Ashvin Shah ash [at] cs [dot] umass [dot] edu (I know, I know... deal with it) Autonomous Learning Laboratory Lab Contact Info Graduate Student Neuroscience & Behavior program University of Massachusetts, Amherst Advisors: Prof. Andrew G. Barto and Prof. Andrew H. Fagg

----- Academic Info

• Research interests include: computational neuroscience, motor control, and artificial intelligence.
  
• Academic Background
• Peeps Research, with Marc Pickett I

----- Publications

• Shah, A., Fagg, A. H., and Barto, A. G. (2004)
  Cortical Involvement in the Recruitment of Wrist Muscles
  Journal of Neurophysiology vol. 91, pages 2445 - 2456
  [pdf | ps | JNP pdf]

• Fagg, A. H., Shah, A., and Barto, A. G. (2002)
  A Computational Model of Muscle Recruitment for Wrist Movements
  Journal of Neurophysiology vol. 88, pages 3348 - 3358
  [pdf | ps | easy to read pdf]

• Posters

  • Shah, A., and Barto, A.G. (2007)
    Effect on Movement Selection of Evolving Sensory Representation
    poster presented at the Third Annual Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Conference (CCNC07), in conjunction with Dynamical Neuroscience XV, November 1 -- 2, San Diego, CA.
    [ pdf ]

  • Shah, A., and Barto, A.G. (2007)
    Functional Mechanisms of Motor Skill Acquisition
    poster presented at the Sixteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2007), July 7th - 12th, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Abstract published in BMC Neuroscience 2007, 8(Suppl 2):P203 (6 July 2007)
    [ abstract | pdf of poster ]

  • Shah, A., Barto, A.G., and Fagg, A.H (2006)
    Biologically-Based Functional Mechanisms of Coarticulation
    poster presented at Neural Control of Movement Conference, May 2-7, 2006, Key Biscayne, FL.
    small file pdf: [ pdf ]

  • Shah, A., Fagg, A. H., and Barto, A. G. (2002)
    Cortical Involvement in the Recruitment of Wrist Muscles
    poster presented at Neural Control of Movement Conference, April 14-21, 2002, Naples, FL
    Abstract; poster: [ pdf | ps ]

  • Shah, A., Fagg, A. H., and Barto, A. G. (2001)
    A Computational Model of Muscle Recruitment for Wrist Movements
    poster presented at Neural Control of Movement Conference, March 25-30, 2001, Seville, Spain
    Abstract; poster: [ pdf | ps ]

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