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INS 2023
Villasimius
June 19-23, 2023

(Local Organizer and INS Chair).

The local organizer was Luciano Fadiga and the symposium hotel was in the VOI Tanka Village.

Registered for the meeting (last update: 28 June 2023 - after meeting)

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Villasimius is a coastal town in southeast Sardinia, Italy. The Marine Protected Area Capo
Carbonara has barracuda, seagrass meadows and dive sites. Nearby, the Stagno di Notteri Lagoon
is visited by migrating flamingos in winter. Starting from the beach of Porto Giunco, the
Sentiero delle Cave path leads to a 16th-century watchtower. To the west are the medieval Old Fortress
and the white-sands of the Spiaggia del Riso beach.

SCHEDULE

Final Schedule

TOPICS

• Topic 1: Open Session (no particular focus) (9 speakers) Organized by the six regions
  Simone Schütz-Bosbach - LMU Munich (AUS/GER) "Brain-Body Interactions in Perception and Action."
  Peter Weiss-Blankenhorn - University Hospital Cologne (AUS/GER) "Apraxia: Concepts, Cognition and Clinic."
  Tal Seidel Malkinson - CRAN, Lorraine University, Nancy (FR, BE, CH) "Unraveling cortical networks of exogenous attention: Insights from a data-driven approach to human intracerebral recordings."
  
  Patrizia Fattori - University of Bologna (Italy) "The posterior parietal area V6A in macaque and human brains."
  Carlo Miniussi - University of Trento (Italy) "Transcranial stimulation and electroencephalography in the exploration of cortical connectivity."
  Georgia Gregoriou - Medical School, University of Crete (RoW) "Attentional selection in vision. Insights from electrophysiology in non-human primates."
  Miguel Ángel Garcia Cabezas - Department of Anatomy, University of Madrid (RoW) "The adult human brain from the point of view of the Prosomeric Model."
  Elia Formisano - Psychology Department, Maastricht University, Netherlands (UK/NL) "The meaning of sounds: Acoustic to semantic transformations in Auditory Cortex."
  Karin Roelofs - Donders Institute-1 or Donders Institute-2 (UK/NL) "Human defensive reactions and their role in approach-avoidance decision making."
• Topic 2: Neuroscience in the Real World (6 speakers) Organized by Jody Culham and Dora Angelaki
  Nachum Ulanovsky - Weizmann Institute (Israel) "Neural codes for natural behaviors in the bat hippocampus. "
  
  Dmitriy Aronov - Columbia University (USA) "Using food-caching birds to study the neuroscience of episodic memory."
  
  Dora Angelaki - New York University (USA) "How and why we move our eyes during navigation."
  
  Jacqueline Snow - University of Nevada (USA) "How stimulus realism influences human behavior and brain responses."
  
  Uri Hasson - Princeton University (USA) "Deep language models as a cognitive model for natural language processing in the human brain."
  
  Jody Culham - Western University, London Ontario (Canada) "Immersive Neuroscience: Closing the loop in the study of brain and behavior."
• Topic 3: Calculating Brains (8 speakers) Organized by Carlo Semenza and Klaus Willmes
  Brian Butterworth - University College London (UK) "A deep history of the calculating brain."
  
  Manuela Piazza - University of Trento (Italy) "Intuitions of mathematics and their refinement with age and education."
  
  Carlo Semenza - University of Padua (Italy) "The contribution of the right hemisphere to calculation."
  
  Andreas Nieder - Universität Tübingen (Germany) "Math Neurons in the Human Brain."
  
  Giorgio Vallortigara - University of Trento (Italy) "Number Cognition in Animal Models: Addressing Innateness, Neural Circuitry and Arithmetic."
  
  Silvia Benavides-Varela - University of Padua (Italy) "Numerical coding in the infant brain and its interplay with language and spatial processes."
  
  Marie Amalric - University of Trento "Neural correlates of mathematics curricular knowledge."
  
  Roi Cohen Kadosh - University of Surrey (UK) "Neurointervention to improve arithmetic learning and performance: Successes, failures, and future directions."

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