International symposium of Tactile Perception, Bodily Consciousness, and Sense of Self

International Symposium of Tactile Perception, Bodily Consciousness, and Sense of Self

Study about sense of self has captured many researchers' attention in psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

However, SELF is too vague to experimentally investigate, which requires experimental psychologist to decompose it into more controllable concepts.

Shaun Gallagher has tried to decompose SELF into minimal and narrative self, and also separate the minimal self into two sub-concepts, sense of body ownership and agency.

Based on this concept, we has studied SELF using tactile perception, movement perception, visuo-tactile integration, and body recognition.

Here, we report the tentative results about the series of studies.

Also we invite some excellent researchers investigating the related phenomena, and discuss about the future direction of SELF study.

Date and Time

The symposium begins at 13:30 on Friday, October 27, 2017.
If you want to know the detailed symposium program, please refer to the following.

Registration

We want to grasp how many participants attend the symposium because the capacity of the venue we preparing now is limited.However, we also prepare an alternative place with more capacity.

Please make registration from HERE to let us decide a venue.

We will notify you via e-mail and website, if there is a change in a venue.

Attending Fee

Attending fee of ALL participants is FREE.

Venue

The symposium will be held at room #A617 Building A, School of Education of Hiroshima University (1-1-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-0046 JAPAN ). Please find the direction to Venue on Web Site as below. English-https://www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/en/access; Japanese-https://www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/access/higashihiroshima.

Accommodation

Participants need to arrange their own Accommodation. There are several hotels around Saijo-Station, and Hiroshima-Station (away from Hiroshima University).

Caution:

Even though the symposium is held in Hiroshima University, there are few hotels around Hiroshima University.

Speakers

Noriaki Kanayama: https://sites.google.com/site/noriakikanayama/home/cv
Ryosuke Hiramoto:https://sites.google.com/view/rhiramoto-psychology

Invited Speakers:

Andreas Kalckert: https://www.reading.edu.my/about-us/senior-leadership-team/academic-team/dr-andreas-kalckert
Treshi-marie Perera: https://www.reading.edu.my/about-us/senior-leadership-team/academic-team/dr-treshi-marie-perera
Norimichi Kitagawa: http://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/people/kitagawa.norimichi/

Symposium Program

13:30-

Opening Remarks.

Speaker: Noriaki Kanayama

13:35-13:45

How to evaluate the bodily sensation and sense of self in the brain over time.

Speaker: Noriaki Kanayama

13:45-14:00

The role of functionality on the body representation update during the moving rubber hand illusion.

Speaker: Ryosuke Hiramoto

14:00-14:20

The multisensory nature of the body - Insights from the moving rubber hand illusion.

Speaker: Andreas Kalckert

14:20-14:30

Short Break

14:30-14:50

Detecting a touch that wasn’t there: Introducing the Somatic Signal Detection Task (SSDT) in examining sensory integration.

Speaker: Treshi-Marie Perera

14:50-15:10

Sounds around my body: the link between hearing and bodily perception.

Speaker: Norimichi Kitagawa

15:10-

Discussion.

-15:30

Closing.

Contact

If you have any questions about the symposium, please contact following e-mail address.

Noriaki Kanayama: nkanayama@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

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