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Schedule

Monday 12.12.22

09:00 // Departure from Tel-Aviv

11:30 - 12:00 // Workshop registration

12:00 - 13:00 // Lunch

13:00 - 13:15 // Welcome remarks

Session 1

13:15 - 13:45 // David Schneider, NYU

Mice know how noisy they are

13:45 - 14:15 // Roy Mukamel, Tel-Aviv University

The lateral relationship between motor and sensory circuits in perception and learning

14:15 - 14:45 // Clare Press, Birkbeck University of London

Cancelling cancellation? The complex influence of action on perception

14:45 - 15:15 // Coffee Break + Receiving room keys (from workshop team)

Session 2

15:15 - 15:45 // Merav Ahissar, Hebrew university

Updating motor plans and perceptual priors: a common mechanism? - the face of autism

15:45 - 16:15 // Angelika Lingnau, University of Regensburg

From kinematics to meaning - action representations at different hierarchical levels

16:15 - 16:45 // Ido Tavor, Tel-Aviv University

Relating Activity and Connectivity in The Learning Brain

18:00 - 19:00 // Dinner

19:00 // Poster Session I + Welcome Drinks

Tuesday 13.12.22

08:00 - 09:00 // Breakfast

Session 3

09:00 - 09:30 // Marc Schieber, University of Rochester

Two things about mirror neurons

09:30 - 10:00 // Jackie Schiller, Technion

Cell type dependent computations in motor cortex

10:00 - 10:30 // Yifat Prut, Hebrew University

Cerebellar regulation of motor signals and noise

10:30 - 11:00 // Coffee Break

Session 4

11:00 - 11:30 // Opher Donchin, Ben Gurion University

Simplistic is not wrong: understanding the motor system with 4 parameters

11:30 - 12:00 // Tamar Flash, Weizmann Institute of Science

Space-time geometries  and neural representations  in human motion and perception

12:00 - 12:30 // Jason Friedman, Tel-Aviv University

How do continuously evolving decisions result in a series of discrete movements?

12:30 - 14:00 // Lunch Break

Session 5

14:00 - 14:30 // Firas Mawase, Technion

Toward unravelling the neural control of finger dexterity

14:30 - 15:00 // Hans Scherberger, German Primate Center

Sensorimotor transformation for grasping

15:00 - 15:30 // Adrian Haith, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

The development of automaticity in motor skill learning

15:30 - 16:00 // Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00 // Drum Circle

19:00 // Dinner

Wednesday 14.12.22

08:00 - 0900 // Breakfast

09:00 - 12:00 // Morning activity (tour of Acre + authentic lunch)

12:00 - 14:00 // Free time

14:00 // Return bus to venue

Session 6

15:00 - 15:30 // Julien Doyon, McGill University

Neural correlates of motor sequence learning and consolidation

15:30 - 16:00 // Avi Karni, Haifa University

Going beyond "what" and "how" memory in generating knowledge and skill from experience

16:00 - 16:30 // Coffee Break

16:30 - 17:00 // Nitzan Censor, Tel Aviv University

Rapid learning (and unlearning) in the human brain

17:00 - 17:30 // Jonathan Wolpaw, University of Albany

Heksor: The CNS Substrate of an Adaptive Behavior

17:30 - 18:00 // Guy Avraham, University of California

Movement as a Window into Cognition

18:00 - 19:30 // Poster Session II + Coffee

19:30 // Dinner

Thursday 15.12.22

08:00 - 09:00 // Breakfast

09:00 - 09:30 // Check Out

Session 7

09:30 - 10:00 // Emily Cross, University of Glasgow

Pushing the boundaries of action-perception links: Insights from dance, aesthetics and social robotics

10:00 - 10:30 // David Ostry, McGill University

Somatosensory Participation in Human Motor Learning

10:30 - 11:00 // Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30 // Ilana Nisky, Ben Gurion University

Sensorimotor Control Meets Surgical Robotics – A Model of the Surgeon Can Benefit Patients

11:30 - 12:00 // Ehud Ahissar, Weizmann Institute of Science

Motor-sensory integration in perception

12:00 - 12:15 // Closing Remarks

12:30 - 13:15 // Lunch & return bus to Tel-Aviv

15:15 // Approximate arrival at Tel-Aviv

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