José L. Contreras-Vidal, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Behavioral and Computational Neuroscience

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

Contreras-Vidal JL, Buch ER. (in press).: Effects of Parkinson’s disease on visuo-motor adaptation. Experimental Brain Research.

Buch ER, Young S, Contreras-Vidal (2003).: Visuomotor adaptation in normal aging. Learning and Memory. 10: 55-63.

Prager AR, Contreras-Vidal JL (2003).: Adaptation to display rotation and display gain distortions during drawing. Human Movement Science. Published online on Jan 23, 2003.

Contreras-Vidal JL, Teulings HL, Stelmach GE, and Adler CH (2002).: Adaptation to changes in vertical display gain during handwriting in Parkinson's Disease Patients, Elderly and Young Controls, Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 9(2):77-84.

Teulings HL, Contreras-Vidal JL, Stelmach GE, and Adler CH (2002).: Handwriting size adaptation under distorted visual feedback in Parkinson’s disease patients, elderly controls and young controls, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 72(3):315-324.

Contreras-Vidal JL (2000).: Towards non-invasive diagnostic tools and biological markers for Parkinson’s disease: A commentary. Bulletin of the International Graphonomics Society, 14: 4-5.


Contreras-Vidal JL and Schultz W (1999).: A predictive reinforcement model of dopamine neurons for learning approach behavior. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 6/3, 191-214.
Van Gemmert AWA, Teulings HL, Contreras-Vidal JL, Stelmach G E (1999).: Parkinson's disease and the control of size and speed in handwriting. Neuropsychologia, 37, 685-694.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Van Den Heuvel CE, Teulings HL, Stelmach GE (1999).: Visuomotor Adaptation in smokeless tobacco users. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, In Vol. 1, No. 3.: 219-227
Contreras-Vidal, JL (1999).: The gating functions of the basal ganglia in movement control. Progress in Brain Research, pp.261-276.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Teulings HL, Stelmach GE. (1998).: Elderly subjects are differentially impaired in spatial coordination in fine motor control. Acta Psychologica, 100, 25-35.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Grossberg S, Bullock D. (1997).: A neural network model of cerebellar learning for arm movement control: cortico-spino-cerebellar dynamics. Learning and Memory, 3, 475-502.
Kagerer F, Contreras-Vidal JL, Stelmach GE (1997).: Adaptation to gradual versus sudden visuo-motor perturbations. Experimental Brain Research, 115, 557-561.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Poluha P, Teulings HL, Stelmach GE (1998).: Neural dynamics of short and medium-term motor control effects of levodopa therapy in Parkinson's disease. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 13, 57-79.
Teulings HL, Contreras-Vidal JL, Stelmach GE (1997).: Coordination of fingers, wrist, and arm in parkinsonian handwriting. Experimental Neurology, 146, 159-170.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Stelmach GE (1996).: Effects of Parkinsonism on motor control. Life Sciences, 58, 165-176.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Stelmach GE (1995).: A neural model of basal ganglia-thalamocortical relations in normal and Parkinsonian movement. Biological Cybernetics, 73, 467-476.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Teulings HL, Stelmach, GE (1995).: Micrographia in Parkinson's disease. NeuroReport, 6, 2089-2092.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Banquet JP (1994).: The creative brain: Symmetry breaking in motor imagery. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17, 204-205.
Bullock D, Contreras-Vidal JL (1992).: Adaptive behavioral phenotypes enabled by spinal interneuron circuits: Making sense the Darwinian way. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 15, 717-720.
Dimitriadis IA, Lopez Coronado J, Contreras-Vidal JL (1991).: An adaptative resonance theory architecture for the automatic recognition of on-line handwritten symbols of a mathematical editor. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes on Computer Sciences, 540, 216-226.
Book Chapters or Conference Proceedings

Lopez-Coronado J, Contreras-Vidal JL, Iniguez C. (2000).: Cerebro y Tecnologia: Redes Artificiales Neuronales, Como funciona el cerebro? Secretariado de Publicaciones e Intercambio Cientifico, Universidad de Valladolid.

