ISM | Institut des Sciences du Mouvement

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To study the mechanical, physiological, neurological, psychological and sociological determinants of the motricity of living beings, human in particular.

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17 Jun 2019

14:00 à 15:45

Motion perception in touch and vision: analogies and differences.

Alessandro MOSCATELLI (Université de Rome Tor Vergata, Italie). Salle E203, Faculté des Sciences du Sport, Campus de Luminy (Marseille). Invité par M. WIERTLEWSKI.

Recent studies compared the perception of motion between touch and vision. Touch is a mechanical sense: the contact of our skin with a moving surface produces complex patterns of deformation, as well as vibrations far from the contact site. This is an important difference with vision, where the luminance-stimulus recruits a more defined area of the retina. However, the spatial and temporal engagement of the sensory surfaces (the retina and the skin, respectively) plays an important role in motion encoding in both sensory channels. A further analogy between the two senses is that in order to achieve spatial constancy the observer needs to account for the movement of the sensor, either the skin or the retina, and the relative movement of the object with respect to them. In this talk, I will present studies from our lab on motion perception in the two senses.

Part of the talk will be on a paper published last week:
Touch as an auxiliary proprioceptive cue for movement control. Moscatelli A, Bianchi M, Ciotti S, Bettelani GC, Parise CV, Lacquaniti F, Bicchi A.
Science Advances. 2019 Jun 5;5(6):eaaw3121. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw3121. eCollection 2019 Jun.
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/6/eaaw3121

5 Jul 2019

14:00 à 15:45

Détection de l'expertise et apprentissage du lancer au basket-ball en réalité virtuelle

Antoine MORICE

19 Sep 2019

14:00 à 16:00

Spatial reference frames for perception and cognition. Salle de thèses (A1.04), Faculté des Sciences du Sport, Campus de Luminy, Marseille

Gabriel ARNOLD (Caylar). Invité par Fabrice SARLEGNA.

5 Dec 2019

14:00 à 15:45

Computational Biomechanics and Mechanobiology

Jérôme Noailly (Barcelona Centre for New Medical Technologies). Invité par Jean-Louis Milan.

Jérôme Noailly is principal investigator of the Multiscale and Computational Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (MBIOMM) group (2014-SGR-1616). As a member of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies and SIMBIOSys group at UPF, he generated synergies to integrate medical image analysis and machine learning dimensions into the MBIOMM activities. At the same time, he was consolidating the combination of computational systems biology approaches and biomechanical /multiphysics modelling, for multiscale explorations of tissues and organs, in health and disease. In 2016, Jérôme was awarded a Ramon y Cajal fellowship (RYC-2015-18888) from the Spanish government, and he is currently the Principal Investigator of the Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Area of the Barcelona Centre for New Medical Technologies (BCN MedTech - 2017-SGR-1386).