MORE GEOMETRICO

[Ugo Bruzzo]

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MORE GEOMETRICO

An interdisciplinary conference  on geometry,
cognition, space and movement

SISSA - International School for Advanced
Studies, Trieste
October 6 to 8, 2009
Room D
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October 6 morning
MOTOR COGNITION
Chair: Raffaella Rumiati

9:30-10:10 Gergely Csibra: Predictive motor mirroring
10:10-10:50 Ilan Dinstein: Movement selectivity in the human mirror system
10:50-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-12:00 Tamar Flash: The contribution of several geometries to  
trajectory formation
12:00-12:40, Angelika Lingnau: Representation of observed and executed  
motor acts


October 6 afternoon
INTERNAL REPRESENTATION OF SPACE
Chair: Alessandro Treves

2:30-3:10 Kate Jeffery: Representing space in a multi-dimensional world
3:10-3:50 Emilio Kropff: Grid cells may create space with time?
3:50-4:20 coffee break
4:20-5:00 Bharathi Jagadeesh: The neural basis of recognizing pictures  
of people places and things
5:00-5:40 Albert Compte: The neural basis of spatial working memory capacity
5:40-6:20 Edmund Rolls: Spatial view representations in the primate  
hippocampus: neurophysiology and theory

October 7 morning
SPACE AND MOVEMENT
Chair: Corrado Sinigaglia

9:30-10:10 Marco Neppi: Coding and modulation of space representation
10:10-10:50 Yann Coello: Embodied spatial cognition
10:50-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-12:00 Elisabetta Ladavas, Action-dependent plasticity in  
peripersonal space representations
12:00-12:40 Giorgio Vallortigara: Aristotle and the chick: core  
knowledge in comparative perspective

October 7 afternoon
THAT SPECIAL HIPPOCAMPAL TOUCH
Chair: Alessandro Treves

14:30-15:10 Pavel Itskov: Hippocampal representation of touch and  
sound guided behavior: implications for memory encoding

17:00-19:00 PUBLIC DISCUSSION
		    Percezione, pensiero, rappresentazione
                     Museo Sartorio,  Sala Costantinides, L.go Papa Giovanni
                     XXXIII° n. 1
                     Participants: Claudio Bartocci, Marcello Frixione,
                     Walter Gerbino, Giulio Giorello, Alessandro Treves

October 8 morning
PERCEIVING MOTIONS, SHAPES AND COLORS
Chair: Luciano Boi

9:30-10:10 Kevin O'Regan: How the brain can deduce space and color  
from sensorimotor dependencies
10:10-10:50 GIovanna Citti: Functional geometry of connectivity in the  
primary visual cortex
10:50-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-12:00 Francesco Lacquaniti: Visuomotor coordination for object  
interception
12:00-12:40 Jan Koenderink: Visual space

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