Neural Control of Movement Satellite Meeting
Join us April 17th for the NCM Satellite Meeting “Computations and neural code underlying the control of posture”. The Satellite meeting will be held at the Victoria Conference Centre in advance of the annual Society for the Neural Control of Movement Meeting.
Computations and neural code underlying the control of posture
The satellite is organized by Jean-Sébastien Blouin and Mark Carpenter, University of British Columbia
Whether it is for maintaining the position of a limb, whole-body stability or the foundation to generate goal-directed movements, postural control is central to our ability to move. Postural control, however, is often studied in silos, with researchers focusing on arm movements rarely interacting with researchers characterizing the control of upright balance (and vice-versa). A primary aim of this satellite meeting is to highlight emerging postural control research related to single joint, multi-joint and whole-body movements as well as the interactions between movement and postures. We invite all researchers with expertise in distinct subfields of postural control addressing their research questions from a modeling and/or physiological perspective, with an objective to foster discussions between attendees and potentially identify commonalities or emerging questions that may lead to a unified understanding of postural control across contexts (including arm, neck and whole-body postural control). We intend to create a forum to challenge established ideas and promote a broad vision of postural control and its understanding within the general field of sensorimotor control of movement. To do so, the satellite meeting will provide a venue for diverse trainees, junior and senior scientists to present their recent work, and have opportunities to interact, share ideas and provide/receive feedback and discuss emerging models of postural control.
List of Confirmed Invited Speakers:
Dr. Alaa Ahmed
Dr. Leah Bent
Dr. Tyler Cluff
Dr. Kathleen Cullen
Dr. Friedl de Groote
Dr. Patrick Forbes
Dr. Ryan Peters
Dr. Fabrice Sarlegna
Dr. Lena Ting
Dr. Albert Vette
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07:30 – 08:00
Registration
08:00 – 08:15
Welcome/Introduction from Mark Carpenter and Jean-Sébastien Blouin
08:15 – 10:00
Session 1
Risk, error, and uncertainty in the control of reaching and posture
Alaa A. Ahmed, University of Colorado Boulder
Somatosensory signals for feedforward and feedback control of arm movement and posture: a human deafferentation approach
Fabrice Sarlegna, Aix-Marseilles University
Cortical activity during reactive balance reflect perceptual, cognitive, and motor function in health, aging, and disease
Lena H. Ting, Emory University & Georgia Tech
Sensorimotor recalibration of balance control through standing with unexpected sensorimotor delays
Brandon Rasman¹, Jean-Sébastien Blouin², Patrick Forbes¹
¹Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, ²University of British Columbia
Interaction between movement control and abnormal resting posture after stroke
Alkis Hadjiosif¹, Kahori Kita², Scott Albert³, Robert Scheidt⁴, Reza Shadmehr², John Krakauer²
¹Harvard University, ²Johns Hopkins University, ³University of North Carolina, ⁴Marquette University
Adaptation, learning, retention: Using canes significantly improves balance but with no aftereffects or longer-term persistence
Sabra Sisler¹, Marta Russo², Dagmar Sternad¹
¹Northeastern University, ²Tor Vergata University
10:00 – 10:15
Coffee break
10:15 – 12:00
Session 2
Predictive vestibular processing: An essential computation for postural control
Kathleen E. Cullen, Johns Hopkins University
Trunk control in posture and upper limb function: tools, fundamental insights, and clinical translation
Albert H. Vette, University of Alberta and Kei Masani, University of Toronto
Computational study on the relationship between margin-of-stability and the probability of falling during the lean-and-release test
Jonguk Lee¹, Nili Upadhyay¹, Kei Masani²
¹University of Toronto, ²University Health Network
Cortical encoding of full-body posture and movement in freely behaving mice
Kyle Severson¹, Jinghao Lu¹, Wenxi Xiao², Helen Jiang¹, Fan Wang¹
¹Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ²Duke University
Encoding of active and passive translations in the primate posterior cerebellum for postural control
Robyn Mildren¹, Kathleen Cullen¹
¹Johns Hopkins University
Task-level feedback during combined translational and rotational perturbations of standing balance is impaired in children with cerebral palsy
Jente Willaert¹, Kaat Desloovere¹, Anja Van Campenhout¹, Lena Ting², Friedl De Groote¹
¹Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ²Emory University & Georgia Institute of Technology
The loss of the α9/10 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Subunit Impairs Postural Stability in Mutant Mice
Tobias Niebur¹, Brandie Morris Verdone², Kathleen Cullen¹
¹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, ²Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering
Whole-body and neck postural responses linked to saccadic eye movement
Emma Reiter¹, Solenne Villemer¹, Romeo Chua¹, J. Timothy Inglis¹, Mark Carpenter¹
¹University of British Columbia
12:00 – 12:45
Lunch
12:45 – 14:30
Session 3
Differential vestibular influence on the perception and control of postural self‐motion
Patrick A. Forbes, Erasmus University Medical Centre
Tapping into our skin: can we customize balance control?
Leah R. Bent, University of Guelph
Flexible control of sensory feedback in upper limb reaching movements
Tyler Cluff, University of Calgary
Real-time haptic feedback for balance
Raymond Reynolds¹, Craig Smith¹, Lorenz Assländer²
¹University of Birmingham, ²University of Konstanz
Vestibular contributions to dynamic balance in freely moving rhesus monkeys
Olivia Leavitt¹, Kathleen Cullen¹
¹Johns Hopkins University
Human Foot Force Informs Neural Control Strategies of Quiet Balance
Kaymie Shiozawa¹, Marta Russo², Jongwoo Lee¹, Neville Hogan¹, Dagmar Sternad³
¹MIT, ²Tor Vergata Polyclinc, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, ³Northeastern University
14:30 – 14:45
Coffee break
14:45 – 16:30
Session 4
Noisy tendon stimulation for probing human muscle spindles and stretch reflexes
Ryan M. Peters, University of Calgary
Insights in standing and walking balance control gained from stochastic optimal control simulations
Friedl De Groote1, Tom Van Wouwe2, Lena Ting3
1KU Leuven, 2 Stanford University, 3 Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology
Brownian processes in human motor tasks: behavioral evidence of velocity-level planning
Federico Tessari¹, James Hermus¹, Rika Sugimoto Dimitrova¹, Neville Hogan¹
¹Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Contralateral monosynaptic reflexes in the axial motor system of mammals
Kendall Schmidt¹, Andrey Borisyuk¹, Sebastian Atoche Jovacho¹, Simon Giszter¹
¹Drexel University
Vestibular contributions to primate head and body stability during active locomotion
Ruihan Wei¹, Oliver Stanley¹, Kathleen Cullen¹
¹Johns Hopkins University
Locally applied heating enhances cutaneous reflexes in the human foot sole
Erika Howe¹, Tushar Sharma¹, Laura Marrelli¹, Leah Bent¹
¹University of Guelph
Modeling and quantifying dynamics of emerging of postural control
Patricia Mellodge¹, Sandra Saavedra²
¹University of Hartford, ²Western University of Health Sciences
Scaling of response times under feedforward and feedback control with sensorimotor delays in terrestrial mammals
Sayed Naseel Mohamed Thangal¹, Heather More¹, C. David Remy², Max Donelan¹
¹Simon Fraser University, ²University of Stuttgart
16:30 – 17:00
Panel Discussion
17:00 – 18:30
Satellite Poster and Networking Session