Kanai R, Shimojo S.
Vision: steady-state misbinding of colour and motion.

Paper presentations (Flip):
Paz R, Vaadia E.
Learning-induced improvement in encoding and decoding of specific
movement directions by neurons in the primary motor cortex.
PLoS Biol. 2004 Feb;2(2):E45. Epub 2004 Feb 17.

Paz R, Boraud T, Natan C, Bergman H, Vaadia E.
Preparatory activity in motor cortex reflects learning of local
visuomotor skills.
Nat Neurosci. 2003 Aug;6(8):882-90.