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V International Interdisciplinary Conference
Cognitivist Autumn in Toruń 2010
MIRROR NEURONS:
from action to empathy
April , 14-16 2010
Torun, Poland
Conference program is now available [html] or [pdf]
Attention!!! 1st day of conference will be held at Dąmbskich Palace (Zeglarska Street 8, gmaps), 2nd & 3rd days will be placed at University Hotel (Szosa Chełmińska 82a, gmaps).
Call for papers
This year's event will be fifth edition of interdisciplinary conference called "Mirror Neurons:from Action to Empathy". Conference will be held in Torun, on April 14 - 16 2010.
Speakers (confirmed)
List of conference participants will include special guest - Giacomo Rizzolatti from Department of Neurosciences, the Università degli studi di Parma, with special lecture - The Mirror Mechanism: a mechanism for understanding others [PDF].
other participants wil include:
- Laila Craighero - Others' action recognition in newborns: the role of goal-directedness [PDF]
- Lucina Uddin - Self and Others Representations in Autism [PDF]
- Corrado Sinigaglia - Sense of self and sense of others [PDF]
- India Morrison - Affective foundations of pain and touch empathy
- Włodzislaw Duch - Deeper than mirror systems: neural mechanisms responsible for autism and ADHD [PDF]
- Paweł Gładziejewski - Mirror systems and the conceptual basis of mindreading [PDF]
- Beata Stawarska - Mirror Neurons and Language [PDF]
- Ferdinand Binkofski - Objects, Affordances and Mirror Neurons [PDF]
- Jun Tani - Emergence of functional hierarchy: neuro-robotics experiments [PDF]
- Satoshi Matsuda - Emergence of Robot Planning out of Neural Networks Interaction [PDF]
- Bart J. Tkaczyk - Positive NeuroLeadership - Mirror Neurons as Positive enERGizers in the Workplace [PDF]
- Hideaki Koizumi - The Dawn of Applied Brain Science. A new field emerging through noninvasive brain function imaging [PDF]
- Massimiliano Cappuccio - Touching your soul with my eyes. Mirror neurons for gaze following and empathy [PDF]
- Michael L. Anderson - Neural reuse in the functional organization of the brain: much more than mirrors [PDF]
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Lars Schwabe, Ludgar Jansen, Anita Pacholik-Żuromska - Action understanding: From persons to (mirror) neurons and back again [PDF]
Student Seminars:
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Ferdinand Binkofski - Parallel processing in the sensorimotor system
for volunteers to take part in the seminars is recommended to read the following texts:
- Baumgaertner, A., Buccino, G., Lange, R., McNamara, A., Binkofski, F. (2007) Polymodal conceptual processing of human biological actions in the left inferior frontal lobe. European Journal of Neuroscience, 1-9.
- Binkofski, F., Buccino, G. (2006) The role of ventral premotor cortex in action execution and action understanding. Journal of Physiology 99, 396-405.
- Blangero, A., Menz, M.M., McNamara, A., Binkofski, F. (2009) Parietal modules for reaching. Neuropsychologia 47, 1500-1507.
- Dijkerman, H.C., de Haan, E.H.F. (2007) Somatosensory processes subserving perception and action. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30, 189-239.
- Binkofski, F., Buccino, G., Dohle, C., Seitz, R.J., Freund, H-J. (1999) Mirror agnosia and mirror ataxia constitute different parietal lobe disorders. Ann Neurol 46, 51-61.
- Rizzolatti, G., Luppino, G., Matelli, M. (1998) The organization of the cortical motor system: new concepts. Electroencephalography and clinical Neurophysiology 106, 283-296.
- Rizzolatti, G., Luppino, G. (2001) The Cortical Motor System. Neuron 31, 889-901.
- Homke, L., Amunts, K., Bonig, L., Fretz, C., Binkofski, F., Zilles, K., Weder, B. (2009) Analysis of Lesions in patients with unilateral tactile agnosia using cytoarchitectonic probabilistic maps. Human Brain Mapping 30, 1444-1456.
- Hideaki Koizumi [PDF] - Fusion of Sciences and Humanities by Applied Brain Science. Methodology for Transdisciplinary Bridging and the Fusion of Distant Fields [PDF]
Submission
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 April 2010,
- deadline for abstracts: 20 March 2010.
» Registration form (.doc).
Contact:
Honorary Patronage:
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Nicolaus Copernicus University |
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Marshal |
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President of Toruń |
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