Highlights from the 2017 meeting of the Society for Neural Control of Movement (Dublin, Ireland)

Gallego, Juan Alvaro Hardwick, Robert M. [UCL] Oby, Emily R.

(eng) INTRODUCTION : Over 450 researchers, clinicians, and students attended the 27th annual meeting for the Society for the Neural Control of Movement held in Dublin, Ireland (May 1–5th, 2017). A satellite meeting focused on “The Roles of Proprioception and Vision in Perception and Action,” while during the main meeting topics ranged from learning sensorimotor maps from scratch to presynaptic inhibition for sensorimotor control to vestibular reflex pathways. Approaches ranged from behavioral assays to single neuron recordings to neural manifolds. Model systems ranged from fruit flies to mice to primates. There was a wide range of interests represented this year (Figure 1). Here we present a brief summary of the meeting, highlighting talks that generated extended discussion and posters that featured a novel approach or question. We focus on three themes that emerged across many sessions: learning, motor control of hand movements and holding still, and the advantages of a neural population activity perspective.[...]