Nicole Malfait, Ph.D.

UMR 6149 Neurobiologie Intégrative et Adaptative
Université de Provence / CNRS
Centre St Charles
Pôle 3C – Case B
3, Place Victor Hugo
13331 Marseille Cedex 03

Tel: 04 88 57 68 58
Fax : 33 (0)4 88 57 68 42
Email: nmalfait[at]gmail.com

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Journal Articles 

Malfait N. and Sanger T.D. (2006) Does dystonia always include co-contraction? A study of unconstrained reaching in children with primary and secondary dystonia. Experimental Brain Research, "Epub ahead of print"
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Darainy M., Malfait N., Towhidkhah F. and Ostry D.J. (2005). Transfer and durability of acquired patterns of human arm stiffness. Experimental Brain Research, 170: 227-237
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Malfait N., Gribble P.L., and Ostry D.J. (2005). Generalization of motor learning based on multiple field exposures and local adaptation. Journal of Neurophysiology, 93: 3327-3338.
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Della-Maggiore V., Malfait N., Ostry D.J. and Paus T. (2004) Stimulation of the posterior parietal cortex interferes with arm trajectory adjustments during the learning of new dynamics. Journal of Neuroscience, 24: 9971-9976.
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Darainy M., Malfait N., Gribble P.L., Towhidkhah F. and Ostry D.J. (2004). Learning to Control Arm Stiffness under Static Conditions. Journal of Neurophysiology, 92: 3344-3350.
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Malfait N., and Ostry D. J. (2004) Is interlimb transfer of force-field adaptation a "cognitive" response to the sudden introduction of load? Journal of Neuroscience, 24: 8084-8089.
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Malfait N. and Ramsay J. O. (2003) The historical functional linear model. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 31, 115-128.
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Malfait N., Shiller D. M. and Ostry D. J. (2002) Transfer of motor learning across arm configurations. Journal of Neuroscience, 22: 9656-9660.
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Markovits H., Venet M., Janveau-Brennan G., Malfait N. and Pion N. (1996) Reasoning in young children: Fantasy and Information retrieval. Child Development, 67, 2857-2872.

Markovits H., Dumas C. and Malfait, N. (1995) Understanding transitivity of a spatial relationship: A developmental analysis. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 59, 124-141.
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Conference presentations / published abstracts

Malfait N., Henriques D.Y.P. and Gribble P.L. Local rather than global remapping during visually guided tracking. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, October 2006.

Malfait N., Henriques D.Y.P. and Gribble P.L. Local adaptation for local remapping in a tracking task. Paper presented at the 28th International Symposium of Computational Neuroscience, Montreal, May 2006.

Malfait N., & Sanger T.D. Children with dystonia due to cerebral palsy do not have abnormal co-contraction of antagonist muscles during unconstrained reaching. Paper presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, November 2005

Malfait N., & Sanger T.D. Is abnormal movement in dyskinetic cerebral palsy associated with co-contraction? Paper presented at the 15th Annual Neural Control of Movement Meeting, Key Biscayne, FL, April 2005.

Malfait N., & Ostry D.J. Is interlimb transfer of force-field adaptation a cognitive response to the sudden introduction of load? Paper presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, October 2004.

Della-Maggiore V., Malfait N., Ostry D.J. and Paus T. Stimulation of the posterior parietal cortex interferes with arm trajectory adjustments during the learning of new dynamics. Paper presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, October 2004.

Darainy M., Malfait N., Gribble P.L., Towhidkhah F.& Ostry D.J. Coordinate System of Arm Stiffness Control in Statics. Paper presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, October 2004.

Darainy M., Malfait N., Gribble P.L., Towhidkhah F.& Ostry D.J. Control of Human Arm Impedance in Statics. Paper presented at the Second International Symposium on Measurement, Analysis and Modeling of Human Functions. Genova, Italy June 2004

Malfait N., & Ostry D.J. Is interlimb transfer of force-field adaptation a cognitive response to the sudden introduction of load? Paper presented at the 14th Annual Neural Control of Movement Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, March 2004.

Darainy M., Malfait N., Gribble P.L., Towhidkhah F.& Ostry D.J. Learning Impedance Control in Statics. Paper presented at the 14th Annual Neural Control of Movement Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, March 2004.

Malfait N., Gribble P.L. and Ostry D.J., How does the motorsystem encode dynamic properties of the external world? Paper presented at the 33nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, November 2003.

Malfait N. and Ramsay J.O., The historical functional linear model: An approach to develop tests of significance. Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Cagliari, Italy, July 2003.

Malfait N., Gribble P.L. and Ostry, D.J., How does the motor system encode dynamic properties of the external world? Paper presented at the 13th Annual Neural Control of Movement Meeting, Santa Barbara, CA, April 2003.

Malfait N., Shiller D.M. and Ostry D.J., Transfer of motor learning across arm configurations. Paper to be presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Orlando, November 2002.

Malfait N., Shiller D.M. and Ostry, D.J., Decomposition of the transfer of learning across arm configurations. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Neural Control of Movement Meeting, Naples, FL, April 2002.

Malfait N., Ramsay J.O. and Froda, S., The historical functional linear model. Paper presented at the Fourth Canadian Conference in Applied Statistics, Montreal, July 2001.

Malfait N., Ramsay J.O. and Froda, S., The historical functional linear model. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Vancouver, July 2000.

Malfait N., Ramsay J.O. and Froda, S., Estimation by the finite element method in a functional linear model, Paper presented at the International Conference on Measurement and Multivariate Analysis, Banff, May 2000.

Malfait N., Estimation par la méthode des éléments finis dans un modèle linéaire fonctionnel. Paper presented at the Seminaire du SCAD, Montreal, Octobre 1999.

Janveau-Brennan, G., Markovits, H., Malfait N. and Pion, N., Effet d'un contexte fantaisiste dans un tâche de raisonnement. Paper presented at the 17e Congrès Annuel de la S.Q.R.P., Québec, Nov. 1994.

Malfait N., Markovits H. and Dumas C. Young children's understanding of transitivity in a spatial relationship. Paper presented at the 23th Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Philadelphia, PA, June 1993.

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