INS 2025
Isola d'Elba, Italy
June 23-27, 2025

(Local Organizers and INS Chair).

The local organizers are David Burr, Marco Cicchini, and Concetta Morrone.

Registration Information click HERE

Registered Participants

Click on image below to see the Draft Schedule

TOPICS:

  • Inside versus Outside: Signal integrations in building up body representations (6 speakers - Monday PM & Tuesday AM)
    Organized by (Gabriella Bottini & Stephanie Clarke)
    • Francesca Ferri (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy).
    • Gerardo Salvato (University of Pavia, Italy): Shaping the self through thermosensory signals: from survival to awareness
    • Andrea Serino (University of Lausanne, Switzerland): Peripersonal space (PPS): a neural system mapping self-environment interaction “here and now”
    • David Glowacki (CiTIUS, Spain): Numadelic virtual reality: Reimagining the body and its boundaries
    • Beatrice De Gelder (Maastricht University, NL): Seeing the body from inside out
    • Matej Hoffmann (CTU, Czech Republic): Building up body representations in infancy and in robots

  • Open topic for invited speakers from each region (6 speakers - Tuesday PM & Wednesday AM)
    • Ana Chica (University of Granada, Spain): Revisiting the attention–consciousness relationship: definitions matter
    • Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford, UK): Building mental models for flexible behaviour in humans and macaques
    • Paola Binda (University of Pisa, Italy): Plasticity of the adult visual system: learning from (un)predictability
    • Massimiliano Oliveri (University of Palermo, Italy): Exploring the connections between visuomotor adaptation and cognitive functions
    • Katharina von Kriegstein (Dresden University of Technology, Germany): Human auditory communication - from visual face areas to sensory thalamus
    • Brigitte Kaufmann (Lucerne Hospital, Switzerland): Pathways to stroke recovery: Insights from white matter connectivity

  • How much can be achieved during an intersaccadic interval? (6 speakers - Wednesday PM & Thursday AM)
    Organized by (Ole Jensen & Floris de Lange)
    • David Melcher (New York University, Abu Dhabi): Predicting what and when across the saccade: evidence from the extra-foveal preview effect
    • Ayelet Landau (University College London, UK & Hebrew University, Israel): Capturing the neural predictions of self-produced sensation
    • Tirin Moore (Stanford University, USA): Changes in visual cortical representations around the time of saccades  
    • James Bisley (UCLA, USA): Planning the next saccade: the contributions of parietal and prefrontal cortex
    • Eva Berlot (Radboud University, NL): Seeing the bigger picture: Extracting visual and semantic salience from fixations
    • Ole Jensen (University of Oxford, UK): Human parafoveal processing during visual search and reading -  and the coordination by alpha oscillations

  • Neuromodulation of the healthy and pathological brain (5 speakers - Friday AM & PM)
    Organized by (Luciano Fadiga & Bruno Rossion)
    • Peter Janssen (Leuven University, Belgium): Neural effects of noninvasive brain stimulation in nonhuman primates
    • Marcello Massimini (Università di Milano Statale, Italy): Slow waves and network interactions in sleep and brain injury: Insight from TMS and EEG
    • Friedhelm Christoph Hummel (EPFL, Switzerland): Non-invasive deep brain stimulation to enhance cognitive functions: Novel opportunities
    • Giacomo Koch (Università di Ferrara & Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy): Personalized neuromodulation of the default mode network for treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease: Foundations and next steps
    • Bruno Rossion (Université de Lorraine, France): Understanding human brain (re)cognition with intracerebral electrical stimulation

Modifications
July 18, 2024 - Announce meeting place and topics
Nov 8, 2024 - Add speakers
Nov 13, 2024 - Update order of topics
Nov 18, 2024 - Registration information posted
Jan 23, 2025 - Revised Registration information posted
Feb 7, 2025 - Update speaker list
Mar 26, 2025 - Update speaker list
Apr 1, 2025 - Registration list added
May 22, 2025 - Draft schedule & talk titles
May 26, 2025 - Talk titles
May 31, 2025 - Talk titles