Publication List - Amir Karniel

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Journals

  • Mawase F, Bar-Haim S, Karniel A (in press) Lack of Predictive Control in lifting series of virtual objects by individuals with diplegic Cerebral Palsy, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, September 2011 [ms pdf]
  • Levy-Tzedek S, Ben-Tov M, Karniel A (2011) Rhythmic movements are larger, faster but with the same frequency upon removal of visual feedback Journal of Neurophysiology 106:2120-2126 [ms, pdf] [paper, pdf]
  • Karniel A (2011) Open questions in computational motor control.  Journal of Integrative Neuroscience 10:385-411 [paper, pdf]
  • Nisky I., Pressman A., Pugh CM, Mussa-Ivaldi FA and Karniel A (2011) Perception and Action in Teleoperated Needle Insertion. IEEE Transactions on Haptics. 4:155-166 [ms pdf]
  • Pressman A., Karniel A., and Mussa-Ivaldi FA (2011) How Soft Is That Pillow? The Perceptual Localization of the Hand and the Haptic Assessment of Contact Rigidity. The Journal of Neuroscience 31(17):6595-6604 [abstract at the Journal web-site] [pdf]
  • Karniel, A., G. Avraham, B.-C. Peles, S. Levy-Tzedek, and I. Nisky, One Dimensional Turing-Like Handshake Test for Motor Intelligence. J Vis Exp, 2010(46): p. e2492. [protocol pdf]  [http://www.jove.com/index/Details.stp?ID=2492]
  • Levy-Tzedek S, Ben-Tov M, Karniel A (2011) Early switching between movement types: indication of predictive control? Brain Research Bulletin 85(5) 283-288 [pdf]
  • Levy N, Pressman A, Mussa-Ivaldi FA, Karniel A (2010) Adaptation to Delayed Force Perturbations in Reaching Movements. PLoS ONE 5(8): e12128. [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012128]
  • Nisky I, Baraduc P, and Amir Karniel (2010) Proximodistal gradient in the perception of delayed stiffness. Journal of Neurophysiology 103:3017-3026  [ms, pdf] [doi:10.1152/jn.00939.2009]
  • Mawase F, Karniel A (2010) Evidence for predictive control in lifting series of virtual objects. Experimental Brain Research 203:447–452 [ms, pdf]
  • Leibowitz N, Baum B, Enden G, Karniel A (2010) The exponential learning equation as a function of successful trials results in sigmoid performance.  Journal of Mathematical Psychology 54:338-340 doi:10.1016/j.jmp.2010.01.006 [pdf]
  • Botzer L, Karniel A (2009) A simple and accurate onset detection method for a measured bell-shaped speed profile. Frontiers in Neuroscience 3:61. doi:10.3389/neuro.20.002.2009 [Matlab code] [paper, pdf]
  • Edrei Y,  Mintz M, Barnea O and Karniel A (2009) Involvement of the autonomic nervous system in motor adaptation: acceleration or error reduction?  Accepted for publication in Experimental Brain Research 192:133-143 [ms, pdf]
  • Nisky I, Mussa-Ivaldi FA, Karniel A (2008) A Regression and Boundary-Crossing Based Model for the Perception of Delayed Stiffness. Accepted for publication in IEEE transactions on Haptics 1(2):73-82 [ms, pdf]
  • Pressman A, Nisky I, Karniel A, Mussa-Ivaldi FA (2008) Probing Virtual Boundaries and the Perception of Delayed Stiffness.  Advanced Robotics 22:119-140 [abstract] [paper, pdf]
  • Leibowitz N, Levy N, Weingarten S, Grinberg Y, Karniel A, Sacher Y, Serfaty C, and Soroker N. (2008) Automated measurement of proprioception following stroke. Disability and Rehabilitation 30(24):1829-1836 [abstract] [ms, pdf] [paper, pdf]
  • Ben-Itzhak S and Karniel A. (2008) Minimum acceleration criterion with constraints implies bang-bang control as an underlying principle for optimal trajectories of arm reaching movements.  Neural Computation, 20(3):779-812 [ abstract ] [ms, pdf ] [nc] [paper, PDF]
  • Pressman A, Welty LH, Karniel A, Mussa-Ivaldi FA (2007) Perception of delayed stiffness. The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) 26:1191-1203, 2007 [abstract] [ms, pdf]
  • Trainin E, Meir R, Karniel A (2007) Optimal Control Theory Predicts Complex Patterns of Neural Activity Observed in the Primary Motor Cortex.  J Neurophysiol (March 14, 2007). doi:10.1152/jn.01064.2006  [ abstract ] [paper, pdf ]
  • Klaiman E and Karniel A (2006) Bimanual Adaptation: Internal Representations of Bimanual Rhythmic Movements.   Experimental Brain Research 171(2):204-214    [ abstract ] [paper, pdf ]
  • Karniel A, Kositsky M, Fleming KM,  Chiappalone M, Sanguineti V, Alford ST, and Mussa-Ivaldi FA (2005) Computational analysis in vitro: dynamics and plasticity of a neuro-robotic system.  J Neural Eng, 2(3):250-265  [ abstract ] [paper, pdf ]

