Programme... & student presentations
| Time | Speaker or Moderator | Topic |
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| Monday 9th July | ||
| 09.30 | Registration | |
| 10.00 | Maria V. Sanchez-Vives | A multidisciplinary approach to the understanding of body image. Introductory remarks |
| 10.15 | Round of participants introductions | |
| Various | Coffee break and simultaneous demonstrations of the rubber arm illusion | |
| 11.00 | Henrik Ehrsson | What functional brain imaging can tell us about the central mechanisms of body ownership and body size (Abstract) |
| 12.00 | Pietro Pietrini, | Perception of the environment in the congenitally blind: new insights on the functional organization of phenomenic consciousness in the human brain |
| 13:00 | Nicholas P. Holmes | Hands: Location, recognition, and self-defence |
| 14:00 | Pietro Pietrini | Round table discussion |
| 14.30 | Lunch, scientific discussions and siesta | |
| 17.00 | Paul Verschure | Using a virtual body to induce functional behavioral and neuronal re-organization :New approaches in cognitive neuro-rehabilitation |
| 18.00 | Mel Slater | Student presentations |
| 19.00 | Henrik Ehrsson | Round table discussion |
| 21.00 | Dinner | |
| Tuesday 10th July | ||
| 09.30 | Charles Spence | Multisensory contributions to the representation of the body in space |
| 10.30 | BREAK | |
| 11.00 | Olaf Blanke | Neural mechanisms of the embodied self: neurological and neuroimaging evidence |
| 12.00 | Charles Spence | Round table discussion |
| 13.00 | Demonstrations | |
| 14.00 | Lunch, scientific discussions and siesta | |
| 17.00 | Maria V. Sanchez-Vives | Student presentations |
| 18.00 | Dorothée Legrand | Bodily self-consciousness: philosophical considerations in light of neuroscientific results and clinical cases |
| 19.00 | Fernando Moya | Round table discussion: "The meninas effect: the transformation of a physical space into a virtual place" |
| 20.30 | Dinner | |
| 22.30 | Movie: ExistenZ Discussion Question: what is reality? |
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| Wednesday 11th July | ||
| 09.30 | Leonardo Fogassi | The mirror neuron system: how cognitive functions emerge from motor organization |
| 10.30 | Robert Leeb | Demonstration of Brain Computer Interface BREAK |
| 11.30 | Salvadore M. Aglioti | Empathic pain |
| 12.30 | Correlational Body Animation | |
| 13.15 | Salvadore M. Aglioti | Round table discussion |
| 14.00 | Lunch, scientific discussions and siesta | |
| ORGANISED TRIP | ||
| 22.30 | Body projection in Science fiction: Startrek: The Menagerie, Parts 1 and Part 2 Question: What would it take to achieve such body projection with forseeable research results and technology? |
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| Thursday 12th July | ||
| 09.30 | Robert Leeb | A brain computer interface to navigate virtual worlds |
| 10.00 | Miguel Nicolelis | Computing with Neural Ensembles |
| 11.00 | Mel Slater | Round table discussion |
| 11.30 | BREAK | |
| 12.00 | Mel Slater | Presence and the body in virtual reality |
| 13.00 | Daniel Pérez Marcos | Inducing the illusion of ownership of a virtual arm |
| 13.30 | Manos Tsakiris | Round table discussion |
| 14.00 | Lunch, scientific discussions and siesta | |
| 17.00 | Manos Tsakiris | The bodily self: functional and neural signatures of body-ownership |
| 18.00 | Salvadore M. Aglioti | Body representation and action simulation in expert brains (elite athletes and expert pianists) |
| 19.00 | Mel Slater | Voting for best participant presentation |
| 20.00 | Maria V. Sanchez-Vives | Conference open to the public: Conferencia abierta al público. En español. Cuerpos virtuales e implantes cerebrales. ¿Ciencia ficción o realidad? |
| 21.00 | Seminar Dinner | |
| Friday 13th July |
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| 10.00- | Presentation of the best participant presentation award Cava breakfast for everyone. Final Demonstrations |
Student presentations
- “Embodied cognition and emotion in multisensory media”. Ana Tajadura-Jiménez
- “The vividness of the rubber-hand illusion as a function of individual susceptibility, processing demand, & contextual impediments”. Antal Haans
- “Peri-dummy space: illusory visual input about hand position overrides proprioceptive coding in the posterior intraperietal sulcus”. Tamar R. Makin.
- “What is embodiment? A psychometric approach”. Matthew Longo.
Tuesday 10th July 13.30h – Round table
- “Duration of activation at the Temporo-parietal junction and its correlation with angle of mental transformation as a demarcating measure of Presence in Upright and Inverted bodies". Tej Tadi.
- "Using 3D virtual haptic environments to induce feeling of body ownership". Liat Ratz
- “The rehabilitation gaming system (RGS): a virtual reality tool for the rehabilitation of motor deficits”. M. S. Cameirao.
- “Deriving a computational model of cortico-striato-thalamus-cortico circuits”. N. S. Sengor.