2013 McGovern Institute Symposium
May 8, 2013
The annual McGovern Institute symposium will feature nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex.
Motor commands represent the output of the brain and its evolutionary raison d'être. To produce useful movements the brain must select appropriate combinations of muscles from a vast range of possibilities, and must activate them with precise control of force and timing.
This symposium will explore how the brain accomplishes this task: what computations does it perform to control movement, how and where in the brain does this happen, and how can this knowledge be exploited for rehabilitation and for the development of neural prosthetics.
**The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
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Symposium Agenda
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
MIT Bldg 46-3002
Singleton Auditorium
8:00 am
Continental breakfast served in atrium
8:30 – 8:45 am
Robert Desimone & Emilio Bizzi, McGovern Institute
Welcoming Remarks
Session I Chair: Emilio Bizzi
8:45 – 9:30 am
Peter Strick, University of Pittsburgh
A tale of two primary motor areas: “old” and “new” M1
9:30 – 10:15 am
Krishna Shenoy, Stanford University
Motor cortical control and prostheses: a dynamical systems perspective
10:15– 10:45 am
Break
10:45 – 11:30 am
Bob Wurtz, National Institutes of Health
Adding corollary discharge to motor computations for action and perception
11:30 – 12:15 pm
Andrew Schwartz, University of Pittsburgh
Recent progress toward high-performance neural prosthetics
12:15 – 1:15 pm
Lunch in atrium
Session II Chair: Mehrdad Jazayeri
1:15 – 2:00 pm
Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi, Northwestern University
Geometrical aspects of modularity in motor control, learning and brain-machine interfaces
2:00 – 2:45 pm
Tamar Flash, Weizmann Institute
Geometry, time and compositionality in movement representations
2:45 – 3:30 pm
Neville Hogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modular dynamics in motor control and neuro-rehabilitation
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Break
4:00 – 4:45 pm
Larry Abbott, Columbia University
Network models of motor cortex
4:45 – 5:30 pm
Moshe Abeles, Bar-Ilan University
Detecting the dynamics of binding amongst cortical areas: a MEG study
5:30 pm
Reception in atrium
