Symposium: How body relevance drives brain organization
Date: June 14th, 2023
Time: 10:00h-17:30h CEST
Address: Oxfordlaan 55, 6229 EV Maastricht, Netherlands
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University
Room: Jo Ritzen Auditorium
Agenda
10:00 – 10:15 – Welcome and Introduction
Beatrice de Gelder, Maastricht University
10:15 – 10:55 – Multisensory body and face dynamics
Sonja Kotz, Maastricht University
10:55 – 11:20 – Coffee break
11:20 – 12:00 – Neural models of the representation of (dynamic) bodies in visual cortex
Martin Giese, Tübingen University
12:00 – 12:20 – Markerless 3D pose estimation for macaque animation
Lucas Martini, Tübingen University
12:10 – 12:20 – Neurodynamical model of the recognition of dynamic bodily actions from
silhouettes
Prerana Kumar, Tübingen University
12:20 – 12:30 – Connectivity of different occipital body areas and their roles in affective action perception
Baichen Li, Maastricht University
12:30 – 12:40 – Voxelwise encoding models of body stimuli reveal a representational gradient from low-level visual features to postural features in occipitotemporal cortex
Giuseppe Marrazzo, Maastricht University
12:40 – 13:30 – Lunch break
13:30 – 14:00 – Representation of bodies in macaque visual temporal cortex
Rufin Vogels, KU Leuven
14:00 – 14:15 – Encoding of pose and view of a monkey avatar in different macaque body patches
Anna Bognar, KU Leuven
14:15 – 14:30 – Bodies in Motion: Unraveling the Distinct Roles of Motion and Shape in Temporal
Cortical Body Patches
Rajani Raman, KU Leuven
14:30 – 15:30 – Coffee break
15:30 – 16:10 – Pre-attentive visual processing of the human body
Marius Peelen, Donders Radboud University
16:10 – 16:50 – Bodies and faces rule object space in the ventral visual pathway
Hans op de Beeck, KU Leuven