Wednesday, May 22nd- Friday, May 24th
AISC midterm conference 2019​

From brain to behavior: neuroscience and the social sciences

Confirmed invited speakers
Carlos Alós-Ferrer (University of Zurich)
 Sarah Genon (Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine, Jülich)
Francesco Guala (University of Milan)
Marco Tamietto (University of Turin, University of Tilburg, University of Oxford)

Presentation
The 2019 Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC) midterm Conference will be held in Lucca on May 22nd-24th and will be hosted by the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. We welcome contributions from any area of cognitive science, with special emphasis on the interaction between disciplines studying the brain/mind and the social sciences (broadly understood).

In recent years, the exploration of the cognitive and neurobiological foundations of rational behavior and decision-making has undergone significant changes and has raised methodological and theoretical challenges in many fields, including philosophy, psychology, economics, linguistics, computer science, and ethics. Cognitive neuroscience, behavioral economics, and other approaches like neuroeconomics and neuroethics are casting new light on traditional issues while also raising additional problems and questions.

We are interested in exploring questions such as: How can neuroscience inform research on phenomena such as social behavior, norms, and institutions? What can we learn about these phenomena from computational models? Which challenges do cognitive science raise to established theoretical frameworks, and what new paths do they open? How do cognitive and social sciences fields interact? Is there (or could there be) a common language through which the findings from one field can be made relevant to other disciplines? Are cognitive and social sciences incommensurable to some degree? Should psychology take the middle ground between brain data and social sciences, or can there be a direct ‘leap’ from brain to (economic, moral, etc.) behavior?

Venue
The conference will take place in the newly restored San Francesco Complex, located within the IMT School for Advanced Studies’ campus in Lucca. IMT is a public university and research center and one of Italy’s six Schools of Excellence, with a focus on neuroscience, (behavioral) economics and the analysis of complex systems.

Visit the AISC webpage

Purpose of the Workshop
    The overall purpose of The Blind Brain Workshop is to highlight how the view of the brain has changed from the study of the sensory deprived model. Within this framework the Workshop aims to provide the optimal setting for a full immersion into the most recent research advancements on the sensory deprived brain, with the aim to tackle from multiple perspectives, conceptual and methodological challenges. We aim to gather scientists from all-over the world to understand the role of perceptual experiences in brain morphological and functional development and plasticity. We would like to provide the context for knowledge exchange and confrontation within the fields of research of sensory deprivation and brain plasticity.

The workshop will include the following scientific areas:

• Experience-dependent brain plasticity
• Experience-independent brain development
• Sensory deprivation and restoration
• Innovative approaches for the study of the sensory deprived brain
• Comparative sensory-deprived models
• Intramodal and Crodss-modal plasticity
• Supramodality
• Task/Functional Selectivity
• Rehabilitative approaches after sensory loss (e.g. sensory substitution devices)
• Novel Methods
  

Speakers

Amir Amedi
Holly Bridge
Velia Cardin
Zaira Cattaneo
Olivier Collignon
Stefan Debener
Marc Ernst
Monica Gori
Stephen Lomber
Lotfi Merabet
Maria Concetta Morrone
Micah Murray
Maurice Ptito
Ella Striem-Amit
Emiliano Ricciardi
Marcin Szwed
Brigitte Röder
Ehud Zohary
Bernhard Sabel

The International Organization of Psychophysiology (IOP) and the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca are pleased to invite you to attend the
19^th World Congress of Psychophysiology
in Lucca, Italy - September 4-8, 2018
For further info: www.sipf2018.it

We are very excited to share with you the official program of MeeTo 2018: From moving bodies to interactive minds. The conference will be held in Turin, Italy, from Friday 25th to Sunday 27th May 2018.

The main goal MeeTo 2018 is to provide an arena for human-centered, multidisciplinary discussions of the state of the art in the field of motor and social cognition. To cover the various aspects of this topic, the conference program will include keynote lectures by:

Cristina Becchio – University of Turin and Italian Institute of Technology (Genova, Italy)
Luciano Fadiga – University of Ferrara and Italian Institute of Technology (Genova, Italy)
Leonhard Schilbach – Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry (Munich, Germany)
Natalie Sebanz – Central European University (Budapest, Hungary)

The conference will also feature a full set of scientific events, such as symposia with renown international speakers, brief talks, and poster sessions, as well as social events.

Please find some more useful information here:  

* Program
The final version of the program has been uploaded to our website: http://www.intobrain.it/en/meeto-2018/scientific-program/
You can also find enclosed the MeeTo official program.  

* Registration 
Please remember to register and pay the registration fee online at the following link: http://www.intobrain.it/en/meeto-2018/registration/ 
The deadline for registration is May 22nd 2018.
On the conference website you can also register for the social dinner, which will take place on Saturday 26th in an Italian cuisine restaurant located nearby the conference site.
Invoices will be available for pickup at the reception desk of the conference.

* Workshop
Please note that a workshop titled ‘PredPsych, a R based toolbox for machine learning in experimental psychology’ has been scheduled on May 24th.
Please visit the following link for more info and registration: http://www.intobrain.it/en/meeto-2018/workshop-predpsych-r-based-toolbox-machine-learning-experimental-psychology/
The deadline for the registration to the workshop is May 15th, 2018.
 
*Conference site
The conference will be held at the Aula Magna del Rettorato - University of Turin (via Verdi, 8 - Torino), in the heart of the city.
The workshop will be in the same magnificent building: Sala Allara - University of Turin (via Verdi, 8 - Torino).

10th International Scientific Conference on Neuroethics and 5th Conference of the Italian Society for Neuroethics (SINe)

NEUROETHICS: RE-MAPPING THE FIELD Meetings on Neuroscience and Society, X Edition

May 16th – 18th, 2018 Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan DIBIT 1, Via Olgettina 58

News and information about the Conference are available on the SINe website: https://societadineuroetica.wordpress.com/