·         Karniel A, and Mussa-Ivaldi FA (2003) Sequence, time or state representation: How does the motor control system adapt to variable environments? Biological Cybernetics 89(1):10-21 [ abstract ] [paper, pdf]

·         Karniel A (2002) Three creatures named "forward model" Neural Networks 15(3):305-307  [ abstract ] [ms, pdf ]

·         Karniel A, and Mussa-Ivaldi FA (2002) Does the motor control system use multiple models and context switching to cope with a variable environment? Experimental Brain Research 143:520-524, Springer-Verlag  [abstract ] [paper, pdf ] The original publication is available on LINK at http://link.springer.de

·         Karniel A, Meir R, and Inbar GF (2001) Best Estimated Inverse versus Inverse of the Best Estimator. Neural Networks 14:1153-1159  [abstract ] [ms, pdf ]

·         Karniel A, Meir R, and Inbar GF (2001) Polyhedral Mixture of Linear Experts for Many-To-One Mapping Inversion and Multiple Controllers.  Neurocomputing 37(1-4):31-49 [ Abstract ] [ms, pdf ]

·         Karniel A and Inbar GF (2000)  Human Motor Control: Learning to Control a Time-Varying Non-linear Many-to-One System.   IEEE transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part C 30(1):1-11. [ ] [paper, pdf ]

·         Karniel A and Inbar GF (1999) The use of a nonlinear muscle model in explaining the relationship between duration, amplitude and peak velocity of human rapid movements.  Journal of Motor Behavior 31 (3):203-206.  [ abstract ] [ms, pdf ]

·         Karniel A and Inbar GF (1997) A Model For Learning Human Reaching Movements. Biological Cybernetics 77(3):173-183. [ abstract ] [paper, pdf ] 

Hebrew Journal

·         Karniel A (1997) Between Man and Robot - About the strange dance of Nature Science and Technology (In Hebrew). Galileo 22:55-62 May/June  [abstract]

Chapter in Book

·         Karniel A (2009) Computational Motor Control.  In: Binder MD, N Hirokawa, and U. Windhorst (Eds.) Encyclopedic of Neuroscience Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 832-837.  [chapter, pdf]

·         Karniel A, and Inbar GF (1999) Linear Systems Description .  Chapter 21 In: U. Windhorst and H. Johansson (Eds.) Modern Techniques in Neuroscience Research. Springer-Verlag,  pp.589-625.  [chapter, pdf ]

Book Review

·         Karniel A (2001) A Book Review. D. Popovic & T. Sinkjaer Control of Movement for the Physically Disabled Springer-Verlag 2000. Automatica37(6):964-967. [ ms,pdf ]

Theses

·         Karniel A (1999) Larning Motor Control of Redundant Systems.   Ph.D. Thesis. Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.   Supervised by Gideon F Inbar and Ron Meir. [Abstract and complete text ] 

·         Karniel A (1996) A Model Of Human Motor Control Using Artificial Neural Networks.   M.Sc. Thesis(In Hebrew). Department of electrical engineering, Techion - Israel Institute of Technology. Supervised by Gideon F Inbar. [Abstract in English ]

Selected Conferences

·         Nisky I, FC Huang, A Milstein, CM Pugh, FA Mussa-Ivaldi and A Karniel (2012) Perception of Stiffness in Laparoscopy – The Fulcrum Effect, in 19 MMVR/ NextMed conference. 2012: Newport Beach, CA, Proceedings IOS press. http://www.nextmed.com/mmvr_proceedings.html  [ms pdf]

·         Karniel A, Avraham G, Peles B, Nisky I, Levy-Tzedek S (2010) A Turing-like Handshake Test for Motor Intelligence Eurohaptics, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July  2010 [paper pdf]

·         Karniel A (2010) A Turing-Like Handshake Test for Motor Intelligence.  The 20th annual meeting of the society for neural control of movement (NCM) , Naples, Florida, April 20-25 [abstract pdf]

·         Nisky I, Karniel A (2010) Bilateral teleoperation - human operator centered approach.  Proceedings of the 50th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences, February 17-18, 2010.  [paper, pdf]

·         Nisky I, Karniel A (2009) Proximodistal gradient in the perception of delayed stiffness. Virtual Rehabilitation International Conference, June 29-July 2, 2009, Haifa, Israel IEEE proceedings pp.105-110. [paper, pdf] Received the best student paper award.

