Paul E. Cisek, Ph.D.

Address:                       Department of Physiology, room 4117
University of Montréal
C.P. 6128 Succursale Centre-ville
Montréal, QC H3C 3J7 Canada
Phone:  514-343-6111 x4355
FAX: 514-343-2111
E-mail: paul.cisek@umontreal.ca
Web: www.cisek.org/pavel

Personal data:             Born in Giżycko, Poland, on September 25, 1968.

Moved to United States in 1977, naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1981.

Fluent in English and Polish. Intermediate in French and Italian.

Research Interests

Neural mechanisms of decision-making, planning, and movement control, studied through an approach combining multi-electrode neural recordings, psychophysics, transcranial magnetic stimulation, functional neuroimaging, and computational modeling.

Education & Research Experience

9/1987 - 11/1991:          Bachelor of Science, Computer Science - magna cum laude
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York

9/1992 - 9/1996:            Doctor of Philosophy, Cognitive and Neural Systems
Degree conferred: January 25, 1997
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Thesis: "A neural model of voluntary reaching and postural control"
Supervisors: Daniel Bullock, Stephen Grossberg

11/1996 - 5/1998:          Postdoctoral Fellow
Supervisor: Stephen H. Scott
Département de physiologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
and Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
Single-unit recording from awake behaving monkeys, investigating the role of primary motor cortex in coordination of multi-joint torque production.

6/1998 - 8/2001:            Postdoctoral Fellow
Supervisor: John F. Kalaska
Département de physiologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Single-unit recording from awake behaving monkeys, investigating the role of premotor and parietal cortex in response-selection, planning, and movement execution.

8/2001 - 9/2002:            Research Associate
Département de physiologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Studies of decision-making, planning, and movement control.

11/2002 – 6/2003:          Visiting Researcher
Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, NIMH, Bethesda, MD
Collaborative behavioral neurophysiological research on movement planning and control in the primate cerebral cortex.

7/2003 – 10/2004:          Research Associate
Département de physiologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Studies of decision-making, planning, and movement control.

11/2004 – present:         Assistant Professor (Research)
Département de physiologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Neurophysiological, behavioral, and computational studies of decision-making, planning, and movement control.

 

Other Work Experience

12/1989 - 2/1990:          PPG Biomedical Corporation - Pleasantville, NY

                                    Wrote machine-level background test software for a cardiopulmonary monitoring system.
(Machine-level EPROM code)

6/1990 - 5/1991:            RIT Research Corporation - Rochester, NY

9/1991 - 11/1991:          Prototyped and developed software applications including an interactive geographical database, a free-text browser, and a virtual memory manager.  (Smalltalk, C, Macintosh)

5/1991 - 8/1991:            American University - Washington, DC

                                    Participated in the “Research Experience for Undergraduates” program in Artificial Intelligence.  Developed a scheme for extending the OPS5 expert system language with a Truth Maintenance System.  Presented this work at the 6th Annual Conference on Undergraduate Research at the University of Minnesota in March, 1992. 
(LISP, OPS5, Unix)

12/1991 - 8/1992:          Microsoft Corporation - Redmond, WA

                                    Developed a general software controller for various types of electronic media, for use with the Encarta electronic encyclopedia.  (C/C++, Windows)

Scholarships

9/1987 - 11/1991           Empire State Scholarship of Excellence (RIT)                                                     US $8000

9/1990 - 8/1991             DuPont Scholarship in Computer Science (RIT)                                                  US $1500

9/1992 - 8/1993             Presidential University Graduate Fellowship (BU)                                US $10,200 + tuition

9/1993 - 9/1996             CNS Graduate Scholarship (BU)                                                        US $48,000 + tuition

9/1997 - 8/1999             Post-doctoral fellowship from the National Institutes of Health                           US $44,352

6/1999 - 7/1999             McDonnell-Pew Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience                   tuition + expenses

3/2000 - 3/2001             Post-doctoral fellowship from the National Institutes of Health                           US $35,232

Grants

3/2002 - 3/2007             Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)                                          CAN $1,215,000
New Emerging Teams Initiative
(in collaboration with J. Kalaska, Y. Bengio, T. Drew, S. Scott)

