Body Perception Measures, Maps & Models

Preliminary Conference Program

Wed 25.11.09
I. Perceptual representation of body and objects in peripersonal
space
ca. 13:00 p.m. – 18:00 p.m.
I.1 Psychophysics of body surface perception with multistimulus-arrays
I.2 Explicit and implicit processing in body perception
I.3 Multimodal integration in body perception: the Thunberg Effect
Thu 26.11.09
II. Illusions in body perception and multisensory integration
ca. 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 a.m.
II.1 Bodily illusions – neuroscience frontier or just playing games?
II.2 Illusions by congruent and incongruent multisensory perception
ca. 13:00 p.m. – 18:00 p.m.
II.3 Visual and haptic recognition of objects and surfaces
II.4 Sensory-affective integration in body perception
Fri 27.11.09
III. Neuronal network modeling of body perception and the concept
of maps
ca. 9:00 a.m. – 13:00 p.m.
III.1 Neuronal network modeling of body perception
III.2 Assessment of body maps by functional brain activation
III.3 The unifying concept of maps in modeling body perception