Announcements
Official program, poster, student seminar registration ...
Official conference program is now available in downloadable form (PDF 44kb), also you can view final version of conference poster (JPG 1,04mb).
In papers section - you can read-download first part of abstracts (for rest - please be patient) and student seminar papers (recommended to read before volunteering). To participate in the seminar Registration is required, which can be done through the following forms:
First seminar at 24 November,
by Patrick Haggard - Body Representation
[1st name/ 2nd name/ e-mail and then 'wyślij (send)]
Second seminar at 25 November,
by Lawrence M. Parsons - Brains, Music, Dance
[1st name/ 2nd name/ e-mail and then 'wyślij (send)]
Third seminar at 25 November,
by George Northoff - Self and Neurophilosophy
[1st name/ 2nd name/ e-mail and then 'wyślij (send)]
Attention! After sending the application, volunteer can expect an e-mail confirming participation.
Call for Papers
This year's event is called:
BODY, PERCEPTION AND AWARENESS.
Motor and multimodal perspectives
It is fourth edition of interdisciplinary conference following first event „Embodied and Situated Cognition: from Phenomenology and Neuroscience to Artificial Intelligence” (2006) and second „Self, Intersubjectivity & Social Neuroscience: from Mind and Action to Society" (2007) and third „Enactivism: a new paradigm?” (2008) all held in Toruń.
Conference will be held in Torun (POLAND), on November 23-25.
The key topics of this year's event will include:
- motor cognition,
- body perception and body awareness,
- multisensory integration,
- action awareness,
- volition and action,
- embodied self-consciousness and bodily self,
- action perception and action in perception,
- body schema, body image and other body representations.
List of conference participants will include special guest - PATRICK HAGGARD from UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, with Open Lecture: The neuroscience of human volition: Could the brain have 'free will'?; and also Yann Coello, John-Dylan Haynes, Athsushi Iriki, India Morisson, Francesca Morganti, Sukhvinder Obhi, Jean-Luc Petit, Corrado Sinigaglia, Tom Ziemke, Niels Birbaumer, Piotr Durka and other guests (full list will be available soon).
Submission
UPDATE: Registration form is
available!
Registration form with abstract of no more than 500 words should be submitted by email (in the main body of the email or as attachments in Microsoft Word) to Dr Tomasz Komendzinski, Institute of Philosophy, N. Copernicus University, Torun, Poland by: deadline for registration: 1 November 2009, deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2009.
» Registration form (.doc).
Contact
For any detail information contact: dr Tomasz Komendzinski tkomen@uni.torun.p; or Pzemyslaw Nowakowski prrono@doktorant.umk.pl.
Past evenst 2006-2008
Embodied and Situated Cognition | 2006
Embodied and Situated Cognition:
From Phenomenology to Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence
First edition of interdisciplinary conference on conception of the embodied mind and embodied cognition was held in Torun at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland in November 16-18 2006, with such guest like: Shaun Gallagher, Jordan Zlatev, Natika Newton, Daniel Hutto, Giovanna Colombetti, Olaf Blanke, India Morrison, Dorothee Legrand, Matthew Ratcliffe, Richard Menary, Helena De Preester, Jonathan Cole, Tom Ziemke, Tony Chemero, Ron Chrisley and many more ...
Self, Intersubjectivity & Social Neuroscience 2007
Self, Intersubjectivity & Social Neuroscience: From Mind and Action to Society
Second edition of interdisciplinary conference on neuroscience and social cognition was also in Torun at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland in September 24-26 2006, with such guest like: Marc Jeannerod, Jonathan Cole, Stephanie Carlson, Matthis Synofzik, Jessica Sommerville, Philip Zelazo, Colwyn Trevarthen, Yann Coello, Piotr Jaskowski, Catherine Reed, Corrado Sinigaglia, Daniel Hutto, Hanne De Jeagher, Lucina Uddin, India Morrison, Francesca Morganti, Justin H. G. Williams, Wlodzislaw Duch and many more ...
Enactivism: a new paradigm? | 2008
Enactivism: a new paradigm?
From neurophenomenology
and Social / Evolutionary Robotics to Distributed Cognition.
Last year's event was a third edition of interdisciplinary conference following first event „Embodied and Situated Cognition: from Phenomenology and Neuroscience to Artificial Intelligence” (2006) and second „Self, Intersubjectivity & Social Neuroscience: from Mind and Action to Society" (2007), both held in Torun.
List of conference guests and participant featured: Søren Brier, Thierry Chaminade, Natalie Depraz, Wlodzislaw Duch, Olivier Gapenne, Hiro Iizuka, Masami Ishihara, David Kirsch, Jean-Luc Petit, Corrado Sinigaglia, Elzbieta Szelag, Pierre Steiner, Tom Ziemke and many more.
Sponsors & Partners
Honorary patronage by: Rector of Nicolaus Copernicus University - Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Radzimiński; Marshal of Kuyavia and Pomerania Voivodeship - Piotr Całbecki; President of Toruń - Michał Zaleski.
Full list of sponsors & partners include: Imprint Academic, Imperial College Press, World Scientific, Oxford University Press, Springer, Janus Head, Psychology Press, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Eurospan Group, IOS Press, Guilford, Harvard University Press, Routledge, The MIT Press and mary more ...
