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.

UPDATED: Meeting Program

Registered Participants

Registration Information click HERE

Meeting locations:


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): Inside out: Breathing as a neural and perceptual modulator
    • 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 B. 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 (LUKS University Teaching and Research 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 (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 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
Jun 10, 2025 - Meeting program and locations posted