·         Avraham G, Levy-Tzedek S, Karniel A (2009) Exploring the Rhythmic Nature of Handshake Movement and a Turing-like test. The fifth computational motor control workshop June 11, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel [abstract, pdf]

·         Karniel A, Botzer L (2008) Minimum acceleration criterion with constraints as a tool to detect the onset time and initial motor command of reaching movements, Program No. 166.20/II30. 2008 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2008. Online [abstract] [poster] [Matlab code]

·         Nisky I, Mussa-Ivaldi FA, Karniel A (2008) Perceptuo-motor transparency in bilateral teleoperation.  Proceedings of the 9th Biennial ASME Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis, ESDA 2008, July 7-9, 2008, Haifa, Israel. [paper]

·         Leibowitz N, and Karniel A (2005) Reversal Phenomenon in a simple motor task: Evidence for an indirect model. The 2nd International IEEE-EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering.   [ abstract ] [paper, pdf ] 

·         Karniel A, Klaiman E, and Yosef V (2003)   Feedback versus adaptation in the motor control system: does the brain use internal models for bimanual coordination and timing?   Program No. 271.5. 2003 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience ,November, 2003, New Orleans

·         Karniel A, Fleming KM, Sanguineti V, Alford ST, and Mussa-Ivaldi FA (2002)  Dynamic properties of the lampreys neuronal circuits as it drives a two-wheeled robot  From Animals to Animats 7, The seventh international conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB02) Workshop on Motor Control in Humans and Robots: on the interplay of real brains and artificial devices , August 10, 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland (UK) [ abstract ] [paper, pdf ]

·         Karniel A, Mussa-Ivaldi FA, d'Avella A, and Bizzi E (2002)  A minimum transition hypothesis to account for motor synergies  The twelfth annual neural control of movement meeting , Naples, Florida, April 16-21, [ abstract ] [poster, pdf ]

·         Karniel A, Fleming KM, Sanguineti V, Alford ST, and Mussa-Ivaldi FA (2001)  Dynamic features of neuronal activities in the lamprey's brainstem: A study with a neuro-robotic system.  Society For Neuroscience , San Diego, November, Program No: 295.9 [ abstract ] [poster, pdf ]

·         Karniel A, and Mussa-Ivaldi FA(2001)  Some concerns about the utilization of multiple models and context switching in the adaptive motor control system.  Progress In Motor Control III, Montreal, August. [abstract ] [poster, pdf ]

·         Karniel A, and Mussa-Ivaldi FA(2001)  Sequence, time or state representation: How does the motor control system adapt to variable environments?  The eleventh annual neural control of movement meeting, Seville Spain March. [ abstract ] [poster, pdf ]

·         Karniel A, Meir R, and Inbar GF (2000) A Two-Way Model for Motor Control of Redundant Systems. World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC2000) Chicago, July. [ abstract ] [paper, pdf ]

·         Karniel A, Meir R, and Inbar GF (1999) Exploiting the virtue of redundancy.  International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'99), Washington, DC, July.  [ paper, pdf ]  Received a Best Presentation Award  

·         Karniel A, Meir R, and Inbar GF (1998) Polyhedral Mixture of Linear Experts for Many-To-One Mapping Inversion.  European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN"98), Bruges(Belgium), April.  [ paper, pdf ]

·         Karniel A, and Inbar GF (1997) Nonlinear Hill Type Muscle Model That Generates Optimally Smooth Movements.   BRAIN and MOVEMENT International Symposium on Motor Control. St. Petersburg - Moscow July. [ abstract ]

·         Karniel A, and Inbar GF (1996) A Model For Learning Human Reaching Movements. The 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS , Amsterdam [paper, pdf ]

[Journals ]  [Hebrew Journal ]  [Chapter in Book ]  [Book Review ]  [Theses ]  [Selected Conferences ]