3/2004 – 9/2004             National Institutes of Health SBIR Phase I Grant                                              US $98,868

6/2005                          University of Montréal startup-funds                                                              CAN $60,000

7/2005 – 6/2010             Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)                                            CAN $250,000
New Investigator Award (salary support)

2005 (declined)              Fonds de la Recherche en Santé Québec (FRSQ)                                              (declined)
Chercheur boursier Junior 2 (salary support)

10/2005 – 9/2008           Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)                                            CAN $231,774
Operating grant

2006                             Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI)                                                     CAN $345,182
New Opportunities Fund

3/2006 – 2/2011             Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)                     CAN $125,000
Discovery Grant

1/2007 – 3/2010             EJLB Foundation                                                                                      CAN $350,000
Scholar Research Programme

3/2009 – 2/2010             Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR / INMHA)                                 CAN $64,653
Operating grant – bridge funding

10/2009 – 9/2012           Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)                                              CAN $69,222
Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience

3/2010 – 2/2015             Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)                                            CAN $842,987
Operating grant

Other Distinctions and Awards

Dean’s List - Rochester Institute of Technology, all semesters

Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar (RIT)

Phi Kappa Phi (RIT)

Boston University Teaching Fellow Award

Brain Star Award, May 2005 (CIHR Institute of Neuroscience, Mental Health, and Addiction)

EJLB Scholar Award ($350,000, EJLB Foundation)

Professional Activities

Member: Groupe de recherche sur le système nerveux central, Groupe de recherche en science de la vision, Society for Neuroscience, Neural Control of Movement Society, Canadian Association for Neuroscience, Canadian Physiological Society, Behavioral and Brain Sciences Associate

Board memberships: Board member of the Neural Control of Movement society, Councilor of the Canadian Physiological Society

Committee memberships: CIHR Doctoral Research Awards Committee

Section editor on computational modeling for the journal Motor Control

Reviewing for:

            Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, National Science Foundation, New York State Spinal Cord Injury Research Program, Israel Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation

            Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Brain Research, Cerebral Cortex, Current Biology, Experimental Brain Research, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Journal of Neurophysiology, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena, Motor Control, Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Neural Networks, Neuron, Neurocomputing, Neural Computation, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Psychological Review, Scholarpedia, Trends in Neurosciences

Co-Organizer of 28th International Symposium of the GRSNC / CRSN, University of Montréal, May 8-9, 2006:
Computational Neuroscience, from theory to neurons and back again
http://www.grsnc.umontreal.ca/XXVIIIs/

Co-Organizer of “Theoretical Ideas in Motor Systems Neuroscience and their Capacity for Falsification”, a satellite conference of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement, Waikoloa, Hawaii, April 26-28, 2009.

Publications (*peer reviewed, †invited, trainees underlined)

Peer reviewed journal articles

1.       *Cisek, P., Puskas, G.A., and El-Murr, S. (2009) “Decisions in changing conditions: The urgency-gating model”. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(37): 11560-11571.

2.       *Thivierge, J-P. and Cisek, P. (2008) “Non-periodic synchronization in heterogeneous networks of spiking neurons”. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(32): 7968-7978.

3.       *Cisek, P. (2007) “Cortical mechanisms of action selection: The affordance competition hypothesis” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 362: 1585-1599.

4.       *Cisek, P. (2006) “Integrated neural processes for defining potential actions and deciding between them: A computational model”. Journal of Neuroscience. 26(38): 9761-9770.

5.       *Cisek, P. & Kalaska, J.F. (2005) “Neural correlates of reaching decisions in dorsal premotor cortex: specification of multiple direction choices and final selection of action”. Neuron. 45(5): 801-814.

6.       *†Cisek, P. (2005) “Neural representations of motor plans, desired trajectories, and controlled objects”. Cognitive Processing. 6: 15-24.

7.       *Cisek, P. & Kalaska, J.F. (2004) “Neural correlates of mental rehearsal in dorsal premotor cortex”. Nature 431: 993-996.

8.       *Graham, K.M., Moore, K.D., Cabel, D.W., Gribble, P.L., Cisek, P., and Scott, S.H. (2003) “Kinematics and kinetics of multi-joint reaching in non-human primates”.  Journal of Neurophysiology. 89 (5): 2667-2677.

