Program
Monday (October 22, 2018)
Introduction
09:00-10:00 Registration, office assignment, coffee & tea
10:00-10:15 Introduction to Lorentz Center
10:15-10:30 Introduction to the workshop - scientific organizers
10.30-11:45 Coffee and tea + “Speed dating”: all participants with a focus on what key issues on body representation need to be addressed in their research or for their research community
11:45-12:20 Frederique de Vignemont: Body schema, body image, peripersonal space - review of the chaotic state of affairs in the literature
12:20-12:30 Discussion
12:30-14:00 Lunch and informal discussions
14:00-15:00 Views by Two: Mechanisms of body representations (Moderated by Gregor Schoener)
Matthew Longo: Body representations: from behavioral experiments to mechanisms
Matej Hoffmann: Humanoid robots learning about their body and how to turn it into models of biological body representations
15:00-16:00 Coffee Break + Poster session
16:00-17:30 Demos:
Experimental paradigms and illusions (Azanon, Longo, Lockman/Chinn): Aristotle illusion, crossed hands deficit, haptic adaptation aftereffects, mirror box and six-fingered illusion, Pinocchio illusion, rubber hand illusion, vibrotactile stimulus localization
Demos: robotic, prosthetic, and VR setups (Beckerle, Camilleri, Hoffmann/Straka, Kanazawa, Laflaquire, McCarthy)
17:30 - Wine and cheese party and posters on display
Tuesday
Adult body and peripersonal space representations
9:00-9:30 Chris Dijkerman: Somatosensory processing and peripersonal space
9:30-10:30 Views by Two: Multimodal body and peripersonal space representation in adults (Moderated by Philipp Beckerle)
Andrea Serino: Peripersonal space representations and bodily self-consciousness
Tamar Makin: Embodiment of artificial limbs
10:30-11:00 Coffee and tea
11:00-11:30 Giandomenico Iannetti: An Action Field Theory of Peripersonal Space
11:30-12:00 Elena Azanon: Adaptation after-effects in tactile distance
12:00-12:30 Pieter Medendorp: Multisensory processing in whole-body perception and spatially-guided action
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch and informal discussions
14:00-14:45 Overview of modeling challenges: peripersonal space (Noel), rubber hand illusion (Lanillos / Beckerle), body representations and development (Hoffmann, Longo, Schoener,...),
14:45-15:45 Work on modeling challenge in subgroups
15:45-16:15 Coffee and tea
16:15-17:00 Work on modeling challenge in subgroups
17:00-17:30 Reporting by subgroups to the full group
Wednesday
Development of body representations
9:00-10:00 Views by Two: Development of reaching (moderated by Verena Hafner)
Daniela Corbetta: Discovering body and peripersonal space in 3 to 20 weeks old infants: A pathway to learning to reach
Gregor Schoener: Development of reaching: a neural process account
10:00-10:30 Discussion
10:30-11:00 Coffee and tea
11:00-12:00 Views by Two: Prenatal and postnatal body representations and development (moderated by Matej Hoffmann)
Jeffrey J. Lockman: Development of body knowledge in early infancy
Hoshinori Kanazawa: Embodied brain models - human fetus development
12:00-12:30 Joseph Makin: Computational modeling of multisensory integration and coordinate transformation
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch and informal discussions
14:00-15:15 Work on modeling challenges in subgroups
15:15-16:00 Coffee and tea + posters + demos (what you missed last time)
16:00-16:45 Work on modeling challenges in subgroups
16:45-17:30 Reporting by subgroups to the full group
17:30 - Boat trip and workshop dinner
Thursday
Applications - Prostheses, sensory substitution, self-calibrating robots
9:00-10:00 Views by Two: Robots learning from scratch (moderated by Pablo Lanillos)
Alban Laflaquiere: Robots learning about space and a robot manufacturer perspective (Softbank/Aldebaran)
Verena Hafner: Robots learning body schema through forward and inverse models
10:00-10:30 Discussion
10:30-11:00 Coffee and tea
11:00-11:30 Chris McCarthy: Multi-modal visualisations and augmentations for prosthetic vision
11:30-12:00 Minoru Asada: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience view for body representation and self-recognition
12:00-12:30 Discussion
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch and informal discussions
14:00-15:45 Modeling subgroups complete work, suggest new experiments and plan to continue work after meeting
15:45-16:15 Coffee and tea
16:30-17:30 Presentations of modeling challenge results to entire group + next steps
Friday
Wrap-up + outstanding challenges
9:00-9:45 Organizers: Wrap-up, outstanding challenges, future research agenda
9:45-10:30 Group discussion of future research agenda
10:30-11:00 Coffee and tea
11:00-12:30 Planning the next steps after the meeting (joint articles, meetings, symposia at professional meetings to promote emerging interdisciplinary research approach to body representation)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch and informal discussions
14:00-14:45 Tony Prescott: Synthetic psychology of the self
14:45-16:00 Final discussion