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THE BOSTON ACTION CLUB After our first meeting, we decided to start
a Boston-wide motor control seminar in Spring 2009 - the Boston Action
Club.
The Boston Action Club presents a forum of
interactive meetings on movement neuroscience for researchers in the Boston
area. The series of talks is interdisciplinary bringing together presenters
and audience from such disparate fields as Biology, Mechanical and Electrical
Engineering, Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, Psychology and
Cognitive Science, Physics, and Kinesiology. The presentations are held
in a highly interactive style, followed by more interactions in social
gatherings.
Schedule Fall 2009
Location:
340
or 206 Egan Research Center, Northeastern University
Time:
Thursdays, 5 - 6:30pm
September 3 Ken Holt (Physical Therapy, Boston University) abstract
September 24 Joe Perkell (Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT) abstract
October 15 Jean-Jacques Slotine
(Mechanical Engineering and Brain and Cognitive
Sciences, MIT) abstract
November 5 Simon Giszter (Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University) abstract
December 3 Daniel Bullock (Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University) abstract
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Schedule Spring 2009 |
January 22 Elliot
Saltzmann (Physical Therapy, Boston University) abstract
'Inter-unit Timing in Speech
Production: Pattern, Stability, and Hierarchy'
February 12 Joseph
Ayers (Biology, Northeastern University)
abstract
'Controlling Biomimetic Underwater Robots with Electronic Nervous Systems'
March 5
Igo Krebs (Mechanical Engineering, MIT) abstract
'Neurorehabilitation and
Robotics: What Have We Learned So Far'
March
26 Emilio Bizzi (Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT)
'My Take on What We Know
and What We Do Not Know about the Vertebrate Motor
System'
April 16
Paul Dizio (Psychology, Brandeis
University)
abstract
'Motor adaptations to limb
and object dynamics in human arm movements'
May
14
Maurice Smith (Engineering and Applied Science & Center for Brain Science,
Harvard University)
abstract
'Credit Assignment, Time-scales, and Basic Elements in Motor Learning'
[Understanding of the
Nitty-Gritty Details of Motor Learning and its Practical Import...]
June 4
Richard Marsh (Biology, Northeastern
University)
abstract
'Mechanics and Energetics of
In Vivo Muscle Function'
July 2 Round Table Discussion on
Falsification as Scientific Stragegy in Movement Neuroscience
with short presentations by:
Neville Hogan, Mechanical Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT
Eliot Saltzman, Physical Therapy, Boston University
Richard Marsh, Biology, Northeastern University
Paul DiZio, Psychology and Neuroscience, Brandeis University
Robert Ajemian, Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT
Alex Byrne, Philosophy, MIT
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