9.       *Cisek, P., Crammond, D.J., and Kalaska, J.F. (2003) “Neural activity in primary motor and dorsal premotor cortex in reaching tasks with the contralateral versus ipsilateral arm”. Journal of Neurophysiology. 89 (2): 922-942.

10.   *Cisek, P. and Kalaska, J.F. (2002) “Modest gaze-related discharge modulation in monkey dorsal premotor cortex during a reaching task performed with free fixation”. Journal of Neurophysiology.  88 (2): 1064-1071.

11.   *Cisek, P. and Kalaska, J.F. (2002) “Simultaneous encoding of multiple potential reach directions in dorsal premotor cortex”. Journal of Neurophysiology.  87(2): 1149-1154.

12.   *Cabel, D.W., Cisek, P., and Scott, S.H. (2001) “Neural activity in primary motor cortex related to mechanical loads applied to the shoulder and elbow during a postural task”. Journal of Neurophysiology.  86(4): 2102-2108.

13.   *Cisek, P. and Scott, S.H. (1999) “An alternative interpretation of population vector rotation in macaque motor cortex”. Neuroscience Letters. 272: 1-4.

14.   *†Cisek, P. (1999) “Beyond the computer metaphor: Behaviour as interaction”. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 6(11-12): 125-142.

15.   *†Cisek, P. and Turgeon, M. (1999) “‘Binding through the fovea’: A tale of perception in the service of action”. Psyche, 5. http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v5/psyche-5-34-cisek.html

16.   *Bullock, D., Cisek, P., and Grossberg S. (1998). “Cortical networks for control of voluntary arm movements under variable force conditions”. Cerebral Cortex.  8: 48-62.

17.   *Cisek, P., Grossberg, S., and Bullock, D. (1998) “A cortico-spinal model of reaching and proprioception under multiple task constraints”. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 10(4): 425-444.

Submitted and in preparation

1.       Michelet, T., Duncan, G. and Cisek, P. (submitted) “Response competition in the primary motor cortex: Corticospinal excitability reflects response replacement during simple decisions”

2.       Thivierge, J-P., and Cisek, P. (submitted) “Spiking neurons that keep the rhythm”

3.       Nagano-Saito, A., Cisek, P., Perna, A.S., Shirdel, F.Z., Benkelfat, C., Leyton, M., Dagher, A. (submitted) “From anticipation to action, the role of dopamine on decision-making: an fMRI – tyrosine depletion study”

4.       Thura, D., Beauregard-Racine, J., and Cisek, P. (in preparation) “Human perceptual decisions in noisy, changing conditions”

5.       Cos, I., Bélanger, N., and Cisek, P. (in preparation) “The influence of arm biomechanics on decision-making”

6.       Gritsenko, V., Duncan, G., Kalaska, J.F., and Cisek, P. (in preparation) “Human primary motor cortex is involved in the control of intersegmental dynamics”

Review articles and commentaries

1.       *†Cisek, P. and Kalaska, J.F. (2010) “Neural mechanisms for interacting with a world full of action choices”. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 33: 269-298.

2.       †Cisek, P. (2008) “A remarkable facilitating effect of parietal damage”. Neuron. 58(1): 7-9.

3.       †Cisek, P. (2007) “The currency of guessing”. Nature. 447(7148): 1061-1062.

4.       †Cisek, P. (2006) “Preparing for speed. Focus on ‘Preparatory activity in premotor and motor cortex reflects the speed of the upcoming reach”. Journal of Neurophysiology. 96: 2842-2843.

5.       Cisek, P. and Kalaska, J.F. (2001) “Common codes for situated interaction”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 24(5): 883-884.

6.       Cisek, P. (2001) “Embodiment is all in the head”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 24(1): 36-38.

7.       †Kalaska, J.F., Scott, S.H., Cisek, P., Sergio, L.E. (1997) “Cortical control of reaching movements”. Current Opinion in Neurobiology.  7: 849-859.

8.       †Cisek, P. (1997) “Global Workspace theory in the spotlight of evolution”. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 4(4): 310-313.

