PROGRAMME

THURSDAY 27th January

12.00 - 2.00 Registration, Watermark Hotel
Workshop
2.00 - 5.00 Workshop with Prof. Bill Warren: Dynamics of visual control of locomotion. Abstract.
6.30 - 8.30

Welcome Party, Pool and Veranda Bar,
Watermark Hotel (complimentary drinks and snacks).


FRIDAY 28th January

8.00 - 8.30 Registration
8.30 - 9.30

Keynote Address: Prof Bill Warren:
The dynamics and visual control of gait and posture. Abstract

Information for Locomotion
9.30 - 10.00 David Anderson: The Ontogeny of Postural Responsiveness to Peripheral Optic Flow: Experimental Manipulation of a Developmental Process. Abstract.
10.00 - 10.30 Barry Hughes: Beyond Facial Vision: Information in Echoes for the Perceptual Guidance of Locomotion. Abstract
10.30 - 11.00 Discussion/Refreshments
Time-to-contact, Vision, and Control
11.00 - 11.30 Bernhard Frey: Perceptual Countermeasures Against Tailgating: A Virtual Reality Experiment. Abstract.
11.30 - 12.00 Jiantao Pei: Isolating the Error in Clocking Process from the Error in Time-to-contact Based Performance. Abstract.
12.00 - 12.30 Cheyne Sherman: Visual Perception of the Golf Swing by Expert and Novice Coaches. Abstract.
12.30 - 2.00 Lunch
Coordination of Walking
2.00 - 2.30 Peter Mills: Avoidance of slipping during locomtion. Abstract.
2.30 - 3.00 Jack Crosbie: Changes in the Temporal and Distance Parameters of Gait Evoked by Negotiation of Curbs. Abstract.
3.00 - 3.30 Tony Sparrow: Optimising Foot-Placement in Negotiating Obstacles and Raised Surfaces: Insights into the Visual Regulation of Step Length. Abstract.
3.30 - 4.00 Discussion/Refreshments
Equilibrium Point Hypothesis of Movement
4.00 - 4.30 James Tresilian: Eye Movements as a Test Case for the Equilibrium Point Hypothesis. Abstract.
4.30 - 5.00 Yohan Payan: Control of Target-to-Target Movements in Speech: The Extent to Which Biomechanics can Help the Understanding of Observed Kinematics. Abstract.
5.00 - 5.30 Karl Kalveram: Central Target Pattern Generation, Neural Feedforward and Mechanical Negative Feedback in Motion Control: How Muscles Drive Voluntary Movements While Maintaining Posture Against Gravitation. Abstract.

SATURDAY 29th January

8.30 - 9.30

Keynote Address: Prof Walter Freeman:
Direction by limbic dynamics based in reafference of intentional movements through space-time.

Coordination of Gait
9.30 - 10.00 Gwyn Lewis: Gait Stability and Central Processing Capacity with Extrinsic Visual Cueing During Walking in Parkinson's Disease. Abstract.
10.00 - 10.30 Nick O'Dwyer: Coordination of the Kinematic Degrees of Freedom in Walking: A Quantitative Analysis. Abstract.
10.30 - 11.00
Discussion/Refreshments
Neurophysiological Constraints
11.00 - 11.30 Katherine Johnson: Attentional Strategies and Movement Related Potentials in Huntington's Disease. Abstract.
11.30 - 12.00 Richard Carson: Musculo-skeletal Constraints on Corticospinal Input to Upper Limb Motoneurones During Coordinated Movements. Abstract.
12.00 - 12.30 Jeff Summers: Role of Ipsilateral Motor Cortex in Bimanual Motor Control. Abstract.
12.30 - 2.00
Lunch
2.00 - 3.00 Keynote Address: Prof Peter Beek:
Juggling dynamics
Coordination Dynamics
3.15 - 3.45 Robin Burgess-Limerick: Spontaneous Transitions in Repetitive Lifting and Lowering. Abstract.
3.45 - 4.15 Stephan Riek: Inertial Factors Strongly Influence the Coordination Dynamics of Circling Movements. Abstract.
4.15 - 4.30 Refreshments
Eye-hand Coordination
4.30 - 5.00 Digby Elliot: Eye-Hand Coordination in Goal-directed Aiming. Abstract.
5.00 - 5.30 Werner Helsen: The Organization and Control of Sequential Movements. Abstract.
7.00 - Late

Banquet plus Polyrhythmic
Music
Workshop-Performance


SUNDAY 30th January

9.00 - 10.00

Keynote Address: Prof Karl Newell:
Coordination and skill

Stimulus Memory Movement
10.00 - 10.30 Greg Anson: Memory and Simple Reaction Time. Abstract.
10.30 - 11.00 Amir Mohagheghi: Movement Preparation in Fitts' Paradigm. Abstract.
11.00 - 12.30 Discussion/Refreshments &
Poster Session
12.30 - 2.30

Lunch & Denis Glencross Student Poster Award; Guest Speaker: Mr. Frank Gardner -
Real motor control at 300 kph!

Development of Coordinated Perception and Action
2.30 - 3.00 Jan Piek: The Development of Interlimb Coordination: A Longitudinal Investigation of Spontaneous Leg and Arm Movements in Young Infants. Abstract.
3.00 - 3.30 Megan Nielson: A Computational Theory of Motor Development Part 2: Development after Birth. Abstract.
3.30 - 4.00 Peter Nielson: A Computational Theory of Motor Development Part 2: Development after Birth. Abstract.
4.00 - 4.30 Discussion/Refreshments
4.30 - 5.30 Round table: Towards 3000: A new millenium for motor control research?
5.30 - 6.00 Closing remarks