Conferences
2024
- On the 13th of March, all lab members will attend the ERC symposium in Tübingen, Germany with the title "Neural and Computational Representations of Bodies and Shapes" organized by Prof. Dr. Martin Giese
(Section for Computational Sensomotorics, HIH/CIN, University Hospital of Tübingen), Prof. Dr. Beatrice de Gelder (Brain and Emotion Laboratory, Maastricht University), and Prof. Dr. Rufin Vogels (Department of Neurophysiology, KU Leuven).
The agenda is available here:
2023
- Baichen took part at this year's SfN 2023 conference in Washington DC in the USA, from November 11-15, 2023. Baichen's poster was titled: "Largely separate body and face networks in the macaque cortex revealed by a data-driven approach"
- Marta and Juanzhi took part at this year's S4SN online conference in Japan, taking place from November 2-3, 2023. Marta had an online poster with the title "Minimal Awareness shows emption and gender specificity" and Juanzhi's poster was titled: "An early ERP signature of self whole body perception"
- Bea held a presentation with the title The primate social brain: Is it all in the mind? at the Symposium at the Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, taking place from October 10-11, 2023
2022
- Giuseppe and Baichen will take part at this year's the Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego, taking place from November 12-16, 2022. This year's agenda is available here:
- Bea gave a Keynote Speaker lecture on How body expressions signal threat in real and virtual worlds at the 9th MindBrainBody Symposium 2022, taking place from March 16-18, 2022
- Organisation of the symposium Virtual Realities, real experiences. Perspectives from behavioral & neuroscience studies, co-organized by Julie Grezes, ENS Paris, online, February 17, 2022
2021
- A Computational Neuroethology Perspective on Body, Expression and Action Perception, organized by University of Regensburg, online, November 11, 2021
- Beauty and the brain: a view from the body, organized by BrainCircleItalia in collaboration with EBRI. the European Brain Research Institute “Rita Levi-Montalcini”, November 19, 2021
- Hemisphere-specific coding of left vs right viewpoint perception of the human body in lingual gyrus, Poster presented by Marrazzo, G., De Martino, F., Lage Castellanos, A., Vaessen, M., & De Gelder, B. at the Society for Neuroscience, Online, November 8, 2021
- SYNX Symposium, organized by SONAR and Mindspaces, Barcelona, Spain, October 29, 2021
- A computational neuroethology perspective on body, expression and action perception, organized by Ca’Foscari and the European Centre for Living Technology, online, September 23, 2021
- Posthuman art: Robots, Aliens, Chess and Tokens, Organized by Ars Electronica Garden Hong Kong, online, September 10, 2021
- Do we understand human aggressive behavior? In the search for brain mechanisms towards, organized by the European Brain and Behavior Society, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 5, 2021
- Task dynamics of body category and emotion representation in high-level visual, prefrontal and parietal cortex, Poster presented by Marrazzo, G., Vaessen, M., & De Gelder, B. at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Online, March 13, 2021
2020
- Task dynamics of body category and emotion representation in high-level visual, prefrontal and parietal cortex, Poster presented by Marrazzo, G., Vaessen, M., & De Gelder, B. at the Neuromatch Conference 3.0, Online, October 26, 2020
2019
- Beyond realism: the biological mechanics of avatars effect, organized by the Actor and Avatar Conference: Acting the Future, Zurich, Switzerland, August 29, 2019. For more information about the event, please click here.
- Virtual bodies, real fear, in the context of the symposium From Split-Brains to Emotional Consciousness, organized by the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino and the European Research Council, Turin, Italy, April 16, 2019. For more information about the event, please click here.
- Virtual bodies, virtual selves with real emotions, organized by the ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), Paris, France, July 2-5, 2019. For more information about the event, please click here
- The lab got two abstracts accepted at OHBM 2019. Maarten Vaessen presented his work entitled "Distinct brain representations of face, body and voice expression revealed with fMRI decoding" and Marta Poyo Solanas presented "Multivariate analysis of affective body perception using postural and kinematic features of movement".
- Psychophysics in the age of VR, workshop organized by Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, May 1, 2019.
- Maarten Vaessen presented a poster at OHBM 2019 entitled "Representation of emotion from the face, body and voice in the brain, an fMRI decoding study".
- Marta Poyo Solanas presented a poster at OHBM 2019 entitled "Multivariate analysis of affective body perception using postural and kinematic features of movement".
- Beatrice was invited to give a talk entitled “Do mechanisms of body perpeption explain embodiment?” at the Virtual and Robotic Embodiment – from neuroscience to virtual reality and robotics Symposium in Barcelona (February 28 – March 1, 2019). For more information about the event, please click here.
2018
- Prof. de Gelder was invited to give a talk at the Glasgow Neuro Society Conference in November 2019
- More than just a face: how including multiple social signals allows a deeper understanding of neuropsychiatric diseases, organized by the German Association for Psychiatry (DGPPN), Berlin, Germany, December 2018. For more information about the event, please click here.
- Space-Time Geometries and Movement in the Brain and in the Arts, Keynote Speaker for the colloquia organized by the Institut D'études Avancées de Paris, Paris, France, July 19-20, 2018. For more information about the event, please click here
- 5th International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO'18), Genoa, Italy, June 38-30. 2018. For more information about the event, please click here.
- Neural and Computational Mechanisms of Social Perception, workshop organized by Beatrice de Gelder at Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands, May 15, 2018.
- A bottom-up perspective on embodiment, as part of the Brain and Body workshop Does the brain need a body to be a brain?, organized by the Human Brain Project, Barcelona, Spain, March 8-9, 2018. For more information about the event, please click here.
2017
- Zhan, M., Goebel, R., Vaessen, M., de Gelder, B. (2017). Action categories are represented as distributed patterns in ventral and dorsal structures: A high field and high resolution fMRI (7T) study. Nanosymposium presentation, Society of Neuroscience 2017.
2015
- Zhan, M., Hortensius, R., Goebel, R., de Gelder, B. (2015). Seeing invisible fearful bodies: A role of the intraparietal sulcus in non-conscious body processing. Poster presentation, Annual meeting of ASSC.
- Zhan, M., Hortensius, R., Goebel, R., de Gelder, B. (2015). Non-conscious processing of bodily emotion expressions in the dorsal stream. Poster presentation, Annual meeting of OHBM.