Bodily sensations and bodily awareness: building blocks of subjectivity
Conference and doctoral workshop organized by Patrick Haggard (UCL, Paris IAS fellow), and Frédérique de Vignemont (CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod), with the support of the École Normale Supérieure.
The conference and workshop will be held at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study (Hôtel de Lauzun) on Monday, October 10th, and the conference will continue at the École Normale Supérieure (29, rue d'Ulm) on Tuesday, October 11th.
The doctoral workshop will be held on Monday afternoon.
Presentation
Bodily sensation is a key component of self-awareness, but the cognitive and neural processes that transform specific sensory inputs into a general sense of one’s own body are scarcely understood. At this meeting, experts in psychology, neuroscience and philosophy of the body will focus on how the brain integrates sensory inputs into a coherent representation of one’s own body. In addition to considering perceptual and neurophysiological data, the meeting will cover conceptual work assessing how integrative somatosensory and motor processing might contribute to the sense of self, and what kind of self might result from such mechanisms.
Participants
Adrian Alsmith, Université de Copenhague
Vincent Hayward, Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique
Amir Amedi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Matt Longo, Birkbeck University
Giandomenico Iannetti, University College London
Alessandro Farne, INSERM
Manolo Martinez, Université de Barcelone
Flavia Mancini, University College London
Patrick Haggard, University College London
Frédérique de Vignemont, Institut Jean Nicod
Paris Institute for Advanced Study
Hôtel de Lauzun
17 quai d'Anjou
75004 Paris