Halim Hicheur

Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurocognition
CNRS UMR 5105
Université Pierre Mendès-France
Bâtiment Sciences de l'Homme et Mathématiques
BP47, 38040 Grenoble Cedex 9 France

• Locomotion: cognitive and sensorimotor aspects
• Eye movements: pursuit, microsaccades
• Visual Perception: compensation of self-induced retinal motion, visual attention

• Experimental paradigms: Motor Neuroscience, Psychophysics
• Material: Motion Capture, Eye tracking, EMG, ...
• Data analysis: Matlab, Statistica, ...
• Artificial motion simulation: Motion Builder

• Neuroscience: Sensorimotor integration / Human Locomotion / Methods in Neuroscience Research (Univ. of Paris)
• Psychophysics ( Matlab ) (Univ. of Grenoble)

• Pr Berthoz (Physiology) / CNRS-Collège de France, Paris, France :
    o Locomotion & trajectories' planning/control
• Dr Pham (Computational Neurosciences) / Univ. of Tokyo, Japan :
    o Locomotion & trajectories' planning/control
          (http://www.normalesup.org/~pham/index.html)
• Dr Grèzes (Social Neuroscience) / ENS Ulm-INSERM, Paris, France :
    o Locomotion & Emotions
• Dr Laumond (Robotics) / LAAS-CNRS Toulouse, France:
    o Locomotion & Robot Navigation
• Dr Kadone (Computer Science) / Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan:
    o Locomotion & Virtual Animation
• Pr Thier, Dr Bunjes (Cognitive Neurology), Univ. of Tuebingen, Germany:
    o Eye movements, Locomotion & Visual Perception
• Dr Chauvin, Dr Campagne (Neuroscience) / Univ. of Grenoble, France:
    o Eye movements & Visual Perception

Peer-reviewed journals :

Hicheur, H., Vieilledent,S., Richardson,M.J.E., Flash,T., Berthoz,A., Velocity and Curvature in Human Locomotion Along Complex Curved Paths : A Comparison with Hand Movements, Experimental Brain Research, (2005), vol. 162(2), 145-154.

Hicheur, H., Vieilledent,S., Berthoz,A., Head motion in humans alternating between straight and curved walking path: Combination of stabilizing and anticipatory orienting mechanisms, Neuroscience Letters, (2005), vol. 383, 87-92.

Hicheur, H., Terekhov A.V., Berthoz A., Intersegmental coordination during human locomotion: does planar covariation of elevation angles reflect central constraints?, Journal of Neurophysiology, (2006), vol. 96, 1406-1419.

Hicheur, H., Pham Q-C., Arechavaleta, G., Laumond, J.-P., Berthoz, A., The planning of trajectories during goal-oriented locomotion in humans. I. A stereotyped behaviour, European Journal of Neuroscience, (2007), vol. 26(8), 2376-2390.

Pham Q-C., Hicheur, H., Arechavaleta, G., Laumond, J.-P., Berthoz, A., The planning of trajectories during goal-oriented locomotion in humans. II. A maximum-smoothness model, European Journal of Neuroscience, (2007), vol. 26(8), 2391-2403.

Arechavaleta, G., Laumond, J.-P., Hicheur, H., Berthoz, A., On the nonholonomic nature of human locomotion, Autonomous Robots, (2008), vol. 25:1-2, 25-35.

Arechavaleta, G., Laumond, J.-P., Hicheur, H., Berthoz, A., An optimality principle governing human walking trajectories, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, (2008), vol. 24(1), 5-14.

Pham, Q. C. & Hicheur, H., On the open-loop and feedback processes that underlie the formation of trajectories during visual and nonvisual locomotion in humans, Journal of Neurophysiology, (2009), 102, 2800-2815.

Pham, Q. C., Berthoz, A., & Hicheur, H.. Invariance of locomotor trajectories across visual and gait direction conditions. Experimental Brain Research, (2011), 210, 207-215.

Submitted / in preparation :

Hicheur, H., Kadone, H., Grèzes, J. & Berthoz, A., The combined role of motion-related cues and upper body posture for the expression of emotions during human walking (submitted)

Hicheur, H., Bunjes, F. & Thier, P., Effect of depth on the compensation of eye-induced retinal motion during smooth pursuit in humans (in preparation)

Peer-reviewed IEEE conference proceedings :

Hicheur, H., Berthoz A How do humans turn? Head Body movements for the steering of locomotion, Proceedings of the IEEE-Robotics and Automatic Society International Conference on Humanoid Robots, (2005), pp 265-270.

Arechavaleta, G., Laumond, J.-P., Hicheur, H., Berthoz, A., The nonholonomic nature of human locomotion: a modeling study, in Proceedings of the IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, (2006), pp 158- 163.

Arechavaleta, G., Laumond, J.-P., Hicheur, H., Berthoz, A., Optimizing principles underlying the shape of trajectories in goal oriented locomotion for humans, in Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, (2006), pp 131- 136.

Laumond, J.-P., Arechavaleta, G., Truong, T-V-A., Hicheur, H., Pham Q-C., A. Berthoz., The words of the human locomotion, The 13th International Symposium of Robotics Research, Springer STAR Series, (2007)., 18p.

Book chapters:

Vieilledent,S., Hicheur,H., Ducourant,T., Kerlirzin,Y., and Berthoz,A., La génération de trajectoires locomotrices chez l'homme, in: Tinus-Blanc,C., Bullier,J. (Eds.), Agir dans l'espace, Editions de la Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, Paris, 2005, pp. 169-192.

Hicheur,H., Glasauer,S., Vieilledent,S., Berthoz,A., Head direction control during active locomotion in humans, in Wiener,SI, Taube,JS (Eds.), Head Direction Cells and the Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation MIT Press, Cambridge,Massachusetts, 2005, pp. 383-408.