Reading Group

Human Motor Control reading group meetings - Summer Quarter 2013

If you are interested in joining our reading group or getting more information about the meetings, please email Ilana Nisky -> mailto:%20nisky [snail] stanford [period] edu

Date Presenter Paper Slides Location Time
Fri. June 28 Ryder Winck Draft paper - internal circulation only 550 Fishbowl 10:00am-11:00am
Wed. July 17 Sean Sketch N. J. Seo, H. W. Fischer, R. A. Bogey, W. Z. Rymer, and D. G. Kamper, "Use of visual force feedback to improve digit force direction during pinch grip in persons with stroke: a pilot study," Arch Phys Med Rehabil, vol. 92, no. 1, pp. 24–30, Jan. 2011. link

M. V. Albert, C. McCarthy, J. Valentin, M. Herrmann, K. Kording, and A. Jayaraman, "Monitoring Functional Capability of Individuals with Lower Limb Amputations Using Mobile Phones," PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 6, p. e65340, Jun. 2013. link
Slides 550/126 10:00am-11:00am
Fri. August 9 Ilana Nisky Noy, Lior, Erez Dekel, and Uri Alon. "The mirror game as a paradigm for studying the dynamics of two people improvising motion together." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108.52 (2011): 20947-20952 link 550/126 10:00am-11:00am
Fri. August 23 TBD --- 550/126 10:00am-11:00am
Fri. August 30 Michele Rotella "Force field adaptation can be learned using vision in the absence of proprioceptive error" (2011) by A. Melendez-Calderon, L. Masia, R. Gassert, G. Sandini, and E. Burdet. Slides 550/126 10:00am-11:00am

You can view a list of past reading group meetings here.

A list of recent review papers / papers that might be of interest
  • Wolpert, Daniel M., Jörn Diedrichsen, and J. Randall Flanagan. "Principles of sensorimotor learning." Nature Reviews Neuroscience (2011). link
  • Todorov, Emanuel. "Optimality principles in sensorimotor control." Nature neuroscience 7.9 (2004): 907-915. link
  • Körding, Konrad P., and Daniel M. Wolpert. "Bayesian integration in sensorimotor learning." Nature 427.6971 (2004): 244-247. link
  • de Xivry, Jean-Jacques Orban, et al. "Stimulation of the human motor cortex alters generalization patterns of motor learning." The Journal of Neuroscience 31.19 (2011): 7102-7110.link
  • Selen, Luc PJ, Michael N. Shadlen, and Daniel M. Wolpert. "Deliberation in the motor system: reflex gains track evolving evidence leading to a decision." The Journal of Neuroscience 32.7 (2012): 2276-2286. link
  • Cohen, R. G., and D. Sternad. "Variability in motor learning: relocating, channeling and reducing noise." Experimental brain research 193.1 (2009): 69-83.link
  • Kawato, Mitsuo. "From ‘Understanding the Brain by Creating the Brain'towards manipulative neuroscience." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363.1500 (2008): 2201-2214. link