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Working Schedule

1.0 Monday June 9

Morning

8:45-9:00 Paul Glimcher. Introductory Remarks.

9:00-9:40 Melvyn Goodale Vision for Action in the Primate Brain

9:40-10:20 Christof Koch Attention and the Computational Architecture of Visual

Cortex

10:20-10:50 Coffee Break

10:50-11:30 William Newsome Making Decisions: the Brain's Link Between

Perception and Action

11:30-12:10 David A. Robinson The Evolution of Oculomotor Modeling

Afternoon

2:00-2:40 Dana Ballard Learning Deictic Behaviors

2:40-3:20 John Soechting Planning and Executing Learned Movement Sequences:

Typing and Piano Playing

3:20-3:50 Coffee Break

3:50-4:30 Claude Ghez Learning Sensorimotor Transformations in Reaching

4:30-5:10 Timothy Ebner From Planning to Execution: Role of the Premotor

Cortex in Visually Guided Limb Movements

2.0 Tuesday June 10

Morning

9:00-9:40 Apostolos Georgopoulos Motor Cortical Activity During Complex

Visuomotor Tasks

9:40-10:20 John Kalaska Motor Cortex and Spatiomotor Transormations

10:20-10:50 Coffee Break

10:50-11:30 Andrew Schwartz Kinematic Principles Applied to Skeletal Muscles by

Motor Cortical Activity

11:30-12:10 Eberhard Fetz Control of Forearm Muscle Activity by Cortical and

Spinal Premotor Neurons

Afternoon

2:00-2:40 Thomas Thach The Cerebellum as an Adaptive Combiner of

Motor Activities

2:40-3:20 Lance Optican Cerebellar Function During Saccadic Eye Movements

3:20-4:00 Okihide Hikosaka Differential Neural Activity for Learned and New

Actions

4:00-4:30 Coffee Break

4:30-5:10 Steven Wise Acquisition of Arbitrary Associations Among

Antecedent and Action

5:10-5:50 Jun Tanji How Do Cells in the SMA and Pre-SMA Behave While

Monkeys Are Sequencing Multiple Movements?


3.0 Wednesday June 11

Morning

9:00-9:40 Emilio Bizzi Modular Organization of Motor Behavior in the Spinal

Cord

9:40-10:20 Keir Pearson Afferent Regulation of Stepping

3:20-4:00 Coffee Break

10:50-11:30 Sten Grillner Neural Bases of Goal - Directed Behavior

11:30-12:10 Allison Doupe The Songbird Anterior Forebrain : A Neural Circuit for

Learning

Afternoon

2:00-2:40 Frederick Miles On the Early Cortical Processing of 3-D Visual Signals:

Evidence from Eye Movements

2:40-3:20 Albert Fuchs Maintenance of Saccadic Accuracy: Localizing the

Neural Participants in Gain Control

3:20-4:00 Robert Wurtz Superior Colliculus Buildup Neurons and Oculomotor

Control

4:00-4:30 Coffee Break

4:30-5:10 David Sparks Testing the Differential Predictions of Models of the

Saccadic System

5:10-5:50 Laurence Abbott Population Coding, Gain Fields and Motor Sequences



4.0 Thursday June 12

Morning

9:00-9:40 Brad Motter Selective Processes in Looking and Seeing

9:40-10:20 Stefan Treue Attentional Modulation of Visual Motion Processing

10:20-10:50 Coffee Break

10:50-11:30 Stephen Lisberger Neural Design of a Voluntary Movement System

11:30-12:10 Carol Colby Attention and Spatial Representation

Afternoon

2:00-2:40 Jeffrey Schall Neural Decisions for the Guidance of Gaze

2:40-3:20 Michael Goldberg The Representation of Salience in LIP

3:20-4:00 Paul Glimcher Representational Analyses of Decision-Making:

Studies in Area LIP

4:00-4:30 Coffee Break

4:30-5:10 Michael Shadlen Neural Correlates of a Visual Decision in Parietal and

Prefrontal Cortex: a Sensory-Motor Watershed?

5:10-5:50 Richard Andersen Coding Intention in the Posterior Parietal Cortex

6:00-6:30 J. Anthony Movshon. Concluding Remarks.

 

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