Book chapters

1.       †Cisek, P. (in press) “Cortical mechanisms of action selection: The affordance competition hypothesis” In A. Seth, J. Bryson, and T. Prescott (Eds.) Modeling Natural Action Selection. Cambridge University Press.

2.       *†Cisek, P. (2008) “The affordance competition hypothesis: A framework for embodied behavior” In R. Klatzky, M. Behrmann, and B. MacWhinney (Eds.) Embodiment, Ego-Space, and Action. (pp. 203-246). New York: Psychology Press.

3.       Cisek, P. (2007) “A parallel framework for interactive behavior”. In P. Cisek, T. Drew, and J.F. Kalaska (Eds.) Computational Neuroscience: Theoretical Insights into Brain Function. Progress in Brain Research, vol.165 (pp. 475-492), Amsterdam: Elsevier.

4.       *†Cisek, P. and Kalaska, J.F. (2003) “Reaching movements: Implications for computational models”. In M. Arbib (Ed.) Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, 2nd Edition.  (pp. 945-948).  MIT Press.

5.       †Kalaska, J.F., Cisek, P., and Gosselin-Kessiby, N. (2003) “Mechanisms of selection and guidance of reaching movements in the parietal lobe”.  In Siegel, Andersen, Freund, Spencer (Eds.) Advances in Neurology: The Parietal Lobe. (pp. 97-119) Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

6.       †Cisek, P. (2001) “A computational perspective on proprioception and movement guidance in parietal cortex”.  In Nelson, R. (ed) The Somatosensory System: Deciphering the Brain's own Body Image.  (pp. 275-297).  CRC Press.

7.       †Kalaska, J.F., Sergio, L.E., and Cisek, P. (1998) “Cortical control of whole-arm motor tasks”.  In Glickstein, M. (ed)  Sensory Guidance of Movement, Novartis Foundation Symposium #218. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.

8.       Cisek, P., Bullock, D., and Grossberg, S. (1997).  “Cortical circuits for control of voluntary arm movements”.  In Bower, J. (ed) Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research, 1997. pp 287-292.  New York: Plenum Press.

Books

1.       Cisek, P., Drew, T., and Kalaska, J.F. (2007) Computational Neuroscience: Theoretical Insights into Brain Function. Progress in Brain Research, vol.165, Amsterdam: Elsevier.

2.       †Cisek, P. (under contract, in preparation) Recipe for a Brain: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Organization of Behavior.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins Press.

Conference proceedings

1.       *†Cisek, P., and Pastor-Bernier, A. (2010) “Decision-making at early stages of action preparation”. Oral presentation at the 7th FENS Forum of European Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 6, 2010.

2.       Cos, I., and Cisek, P. (2010) “The influence of biomechanics on decision-making”. 7th FENS Forum of European Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 3-7, 2010.

3.       Pastor-Bernier, A. and Cisek, P. (2010) “Neural correlates of biased competition between response options in dorsal premotor cortex”. 7th FENS Forum of European Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 3-7, 2010.

4.       *Gritsenko, V., Kalaska, J.F., and Cisek, P. (2010) “The mechanism of compensation for intersegmental dynamics includes cortical control of biarticular muscles”. Oral presentation at the 20th Annual Meeting on Neural Control of Movement, Naples, FL, April 20-25, 2010.

5.       Pastor-Bernier, A. and Cisek, P. (2010) “Neural correlates of biased competition between response options in dorsal premotor cortex”. 20th Annual Meeting on Neural Control of Movement, Naples, FL, April 20-25, 2010.

6.       Thura, D., Cisek, P. (2009) “Human perceptual decisions in noisy, changing conditions”. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.

7.       Gritsenko, V., Duncan, G., Kalaska, J.F., and Cisek, P. (2009) “Control of intersegmental dynamics by the primary motor cortex”. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.

8.       Nagano, A., Cisek, P., Perna, A.S., Shirdel, F.Z., Leyton, M., Benkelfat, C., and Dagher, A. (2009) “Reward expectation modulates motion discrimination performance via the decision-making threshold and evidence-accumulation speed. A dopamine-depleted fMRI study”. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.

