Conférence au IXe Congrès des Neurosciences Université Yeditepe Istanbul 13-17 Avril 2010
www.sinirbilim2010.org/Abstract%20Book%20(TND).pdf
9. Ulusal Sinirbilimleri Kongresi – 9th National Neuroscience Congress
– April 13‐17, 2010 | Yeditepe Üniversitesi ‐ İstanbul
– Page 8/11‐ Detailed Scientific Program
17.25‐17.40 S 12: Beyincikteki Sinir Impuls Dizilerinin Analizi
Decoding Neuronal Firing Patterns in the Cerebellum
Daniel Press
17.40‐17.55 S 13: İnsan Çene Kasları Üzerine Bir Transkraniyal Manyetik Stimulasyon Çalışması
A Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study on Human Jaw Muscles
Elif Sibel Atış
17.55‐18.10 S 14: Yürüme Sırasındaki Kas İğciği Refleks Modülasyonlarının Cinsiyete Bağlı Olarak İncelenmesi
Investigation of Gender Dependent Differences in Muscle Spindle Reflex Modulations
Aylin Ş. Ürkmez
17.30‐18.10 – Conference 14 ‐ İnan Kıraç Conference Hall)
The Nobel Prizes in the Field of Neuroscience. From Camillo Golgi and Ramón y Cajal to Richard Axel and Linda Buck
Gunnar Grant
18.10‐18.35 – Conference 15 ‐ İnan Kıraç Conference Hall)
The Mirror Neuron System As a Neural Basis for a Non Verbal, Gesture Mode of Communication
Jean-Luc Petit
18.35‐19.00 – Conference 16 ‐ İnan Kıraç Conference Hall)
Empathy Between Conductor and Orchestra: Phenomenology and Empirical Research
Sera Tokay
20.00‐23.00 Gala Yemeği ‐ Gala Dinner
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The mirror neuron system as a neural basis for a non verbal,
gesture mode of communication
with an application to a program of measurement of driving force in orchestra conducting
Jean-Luc PETIT
Professor of philosophy (University of Strasbourg) & associate researcher at Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l’Action (Collège de France, Paris)
Keywords: Motor system, mirror neurons, action understanding, anticipation, simulation, gesture, driving force.
In this twin conference, I’ll take it as my part to set Serâ Tokay’s reflections on her practice of orchestra conducting in a theoretical and factual context that might prove its relevance for contemporary neuroscience. The discovery by Giacomo Rizzolatti and co-workers (including Luciano Fadiga, head of Serâ’s empirical research) of ‘mirror neurons’ in a frontal area of monkey brain, the homologue of Broca in man, revived the motor origin of language hypothesis, an hypothesis that remains yet controversial. On the other hand, robust empirical data came to back up the existence of correlates in motor circuits for non verbal, gestural, aspects of human communication. When an agent happens to be focus of attention of an observer whose motor memory includes the observed actions, a direct link automatically sets up between both. The cortical motor maps of their brains set about resonating as a result of the impact of the scene on the observer’s motor system in conjunction with an inhibition of its bodily movements. Amounting to an internal simulation, such resonance might enable the observer anticipating the other’s actions. A gesture mode of communication contingent upon maximally extending the human resources in action anticipation, the art of conducting clearly lends itself to an investigation along the lines of the mirror system paradigm. In the wake of the literature on internal models and statistical inference a driving force criterion was successfully applied comparing the performances of two conductors and the coordination of musicians under their direction, thereby paving the way to a future science of conducting.
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Cognitivist Autumn in Torun 2009
Body, Perception and Awareness: Motor and multimodal perspectives
http://www.kognitywistyka.umk.pl/2009
November 23-25, Torun 2009, Poland
Collegium Maximum, Plac Rapackiego Street 1
Monday, November 23, 2009
Conference Symposium on BCI:
Brain – Computer Interfaces: from science-fiction to practice
10.00 – 14.00
Piotr Durka
Brain–Computer Interfaces: from science-fiction to 7 FP
(introduction on BCI paradigms P300, SSVEP i ERD/S and also on EEG)
Demonstration
Discussion and meeting with students
Monday, November 23, 2009
Conference Welcome & Open Lecture
17.00 – 19.00
Open Lecture:
Patrick Haggard
The neuroscience of human volition: Could the brain have 'free will'?
