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FROM ATTENTION TO ACTION
Contemporary Perspectives on Movement Planning,
Preparation, and Execution
June 9-12, 1997
The 4th International Symposium at New York University
For Information Contact:
Symposium Coordinator
Center for Neural Science
New York University
4 Washington Place, 809
New York, NY 10003
Voice: 212-998-7780
Fax: 212-995-4011
email: sympo97@cns.nyu.edu
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