9.       Nagano, A., Cisek, P., Perna, A.S., Shirdel, F.Z., Leyton, M., Benkelfat, C., and Dagher, A. (2009) “Reward expectation modulates motion discrimination performance via the decision-making threshold and evidence-accumulation speed. A dopamine-depleted fMRI study”. 15th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, San Francisco, CA, June 18-23, 2009.

10.   *†Cisek, P. (2009) “Action selection and the motor system”. Oral presentation at the 19th Annual Meeting on Neural Control of Movement, Waikoloa, HI, April 29th, 2009.

11.   Cos, I. and Cisek, P. (2009) “Biomechanical influences on decision-making”. 19th Annual Meeting on Neural Control of Movement, Waikoloa, HI, May 1st, 2009.

12.   †Cisek, P. (2009) “Attention and action selection through a distributed consensus”, Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) Workshops, Snowbird, Utah, March 3rd, 2009.

13.   †Cisek, P. (2009) “Changing evidence about decision models”, Canadian Physiological Society Winter Meeting 2009, Mont-Sainte-Anne, Québec, February 5, 2009.

14.   Pastor-Bernier, A. and Cisek, P. (2008) “Kinematic consequences of decision-making in monkeys”. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 34.

15.   Cisek, P., El-Murr, S. and Puskas, G. A. (2008) “Decision-making in changing conditions: Evidence against temporal integration models”. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 34.

16.   †Cisek, P. (2008) “Reaching decisions through a distributed consensus”, Workshop on Open Problems in the Neuroscience of Decision Making, OIST Seaside House, Okinawa, Japan, October 16-18, 2008.

17.   Gritsenko, V., Duncan, G., Kalaska, J.F., and Cisek, P. (2008) “Primary motor cortex is involved in compensation for limb dynamics”. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Neuroimaging in Cognition and Behavior, Montréal, QC, September 25-26, 2008.

18.   Pastor-Bernier, A. and Cisek, P. (2008) “Kinematic effects of decision-making in monkeys”. 2nd Annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting, Montréal, QC, May 25-28, 2008.

19.   Michelet, T., Théoret, H. and Cisek, P. (2008) “Corticospinal excitability reflects response competition during a decision-making task“. 2nd Annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting, Montréal, QC, May 25-28, 2008.

20.   El-Murr, S., Puskas, G.A., and Cisek, P. (2008) “Making decisions as the evidence is changing”. 2nd Annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting, Montréal, QC, May 25-28, 2008.

21.   Michelet, T., Théoret, H. and Cisek, P. (2008) “Corticospinal excitability reflects response competition during a decision-making task“. 18th Annual Meeting on Neural Control of Movement, Naples, FL, April 29-May 4, 2008.

22.   Puskas, G.A., Thivierge, J.-P., El-Murr, S., and Cisek, P. (2007) “Making decisions as the evidence is changing”. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 33.

23.   Thivierge, J.-P. and Cisek, P. (2007) “Exploring the mechanisms of aperiodic synchronization: A biophysical approach”. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 33.

24.   *†Cisek, P. (2007) “Deciding about actions”. Oral presentation at the 17th Annual Meeting on Neural Control of Movement, Seville, Spain, March 30th, 2007.

25.   †Cisek, P. (2007) “Cortical dynamics of action specification and selection” Program and Abstracts of the 10th Tamagawa-RIKEN Dynamic Brain Forum, Hakuba, Japan, March 8th, 2007.

26.   †Cisek, P. and Puskas, G.A. (2007) “Making decisions as the evidence is changing”, Canadian Physiological Society Winter Meeting 2007, Beaupré, Québec, January 31 – February 3, 2007.

27.   *†Cisek, P. (2005) “A computational model of reach decisions in the primate cerebral cortex”, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Montréal, Québec, July 31 – August 4, 2005. The International Neural Networks Society

28.   *Cisek, P. (2005) “A computational model of reach decisions in the primate cerebral cortex”, Modeling Natural Action Selection 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 30-31, 2005. The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour.

29.   Cisek, P. (2005) “Pragmatic neural representations for reach decisions: A computational model”, Program and Abstracts of the 15th Annual Meeting on Neural Control of Movement. Key Biscayne, FL, April 14th, 2005.

