Preliminary Program

The posters will be displayed from 7:30 am until 7:30 pm on the day of the presentation. If you are a presenter please be at the poster at the indicated time. The poster size is 120 cm height and 90 cm width.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22
19:00	Welcome reception

THURSDAY, 23 JULY
8:00 – 8:30	Opening session Opening remarks
8:30-12:00	Symposium 1: Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Motor Control Chair: John Rothwell Short presentations
8:30	Tino Stöckel^1,2, Mark R. Hinder¹ ¹ Human Motor Control Laboratory, School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia; ² Sport & Exercise Psychology Unit, Dept. of Sport Science, University of Rostock, Germany Insights into the mechanisms mediating cross-limb transfer following unilateral ballistic motor learning
8:45	Benedikt Lauber¹, Albert Gollhofer¹, Wolfgang Taube², Martin Keller² ¹ Department of Sport Science, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; ² Department of Medicin, Movement and Sport Science, Fribourg, Switzerland Motor imagery of tonic and ballistic contractions activates direct and indirect corticospinal pathways differently but in a similar way than real tonic and ballistic contractions
9:00	M.Ali Akhras^1,2, Gabriel Baud-Bovy¹, Francesco Nori¹ ¹ Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy; ² University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy Siffness estimation of metacarpophalangeal joint of index finger and its relationship to extrinsic and intrinsic muscles
9:15	Invited speakers Richard Carson ¹ Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, ² School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland Neural pathways mediating cross education of human motor function
9:45	Robert L. Sainburg Professor of Kinesiology and Professor of Neurology, Penn State University and Penn State College of Medicine; Editor in Chief, Journal of Motor Behavior Models of Handedness and Brain Lateralization Provide the Basis for Understanding Ipsilesional Motor Deficits in Stroke
10:15-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30	Monica Perez University of Pittsburgh, USA Neural Control of Grasping after Spinal Cord Injury
11:00	Winfried Mayr Medical University of Vienna, Austria Early and contemporary approaches for application of FES in movement rehabilitation after spinal cord injury
11:30-12:00	General discussion
12:00-14:00	Lunch and Posters View poster group 1 View poster group 2
14:00-17:30	Symposium 2: Learning of skilled behavior Chair: Robert Scheidt
14:00	Short presentations Cosimo Della Santina¹, Matteo Bianchi^2,1, Manolo Garabini¹, Antonio Bicchi^1,2 ¹ Research Center "Enrico Piaggio" - University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; ² Department of Advanced Robotics - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova, Italy Control architecture for human-like motion with applications to soft robotics
14:15	Carla Caballero, David Barbado, Tomás Urbán & Francisco Javier Moreno Miguel Hernández University of Elche, (Alicante), Spain Interpretation of motor variability depending on feedback availability
14:30	Tarkeshwar Singh, Kayla Goins, Christopher Perry, Troy Herter University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC Practice-related improvements in visuospatial attention drive motor learning in a motor task requiring continuous and simultaneous perceptual, cognitive and motor processing
14:45	Invited speakers Peter J. Beek VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands Current insights into motor learning and their applications
15:15	Joachim Hermsdörfer Institute of Human Movement Science, Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany Anticipatory behavior in object manipulation: Learning and alterations following brain damage
15:45-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00	Elizabeth Torres Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA Distinguishing intent and volition through stochastic signatures of motor output variability
16:30	Robert A. Scheidt^1,2,3 ¹ Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University; ² Sensory Motor Performance Program, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago; ³ Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University; Facilitation and interference in the learning of motor tasks
17:00-17:30	General discussion
18:00	Business meeting of the International Society of Motor Control

FRIDAY, 24 JULY
8:30-12:00	Symposium 3: Theoretical Motor Control Chair: Gregor Schöner
8:30	Short presentations Hester Knol ^1,2,3, Raoul Huys ^1,2,4, Jean-Christophe Sarrazin ³, Viktor Jirsa ^1,2,4 ¹ Aix-Marseille Université, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, Marseille, France; ² INSERM, UMR_S 1106, 27 Bd Jean Moulin, 13385, Marseille Cedex 5, France; ³ ONERA, Systems Control and Flight Dynamics Department, Salon de Provence, France; ⁴ Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France Quantifying the Ebbinghaus figure effect in perceptual and perceptual-motor contexts
8:45	Thomas Macaluso1, Christophe Bourdin ¹, Frank Buloup ¹, Bernard Gardette ², Marie-Laure Mille ¹, Caroline Nicol ¹, Fabrice Sarlegna ¹, Patrick Sainton ¹, Virginie Taillebot ², Jean-Louis Vercher ¹, Peter Weiss ², Lionel Bringoux ¹ (37) ¹ Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, ISM UMR 7287, Marseille; ² COMEX S.A., Marseille, France Is underwater environment a good way to simulate microgravity? Some cues from arm reaching and postural control
9:00	Radivoj Mandic ¹, Sasa Jakovljevic ¹, Slobodan Jaric ^2,3 (23) ¹ University of Belgrade, Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, The Research Center, Blagoja Parovica 156, Belgrade, Serbia; ² University of Delaware, Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, USA; ³ University of Delaware, Biomechanics and Movement Science Graduate Program, USA Performing maximal natural vertical jumps: role of the countermovement depth
9:15	Invited speakers Andrea d’Avella ^1,2 ¹ Department of Biomedical Sciences and Morphological and Functional Images, University of Messina, Italy; ²Laboratory of Neuromotor Physiology, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy Modularity for motor control and motor learning
9:45	Jeroen Smeets VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands The building blocks of prehension
10:15	Coffee break
10:30	Katja Kornysheva Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK Neural encoding of spatiotemporal skills
11:00	Gregor Schöner Institute for Neural Computation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Toward an integrated neural dynamic approach of object-oriented movement
11:30-12:00	General Discussion
12:00-14:00	Lunch and Posters View poster group 1 View poster group 2
14:00-17:30	Symposium 4: Fifty years of Equilibrium Point hypothesis Chair: Mark Latash Invited speakers:
14:00	Mark L. Latash < The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA Intentional and Unintentional Movements within the Equilibrium-Point Hypothesis
14:30	Mindy F. Levin McGill University, Canada Explanations of disordered motor control based on the EP hypothesis
15:00-15.15	Coffee break
15:15	Anatol G. Feldman University of Montreal, Canada Minimization principles and redundancy problems in the context of referent control of action and perception
15:45	Joseph McIntyre Tecnalia Health Research Institute, Spain EP Shifts as the basic building block for human movement
16:15	Special short presentations for the Fiftieth anniversary of EP
17:00-17:30	General discussion
18:45-23:30	Banquet

