IDENTIFYING CONTROL MECHANISMS FOR POSTURAL BEHAVIORS

我们建议在十一月一日举行一次跨学科会议。 1998年6月7日，作为神经科学学会会议的卫星。 的 拟议会议的目的是促进讨论目前的 姿势控制领域的研究方法和成果。 我们的目标 是要找出目前实验的优点和缺点， 设计，并开始确定需要解决的问题， 为了增进我们在这一领域的知识。 通过包括毕业生 学生和年轻的科学家从几个学科，我们希望 参与者将考虑姿势的许多组成部分， 控制（例如，生物力学、神经生理学、认知规划）， 他们的讨论。 我们的计划是， 姿势控制，当前研究结果的相关性，以及 该领域未来研究问题的潜在方向 为了将能量场向前推进， 下一代的研究课题。 所涵盖的课题包括 产生或促成姿势性疼痛的神经通路特征 行为;反应和预测姿势;感知的作用; 人类姿势控制的动物和临床模型的相关性; 不同任务参数的影响;神经运动系统如何 承认机械定律和多段关系;无论是 质心的概念是一个控制变量或测量方法 姿势行为;自愿行为与 姿势反应;需要考虑的参数 模拟姿势行为;和中枢神经系统处理 多任务信息 发言者和主持人将包括研究人员 被公认为姿势研究领域的领导者。 将鼓励发言者介绍其主题领域的概述 而不是由他们自己的数据驱动的谈话，以减少 倾向于维护一个特定的发现或假设。 一张海报 会议和讲习班将为所有与会者提供机会 分享关于主题的数据和意见。 会议记录， 包括研讨会的讨论情况。

We are proposing an interdisciplinary meeting to be held on November 6-7, 1998 as a Satellite to the Society for Neuroscience meeting. The objective of the proposed meeting is to promote discussion about current research methods and results in the field of postural control. Our goal is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of current experimental design, and to begin to identify questions that need to be addressed in order to progress our knowledge in this field. By including graduate students and younger scientists from several disciplines, we are hoping that the participants will consider the many components of postural control (e.g., biomechanics, neurophysiology, cognitive planning) in their discussion. Our plan is that some consensus about the definition of postural control, the relevance of current research results, and a potential direction for future questions for research in the area of postural control will emerge in order to move the field forward into the next generation of research questions. Topics to be covered include the neural pathway characteristics that generate or contribute to postural behaviors; reactive and predictive postures; the role of perception; the relevance of animal and clinical models for human postural control; the influence of varying task parameters; how the neuromotor system recognizes mechanical laws and multisegmental relations; whether the concept of center of mass is a controlled variable or a way of measuring postural behaviors; the relationship between voluntary actions and postural reactions; the parameters that need to be considered in modeling postural behaviors; and central nervous system processing of multitask information. Speakers and moderators will include researchers recognized as some of the leaders in the field of postural research. Speakers will be encouraged to present overviews of their topic area rather than talks motivated by their own data in order to reduce the tendency toward defending a particular finding or hypothesis. A poster session and workshops will provide opportunities for all participants to share data and opinions about the subject matter. Proceedings, including the workshop discussions, will be published.