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MOTOR COGNITION - Chair: Raffaella Rumiati (Trieste, SISSA)

9:30-10:10 Gergely Csibra (Budapest): Predictive motor mirroring

10:10-10:50 Ilan Dinstein (Weizmann): Movement selectivity in the human mirror system

10:50-11:20 Coffee break

11:20-12:00 Tamar Flash (Weizmann): The contribution of several geometries to trajectory formation

12:00-12:40 Angelika Lingnau (Rovereto): Representation of observed and executed motor acts

INTERNAL REPRESENTATION OF SPACE - Chair: Alessandro Treves (Trieste, SISSA)

2:30-3:10 Kate Jeffery (London): Representing space in a multi-dimensional world

3:10-3:50 Emilio Kropff (Trondheim): Grid cells may create space with time?

3:50-4:20 Coffee break

4:20-5:00 Bharathi Jagadeesh (Seattle): The neural basis of recognizing pictures of people places and things

5:00-5:40 Albert Compte (Barcelona): The neural basis of spatial working memory capacity

5:40-6:20 Edmund Rolls (Oxford & Warwick): Spatial view representations in the primate hippocampus: neurophysiology and theory

SPACE AND MOVEMENT - Chair: Corrado Sinigaglia (Milano, Università degli Studi)

9:30-10:10 Marco Neppi (Torino): Coding and modulation of space representation

10:10-10:50 Yann Coello (Lille): Embodied spatial cognition

10:50-11:20 Coffee break

11:20-12:00 Elisabetta Ladavas (Bologna): Action-dependent plasticity in peripersonal space representations

12:00-12:40 Giorgio Vallortigara (Trieste): Aristotle and the chick: core knowledge in comparative perspective

2.30-3.10 Pavel Itskov (Trieste, SISSA): Hippocampal representation of touch and sound guided behavior

5:00-7:00 PUBLIC DISCUSSION (at Museo Sartorio, Sala Costantinides):

«PERCEZIONE, PENSIERO, RAPPRESENTAZIONE»

Participants: Claudio Bartocci, Marcello Frixione, Walter Gerbino, Giulio Giorello, Alessandro Treves

PERCEIVING MOTIONS, SHAPES AND COLORS - Chair: Luciano Boi (Paris, EHESS)

9:30-10:10 Kevin O'Regan (Paris): How the brain can deduce space and color from sensorimotor dependencies

10:10-10:50 Giovanna Citti (Bologna): Functional geometry of connectivity in the primary visual cortex

10:50-11:20 Coffee break

11:20-12:00 Francesco Lacquaniti (Roma): Visuomotor coordination for object interception

12:00-12:40 Jan Koenderink (Utrecht): Visual space