Program

Tentative Program:

9:00 – 9:05 Welcome and brief intro from organizers

Part 1a: Body mapping - infants (chair: Matej Hoffmann)

9:05 - 9:25 Daniela Corbetta (Univ. Tennessee, USA): Infants’ discovery of their body and movements in the first 2 months of life

9:25 - 9:45 Jeffrey J. Lockman and Lisa K. Chinn (Tulane Univ., USA): The Development of the Body as a Reaching Space

9:45 - 10:05 Kevin O'Regan (Paris Descartes University, France): The tactile buzzer and the audiovisual rattle: two studies of body know-how development

10:05 – 10:30 Poster teaser talks & Poster session start (see here for a list of accepted contributions with abstracts)

10:30 – 11:00 coffee break (included in registration)

Part 1b: Body mapping - robots (chair Jeffrey Lockman)

11:00 - 11:20 Matej Hoffmann (Czech Tech. Univ, Czech Rep): Humanoid robots learning about their body and how to turn it into models of biological body representations

11:20 - 11:40 Vieri Santucci (CNR Rome, Italy): Computational models of body-knowledge development based on intrinsic goals

11:40 - 12:00 Alban Laflaquiere (AI Lab, Softbank Robotics, France): Discovering space: Knowing where my body is moving

12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH break (included in registration)

Part 2: Defining Peripersonal Space (chair Verena Hafner)

13:30 - 13:50 Jean-Paul Noel (NYU, USA): Defining peripersonal space in time

13:50 - 14:10 Rory Bufacchi (Univ. College London, UK): Peripersonal responses arising from value estimation - comparing biological and artificial agents

14:10 - 14:30 Benjamin Kuipers (Univ. of Michigan, USA): A Bootstrap Learning Model of Peripersonal Space, Reaching, and Grasping

14:30 – 15:00 30 min Q&A and discussion / POSTER SESSION

15:00 – 15:30 coffee break (included in registration)

Part 3: Sense of Self/Body ownership (chair Daniela Corbetta)

15:30 - 15:50 Dorothy Cowie (Durham, UK): Developing a sense of self: body ownership in childhood

15:50 - 16:10 Tamar Makin (Univ. College London, UK): From phantoms to artificial limbs: brain plasticity in amputees

16:10 - 16:30 Verena Hafner (Humboldt-Univ., Germany): Prerequisites for the development of an artificial self

16:30 - 17:00 Q&A and Discussion