Monte Verità CSF Conference "Hand, Brain and Technology", September 7-12, 2014

The tight functional coupling between hand and brain has greatly shaped the evolution of language, culture and technology. This conference will bring together leading researchers from the multiple disciplines studying the unique dexterity and sensory abilities of the hand, its neuromechanical and physiological control, as well as its functional recovery and neuroprosthetic restoration following injury.

12.09.2014

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Conference Objectives

Bring together leading researchers from all the various disciplines investigating the mechanisms underlying sensorimotor control and the rehabilitation of hand function
Change the dynamics of the field to become more integrative, by promoting interaction and collaboration between neuroscientists, physiologists, psychologists, clinicians, and engineers
Provide ample opportunity for junior and advanced researchers to disseminate their work and interact with senior researchers
Provide an update on the state of the art, highlight recent discoveries and identify future research directions
Promote the transfer of recent scientific insights and technologies to clinical application
Add an engineering/robotics component to the content of the two previous successful meetings at CSF

Organizers

Prof. Roger Gassert
Rehabilitation engineering, ETH Zurich
Prof. external pagePeter Brugger
Neuropsychology, University Hospital Zurich
Prof. external pageMarie-Claude Hepp-Reymond
Neural control of grasping, ETH Zurich and University of Zurich
Dr. med. external pageFabio M. Conti
Neurocognitive rehabilitation, Clinica Hildebrand Centro di riabilitazione Brissago
Mike D. Rinderknecht
Rehabilitation engineering, ETH Zurich

Program

The PDFs of the updated program and the complete HBT 2014 Booklet can be found below:

DownloadUpdated Program (PDF, 65 KB)

DownloadHBT 2014 Booklet (PDF, 2.1 MB)

Invited Keynote Speakers

external pageSliman Bensmaia, PhD, University of Chicago, USA
Biological and bionic hands: Natural neural coding and artificial perception
external pageJoern Diedrichsen, PhD, University College London, UK
The cortical representation of hand movements
external pageGeorg Goldenberg, MD, Technical University of Munich and Department of Neuropsychology, Bogenhausen Hospital, Germany
Apraxia tears apart the neural substrates of instrumental and communicative functions of the hand
external pageSusan Goldin-Meadow, PhD, University of Chicago, USA
From action to abstraction: Gesture as a mechanism of change
external pageVincent Hayward, PhD, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Mechanics of the fingertip and its impact on the prehensile and sensory function of the hand
external pageJoachim Hermsdörfer, PhD, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Deficits of tool use following stroke: Neural correlates and technological approaches to assist in activities of daily living
external pageRoland Johansson, MD, PhD, Umea University, Sweden
Edge-orientation processing in first-order tactile neurons
external pageDerek Kamper, PhD, Illinois Institute of Technology and RIC, Chicago, USA
Neurological interactions among thumb and fingers
external pageTodd Kuiken, MD, PhD, Northwestern University and RIC, Chicago, USA
Developing Neural Interfaces for Powered Prosthetic Limbs
external pageRoger Lemon, PhD, University College London, United Kingdom
Corticospinal involvement in the execution and observation of skilled hand movements
external pageGiuseppe Luppino, PhD, University of Parma, Italy
Cortical circuits for purposeful hand actions
external pageTamar Makin, PhD, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Bridging the gap between cortical reorganisation and rehabilitation in arm amputees
external pageLee Miller, PhD, Northwestern University and RIC, USA
Restoring hand function with a biomimetic neural interface and Functional Electrical Stimulation
external pageEric Rouiller, PhD, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Behavioral variability of manual dexterity in macaques
external pageMarco Santello, PhD, Arizona State University, USA
Sensorimotor mechanisms for control and learning of dexterous manipulation
external pageMarc Schieber, MD, PhD, University of Rochester, USA
Spatiotemporal distribution of object versus location in kinematics, EMG and motor cortex activity during reach, grasp and manipulation
external pageAndy Schwartz, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Recent progress toward a high-performance neural prosthesis
external pageHansjörg Scherberger, MD, PhD, German Primate Center and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Grasp predictions from motor, premotor, and parietal population signals
external pageAndrea Serino, PhD, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Neural mechanisms, functions and plasticity of Peripersonal Space representation in humans
external pageAngela Sirigu, PhD, Université de Lyon, France
Varieties of movement representations in the human brain
external pageFrancisco Valero-Cuevas, PhD, University of Southern California, USA
Moving beyond a cortico-centric view of dexterity
Nicole Wenderoth, PhD, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Making and breaking motor memories
external pageFrank Wilson, MD, DFA (Hon), Neurologist, Stanford University School of Medicine (retired) and author of the book "The Hand: How its use shapes the brain, language, and human culture"

CSF Award

Stefan Schaffelhofer received the CSF junior award for the excellent presentation of his work entitled "From vision to action: a comparative population study of hand grasping areas AIP, F5, and M1". The jury was composed by Sliman Bensmaia, Derek Kamper, Giuseppe Luppino, Marco Santello and Angela Sirigu.

CSF Award