Program

The workshop is composed of two days (March 5-6) of scientific talks on brain-body interactions with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and physiology. The third day (March 7) will explore brain-body interactions from a artistic and movement-based perspective. 

Scientific Program – Brain-Body Interactions and Cognition

Institut du Cerveau / Paris Brain Institute, 83 bd de l’Hôpital, 75013

 

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

13:00-14:00 Registration and welcome

14:00-14:45 Catherine Tallon-Baudry - Unconscious interoception and conscious cognition

14:45-15:30 Lukas Van Oudenhove - Small Molecules, Big Impact? Short-chain Fatty Acids as Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis Modulators of Human Psychobiology 

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-16:45    Dafni Hadjieconomou - Gutsy Move for a Brain: Delving Into Our Gut Feelings 

16:45-17:30 Short talks: Matthieu Koroma, Bruno Michelot, Louise Kirsch

17:30-18:30 Asaf Bachrach - In Touch With Touch (Salle 1-2, limited capacity)

 

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

09:00-09:45 Luana Colloca - Mechanisms of Placebo Effects: The Power of our Brain Endogenous Pharmacy 

09:45-10:30 Katja Wiech - Mindscapes of Pain: The Influence of Beliefs on Pain Perception

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:45 Falk Eippert - Closing a Gap Between Brain and Body: Assessing Human Spinal Cord Function Non-invasively

11:45-12:15 Short talks: Belina Rodrigues, Feng Quan

12:15-14:00 Lunch break and poster session

14:00-14:45 Sarah Garfinkel - Delineating Dimensions of Interoception 

14:45-15:30 Morten Kringelbach - The Improvising Brain: In Search of Meaning Making and Thriving 

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-16:45    Roy Salomon - The Sense of Self as a Body-Brain Construct 

16:45-17:30 Short talks: Sébastien Czajko, Gaiqing Kong, Willys Canteny

17:30-18:30    Clint Lutes - TBA (Salle 1-2)

 

Movement Program - Brain-Body Interactions in Motion

Mairie du 13ème arrondissement de Paris, 1 place d’Italie, 75013

 

Thursday, March 7, 2024

09:00-09:20 Registration and welcome

09:15-10:15 Daniel Shulz - The ‘Song’ of Tai Chi Chuan: The Learning Brain

10:20-10:30 Deniz Dalkara - Looking at terminology

10:30-10:40 Break

10:40-11:40 Janet Amato, Arabella Bouzigues, Corrine Ott, Raefaella Lara Migliaccio -

The Riddle of the Sphinx: Developmental Movement & Degeneration

11:40-12:00 Discussion in small groups

12:00-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-14:15 Clint Lutes - Decisions, Decisions: Guided Movement Improvisation

14:20-14:45 Morton Kringelbach - The Neuroscience of Dance

14:45-15:10 Cécile Gallea - Investigating Movement: Neuroimaging and Electrophysiological Insights

15:10-15:30 Break

15:30-16:15 Maria Marin, Ann Moradian - Yoga: Stilling the Whirling of the Mind

16:15-16:40 Christine Leroy - Care and Embodied Boundaries of Self

16:40-17:10 Discussion Groups

17:10-17:30 Marc Silvestre - 5 Rhythms Taster

17:30-19:00 Break - Goûter

19:00-20:15 David Robbe and Perspectives In Motion Le temps et l’effort au cœur du comportement et de la santé mentale (in French)