program

9:00 9:05 Brief Introduction to the Workshop


Workshop Part A: The development of body perception during infancy

9:05 9:30 Eszter Somogyi, University of Portsmouth

The role of tactile training in the development of body perception

9h30 9:55 Maria Laura Filippetti, University of Essex

Becoming you: the developmental mechanisms underlying self-face representations

9:55 10:20 Jeff Lockman, (Tulane University) and Lisa Chinn (Tulane University & University of Houston)

From body knowledge to self-recognition

10:20 10:45 Daniela Corbetta, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

From self-touch to goal-directed reaching: Integrating sensory spaces

10:45-11:00 discussion

11:00-11:30 coffee break

Workshop Part B: Cross-sensory integration and multimodal contingency

11:30 11:55 Sergiu T. Popescu, Czech Technical University in Prague

Acquisition of body knowledge in early infancy by detecting sensorimotor contingencies and by self-touching

11:55 12:20 Bahia Guellai, Nanterre University

Cross-sensory integration and sensitivity to cross-modal contingencies from birth

12:20 12:45 Andrew Bremner, University of Birmingham

The development of multisensory space in human infancy, in typical development and with visual impairment

12:45 13:00 discussion

13:00-14:00 lunch (provided)


14:00 14:10 Poster teasers (2min presentations 3 slides max)

14:10 14:30 Poster presentation


Workshop Part C: Developmental robotics as promising models of body perception and cross-sensory integration

14:30 14:55 Matej Hoffmann, Czech Technical University in Prague

Humanoids with a sense of touch as computational embodied models of learning body representations

14:55 15:20 Alex Pitti, CY Cergy-Paris University

Unlimited body: toward robots that learn to modify their body image

15:20 15:45 Ganesh Gowrishankar, LIRMM CNRS, Montpellier

Using robots to understand how our brain defines what is our body


15:45 16:00 discussion

16:00 16:30 coffee break

16:30 17:00 general discussion