30.   Cisek, P., Michaud, N., and Kalaska, J.F. (2004) “Integration of motor planning and sensory feedback in area 5.” Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 30.

31.   Cisek, P. and Kalaska, J.F. (2004) “Specification and selection of possible reach targets in primate cerebral cortex”. Program and Abstracts of the 14th Annual Meeting on Neural Control of Movement. Sitges, Spain, March 29th, 2004.

32.   Cisek, P. (2003) “A model of action specification and selection in the cerebral cortex”. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 29.

33.   *Cisek, P. (2003) “A computational model of reach decisions in the primate cerebral cortex”. Advances in Computational Motor Control II, a Satellite Symposium of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. New Orleans, LA, November 7th, 2003.

34.   Cisek, P. & Kalaska, J.F. (2002) “Neural activity in dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) during observation of instructed-delay tasks” Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 28.

35.   *Cisek, P. (2002) “Think before you act, but prepare an assortment of partial actions before you think”. Advances in Computational Motor Control, a Satellite Symposium of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Orlando, FL, November 2nd, 2002.

36.   Cisek, P. & Kalaska, J.F. (2001) “Activity in dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) reflects anticipation of the likely response choice during a selection task”. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 27.

37.   †Cisek, P. (2001) “Progressive specification of movement in dorsal premotor and primary motor cortex”.  Oral presentation at the 11th Annual Meeting on Neural Control of Movement, Seville, Spain, March 27th, 2001.

38.   Cisek, P. and Kalaska, J.F. (2000) “Modest gaze-related discharge modulation in primate dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) during a response-selection task without controlled gaze fixation”. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 26(1):957.

39.   Kalaska, J.F., Cisek, P., and Crammond, D.J. (2000) “Effector-independent activity in primate dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) during instructed-delay tasks”. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 26(1):957.

40.   *Cisek, P. (2000) “The ‘Two Action Systems’ model of behavior”.  The 26th annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Columbia University, June 17th, 2000.

41.   Cisek, P. and Kalaska, J.F. (1999) “Neural correlates of multiple potential motor actions in primate premotor cortex”. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 25(1):381.

42.   Cisek, P. and Scott, S.H. (1998) “Cooperative action of mono- and bi-articular arm muscles during multi-joint posture and movement tasks in monkeys”. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 24(1):420.

43.   Scott, S.H. and Cisek, P. (1998) “The use of KINARM to quantify and manipulate the mechanics of multi-joint arm movements of monkeys”. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 24(1):420.

44.   Scott, S.H. and Cisek, P. (1997) “Population vector rotation without mental rotation”. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 23(2):274.

45.   Cisek, P., Grossberg, S. and Bullock, D. (1997) “A cortico-spinal model of reaching and proprioception under multiple task constraints”. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 23(2):369.

46.   Cisek, P., Bullock, D., and Grossberg, S. (1996) “Cortical circuits for control of voluntary arm movements”. Program and Abstracts of the 6th Annual Meeting on Neural Control of Movement Vol 1, CI-1 p. 30.

47.   Cisek, P., Bullock, D., and Grossberg, S. (1995) “Cortical networks for control of voluntary arm movements under variable force conditions”. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 21:269.

48.   Chey, J., Cisek, P., Gaudiano, P., and Wood, R. (1994) “Are learned biases in Aplysia headwaving due to associative or non-associative mechanisms?”. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 20:1073.

49.   Bullock, D., Cisek, P., and Grossberg, S. (1994) “A neural model of voluntary movement and proprioception”. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 20:1405.

50.   Cisek, P. and Gray, M. (1992). “Extending the Reasoning Ability of Expert Systems”. Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on Undergraduate Research Vol II:762-767.

Invited talks & presentations

1.       †Cisek, P. (2010) “Integrated neural processes of decision-making and sensorimotor planning”. Cognitive and Physical Models of Speech Production, Speech Perception and Production-Perception Interaction, Berlin, Germany, Sept 27-October 1, 2010.

2.       †Cisek, P. (2010) “Integrated neural processes of decision-making and sensorimotor planning”, Seventh Motor Control Summer School, Wisła, Poland, June 24-28, 2010.