Banquet JP, Gaussier P, Contreras-Vidal JL, Gissler A, Burnod Y (1998).: The cortico-hippocampal system as a multi-range temporal processor: A neural model. In R. W. Parks, D. S. Levine, and D. Long (Eds), Fundamentals of Neural Network Modeling for Neuropsychology, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, p. 77-119.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Stelmach GE (1997).: In: F. Boller and J. Grafman (Eds) Handbook of Neuropsychology. Vol. 11, Chapter 8: Motor Processing in Parkinson's Disease, Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 149-165.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Teulings HL, Stelmach GE (1996).: A neural network model of movement production in Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease. In: J. Regia, R. Berdt, and E. Ruppin (Eds.), Neural Modeling of Brain and Cognitive Disorders. p. 377-392, World Scientific: Singapore.
Contreras-Vidal JL (1994).: Neural networks for motor learning and control of posture and movement. Doctoral dissertation: Boston University.
Bullock, D, Contreras-Vidal JL, Grossberg S (1993).: Equilibria and dynamics of a neural network model for opponent muscle control. In G. Bekey and K. Goldberg (Eds.), Neural Networks in Robotics. pp. 439-457. Norwell, MA:Kluwer Academic.
Bullock D, Contreras-Vidal JL (1993).: How spinal neural networks reduce discrepancies between motor intention and motor realization. In K. Newell and D. Corcos (Eds.), Variability and motor control. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics Press, pp. 183-221.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Teulings H-L, Stelmach GE (1994).: Understanding handwriting motor impairments in Parkinson Disease through neural networks. Proceedings of the World Congress on Neural
Networks, II: 709-716, INNS Press.
Banquet, JP, Contreras-Vidal JL (1993).: Learning temporal contexts and priming-preparation modes for pattern recognition. Proceedings of the World Congress on Neural Networks, II: 126-130, INNS Press.
Bullock D, Contreras-Vidal JL, Grossberg S. (1993).: Cerebellar learning in an opponent motor controller for adaptive load compensation and synergy formation. Proceedings of the World Congress on Neural Networks, IV: 481-486, INNS Press.
Banquet JP, Contreras-Vidal JL (1992).: An Integrated Neural Network-Event-Related Potentials Model of Temporal and Probability Context Effects on Event Categorization. Proceedings of the IJCNN International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-92), I: 541-546, INNS Press.
Published Abstracts

Young SM, Buch ER, Contreras-Vidal JL (2001).: Effects of aging and Parkinson’s disease (PD) on visuomotor adaptation to a step screen cursor rotation. Society for Neuroscience Abst, San Diego, CA, November 14, 2001. (Published Online).

Buch ER, Contreras-Vidal JL (2000).: Abnormal neural network dynamics underlying rigidity and bradykinesia in Parkinson’s disease. Sixth International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders. Movement Disorders, 15:P484.


Contreras-Vidal JL, Vargas-Villamil F, Van Den Heuvel CE, Teulings, HL, Stelmach, G.E. (1999).: The effect of smokeless tobacco on joint coordination. Proceedings of the 9th International Graphomonics Society Conference, 9, 47-52.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Teulings HL, Stelmach GE (1997).: Differential deficits in spatial coordination and force control in the elderly. Proceedings of the 8th International Graphomonics Society Conference, 8, 5-6.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Poluha P, Teulings HL, Stelmach GE (1997).: A Network model of dopamine effects on striatal neuropeptides and cell activations during levodopa therapy in Parkinson's disease. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 23, 192.

Teulings HL, Contreras-Vidal JL, Stelmach GE. (1997).: Visuo-motor control of handwriting size in Parkinson's disease patients. Proceedings of the International Graphomonics Society Conference, 8, 33-34.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Stelmach GE (1997).: Adaptive Resonance Theory computations in the cortico-striatal circuits are gated by dopamine activity during reward-related learning of approach behavior. Proceedings of the Vision, Recognition, Action Conference, Boston University, p. 61.
Teulings HL, Contreras-Vidal JL, Stelmach GE, Adler CH (1997).: Handwriting size variations due to visual feedback in Parkinson's disease and elderly subjects. Proceedings of the Third Annual Biomedical Symposium of the Flinn Foundation, p. 60.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Stelmach GE (1997).: Adaptive Resonance Theory computations in the cortico-striatal circuits are gated by dopamine activity during reward-related learning of approach behavior. Proceedings of the Third Annual Biomedical Symposium of the Flinn Foundation, p. 55.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Teulings HL, Stelmach GE (1996).: Effects of Parkinsonism and huntingtonism on handwriting: A neural network model of basal ganglia-thalamocortical loops. Movement Disorders, 11 (Suppl. 1), 178.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Schultz, W. (1996).: A neural network model of reward-related learning, motivation and orienting behavior. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 22, 2029.
Teulings HL, Contreras-Vidal JL, Stelmach GE. (1996).: Differential influence of visual feedback gain modifications in parkinsonian handwriting. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 22, 2039.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Teulings HL, Stelmach GE (1995).: A neural model of spatiotemporal neurotransmitter dynamics in Parkinson's disease: dopamine depletion and lesion studies. Proceedings of the 1995 workshop on Neural Modeling of Cognitive and Brain Disorders, University of Maryland, College Park, p. 39.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Teulings HL, Stelmach GE (1995).: A network model of pathological cortical-subcortical interactions in abnormal handwriting. Proceedings of the 7th International Graphonomics Society Conference, ISBN 0-921121-14-8, London, Ontario, Canada, August 6-10, 1995, p. 38-39.
Contreras-Vidal JL, Stelmach GE, Teulings HL (1994).: Neural network control of handwriting: Application to Parkinson's micrographia. International Federation on Automatic Control. Proceedings of the Symposium on Biomedical Engineering, pp. 450-451, Madison, WI:OmniPress.
Bullock D, Contreras-Vidal JL, Grossberg S. (1993).: Speed scaling and adaptive cerebellar control of Renshaw cell and motoneuron gain. Soc. Neurosci. Abst., 19, 1594.

