10:00 – 11:20
Room: HS3 Symposium Imagery I - Chair: Martin Lotze
“Motor imagery training and its neurofunctional mechanisms”
- Martin Lotze (Greifswald): Overview about fMRI-research on mental practice
- Quang Thong Thai (Greifswald): fMRI in mental practice of aiming
- Florent Lebon (Dijon): Cerebellar contributions to mental training
- Ambra Bisio (Geneva): The effect of motor imagery practice on cortical plasticity, motor learning and perceived fatigability in multiple sclerosis
Room: HS4 Symposium Motor Learning - Chairs: Philipp Wanner & Simon Steib
“The Role of Exercise in Enhancing Motor Learning in Aging and Neurorehabilitation: Insights into Mechanisms and Applications”
- Veit Kraft (Munich): Effects of Aging on Motor Memory Formation – A Systematic Review
- Jesper Lundbye-Jensen (Copenhagen): Effects of acute exercise on motor skill learning and memory in young and older adults
- Philipp Wanner (Heidelberg): The Effect of Multiple Sessions of Combined Motor Practice and Cardiovascular Exercise on Learning a Complex Balance Skill in Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease
- Jacopo Cristini (Montreal): Motor Skill Acquisition and Retention in Parkinson's Disease: Preliminary Analysis of Secondary Outcomes in an Ongoing RCT
Room: SE5 Symposium Manual Dexterity - Chair: Påvel Lindberg
“Manual dexterity technologies – from musical and martial arts expertise to post-stroke rehabilitation”
- Agnes Roby-Brami (Paris): Control of a working point outside the body. Kinematic investigation of Taichi sword practice.
- Xiao Xiao (Paris): Lessons in Motor Control from Learning the Theremin.
- Påvel Lindberg (Paris): Measurement and rehabilitation of finger motor control after stroke.
- Elisa Dziezuk (Paris): Use of haptic stimulation to improve manual dexterity in healthy controls and stroke patients.
11:30 – 12:50
Room: HS3 Symposium Imagery II - Chairs: Cornelia Frank & Andrea Polzien
“Mechanisms of imagery and imagery training”
- Magdalena Gippert (Leipzig): Motor imagery enhances performance of linked segments in a motor sequence
- Marie Martel (Surrey): Motor imagery is immune to variables that impact the online control of physical actions: A further test of the Motor-Cognitive Model
- Cornelia Frank (Bremen): Prior experience influences the effectiveness of imagery training in a complex motor task: Evidence for perceptual-cognitive scaffolding
- Andrea Polzien (Osnabrück): Does previous experience in a task influence the effectiveness of imagery training in a similar task?
Room: HS4 Symposium PA & Ageing I - Chair: Kerstin Witte
„Interventionseffekte bei älteren Erwachsenen“
- Anneke Schumacher (Magdeburg): Einfluss eines multidimensionalen Bewegungsprogramms auf ausgewählte motorische Fähigkeiten unter Berücksichtigung von alters- und geschlechtsspezifischen Faktoren bei sportlichen inaktiven und gesunden Senioren
- Ulrich Thiel (Magedburg): Zusammenhang zwischen Muskelentwicklung und Balance
- Alexander Prinz (Magdeburg): Feasibility and effectiveness of serious games in motor training for people with dementia
- Bettina Wollesen (Köln): Age-related hearing-impairment and cognitive-motor dual-task performance- impacts for training APP development
Room: SE5 Free Session Learning - Chairs: Stefan Panzer & Matthias Weigelt
Speakers:
- Stefan Panzer (Saarbrücken): Observational practice: Successful perceptual-motor re-sponse mapping induces learning advantages
- Stephan Dahm (Innsbruck): The acquisition of sequence representations in action imagery practice and action observation practice
- Raz Leib (Munich): Prior Belief in Another Agent Directly Tunes Our Sense of Agency
- Matthias Weigelt (Paderborn): Coordination coefficiency in social interaction: A pilot study for the object-transport task in a real-life context
- Simon Appoltshauser (Munich): Evaluation of Contextual Cues in a Simulated Robot-Human Handover
13:15 – 13:30 Opening
13:30 – 15:00 Keynote Lectures DEVELOPMENT
- Prof. Dr. Gustav Gredebäck (Uppsala): How our hands shape our minds
- Prof. Dr. Nadja Schott (Stuttgart): Motor-cognitive performance in typical and atypica developing populations - a lifespan perspective
15:30 – 16:50
Room: HS1 Symposium PA & Aging II - Chairs: Marco Taubert & Benedikt Lauber
“Balance training in healthy older individuals: effects on brain and behavior”
- Nisha Prabhu (Magdeburg): Response-optimized balance training in healthy older individuals: task-, transfer- and neural effects
- Yves-Alain Kuhn (Fribourg): Age-related decline in GABAergic intracortical inhibition can be counteracted by long-term learning of balance skills
- Nico Lehmann (Magdeburg): Brain microstructural changes during balance training: Novel insights based on multimodal multivariate MRI analysis
- Sven Egger (Fribourg): Improved sleep quality after three months of balance learning in older adults
Room: HS3 Symposium Sensorimotor Predictions - Chairs: S. Zahno & L. Maurer
„Sensorimotor Predicitons“
- Theresa K. Brand (Giessen): (Predicted) task success mediates eye movements toward targets with high informational or motivational value
- Fabian Tatai (Darmstadt): Ballistic sensorimotor actions under risk take Newtonian physics into account
- Stephan Zahno (Bern): Humans can learn and use bimodal priors in complex sensorimotor behaviour
- Damian Beck (Bern): Tennis players exploit prior knowledge to improve performance: Evidence for continuous anticipatory decision-making
Room: HS4 Free Session Ageing and Brain Health - Chairs: Bettina Wollesen & Carmen Krewer
Speakers:
- John Andersson (…): Binocular Saccade Velocity Abnormalities in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.
- Ingo Helmich (Smith College): Motor-sensory systems cannot countervail balance deficits in concussed athletes
- Lorenz Assländer (Konstanz): Estimation of self-motion from conflicting sensory cues in human balance control
- Dimitris Voudouris (Giessen): Aging relies on predictive gaze during interception.
- Laura Faßbender (Giessen): Feedback is differently relevant to children and adults: Neural correlates of error processing in a daily-based motor task
17:00 – 18:30 Panel Board Meeting
18:30 Welcome Reception