3.       †Cisek, P. (2009) “Decisions in changing conditions: The urgency-gating model”. Bordeaux Workshop on Decision Making, Bordeaux, France, June 9-10, 2009.

4.       †Cisek, P. (2009) “The blurry borders between deciding and doing”. Jerusalem Motor Days, Jerusalem, Israel, June 7th, 2009.

5.       †Cisek, P. (2009) “The blurry borders between deciding and doing”, The 13th International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, Boston, MA, May 27-30, 2009.

6.       †Cisek, P. (2009) “Reaching decisions through a distributed consensus”, CNRS, Université Victor Segalen-Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France, March 30th, 2009.

7.       †Cisek, P. (2009) “Deciding about actions: The affordance competition hypothesis”, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, March 10th, 2009.

8.       †Cisek, P. (2008) “Making decisions as the evidence is changing”, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan, October 14, 2008.

9.       †Cisek, P. (2008) “Cognition through sensorimotor competition”, Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology Summer School, Barcelona, Spain, Sept 8-22, 2008.

10.   †Cisek, P. (2008) “The blurry borders between deciding and doing”, Fifth Motor Control Summer School, Camp Maromac, Val Des Lacs, Québec, July 11-15, 2008.

11.   †Cisek, P. (2008) “Deciding about actions: The affordance competition hypothesis”, Department of physiology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, March 31st, 2008.

12.   †Cisek, P. (2008) “Deciding about actions: The affordance competition hypothesis”, Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, March 20th, 2008.

13.   †Cisek, P. (2008) “Deciding about actions: The affordance competition hypothesis”, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, March 19th, 2008.

14.   †Cisek, P. (2007) “Cerebral cortical mechanisms of decision-making and action planning”, The EJLB Foundation Scholars Symposium, North Hatley, Québec, October 12-14, 2007.

15.   †Cisek, P. (2007) “Some old and some new ideas in neuroscience”, St. Paul’s Lodge, Montréal, Québec, October 9, 2007

16.   †Cisek, P. (2007) “Cortical mechanisms of reach decisions”, First Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Neuroscience, Toronto, Ontario, May 23-25, 2007.

17.   †Cisek, P. (2007) “Computational and neurophysiological studies of simple decisions”, Frontiers of Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, April 13, 2007.

18.   *†Cisek, P. (2007) “Deciding about actions”. Oral presentation at the 17th Annual Meeting on Neural Control of Movement, Seville, Spain, March 30th, 2007.

19.   †Cisek, P. (2007) “Deciding about actions: The affordance competition hypothesis”, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Göttingen, Germany, March 23, 2007.

20.   †Cisek, P. (2007) “Deciding about actions: The affordance competition hypothesis”, Institute of Movement Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK, March 21, 2007.

21.   †Cisek, P. (2007) “Cortical dynamics of action specification and selection”, The 10th Tamagawa-Riken Dynamic Brain Forum – DBF’07, Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, March 5-9, 2007.

22.   †Cisek, P. (2006) “Cognitive processes in the primate premotor cortex”, École d’Optométrie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, November 27th, 2006.

23.   †Cisek, P. (2006) “La planification et la prise de decision dans le cortex cerebral”, 2nd Annual GRSNC retreat, Far Hills Inn, Val-Morin, Québec, September 23, 2006.

24.   †Cisek, P. (2006) “Deciding about actions: The affordance competition hypothesis”, The 34th Carnegie Symposium on Cognition, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, June 3, 2006.

25.   Cisek, P. (2006) “Pragmatic representations for action and cognition”, XXIIIth International Symposium: Computational Neuroscience, from theory to neurons and back again, University of Montréal, May 8, 2006.

26.   †Cisek, P. (2005) “Deciding about actions: The affordance competition hypothesis” Montréal Neurological Institute, Montréal, Québec, January 26th, 2006.

27.   †Cisek, P. (2005) “Think before you act, but prepare multiple afforded actions before you think”, An Anniversary Conference Celebrating Steve Grossberg@65 and CNS@15, Boston, MA, September 17, 2005.

28.   *†Cisek, P. (2005) “A computational model of reach decisions in the primate cerebral cortex”, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Montréal, Québec, July 31 – August 4, 2005.

