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Lectures and Conferences (1992-1999)
Lectures

International Symposium on Posture and Gait Control Mechanisms, Portland, Oregon, May 24-27, 1992 ("How humans bend their necks in the sagittal plane: a biomechanical analysis of the head-neck joints").

Satellite Symposium to the 1992 ENA Meeting, Neural Control of Eye-, Head- and Limb Movements, Ohlstadt, Sept. 10-13, 1992 ("Biomechanics, movement strategies and the evolution of the head-neck system in mammals").

Laboratoire de Biologie Marine du Collège de France, Concarneau, Nov. 23, 1992 ("Le réflexe vestibulo-oculaire chez les poissons plats")

Institut für Hirnforschung, Universität Bremen, Bremen, April 14, 1993 ("Zentrale Repräsentation des drei-dimensionalen Raumes").

Institute of Neurology, London, Aug. 2, 1993 ("Is the 3-neuron vestibulo-ocular reflex arc really important for the generation of compensatory eye movements?").

Control of Head and Eye Movements, IUPS Congress, Glasgow, Aug 4-5, 1993 ("Biomechanics, movement strategies and the evolution of the head-neck system in mammals").

Information Processing Underlying Gaze Control, Sevilla, Sept. 22-24, 1993 ("Head movement control in quadrupedal and bipedal mammals").

Hôpital Notre-Dame, Neurologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, April 21, 1994 (Transformation sensori-motrice dans le système vestibulo-oculomoteur: anatomie, physiologie, implications cliniques").

Arbeitsgruppe Neuroinformatik, ETH and Univ. Zürich, Zürich, May 25, 1994 ("Three-dimensional sensorimotor transformation in the vestibulo-ocular reflex").

Symposium organizer, Third International Conference on the Head-Neck System, Vail, Colorado, July 3, 1995 ("How to Construct a Cat's Neck")

Three-dimensional kinematic principles of eye-, head-, and limb movements in health and disease, Tübingen, Aug. 28-30,1995 ("Concepts about the proper theoretical treatment of three-dimensional eye-, head-, and limb movements") (introductory lecture).

Annual Meeting of the Japanese Equilibrium Society, Osaka, Nov. 23, 1995 ("The sacculocollic reflex arcs")

Dept. Physiology, Tokyo Medical College, Tokyo, Dec. 6, 1995 (" Visual-vestibular interaction in monkey parietal cortex").

Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, Tokyo, Dec. 12, 1995, ("Neuronal substrates of self-motion detection").

Dept. Physiology, Nihon University, Tokyo, Dec. 27, 1995 ("Representation of movement space in monkey neo-cortex")

Eighth Meeting of the After-Nystagmus Study Group (Satellite symposium to the XIX. Bárány Society Meeting), Sydney, Australia, Aug. 15, 1996 ("Velocity storage is the exception, not the rule: comparative aspects of after-nystagmus behavior")

Congrès de la Societé de Bioméchanique, Nancy, Sept. 23, 1996, ("A biomechanical analysis of the head-neck joints: head-neck movements in the sagittal plane").

J.B. Johnston Club (Brain, Behav. Evol.), Washington, Nov. 16, 1996 ("Movement detection in three-dimensional space: convergent evolution in labyrinth geometry in vertebrates and invertebrats").

Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, Nov. 19, 1996, ("Visual-vestibular interaction in the ventral intraparietal area (VIP) of macaque monkeys").

Neuroscience Program, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, January 27, 1997 (Prof. N. Dieringer) ("Moduläre Organisartion der drei-dimesinalen Augenbewegungen")

Neurologische Klinik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, January 28, 1997, (Prof. Th. Brandt) ("Sensomotorische Transformation in den vestibulo-okulären Reflexschaltkreisen")

International Symposium: Multisensory Control of Posture and Gait. Paris, June 23-26, 1997 ("Comparative anatomy of the posture of the head-neck system")

Polysensory Interaction in the Generation of Eye Movements. European Reserach Conference (vice-president), Giens/Toulon, Sept. 5-10, 1997 ("Cortical mechanisms of spatial representation")

Institut für Anatomie, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, May 18, 1998 (Prof. H. Fritsch) ("Anatomie der Augenbewegungen")

HFSP work shop (organizer), Paris, June 23-26,1998 ("Is there a need for vestibular signals in the cortex?")

Symposium der Bárány Gesellschaft, Freiburg i. Br., Sept. 9-11, 1998 ("Visual-vestibular interaction in primate parietal cortex", and "Mapping the oculomotor system: The power of transneuronal tracing")

CNRS, Lab. Neurobiologie et Mouvements, Marseille Nov. 4, 1998, ("Détection et perception du mouvement dans l'espace 3d: approche comparatif").

J.B. Johnston Club (Brain, Behav. Evol.), Los Angeles, Nov. 7, 1998 ("What determines posture? Evolution and Sensory Input to the Head-Neck System").

Journée de l'Institut de Biologie, Collège de France, Paris, 9 Dec. 1998 ("L'orientation spatiale, résultat d'interactions pluri-sensorielles").

Cortical neuronal mechanisms and psychophysics of orientation and motion in three-dimensional space. European Reserach Conference (President), Castelvecchio Pascoli, April 9-14, 1999 ("Movement detection in three-dimensional space: the end product of multisensory integration" and "Three-dimensional optokinetic stimulation").

Vestibular Influences on Spatial Orientation. Satellite Symposium of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for Neural Control of Movement, Princeville, Hawaii, April 16-19, 1999 ("Vestibular signals in primate parietal cortex").

Space Perception and Movement Execution. International Symposium (Organizer and co-president). Collège de France, Paris, June 25-26, 1999 ("Introduction").

International Conference on the Visual and/versus Vestibular Systems. Tokyo University, Tokyo, Aug. 21, 1999 ("Understanding spatial coordination of eye movements").

The IVth International Symposium on the Head-Neck System. Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Aug. 22-25, 1999 ("The head-neck movement system, upright stance and the evolution of vertebrates").

Conference Organization

Polysensory Interaction in the Generation of Eye Movements. European Reserach Conference, Giens/Toulon, Sept. 5-10, 1997

Human Frontier Science Program work shop. Neuronal Control of Self-motion Perception, Paris, June 23-26,1998

Cortical neuronal mechanisms and psychophysics of orientation and motion in three-dimensional space. European Reserach Conference, Castelvecchio Pascoli, April 9-14, 1999

Space Perception and Movement Execution. International Symposium. Collège de France, Paris, June 25-26, 1999