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

16:50 – 17:30 – Discussion and concluding remarks