2007 schedule, 2008 schedule

 January 15, 2009. Presented by Aaron Wong. Sharika KM, Ramakrishnan A, and Murthy A. Control of predictive error correction during a saccadic double-step task. J Neurophysiol 100: 2757-2770, 2008.

January 22, 2009. Presented by Jun Izawa. Franklin DW and Wolpert DM. Specificity of Reflex Adaptation for Task-Relevant Variability J. Neurosci., Dec 2008; 28: 14165 - 14175

January 29, 2009. Presented by Dimitrios Kapogiannis (NIH/NINDS): Motor cortex reward signaling in Parkinson disease

February 5, 2009.  Presented by Robert Nickl. Fishbach & FA Mussa-Ivaldi, "Seeing versus Believing: Conflicting Immediate and Predicted Feedback Lead to Suboptimal Motor Performance", J Neurosci 28 (52): 14140-14146

February 12, 2009.  Presented by Laura Malone. Sülzenbrück S and Heuer H. Functional independence of explicit and implicit motor adjustments. Consciousness and Cognition. In Press. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2008.12.001

February 19, 2009. Presented by Steven Charles.  Darainy, M. and D.J. Ostry, Muscle cocontraction following dynamics learning. Experimental Brain Research, 2008. 190(2): p. 153-163.

February 26, 2009. Presented by Erin Vasudevan. Wachter et al. (2009).  Differential effect of reward and punishment on procedural learning.  J Neurosci 29: 436-443.

March 5, 2009.  Presented by Joe Galea. Bernier PM, Burle B, Vidal F, Hasbroucq T, Blouin J. Direct Evidence for Cortical Suppression of Somatosensory Afferents during Visuomotor Adaptation. Cereb Cortex. 2009 Jan 6. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhn233

March 12, 2009. Presented by Minnan Xu. Javier F Medina and Stephen Lisberger, Links from complex spikes to local plasticity and motor learning in the cerebellum of awake-behaving monkeys. Nature Neuroscience 11, 1185 - 1192 (2008)

March 19, 2009. Presented by Aysha Keisler. Kareem A. Zaghloul, Justin A. Blanco, Christoph T. Weidemann, Kathryn McGill, Jurg L. Jaggi, Gordon H. Baltuch, and Michael J. Kahana (2009). Human Substantia Nigra Neurons Encode Unexpected Financial Rewards. Science 323 (5920), 1496.

March 26, 2009. Presented by Christina Fuentes. Ilaria Minio-Paluello, Simon Baron-Cohen, Alessio Avenanti, Vincent Walsh, and Salvatore M. Aglioti. Absence of Embodied Empathy During Pain Observation in Asperger Syndrome. Biological Psychiatry 2009, 65: 55-62.

April 2, 2009. Presented by Gabriela Cantarero. V. Rizzo, H.S. Siebner, F. Morgante, C. Mastroeni, P. Girlanda and A. Quartarone. Paired associative stimulation of left and right human motor cortex shapes interhemispheric motor inhibition based on a hebbian mechanism. Cerebral Cortex 2009 19(4): 907:915

April 9, 2009. Presented by Sarah Hemminger. E.S. Boyden,A. Katoh,J.L. Pyle,T.A. Chatila,R.W. Tsien and J.L. Raymond Selective Engagement of Plasticity Mechanisms for Motor Memory Storage. Neuron (2006) 51(6): 823-834


April 16, 2009. Presented by Gelsy Torres-Oviedo. Joiner WM and Smith MA. Long-Term Retention Explained by a Model of Short-Term Learning in the Adaptive Control of Reaching. Journal of Neurophysiology (2008) 100: 2948-2955

April 23, 2009. Presented by Gelsy Torres-Oviedo: "Seeing is believing: Effects of vision and uncertainty on generalization of trained walking patterns"

April 30, 2009. NCM meeting

May 7, 2009. Presented by Pierre Daye (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

May 14, 2009. Presented by Steven Charles. Rabe K, Livne O, Gizewski ER, Aurich V, Beck A, Timmann D, Donchin O (2009) Adaptation to Visuomotor Rotation and Force Field Perturbation is Correlated to Different Brain Areas in Patients With Cerebellar Degeneration. J Neurophysiol 101:1961-1971.

May 21, 2009. Presented by Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry. Hunter T, Sacco P, Nitsche MA and Turner DL. Modulation of internal model formation during force field induced motor learning by anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of primary motor cortex.J. Physiol. (2009) Epub ahead of print. DOI:10.1113/jphysiol.2009.169284

May 28, 2009. Presented by Aasef Shaikh. "Head holding in normals and in patients with cervical dystonia"

June 4, 2009. Presented by Eric Zarahn (Columbia University). "Assessing the stability of visuomotor adaptation rates to variation of perturbation magnitude "

June 11, 2009. Presented by Minnan Xu Michel Desmurget, Karen T. Reilly, Nathalie Richard, Alexandru Szathmari, Carmine Mottolese and Angela Sirigu. Movement Intention After Parietal Cortex Stimulation in Humans. Science. 2009 May 8;324(5928):811-3.

June 18, 2009. Presented by Aysha Keisler Darainy M, Mattar AA, Ostry DJ.  Effects of human arm impedance on dynamics learning and generalization.  J Neurophysiol (2009). 101(6) 3158-68.

June 25, 2009. Presented by Nasir Bhanpuri. Tumer, EC, and Brainard MS. Performance variability enables adaptive plasticity of 'crystallized' adult birdsong. Nature. (2007) 450(7173):1240-4.

July 2, 2009. Presented by Eric Wasserman (NINDS/NIH): "Is the motor cortex interested in money?"

July 9, 2009. Presented by Jing Tian.

July 16, 2009. Presented by  Laura Malone

July 23, 2009. Presented by Jun Izawa

July 30, 2009. Presented by Robert Nickl

August 6, 2009. Presented by Christina Fuentes

August 13, 2009. Presented by Gabriela Cantarero

August 20, 2009. Presented by Gelsy Torres-Oviedo

August 27, 2009. Presented by Xiaoyan Shan

September 3, 2009. Presented by Aaron Wong

September 10, 2009. Presented by Joe Galea 

September 17, 2009. Presented by Erin Vasudevan

September 24, 2009. Presented by Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry