Bodily sensation is a key component of self-awareness, but the cognitive and neural processes that transform specific sensory inputs into a general sense of one’s own body are scarcely understood. At this meeting, experts in psychology, neuroscience and philosophy of the body will focus on how the brain integrates sensory inputs into a coherent representation of one’s own body.

Organization

Conference and doctoral workshop organized by Patrick Haggard (UCL, Paris IAS fellow), and Frédérique de Vignemont (CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod), with the support of the École Normale Supérieure

The conference and workshop will be held at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study (Hôtel de Lauzun) on Monday, October 10^th, and the conference will continue at the École Normale Supérieure (29, rue d'Ulm) on Tuesday, October 11^th.

Presentation

Bodily sensation is a key component of self-awareness, but the cognitive and neural processes that transform specific sensory inputs into a general sense of one’s own body are scarcely understood.  At this meeting, experts in psychology, neuroscience and philosophy of the body will focus on how the brain integrates sensory inputs into a coherent representation of one’s own body.  In addition to considering perceptual and neurophysiological data, the meeting will cover conceptual work assessing how integrative somatosensory and motor processing might contribute to the sense of self, and what kind of self might result from such mechanisms.

Program

Monday 10th

Institut d'études avancées de Paris, 17 Quai d'Anjou, 75004

• 09.30 Registration/coffee

Chair : Frederique de Vignemont

• 09.55 Welcoming remarks
• 10.00 Patrick Haggard, IEA de Paris / Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL « Three levels of somatosensory spatial organisation »
• 11.00 Elena Azanon, Psychology department, Birkbeck College

11.15 Coffee break

• 11.30 Adrian Alsmith, Université de Copenhague "The representational structure of bodily experience"
• 12.30 Luke Miller
• 12.45 Jessica Hartcher-O’Brien, ISIR

13.00 Lunch

Chair : Patrick Haggard

• 14.30 Vincent Hayward, ISIR
• 15.30 Or Izhar, Department of Medical Neurobiology The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• 15.45 Amir Amedi, Department of Medical Neurobiology The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

16.45 coffee break

• 17.00 Zohar Tal, Department of Medical Neurobiology The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• 17.15 Catherine Tallon-Baudry, LNC
• 18.15 Mariana Babo-Rebelo, LNC
• 18.30 End of the day

Tuesday 11th

DEC ENS, Salle Langevin, 29 rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris

Chair : Patrick Haggard

• 9.00 Alessandro Farne, INSERM
• 10.00 Matt Longo, Psychology department Birkbeck College
• 11.00 Luigi Tame, Psychology department Birkbeck College

11.15 coffee break

• 11.30 Frédérique de Vignemont, Institut Jean Nicod « The spatiality of pain and touch : how different? »
• 12.30 Lunch

Chair : Frederique de Vignemont

• 14.15 Flavia Mancini, Department of Neuroscience, UCL
• 15.15 Brianna Beck, Department of Neuroscience UCL
• 15.30 Manolo Martinez, Philosophy department, University of Barcelona

16.30 coffee break

• 16.45 Rory Bufacchi, Department of Neuroscience UCL
• 17.00 Giandomenico Iannetti, Department of Neuroscience, UCL
• 18.00 End of the meeting