Talks

Goodman, J. M., Schaffelhofer, S., & Scherberger, H. (November 2022). Opportunities and limitations of neural representations of observed action. Nanosymposium talk. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. [Abstracts of the Society for Neuroscience 51: 102.08] (link to SfN program abstract) (slides)

Goodman, J. M., Schaffelhofer, S., & Scherberger, H. (April 2021). Grip-specific neural population dynamics are not shared between action and observation in the frontoparietal cortical grasping network. Data Blitz talk. Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM), Online. (abstract) (link to conference program, see pp. 30-31) (slides)

Goodman, J. M., Schaffelhofer, S., & Scherberger, H. (October 2020). Grip-specific dynamics are not shared between action and observation in the frontoparietal cortical grasping network. Interactive talk. Neuromatch, Online. (link to Neuromatch program abstract) (link to YouTube recording)

Goodman, J. M., Suresh, A.K., Okorokova, E.V., Hatsopoulos, N.G., & Bensmaia, S.J. (October 2019). Primary motor cortex does not exhibit orderly dynamics during grasp. Nanosymposium talk. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL. [Abstracts of the Society for Neuroscience 49: 722.08] (link to SfN program abstract) (slides)

Goodman, J. M.. (Early 2019). Postural representations of the hand in primate sensorimotor cortex. Job talk given when applying for post-doctoral positions at Johns Hopkins University, the German Primate Center (DPZ), and the University of Rochester. (slides)


Posters

Goodman, J. M., Schaffelhofer, S., & Scherberger, H. (July 2022). The parietofrontal cortical grasping network does not differentiate distinct grips during action observation. Poster. Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM), Dublin, Ireland. (link to NCM abstract booklet)

Goodman, J. M., Schaffelhofer, S., & Scherberger, H. (July 2022). Seven years of back luck: cracks in the longstanding mirror neuron hypothesis. Poster. FENS Forum, Paris, France. (link to FENS abstract booklet)

Goodman, J. M., Schaffelhofer, S., & Scherberger, H. (November 2021). How similar are representations of observed and executed grasps in the frontoparietal cortical grasping network? Virtual Poster. Society for Neuroscience, Online. [Abstracts of the Society for Neuroscience 50: P555.04] (link to SfN program abstract) (slides)

Goodman, J. M., Schaffelhofer, S., & Scherberger, H. (September 2021). How similar are representations of observed and executed grasps in the frontoparietal cortical grasping network? Virtual Poster. Bernstein Conference, Online. (link to Bernstein Conference program abstract)

Goodman, J. M., Schaffelhofer, S., & Scherberger, H. (October 2020). Population-level signatures of action and observation in the frontoparietal grasping network. Virtual Poster. Bernstein Conference, Online. (link to Bernstein Conference program abstract)

Goodman, J. M., Lee, A.S., Okorokova, E.V., Suresh, A.K., Hatsopoulos, N.G., & Bensmaia, S.J. (November 2018). Neurons in somatosensory and motor cortices encode hand postures, not joint velocities. Poster. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA [Abstracts of the Society for Neuroscience 48: 310.12] (link to SfN program abstract)

Goodman, J. M., Lee, A.S., Suresh, A.K., Hatsopoulos, N.G., & Bensmaia, S.J. (May 2018). The representation of hand postures and movements in somatosensory cortex. Poster. Janelia conference on the Mechanisms of Dexterous Behavior, Ashburn, VA (link to conference website) (abstract)

Goodman, J. M., Tabot, G.A., Suresh, A.K., Hatsopoulos, N.G., & Bensmaia, S.J. (May 2017). No evidence for hand synergies in sensorimotor cortices of macaques. Poster. Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM), Dublin, Ireland. (link to conference website) (abstract)

Goodman, J. M., Tabot, G.A., Suresh, A.K., Hatsopoulos, N.G., & Bensmaia, S.J. (November 2016). High-dimensional representation of hand movements in sensory and motor cortices. Poster. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA [Abstracts of the Society for Neuroscience 46: 151.11] (link to SfN program abstract)

Goodman, J. M., Tabot, G.A., Rajan, A.S., Suresh, A.K., Hatsopoulos, N.G., & Bensmaia, S.J. (October 2015). Do proprioceptive neurons in somatosensory cortex encode muscle length? Poster. Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL [Abstracts of the Society for Neuroscience 45: 706.22] (link to SfN program abstract)

Goodman, J. M., Lieber, J.D., Saal, H.P., & Bensmaia, S.J. (November 2014). Spatial variation of simulated slowly adapting type 1 afferent responses to embossed dot patterns predicts perceived roughness. Poster. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C. [Abstracts of the Society for Neuroscience 44: 441.16] (link to SfN program abstract)


Class Lectures


Lecture Slides | Graph Theory | Methods in Computational Neuroscience | 2015


Lecture Notes | Kalman Filter | Signal Analysis for Neuroscientists | 2015


Internal Journal Club Presentations


Discussion of “Hierarchical organization of rhesus macaque behavior”, Voloh et al., 2022, bioRxiv preprint | 08 March 2022 | Neurobiology Lab Journal Club | German Primate Center (Link to preprint)


Executive summary of Neuromatch Deep Learning Summer School August 2021 | 05 October 2021 | Neurobiology Lab Journal Club | German Primate Center (Link to course materials)


Discussion of “High-resolution imaging of skin deformation shows that afferents from human fingertips signal slip onset”, Delhaye et al., 2021 eLife | 11 May 2021 | Neurobiology Lab Journal Club | German Primate Center (Link to journal article)


Discussion of “Structure in Neural Activity during Observed and Executed Movements is Shared at the Neuronal Population Level, not in Single Neurons”, Jiang et al. 2020, Cell Reports | 08 December 2020 | Neurobiology Lab Journal Club | German Primate Center (Link to journal article)


Discussion of “Effect of viewing distance on object responses in macaque areas 45B, F5a, and F5p”, Caprara and Janssen 2020, bioRxiv preprint | 30 June 2020 | Neurobiology Lab Journal Club | German Primate Center (Link to preprint)


Discussion of “Condition-Dependent Neural Dimensions Progressively Shift during Reach to Grasp”, Rouse and Schieber 2019, Cell Reports | 19 November 2019 | Neurobiology Lab Journal Club | German Primate Center (Link to journal article)


Discussion of “Spinal stretch reflexes support efficient hand control”, Weiler et al. 2019, Nature Neuroscience brief communication | 18 February 2019 | Bensmaia Lab Journal Club | University of Chicago (Link to journal article) (Link to PDF hosted by the Gribble lab website)