{"624924":{"#nid":"624924","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GT Neuro Seminar Series","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbigail Person, Ph.D.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAssociate Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026ldquo;Neural Mechanisms of Movement Precision\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHow the brain makes movements fast, smooth and accurate has remained a mystery. In this talk I will discuss our studies identifying predictive, adaptively scaled activity in a cerebellar output structure that causally controls limb velocity to enhance movement precision. The data have implications into the fundamental algorithms of the cerebellum and suggest loci for interventions in motor disorders.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Neural Mechanisms of Movement Precision\u201d - Abigail Person, Ph.D. - University of Colorado School of Medicine "}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2019-08-21 18:17:23","changed_gmt":"2019-08-21 18:17:23","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2019-09-09T12:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2019-09-09T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2019-09-09T13:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2019-09-09 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2019-09-09 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2019-09-09 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.neuro.gatech.edu","title":"GT Neuro"},{"url":"https:\/\/medschool.cuanschutz.edu\/physiology\/faculty\/abigail-person-phd","title":"Person profile"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"126571","name":"go-PetitInstitute"},{"id":"172970","name":"go-neuro"},{"id":"248","name":"IBB"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:garrett.stanley@bme.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGarrett Stanley\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}