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SUMMARY:BMI Seminar // Jean Michel Mongeau: How brains and bodies build fl
 exible movement
DTSTART:20260930T121500
DTEND:20260930T131500
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DESCRIPTION:Jean Michel Mongeau\nMovement depends on nested sensorimotor l
 oops that span multiple levels of control\, from rapid stabilizing reflexe
 s to goal-directed actions. A central challenge in motor neuroscience is t
 o understand how these levels interact to produce flexible behavior\, and 
 where adaptation and sensory feedback are distributed across the hierarchy
 . In this talk\, I will present a framework for studying motor control tha
 t combines experiments and theory at the interface of neuromechanics\, con
 trol theory\, and robotics. Using insect locomotion as an experimentally t
 ractable model\, I will show how vision and proprioception contribute to c
 ontrol at different levels of the motor hierarchy. I will also discuss new
  experimental and computational approaches for probing closed-loop motor c
 ontrol in virtual reality. More broadly\, this work aims to uncover genera
 l principles by which nervous systems generate flexible movement through i
 nteractions among neural circuits\, body mechanics\, and the environment.\
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LOCATION:SV 1717 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717 https://epfl.zoom.u
 s/j/69163880297
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