Oliver Oullier
Human
Neurobiology Laboratory (UMR 6149)
Université de Provence - CNRS
Pôle 3C - 3, Place Victor Hugo, Case B
F-13331 Marseille Cedex 03, France
e-mail: oullier@up.univ-mrs.fr
website : http://oullier.free.fr/
voice: +33 4 88 57 68 43
fax: +33 4 88 57 68 42
Dr. Oullier received the PhD in Sport Science from the University of
the Mediterranean, in 2001. From 2001 to 2004, he was a postdoctoral fellow
at the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences (Florida
Atlantic University) where, under supervision of Pr. J.A. Scott Kelso, he
studied brain and coordination dynamics. In March, 2003, Dr. Oullier visited
the University of Minnesota to give a talk sponsored by the All University
Graduate Minor in Human Factors/Ergonomics. The title and abstract are given,
below. Since September 2004, he has been a research associate the Mouvement
& Perception Lab (CNRS-University of the Mediterranean, Marseille, France)
working on interpersonal coordination dynamics.
The Motor-Perception Debate in Coordination Dynamics
Recent opposing studies investigating the dynamics of bimanual coordination have created a dichotomy in the literature. At one end of the spectrum is the belief that coordination phenomena are governed by physical limitations such as neuro-skeletomuscular constraints. At the other end, the stability of coordination dynamics is depicted as completely arbitrary with respect to the physical properties of the individual components, depending instead only on the visuospatial relationship between them. In two experiments at two different level of analysis (behavioural and neural) we “removed” the motor component to better assess the relative contribution of neuro-musculoskeletal and perceptual mechanisms in coordination phenomena. The method and results of these experiments are discussed in terms of possible applications in teleoperation and virtual environments.
Selected publications
Oullier, O., Jantzen, K.J., Steinberg, F.L., & Kelso, J.A.S. (2005). Neural substrates of real and imagined sensorimotor coordination. Cerebral Cortex, 15(7), 975-985.
Oullier, O., Marin, L., Bootsma, R.J., Stoffregen, T.A., & Bardy, B.G. (2005). Variability in postural coordination dynamics. In K. Davids, S. Bennett & K.M. Newell (eds.). Movement system variability (pp. 25-47). Champaign: Human Kinetics Publishers.
Stoffregen, T.A., Bardy, B.G., Merhi, O., & Oullier, O. (2004). Postural responses to two technologies for generating optical flow. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environment, 13(5), 601-605.
Oullier, O., de Guzman, G.C., Jantzen, K.J., & Kelso, J.A.S. (2003). On context dependence of behavioral variability in inter-personal coordination. International Journal of Computer Science in Sport, 2(2), 126-128.
Oullier, O., Bardy, B.G., Stoffregen, T.A., & Bootsma, R.J. (2002). Postural coordination in looking and tracking tasks. Human Mouvement Science, 21(2), 147-167.
Bardy, B.G., Oullier, O., Bootsma, R.J., & Stoffregen, T.A. (2002). The dynamics of human postural transitions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28(3), 499-514.