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.
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.
Program
Monday 10th
Institut d'études avancées de Paris,
17 Quai d'Anjou, 75004
09.30 Registration/coffee
Chair : Frederique de Vignemont
09.55 Welcoming remarks
10.00 Patrick Haggard, IEA de Paris / Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL
« Three levels of somatosensory spatial organisation »
11.00 Elena Azanon, Psychology department, Birkbeck College
11.15 Coffee break
11.30 Adrian Alsmith, Université de Copenhague
"The representational structure of bodily experience"
12.30 Luke Miller
12.45 Jessica Hartcher-O’Brien, ISIR
13.00 Lunch
Chair : Patrick Haggard
14.30 Vincent Hayward, ISIR
15.30 Or Izhar, Department of Medical Neurobiology The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
15.45 Amir Amedi, Department of Medical Neurobiology The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
16.45 coffee break
17.00 Zohar Tal, Department of Medical Neurobiology The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
17.15 Catherine Tallon-Baudry, LNC
18.15 Mariana Babo-Rebelo, LNC
18.30 End of the day
Tuesday 11th
DEC ENS
Salle Langevin,
29 rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris
Chair : Patrick Haggard
9.00 Alessandro Farne, INSERM
10.00 Matt Longo, Psychology department Birkbeck College
11.00 Luigi Tame, Psychology department Birkbeck College
11.15 coffee break
11.30 Frédérique de Vignemont, Institut Jean Nicod
« The spatiality of pain and touch : how different? »
12.30 Lunch
Chair : Frederique de Vignemont
14.15 Flavia Mancini, Department of Neuroscience, UCL
15.15 Brianna Beck, Department of Neuroscience UCL
15.30 Manolo Martinez, Philosophy department, University of Barcelona
16.30 coffee break
16.45 Rory Bufacchi, Department of Neuroscience UCL
17.00 Giandomenico Iannetti, Department of Neuroscience, UCL
18.00 End of the meeting
Paris Institute for Advanced Study
Hôtel de Lauzun
17 quai d'Anjou
75004 Paris