Thursday 5 November

  10:00 Get together, VIU cafeteria

10:30 Welcome and guiding question

  Aial Sobeh, Bahador Bahrami, Ophelia Deroy (LMU)

11:00 Session 1 — What are we measuring, and is it distinct?

11:00 Federico Cassioli (Ghent University)
Interbrain synchrony: theoretical perspectives and Kuramoto-model abstraction

11:35 Antonia Hamilton (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) 
Hyperscanning: beyond the hype

12:05 Discussion

12:45 Lunch

14:00 Session 2 — What does behaviour explain, and what is left over?

14:00 Ira Marriott Haresign (University of East London)
The role of moment-to-moment behavioural coordination on inter-brain synchrony

14:35 Pepe Alcami (LMU Munich and MPI for Biological Intelligence)
Singing coordination between virtuoso songbirds

15:10 Discussion

16:00 End of Day 1

  Free evening

Friday 6 November  

  10:30   Meet up, VIU cafeteria

11:00 Session 3 — Early-career spotlight talks and Posters

11:00 Spotlight talks (10*5 min)

11:50 Poster session and Coffee

13:00 Lunch break

14:00 Session 4 — Causal mechanisms supported by synchrony; what could serve as evidence for it?

14:00 Jean-Claude Dreher (ISC Marc Jeannerod, CNRS Lyon)
Interbrain synchronisation as a signature of coupled inference

14:35 Giacomo Novembre (Italian Institute of Technology, Rome)
Inter-brain synchrony and social behaviour: correlation or causation?

15:10 Discussion

16:00 End of Day 2

19:30 Workshop dinner (all covered)

Saturday 7 November  

   9:30   Meet up, cafeteria

10:00 Session 5 — Inter-brain plasticity, development and application

10:00 Simone Shamay-Tsoory (University of Haifa)
Inter-brain plasticity underlies the development of social connectedness

10:35 Linoy Schwartz (Reichman University)
Distinct contributions of mothers and fathers to the development of the infant’s social brain

11:10 Discussion

12:00 Closing synthesis/survey

13:15 Departure