Full-day Workshop at EMBC 2016

38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Disney’s Contemporary Resort, Orlando, FL, Workshop Full day, August 16, 2016
Embodied-Brain Systems Science and Neurorehabilitation
Morning 9:00-12:00

9:00-9:30
Speaker: Prof. Jun Ota, The Tokyo University, Japan
Title of Talk: Concept of embodied-brain systems science

9:30-10:00
Speaker: Dr. Kazumichi Matsumiya, Tohoku University, Japan
Title of Talk: Voluntary action and the coding of visual space

10:00-10:30
Speaker: Drs. Kazuhiko Seki, Tomohiko Takei, Tomomichi Oya, Joachim Confais, Roland Philipp, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan
Title of Talk: Exploring a neural correlate of muscle synergy for hand and arm movements.

10:30-11:00
Speaker: Dr. Marco Santello, Arizona State University of Technology, USA
Title of Talk: Sensorimotor learning and transfer of grasping and manipulation: neural mechanisms and clinical applications

11:00-11:30
Speaker: Prof. Hiroshi Imamizu, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Title of Talk: Change in brain activity during motor learning

11:30-12:00
Speaker: Dr. Nicolas Schweighofer, University of Southern California, USA
Title of Talk: Arm choice post-stroke: computational models and experiments.

 

Afternoon

13:30-14:00
Speaker: Dr. Shiro Yano, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Title of Talk: Proposal of a Bayesian learning paradigm for the sense of agency

14:00-14:30
Speaker: Drs. Arito Yozu1, Dai Owaki2, Tetsuro Funato3: 1The University of Tokyo Hospital, 2Tohoku University, 3The University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Title of Talk: Proposal of a new rehabilitation method for congenital insensitivity to pain

14:30-15:00
Speaker: Dr. Yutaka Oouchida, Tohoku University, Japan
Title of Talk: Decline of bodily attention to a paretic limb in the stroke patients with hemiparesis

15:00-15:30
Speaker: Dr. Tetsunari Inamura, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Title of Talk: Effect of flexible change of VR based self-body appearance for body representation in the brain

15:30-16:00
Speaker: Dr. Max Ortiz-Catalan, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Title of Talk: Motor volition and sensory feedback in artificial limbs and phantom limb pain

16:00-16:30

Demo
Dr. Tetsunari Inamura, National Institute of Informatics, Japan: SIGVerse (Social intelligence simulator for HRI)
Dr. Max Ortiz-Catalan, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden: Neuromotus
Drs. Dai Owaki (Tohoku University) and Arito Yozu (The Tokyo University): Auditory Foot

16:30-17:00
General Discussion & Closing Remarks
Prof. Jun Ota, The Tokyo University, Japan

 

Organizers
Prof. Toshiyuki Kondo, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Dr. Max Ortiz-Catalan, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Prof. Yukari Ohki, Kyorin University, Japan