Invited Presentations

Contreras-Vidal JL (September 27, 2002): "The Dynamic Brain." Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Washington D.C., Keynote speaker, Annual Hispanic Employment Program.

Contreras-Vidal JL (September 26, 2002): "Cortico-striatal and Parieto-cerebellar Networks for Visuomotor Learning: Insights from Clinical and Computer Simulation Studies." National Institutes of Health. Host: Dr. Mark Hallet.

Contreras-Vidal JL (June 12, 2002): "Differential deficits in visuomotor adaptation in Parkinson’s disease." INSERM U483, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.

Contreras-Vidal JL (January 16, 2001): "Neural mechanisms underlying visuo-motor learning." Salpetriere Hospital, Paris, France.

Contreras-Vidal JL (December 12, 2000): "The basal ganglia roles in cognitive-motor behavior: An integrated behavioral and computational approach." Center for Neural Science, New York University.

Contreras-Vidal JL (November 27, 2000): "The functions of the basal ganglia in motor control and learning: A neurocomputational perspective." Seminar on Mathematics and Neuroscience, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Henri Poincaré, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.

Contreras-Vidal JL (September 6-12, 2000): "Adaptation to gradual and sudden visuomotor perturbations." Department of System Engineering and Automatic Control. Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain. Host: Prof. Juan Lopez Coronado.

Contreras-Vidal JL (March 31, 2000): "Cognitive-motor behavior in Parkinson's disease: new insights from modeling and experimental data." Department of Physical Therapy, University of Maryland, Baltimore. Host: Dr. Jill Whitall.

Neural networks for tool use.
Doctoral Seminar in Neurotechnology and its Applications to Engineering and Medicine. University of Cartagena, Spain, July 14-17, 1999.

Computer modeling of the basal ganglia and PD.
Arizona Chapter- Society for Neuroscience 1998 meeting, Phoenix, AZ, January 9, 1998.

Adaptive Cerebellar Control of Opponent Muscles.
Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop on Cerebellar Learning, Beckenridge, CO, December 5, 1997.

A network model of reinforcement learning by dopamine neurons during goal-directed behavior.
Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Arlington, TX, October 10, 1997.

Adaptation to gradual as compared with sudden visuo-motor perturbations
Department of Psychology and MIND Center, University of Texas, Arlington, TX, October 11, 1997.

The basal ganglia-thalamocortical loop and cognitive-motor behavior, Workshop on Neural Neworks and Brain Function
Arizona State University, February 1997.

Pharmacodynamics of Levodopa in Parkinson's disease: Experiments and network modeling
Math and Cognition Seminar, Center for System Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, September 30, 1997.

Introduction to Neurotechnology (Curso de Introduccion a la Neurotecnologia)
School of Industrial Engineering, University of Murcia, Spain, February 17-19, 1997.

Neural dynamics of cognitive-motor behavior
Institute of Neurotechnology, University of Valladolid, Spain, February 21, 1997.

Model of cortico-basal ganglia dynamics during reward-related learning
Institute of Physiology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, May 28, 1996.

Modeling the cortico-basal ganglia circuits in Parkinson's disease
Centre for Neurological Therapy, University of Dusseldorf, Germany, June 1996.

A neural network model of the cerebellum
Seminar: Doings in Motor Control, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, February 25, 1993.

Adaptive sensory-motor control by the cerebellum
Laboratory of Neurosciences and Modelisation, University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris,France, December 12, 1993.

Adaptive cerebellar control of opponent muscles
Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, Marzo 1993.

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José L. Contreras-Vidal, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Behavioral and Computational Neuroscience