by EuroMov | 24 Mar 2016 | Seminars
When we make rapid reaching movements, due to the limited information throughput of our sensorimotor system, we have to trade speed for accuracy. To do so, the trajectory of our hand is the result of an optimal balance between feed-forward and feed-back control in the...
by EuroMov | 10 Mar 2016 | Seminars
Joint speech is an umbrella term covering choral speech, synchronous speech, chant, and all forms of speech where many people say the same thing at the same. Under an orthodox linguistic analysis, there is nothing here to study, as the formal symbolic structures of...
by EuroMov | 3 Mar 2016 | Seminars
Successful coordination involves the movement of various segments of the body that have to be controlled in a systematic and meaningful way. In this talk I will present recent work from my laboratory on sensorimotor coordination in the context of music and rhythm. In...
by EuroMov | 26 Feb 2016 | Seminars
Behavioral dynamics seeks to explain stable adaptive behavior as emerging from the interaction between an agent and its environment. Within this framework, we are developing a perceptually-grounded model of locomotor behavior that accounts for pedestrian and crowd...
by EuroMov | 19 Feb 2016 | Seminars
Is this my body? Mechanisms, consequences and applications of virtual embodiment Maria Sanchez-Vives, MD, PhD ICREA Research Professor at the IDIBAPS (Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer), Barcelona, Spain Our body representation is a key part of our...
by EuroMov | 15 Feb 2016 | Seminars
Seekink the boundaries of efficacy of synchronization of movement to a beat, we ask how generic this process could be. To this end we ran a first comparative French- Indians study of basic synchronization. The data indicate that Indian participants failed to...
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