photograph by Steve Barker

Conference announcement: Optimizing performance in dynamic environments

Organizers: Eli Brenner and Rob van Beers

Where: Faculty of Human Movement Sciences of the VU University Amsterdam.

When: From noon on Monday the 2nd of July until the early afternoon on Thursday the 5th of July 2012.

What: The meeting will be about optimizing performance in dynamic environments. It will examine how various kinds of information acquired at various moments are combined for making appropriate decisions. The decisions in question are decisions that underlie behaviour such as goal-directed eye and arm movements and movements of the whole body. The meeting will consider both sensory and motor issues in human performance, and will include behavioural and brain imaging studies as well as computational modelling.

Speakers will include (with titles if available):

Jörn Diedrichsen Optimal encoding of movements in cortical networks
Benoni Edin
Marc Ernst Knowing the errors of our ways to optimize performance
Karl Gegenfurtner Eye movements optimize lightness perception
Vassilia Hatzitaki Haptically driven interpersonal synchrony during rhythmic postural sway
Michael Herzog The slow roads of decision making
Pascal Mamassian
Guillaume Masson Encoding of speed information for tracking eye movements
Anna Montagnini Adaptive eye movements for optimal perception
Chris Muller Synchronising to ambiguous cues
Michele Rucci
Jeroen Smeets Keeping movements accurate: updating of knowing where or how to get there?
John Wann Optimizing decisions in the control of steering
Andrew Welchman

There will also be talks and posters by other participants, including post-docs and PhD students.

This will be the final meeting of an EU training project (CODDE), but there will also be place for about 50 participants from outside the project.

If you are interested in taking part please let us know. There is no registration fee, but the space is limited (there are still a few places available).


Useful information for participants:

A hotel within walking distance of the university in which our faculty often houses visitors
Other hotels with which the university has negotiated special rates



Funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme.