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Alain Berthoz - Colloquium on May 3

Sensorimotor Computation: the Control of Gaze

In cooperation with Prof. D. Pai of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies).

Program

09h00 - 09h15: Opening remarks
Dianne NEWELL (Director of the PWIAS, Canada)
Alain BERTHOZ (Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Physiology of Perception and Action, France)

09h15 - 10h00 : Overview, and Biomechanics of the Oculomotor System
Dinesh PAI (Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia; PWIAS, Canada)

10h00 - 10h30 : The dynamic regulation of multimodal integration in the control of gaze
Kathleen CULLEN (Professor and William Dawson Scholar, McGill University; PWIAS, Canada)

10h30 - 11h00 : Break

11h00 - 11h30 : A biologically realistic cortical model of eye movement control in reading
Klaus HEPP (Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

11h30 - 12h00 : Neural control of saccade kinematics and gaze trajectories
Jeroen GOOSSENS (Assistant professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands)

12h00 - 12h30 : Optimizable Hamiltonians for Oculomotor Control: Beyond Physiology
Christopher HARRIS (Professor of neuroscience at the University of Plymouth, UK)

12h30 - 14h00 : Break

14h00 - 14h30 : Geometry and function of the motor map in the superior colliculus
Daniel BENNEQUIN (Professor of mathematics at the University Denis Diderot Paris VII, France)

14h30 - 15h00 : Subcortical decisions: towards models of the tecto-basal loops for saccadic selection
Benoît GIRARD (Researcher at the Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR), UPMC-CNRS, France)

15h00 - 15h30 : Control of "gaze" in the rat vibrissal system: insights from neuroethology and robotics
Tony PRESCOTT (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield, UK)

15h30 - 16h00 : Break

16h00 - 16h30 : Saccades, models, membranes and patients: from behavior to the bench and back
Stefano RAMAT (Associate professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Pavia, Italy)

16h30 - 17h00 : Conclusion of the day
Alain BERTHOZ (Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Physiology of Perception and Action, France)