Alumni of the
Laboratory for Computational Motor Control
Minnan Xu-Wilson
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Minnan Xu-Wilson, 2005
Minnan’s birthday, 2006
Lab outing, Niagara Falls, 2006
Lab outing, Niagara Falls, 2006
Coronado Island bungalow, Society
for Neuroscience meeting, San Diego 2006
Minnan built the amplifier
control box for the bimanual robot, shown here in 2008
Minnan Xu-Wilson and Reza
Shadmehr, 2009
Reza Shadmehr, Jun Izawa, John
Krakauer, Andy Barto, Minnan Xu-Wilson, and JJ Orban de Xivry, Germany 2009.
Minnan Xu-Wilson and David
Zee. Thesis defense, 2010.
Minnan Xu-Wilson and Reza
Shadmehr. Thesis defense, 2010. |
Minnan
completed her BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and then joined
the lab in 2005. Minnan discovered
that stimulus value discounted the motor commands that initiated eye
movements, and that a function of the cerebellum was to monitor this
variability and compensate for it. Minnan also discovered
that the fast timescale of adaptation was impaired in cerebellar
disease. Finally, Minnan discovered that transcranial
magnetic stimulation of the brain could disrupt an ongoing saccade, but that
this perturbation was compensated with motor commands that arrived later in
the same movement. She completed a PhD in Biomedical Engineering
on May 2010 with the thesis Adaptive control of saccades via internal
feedback. She subsequently
became a postdoc at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard
University. Her thesis
results were published in the following papers: TMS perturbs saccade trajectories and unmasks an
internal feedback controller for saccades. M Xu-Wilson, J Tian, R Shadmehr, and DS Zee (2011) Journal of Neuroscience, 31:
11537-11546. Abstract Temporal discounting of reward and the cost
of time in motor control (2010). R Shadmehr,
JJ Orban de Xivry, M Xu-Wilson, and TY Shih. Journal
of Neuroscience 30:10507-10516. Abstract ThisWeekintheJournal Cerebellar contributions to adaptive control of saccades in humans. M Xu-Wilson, H Chen-Harris, DS Zee, and R Shadmehr (2009) Journal of Neuroscience 29:12930-12939. Abstract The intrinsic
value of visual information affects saccade velocities. M Xu-Wilson, DS Zee,
and R Shadmehr (2009) Experimental Brain Research 196:475-481. Abstract |
