Samir Menon
<p>Jun 12, 2014 05:11 PM super grad!!! v impressive work and a great guy. (also see private node)</p>
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see article from Dec 28 2013 by John Markoff
"Brainlike Computers, Learning from Experience...
pic of Kwabena and Samir... see below.</p>
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Apr 13, 2015 04:43 PM
abstract for today:</p>
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Robotic control theory, when applied to human musculoskeletal models, provides us with techniques to mathematically formulate human neuromuscular control and predict its representation in the brain. In this talk, I will outline our work in applying robotics insights to develop a control formulation for musculoskeletal models of the human arm. These models help us design feasible and informative neuroscience experiments that study human manipulation. I will focus on one specific aspect of human manipulation, the ability to generalize manipulation skills across a variety of body postures. Our models predict that in order to achieve this generalization, the brain should segregate the notion of a manipulation task (control) from the process of distributing task errors across the body's many muscles and joints (coordination). I will discuss results from a human neuroimaging experiment that offers the ability to decorrelate control from coordination. Our results, consistent with theoretical predictions, suggest that correlates of motor control and coordination can be localized to different anatomical regions in the brain. These results set the stage for future experiments that test targeted control theory based hypotheses of human motor control.</p>
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