SATURDAY, 25 JULY
8:30-12:00	Symposium 5: Human Machine Interface Chair: Apostolos Georgopoulos Short presentations
8:30	Konrad Stanek ^1,2, Hartwig R. Siebner ², Steffen Angstmann ², Kristoffer H. Madsen ², Ole Winther ¹ ¹ Technical University of Denmark, DTU Compute, Cognitive Systems, Denmark; ² Danish Research Center for Magnetic Resonance, Hvidovre Hospital, Denmark What, When, Whether - the electrophysiological correlates and classification of voluntary action in virtual environment
8:45	Cassie N. Borish ¹, Matteo Bertucco ¹, Denise J. Berger ³, Andrea d’Avella ³, Terence D Sanger ^1,2 ¹ University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; ² Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; ³ Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy Using non-negative matrix factorization as a filter to improve usability of myocontrol for children with cerebral palsy
9:00	José Luis Vargas Luna ^1,2, Matthias Krenn ³, Simon M. Danner ³, Ursula S. Hofstoetter ³, Karen Minassian ³, Winfried Mayr ³, Thordur Helgason ¹ ¹ Health Technology Center, Reykjavik University - Landsptiali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland; ² Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; ³ Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Comparison of cathodic and anodic transpinal electrical stimulation to evoke posterior root-muscle reflexes
9:15	Invited speakers Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi Northwestern University and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Human-machine interfaces: Brain and Body
9:45	Patrick van der Smagt Technical University of Munich, Germany From linear to nonlinear movement models
10:15-10:30	Coffee break
10:30	Lee Miller Northwestern University, Chicago, USA Development of an afferent neural interface designed to mimic natural proprioception
11:00	Apostolos P. Georgopoulos University of Minnesota, USA Human Machine Interface: Using Circuit-Based Information (CBI)
11:30-12:00	General discussion
12:00-14:00	Lunch and Posters View poster group 1 View poster group 2
14:00-17:30	Symposium 6: Impaired Motor Control and Rehabilitation Chair: Zev Rymer Short presentations
14:00	Henriette Steiner, Zsolt Kertesz Budapest University of Technology and Economics Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology, Budapest, Hungary The effects of therapeutic horse riding on the main parameters of gait
14:15	Mariusz Paweł Furmanek ¹, Kajetan Słomka ¹, Barbara Głuchowska ², Aleksandra Żebrowska ², Grzegorz Juras ¹ ¹ The Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education in Katowice, Department of Human Motor Behaviour, Katowice, Poland. ² The Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education in Katowice, Department of Physiological and Medical Sciences, Katowice, Poland The effects of different aerobic activities on I type diabetic subjects in hypoxia condition on postural control in quiet standing
14:30	Marcos Rodriguez ^2,4, Andreanne K. Blanchette ³, Mindy F. Levin ^1,2 ¹ School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; ² Feil and Oberfeld Research Center, Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of the Greater Montreal (CRIR), Montreal, Quebec, Canada; ³ Department of Rehabilitation, Laval University, Quebec, Canada; ⁴ Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Measurement of upper-limb coordination in chronic stroke subjects
14:45	Invited speakers Numa Dancause University of Montreal, Canada Plasticity in the ipsi and contralesional motor network following stroke in animals models
15:15	John Rothwell UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK Can motor recovery in patients after stroke be improved by non-invasive brain stimulation? Plasticity in the ipsi and contralesional motor network following stroke in animals models
15:45-16:00	Coffee break
16:00	Vivian Mushahwar University of Alberta, Canada Do the Arms Play a Role in the Rehabilitation of Walking after Spinal Cord Injury?
16:30	Jozsef Laczko ¹ University of Pécs, Hungary; ² MTA Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary; ³ Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary Controllling cyclic limb movements in rehabilitation of spinal coord injured individuals
17:00-17:30	General discussion
18:00-19:00	Closing and Award