19.00 – 20.00
Guide Tour – Old Town
Part I - Tuesday, November 24, 2009
9.00 – 9.30
Patrick Haggard
Summary of Open lecture
9.30 – 10.30
Keynote lecture
John-Dylan Haynes
Unconscious determinants of human decisions
10.30 – 10.45 Coffee
10.45 – 11.15
Sukhvinder Obhi
Action awareness, agency and intentional binding
11.15 – 11.45
Massimiliano Cappuccio
Motor Intentionality and the Frame Problem
11.45 – 12.15
Joanna Trzópek, Anna Seweryn
Problem of Conscious Will: Are We Indeed Authors of Our Actions?
12.15 – 13.00
Jean-Luc Petit
Are we the victims of guesswork by a Bayesian brain-machine?
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00
Keynote lecture
Lawrence M. Parsons
Brain basis of the generation of dance, music, and language
15.00 – 15.15 Coffee
Part II - Tuesday, November 24, 2009
15.15 – 15.45
Włodzisław Duch
Imagery Agnosia: what goes on in my head?
15.45 – 16.15
Atsushi Iriki
Hierarchical classes of tools as externalization
of motor and sensory body-parts
16.15 – 16.45
Aneta Brzezicka
Memory and reasoning processes in depression:
The Role of Frontal Alpha Asymmetry
16.45 – 17.15
Anna Wieczorek
The Basolateral amygdala as a part of neuronal circuity
activated during learning
17.15 – 17.45
Francesca Morganti
Embodied interaction and situated acquisition of spatial knowledge
18.00 – 19.30
Panel discussion
Where are sources of human volition ?
with:
Patrick Haggard, John-Dylan Haynes, Jean-Luc Petit,
Włodzisław Duch
(as chair and moderator)
20.00 Dinner
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
8.30 – 9.30
Keynote lecture
George Northoff
The self and its body - Our "material me"
9.30 – 10.15
Corrado Sinigaglia
The Body and its Selves
10.15 – 10.30 Coffee
10.30 - 11.15
Yann Coello
Embodied perception and space consciousness
11.15 – 12.00
Przemyslaw Nowakowski
Is the body space an effect of bayesian weighting
of multisensory information?
12.00 – 13.30
Panel discussion
Body representations – which are more important than others ?
with:
Patrick Haggard, Atsushi Iriki, Yann Coello,
George Northoff
(as chair and moderator)
14.00 – 15.00 Lunch
Seminars for students
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
14.00 – 16.00
Patrick Haggard
Body representation
16.00 – 17.00
Patrick Haggard
discussion on individual students projects
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
15.00 – 17.00
Georg Northoff
Self and Neurophilosophy
15.00 – 17.00
Lawrence M. Parsons
Brain, music, dance
Cognitivist Autumn in Torun 2009
Body, Perception and Awareness: Motor and multimodal perspectives
http://www.kognitywistyka.umk.pl/2009
CAT 2009: Body, Perception and Awareness:
Motor and multimodal perspectives
November 23-25, Torun 2009, Poland | Collegium Maximum, Plac Rapackiego Street 1
Are we the victims of guesswork
by a Bayesian brain-machine?
Jean-Luc Petit
Université de Strasbourg
& Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l’Action (Collège de France)
Abstract:
Despite the fact that we remain stubborn ontologists regarding our ego, the things in the world and other persons, leading-edge science thinks otherwise. Not only has quantum mechanics helped us to get rid of the material objects on their spatiotemporal trajectories classical mechanism pretended to trace, even psychology and the human sciences, in their new neuroscientific attires, embrace a frustratingly non-committed view of the substantiality of the world's denizens. From now on, it seems that no category of our perception of objects is entitled to more than the provisional status of an arbitrary posit in the course of constant reappraisal. The diffusion of a probabilistic model of brain processing in labs tends to undermine the phenomenological typology of habitually anticipated entities in human perception, action, desire, and belief: the things, the own body, the other persons. Is such a trend mere illusion of fashion or strict science forcing its way through a crowd of superstitious hypostatizations?