Program for Copenhagen Human Motor Control Symposium 8 February 2019

Please join the Copenhagen Human Motor Control Symposium 2019. In order to gather neuroscientist working on human motor control in a cognitive, clinical or basic science perspective in the greater Copenhagen region, we would like to welcome you to this afternoon of scientific talks and discussion. Each of the speakers will have approximately 10 min for giving a talk and subsequently there will be 10 min of discussion. We encourage everybody to participate in the discussions section. The speakers will present brand new or very recent results, some of it still in progress, so this is a chance to engage in all the new exciting human motor control neuroscience that takes place in Copenhagen. 

Please sign up to Mark Schram Christensen before the 1st of February 2019. Please indicate if you would like to come for the welcome and sandwich from 12-12.30 and whether you have any dietary wishes (vegetarian, etc.). 

There are still a few number of seats available, which means that early registration is strongly encouraged. 

Venue: Panum Institute, Blegdamsvej 3B, 2200 København N
Room 7.15.92 (seats limited to 50)
Take the elevator to the top floor of the Panum tower.

12.00-12.30: Welcome and sandwich

Session 1 - Motor-Cognition (chair: Mark Schram Christensen)

12.30: Thor Grünbaum, Philosophy, KU & Søren Kyllingsbæk, Psychology, KU: A computational model of memory of intentions
12.50: Ollie Hulme, DRCMR: Decision making and bayesian modelling
13.10: Angeliki Charalampaki, IN, KU: Walking the plank! 
13:30: Anina Ritterband-Rosenbaum, Elsass: Development of motor predictive abilities in infants

13:50-14:20: Coffee break

Session 2 - Motor control, Skill learning & Plasticity (Chair: Jesper Lundbye-Jensen)

14.20: Kasper Vinther Andersen, DRCMR: Motor sequence learning, multivariate pattern analysis - and patterns in basal ganglia activation
14.40: Mikkel Malling Beck, NEXS, KU: Effects of tsDCS on motor performance and corticospinal mechanisms 
15.00: Anke Karabanov, DRCMR: Dynamic Bimanual Control and interhemispheric interactions

15.20-15.50: Coffee break

Session 3 - Ageing & Disease (Chair: Anke Karabanov)

15.50: Lisbeth Højkjær Larsen, Roskilde Hospital: Stroke and skill learning
16.10: Meaghan E. Spedden, NEXS: Age-related differences in cortico-spinal oscillations from childhood to senescence
16.30: Rasmus Frisk, Elsass: Electrophysiology in cerebral palsy
16.50: CJ Borabekk, DRCRM: Handwriting, cognitive function and brain morphology in the ageing brain

17.30-18.00: Final discussions

For those who are interested we will meet up afterwards for a drink and a light meal in the vicinity of the Panum Institute at your own expense. Please indicate when you sign up whether you would like to join such an arrangement so we can book an appropriately sized place. 

Organizing committee

  • Anke Ninija Karabanov, senior researcher, Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR), Hvidovre Hospital
  • Jesper Lundbye-Jensen, Associate professor, Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports (NEXS), University of Copenhagen
  • Mark Schram Christensen, Associate professor, Department of Neuroscience (IN), University of Copenhagen