29.   *†Cisek, P. (2005) “A computational model of reach decisions in the primate cerebral cortex”, Modeling Natural Action Selection 2005 – An interdisciplinary workshop at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 30-31, 2005.

30.   †Cisek, P. (2005) “Premotor activity predicting observed actions”. Perception-Action Paris 2005: A symposium on the prediction and perception of action. Paris, France, May 20th, 2005.

31.   †Cisek, P. (2005) “Neural mechanisms for deciding between actions”. Dept. of Physiology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, January 21st, 2005.

32.   †Cisek, P. (2004) “Making decisions about actions” 3rd Annual Meeting of the Institute of Neuroscience, Mental Health, and Addiction – Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Ottawa, ON, November 26th, 2004.

33.   †Cisek, P. (2004) “Premotor activity during mental rehearsal of learned actions”. Dept. of Physiology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, August 26th, 2004.

34.   †Cisek, P. (2004) “Neural mechanisms for deciding between actions”. Dept. of physiology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, June 22nd, 2004.

35.   †Cisek, P. (2003) “Neural mechanisms for deciding between actions”. Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, April 7th, 2003.

36.   †Cisek, P. (2002) “Response selection in premotor cortex and implications for the functional architecture of behavior”.  Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, April 2nd, 2002.

37.   †Cisek, P. (2002) “Response selection in premotor cortex and implications for the functional architecture of behavior”.  Dept. of Cognitive Science, University of California, Irvine, March 4th, 2002.

38.   †Cisek, P. (2001) “Response selection in premotor cortex and implications for the functional architecture of behavior”.  Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, October 24th, 2001.

39.   †Cisek, P. (2001) “Response selection in premotor cortex and implications for the functional architecture of behavior”.  Dept. of Kinesiology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, February 9th, 2001.

40.   †Cisek, P. (2001) “Response selection in premotor cortex and implications for the functional architecture of behavior”.  Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, February 12th, 2001.

41.   †Cisek, P. (2000) “A ‘two action systems’ theory of behavior”.  Dept. of Physiology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, November 17th, 2000.

42.   †Cisek, P. (2000) “The two action systems: specification and selection in the cerebral cortex”. The 10th Anniversary of the Dept. of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, May 23rd, 2000.

43.   †Cisek, P. (2000) “Action selection in the premotor cortex”. The 68th meeting of l'Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences, Université de Montréal, May 16th, 2000.

44.   Cisek, P. (2000) “Succumbing to the influence: Making decisions in an uncertain world”.  Workshop organized (by P. Cisek) at the 10th Annual Meeting on Neural Control of Movement, Key West, FL, April 12th, 2000. Speakers: P. Cisek, M. Basso, P. Glimcher, and M. Shadlen.

45.   †Cisek, P. (2000) “The two action systems: specification and selection in the cerebral cortex”.  Dept. de physiologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec.  January 25th, 2000.

46.   †Cisek, P. (1999) “The two action systems: specification and selection in the cerebral cortex”.  Dept. of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, Boston, MA, September 24th, 1999.

47.   †Cisek, P. and Scott, S.H. (1998) “Cooperative action of mono- and bi-articular arm muscles during multi-joint posture and movement tasks in monkeys”. Conference for Research in Action and Perception, June 5-6, 1998.  Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.

48.   †Scott, S.H. and Cisek, P. (1998) “The use of KINARM to quantify and manipulate the mechanics of multi-joint arm movements of monkeys”. Conference for Research in Action and Perception, June 5-6, 1998.  Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.

49.   †Cisek, P. and Kalaska, J.F. (1998) “On-line generation of movement parameters: Computational and neurophysiological perspectives”.  The 8th Annual Meeting on Neural Control of Movement, Satellite Meeting on Computational Modeling.

50.   †Cisek, P. (1997) “Interpreting cortical activity with a model of motor control”. Sensorimotor ’97: Cell types and task-dependent composition of arm movement commands, a Satellite Symposium of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

51.   Cisek, P., Bullock, D., and Grossberg, S. (1996) “Cortical circuits for control of voluntary arm movements”. The 5th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting.