ESCAN 2026
3 - 6 June 2026 | Rome, Italy
Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview |
| 8:30am - 7:00pm |
Registration Location: Registration Desk and Secretariat |
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| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Keynote Lecture 1: Tallon Baudry: Two distinct functional roles for interoception: information and coordination Location: Plenary Room |
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| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Coffee Break Location: Catering Areas |
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
S1-1: Modulating performance monitoring and control adjustments: neurophysiological and neurostimulation perspectives Modulating performance monitoring and control adjustments: neurophysiological and neurostimulation perspectives Presentations of the Symposium Mind and Heart in the game: Integrating EEG Feedback-Related Negativity and Heart Rate Variability during reward and loss processing How visuo-spatial monitoring is affected by endogenous and exogenous activation of the right Posterior Parietal Cortex (rPPC) Feedback-locked event-related EEG dynamics represent multiplexed performance monitoring and decision-making variables. Frontoparietal theta tACS selectively improves pre-response reaction times during representational incongruency processing. |
S1-2: Cognitive reserve and affective adaptation across the life cycle: neural mechanisms from language to emotion Cognitive reserve and affective adaptation across the life cycle: neural mechanisms from language to emotion Presentations of the Symposium Cognitive reserve and emotional cognition in aging: neural dynamics of verbal fluency and working memory Cognitive reserve and affective outcomes of acquired brain injury How cognitive reserve influences mental health in middle adulthood Lifespan neural mechanisms of empathy and socio-cognitive control |
S1-3: Dynamic brain-body interactions in perception, selfhood, and cognition across health and disease Dynamic brain-body interactions in perception, selfhood, and cognition across health and disease Presentations of the Symposium How early motor experiences shape multisensory representations of the bodily self in space: evidence from MyFirstBody project Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch Affective touch processing across the body–brain–spinal levels in psychosis Altered cardiac interoception in autism: evidence from heartbeat-evoked potentials Dynamic brain-heart interaction patterns underlie motor imagery in healthy individuals and stroke patients |
| S1-4: Multisensory development: early roots of social cognition and embodied experiences Multisensory development: early roots of social cognition and embodied experiences Presentations of the Symposium Before birth: emerging multisensory integration and dyadic attunement in the human fetus The ontogeny of multisensory bodily awareness in postnatal infancy: Adventures in infant virtual reality with BabyMIRAGE Bridging self and other: the role of shared affective touch in interpersonal motor synchrony during preschool development The ontogenesis of social touch: Assessing valence and inferring relationships from observed tactile interactions. |
S1-5: Neural dynamics of Actions across the Lifespan: Development, Plasticity and Recovery Neural dynamics of Actions across the Lifespan: Development, Plasticity and Recovery Presentations of the Symposium From bursts to brain maturation: developmental refinement of sensorimotor beta dynamics Sensorimotor integration and motor control across the adult lifespan and interpersonal coordination Advancing Brain Computer Interfaces from bench to bedside for Neurorehabilitation Serotonergic cortico-limbic and executive network dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease impulse control disorders: A PET-fMRI study |
S1-6: How friendship and social network structure manifest in social cognition and interaction How friendship and social network structure manifest in social cognition and interaction Presentations of the Symposium The brain in the social world: Integrating approaches from social neuroscience and social network analysis Spontaneous interpersonal coordination and brain dynamics are modulated by the number of friends in shared social networks Friendship modulates physical effort and neural dynamics during group coordination in shared social networks Social network characteristics of interacting people are reflected in their real-time interpersonal behaviours Tracking the origins of friendship in synchrony behaviour |
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| S1-7: Beyond prediction: Affective and social dimensions of sense of agency Beyond prediction: Affective and social dimensions of sense of agency Presentations of the Symposium Emotional expressions as action outcomes shape the sense of agency Social sense of agency in interaction depends on reciprocal timing of actions, not just their temporal proximity Agency in dynamic actions: How do humans integrate sensory and affective information to infer control? Blurring the self: Agency and identity in cybernetic humanity |
S1-8: New evidence on the role of the cerebellum in social action sequencing and prediction New evidence on the role of the cerebellum in social action sequencing and prediction Presentations of the Symposium New perspectives on the cerebellum’s social–emotional contributions: state of the art, new findings and outlook for future research Contextualizing the cerebellar computations for action prediction in typical and atypical development The role of the cerebellum in social interaction sequencing and prediction: An fMRI study with an implicit Ultimatum Game task Discussion: Social-emotional cerebellar learning: alternative perspectives and future directions including clinical and computational (AI) applications. |
S1-9: Moral decision-making under organised crime influence: Evidence from field surveys and Immersive Virtual Reality Moral decision-making under organised crime influence: Evidence from field surveys and Immersive Virtual Reality Presentations of the Symposium Mafia influence, state resilience, and civic honesty Mafia-type threat increases corruption: shifts in behaviour, physiology, motor conflict and sense of agency in a virtual reality bribery task Virtual encounters with mafia extortion: Using Immersive Virtual Reality to shape attitudes Attitudinal and behavioral changes following embodiment of civic heroes and mafia criminals in Immersive Virtual Reality |
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| 12:00pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch Break Location: Catering Areas |
P1: Poster session Location: Catering Areas The Brain and Body in Polluted vs. Pleasant Landscapes Music Curiosity in Autism: the Role of the Opioidergic System Facial mimicry as a skill - from emotion recognition capacity to autistic symptoms How it feels vs how it works: Perceived and experienced effectiveness of 16 emotion regulation strategies in daily life Decoding and predicting cognition using a dynamical systems approach Context-dependent engagement with climate messaging does change brain network configurations The interplay of defensive actions and subjective feelings in naturalistic settings Interpretable hierarchical RNNs for rs-fMRI: promise and limits of individualized brain dynamics Eyes wide open, responses shut down: arousal modulation of reinforcement learning in anhedonia How affective states become actions: a kinematic study Collective motivation and emotions as drivers of pro-environmental behaviors Individual differences in attachment predict perceptual biases in the Uncanny Valley. Midfrontal theta dynamics supporting adaptive adjustments to frustration Moderation of evaluative conditioning by emotional processing indicators Frequency-specific coupling of cerebellar TBS and tACS shapes motor cortical plasticity and response variability Learning behaviors through verbal versus nonverbal instructions – The power of language in overcoming conflict. The Liege Mind-Blanking Self-Report Scale: A novel questionnaire to study the heterogeneity of blank experiences in everyday life Biofeedback and autonomic regulation under stress Neural, behavioral and physiological responses to pleasant touch Who likes whom? Gender and Dyad Composition in the Liking Gap The influence of dimensional affective representations on age-related positivity effects in memory Temporal dynamics of multimodal social communication in young autistic children during naturalistic parent–child interaction Structural and connectivity alterations of the premotor cortex in autistic children: implications for affective motor impairments Pain in athletes: understanding its neural mechanisms to prevent overuse injury Pavlovian conditioning of perceptual neural responses. An fMRI study. Alcohol reshapes physiological adaptation and predicts cardioceptive precision in heart rate discrimination Age-Related differences in functional brain connectivity during simulated microgravity: An EEG Study Implicit emotional context modulates early visual processing of fearful faces during change detection: an ERP study Neuroelectric signatures of social evaluative conditioning – Learning socio-affective preferences toward unfamiliar individuals Cortical noise and neural variability: How FOOOF and IRASA indicators of aperiodic activity relate to fMRI variability measures The role of social buffering in pain expectancy learning What can meditative experience tell us about affective valence? A computational perspective on the determinants of affect Negative emotions disrupt associative memory for environmental narratives in children and individuals with high trait anxiety Moral Desensitization in Digital Contexts: Instagram exposure alters moral perception and emotional reactivity Facing emotional avatars: the role of task relevance on inhibitory control in virtual reality From five points to emotion: facial expression recognition from minimal displays Affect-control interactions: Post-error slowing is modulated by emotional words Thermosensory modulation of the hand shapes its spatial location The affective cost of being wrong: how disagreement and confidence shape belief updating The Memory experience gap (MEG) after a nap Theta transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation modulates oculomotor interference induced by politically conflicting representations in conservative individuals Interpersonal brain coherence in joint attention Residual emotion processing without awareness: behavioral and EEG evidence from hemianopia The links between stress, testosterone, self-other distinction, and empathy Reduced Motivation for Perspective-taking in Autism-Spectrum Disorder Hot weather, shifting minds: A multi-method approach to heat and social cognition Neurovascular and endocrine dynamics of motor plasticity insights from laparoscopic training Task-evoked changes in heart rate variability predict utilitarian choices in trolley-type moral dilemmas The cognitive construction of moral scenes: how visual working memory and impulsivity shape perspective and vividness in mental simulation The Interplay of Emotion and Metacontrol: Roles of Valence and Arousal Explainable AI reveals distributed grey matter patterns underlying alexithymia severity: a multivariate machine learning On the role of ancillary body movements in interpersonal synchronization during joint music making Embodied robot gaze cues enhance visual working memory more than symbolic arrows Impact of empathy for pain on prosocial disobedience: a causal investigation using non-invasive brain stimulation in civilians and military cadets Authenticity recognition of facial displays of emotion: an fMRI study using dynamic stimuli What switch costs between joint and individual action reveal about the structure of task representations Improving Executive Functions: Assessing the Impact of a Three-Week At-Home Cognitive Training on Mediofrontal Negativities in OCD Patients Inter-personal synchrony and therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy: an electroencephalography hyperscanning study Underlying processes of social decision-making in severe alcohol use disorder: an eye-tracking exploration How smiling shapes what we see: cross-category effects of Facial Feedback on visual awareness Investigating non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation effects on memory retrieval under stress Temporal dynamics and perceptual bases of social relevance in affective scenes Neural signatures of moral erosion in markets Tactile intersubjectivity: how social touch shapes physiological regulation in visually impaired infants Flow of affective information, physiological synchrony, and interindividual attraction within sender–perceiver dyads in a storytelling paradigm Computational Principles of ASD: from Neural Computation to Social Cognition The Terra Cognita Toolset - reverse navigation tool Effects of social presence on motivational, physiological and neural measures of empathy in a story-telling paradigm Model-based mind perception Crossmodal correspondences in the absence of direct visual input: Additive integration and speed-dependent modulation during motion occlusion Trust in Social Robots: Neuroimaging Insights on the Role of Morality in Human-Agent Interactions Ambulatory gait training with mobile EEG, a novel everyday-task scenario for neurocognitive and neuromotor performance training during perturbed treadmill walking Do dynamic resting-state fMRI features reflect current depressive symptom severity in Major Depressive Disorder? The persistence of interbrain synchrony in group interactions Altered oscillatory dynamics during food-related inhibition in women with obesity: Preliminary EEG findings Embodied encounters with cultural heritage: A neuro-physiological study Relationship between response time and sustained attention in junior medical students, utilizing sensorimotor reaction time measurements within a virtual model. Neural synchrony during audiovisual stimuli viewing: associations with child social well-being and parenting stress Empathic immunity: inflammatory responses in therapists across psychotherapy for depression The combination of physical exercise and slow-paced breathing on psychophysiological indices of compassion and pro-social behavior Toward integration: a cognitive-motivational perspective on extremism The role of empathy and theory of mind in the development of symptoms after witnessed trauma: an fMRI study Measuring and interpreting neurophysiological responses to affective touch in different cultural contexts: Findings from South Africa and the United Kingdom Oxytocinergic and opioidergic action and interaction during social and non-social reward processing in humans Revisiting socio-emotional and cognitive flexibility in autism through a predictive coding lens: evidence from behavioral and neuroimaging data Dissociation and schizotypy in synesthesia Using an fMRI film-viewing paradigm with experience sampling to investigate individual differences in dynamic emotional experience Categorical representation of the hand across skin types: a comparison between young and older adults Cognitive–affective influences on pain–motor dynamics: evidence from descending pain inhibition and corticospinal excitability The impact of realistic background noises on neurophysiological responses to speech, in a Virtual-Reality classroom Effort-Based Decision-Making in Adolescents With and Without Depression The impact of emotion regulation strategies on experiential and physiological responses to negative emotional videos Temporal Dynamics of the neural Processes underlying Donation Intention Understanding psychophysiological outcome responses in human Pavlovian fear conditioning through prediction-error analysis Interpersonal neural synchrony reflects stimulus locking, not listening engagement Cardio-visual integration of body images: An investigation of visual and heartbeat evoked potentials Getting by with a little help from others: social support regulates threat vigilance during stress The impact of everyday social support on pain experience From Appraisal Theory to Algorithmic Advice: Rethinking the Role of the Appraisal of Certainty in Incidental Emotion Effects on Decision-Making A systematic review of human avoidance learning: Cognition, computation, and methods Was the fruit tree behind me or beyond the river? Biological relevance shapes spatial reference frame use Effects of Simulated Microgravity in Elderly Women: Mapping Cortical Inhibition through Gamma-Band EEG as a Model for Aging Astronauts’ Brains Cue reactivity predicts individual differences in lifestyle Individual goals shape the processing of facial emotions and guide behavioral responses: a meta-analysis When Values Evoke Mixed affect: ambivalence as a moderator of value importance and Rrsk behavior Why does your haircut indicate how you are treated by others? Experienced discrimination and stress in young LGBTQ adults Concept-based explainability of EEG foundation models in social neuroscience “Less is more”: repeated tokens outperform multiple voices in adult lexical learning Decoding the neural signatures of empathy and Theory of Mind: A multivariate fMRI approach Altered interoceptive sensibility alongside intact cardiac interoceptive accuracy and insight: a case-control study in functional seizures and functional motor symptoms Empathy in sync: How Family Empathy relates to Interbrain Synchrony Brain and body signatures of food and alcohol stimuli processing Does acute heat exposure influence risky decision-making? The human amygdala: an elusive target no more? A non-invasive neuromodulation experiment using temporal interference Anosmia as a possible modifiable biomarker of cognitive resilience in normal aging Cortical oscillations reflect adaptive updating of internal reach-to-grasp models: a hd-eeg study In the search for meaningful patterns of brain activity to classify comorbidity risk. Task Wandering and digital multitasking in ADHD Cognitive disorders in adult patients in Ruse region, Bulgaria Auricular vagus nerve stimulation modulates cortical excitation–inhibition balance in aging: an aperiodic EEG dynamics study Does empathy modulate neural responses to experimentally induced pain in women with fibromyalgia? Action discrimination modulates both proactive and reactive cognitive control: electroencephalographic evidence on university students Reallocation of Bodily Attention during Pregnancy When the skin turns green: decoding the psychophysiology of envy The independent and combined roles of attentional and interpretative biases in aggression under provocation From inter-brain synchrony to scalable interventions: A relational neuroscience approach to parenting stress Impact of facial ambiguity on prosocial behaviour and moderation effects of induced empathy When mood meets affective message: how emotions influences destination memory The universal smile is person-specific The study of multisensory perception and social interaction in children Effects of musical instrument training on fluid intelligence and executive functions in healthy older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis Embodied dynamics of emotion: spontaneous bodily movement patterns during emotional experiences Beyond nationality: how personal cultural values shape anthropomorphism towards robots in middle schoolers. Cognitive and neural correlates of inhibitory control in subclinical disordered eating Touch reciprocity in daily life: A pay-it-forward effect in close relationships The petrified body: A novel computational psychiatry approach to body belief precision-weighted updating in Anorexia Nervosa Impact of emotions on learning and memory-related brain processes across development: an application to environmental educational issues When resting still doesn’t tell you how well you stop: challenges in linking resting-state connectivity to SST behaviour Childhood Adversity and Reward–Stress Neurobiology of Resilience and Vulnerability in Depression Beyond action control: a systematic review unravelling the sense of agency in autism spectrum disorder Mapping the link between social anxiety and alcohol use disorder: a network analysis of emotion regulation difficulties Causal evidence for the neural underpinnings of subjective happiness Autonomic and electrophysiological adaptation to approaching social threat Behavioral contagion in social games: how others’ attitude shape our actions Responses of the Neurobiological Craving Signature to smoking versus alternative social rewards predict craving and monthly smoking in adolescents Drawing morphology across ages: developmental convergence with palaeolithic dalmeri painted stones Short-term audio-visual sensory deprivation induces internal-focus strategy together with cortical inhibition indexed by alpha and gamma EEG bands Social context and alcohol cues dynamically modulate inhibitory control in risky drinking via cortical and subcortical networks Effects of 5-session 4x1 high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation on neural and clinical outcomes in severe alcohol use disorder Autistic traits in typically developed adults are associated with reduced motor adaptation skills in a social context Mind games: Neurophysiological responses to (e)sports gambling ads among adolescents and adults Does being pro-ecological equate to being pro-social? An EEG study in adults The effects of physical synchrony on inter-brain synchrony during large group interactions Age differences in the neural implementation of feedback information to guide future behavior The Effects of a Four-Week Slow-Paced Breathing Training on Stress Levels in Adolescents The impact of single versus repeated bottom up experiential versus top down cognitive reappraisal: a process continuum? Prenatal androgen exposure and affective behavior: neural and behavioral findings from females with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Control of movement vigor during dyadic interpersonal interaction Eliciting repeatable stress responses in humans: development and validation of the Repeatable Social Stress Test (ReSST) Who benefits? Personality and mindfulness in education. Anxiety impacts the efficiency of implicit emotional regulation A Causal Account of the Neural Origins of Fatigue Sequential modulations of conflict effects are reflected by aperiodic exponent The interplay between maternal distress and cortico-limbic connectivity topography predicts adolescent depressive symptoms during the pandemic Aperiodic EEG activity indexes interference control during language processing: Evidence from classifier congruency Mapping the appraising brain: probing the neural representations of appraisals and emotions Memories of a stressful episode with varying time intervals Exercise intensity shapes brain–heart coupling: baroreceptor and respiratory influences on the Heart-Evoked Potential Neural processing of affective vocal instructions: an EEG study Shifting the Balance: Effects of Anodal tDCS on Aperiodic Activity and Metacontrol in Working Memory Metacontrol, atVNS, and learning: evidence from the differential outcomes effect Learning to control one’s FOOOF exponent: Modulating aperiodic neural activity through neurofeedback My space or ours? Interpersonal Coordination within or outside peripersonal space: An EEG Study of Joint Action Planning How authenticity beliefs shape emotional face processing: ERP evidence from real and AI-generated faces Predictive responses in the Theory of Mind network: A comparison of autistic and non-autistic adults The role of emotions and age in virtual reality based cognitive testing Culture and anthropomorphism in Human-Robot Interaction: a mixed quantitative approach. Long-term effects of early life stress on social touch motivation and social learning. Social exclusion in a virtual world: How sensory cues shape adolescents’ subjective and physiological responses. The role of task relevance in modulating behavioral responses to emotional facial expressions: a systematic review Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation inhibits amygdala-mediated indices of stimulus-specific fear and facilitates responding to repeated exposure in phobic individuals State of social cognition research: challenges, future directions, and efforts toward consensus building Modulatory effects of transcranial direct current stimulation of the medial prefrontal cortex on depressive self-referential processing and cognitive biases Sensorimotor timing stability and selective attentional sensitivity to auditory violations Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation targeting the right temporoparietal junction on self-other control in schizophrenia Cognitive complaints and prefrontal haemodynamics in symptomatic late perimenopause Stress response to the emotional self-related stressor of shame and the modulatory role of early life stress and attachment style What is artificial intelligence to us? – Defining generative artificial intelligence’s social roles, a thematic analysis |
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| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
S2-1: Modulating and measuring interoception: peripheral signals, brain and cognitive processes, and symptom generation Modulating and measuring interoception: peripheral signals, brain and cognitive processes, and symptom generation Presentations of the Symposium Targeting the insula to modulate interoception: a combined theta-burst stimulation and functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation Interoception, inflammation and beliefs: an unexplored interaction unveiled Cardiac cycle phase biases true and false recognition memory Inducing bodily symptoms by presenting negative affective stimuli: boundary conditions |
S2-2: Cognitive and neural mechanisms of pro-environmental decision-making Cognitive and neural mechanisms of pro-environmental decision-making Presentations of the Symposium A process-tracing investigation of pro-environmental decision-making beyond food choices in vegetarians Neural dynamics of acting against or in line with environmental preferences Neural processing of imagery of climate change and environmental degradation From individual to collective prospection: Neurocognitive mechanisms of prospective thinking for pro-ecological ways of living |
S2-3: Oscillatory signatures of predictive processes Oscillatory signatures of predictive processes Presentations of the Symposium The role of alpha-band phase in bottom-up and top-down perceptual signaling Neural oscillatory signatures of predictive processing in visual statistical learning Asymmetric interhemispheric oscillatory dynamics shape predictive processing in visual motion Alpha oscillations translate expectations into metacognitive beliefs: causal evidence from tms–eeg Cortical oscillations reflect adaptive updating of internal reach-to-grasp models: a hd-eeg study |
| S2-4: From caregivers to peers: determinants of interpersonal neural synchrony in childhood From caregivers to peers: determinants of interpersonal neural synchrony in childhood Presentations of the Symposium Neural attunement under pressure: how parenting stress shapes parent–child brain synchrony Mother–child neural synchrony across contexts: the role of maternal personality Multimodal dyadic coordination in mother–preschooler interaction: context effects and neurodiversity in behavioral and biological coupling Laughing together, connecting together: how shared laughter shapes synchrony and bonding in children? |
S2-5: Turning politics inside-out: bridging internal and ecological validity in political neuroscience Turning politics inside-out: bridging internal and ecological validity in political neuroscience Presentations of the Symposium The temporal sequence of political incongruence: a data-driven ERP study Neuropsychological mechanisms of biases when processing pro- and counter-attitudinal political information: evidence from a pre-registered fMRI study Psychophysiological and electoral consequences of politicians’ emotional appeals Neural signatures of credibility evaluation and sharing intentions in misinformation processing Does ideological similarity predict shared neural representations of moral foundations? |
S2-6: The changing parental brain: neural, affective and behavioral adaptations supporting parental care across species The changing parental brain: neural, affective and behavioral adaptations supporting parental care across species Presentations of the Symposium Mothers neglect their young when peripartum adaptations of the CRF system fail – evidence from rodents From defense to care: exploring the role of neural defensive circuits in human parenting Adaptations to fatherhood are revealed across distributed patterns of affective responding in corticostriatal and medial frontoparietal networks Parental burnout in the brain: The neuroscience of parental stress |
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| S2-7: From Perception to Action: Brain-Body Mechanisms of Defensive Responses to Infectious and Stress-Related Threats From Perception to Action: Brain-Body Mechanisms of Defensive Responses to Infectious and Stress-Related Threats Presentations of the Symposium Defensive motor dynamics of infectious threats: integrating postural freezing and corticospinal excitability Type 2 immunity modulates neuroimmune control of social behavior and peripheral sensation Stress and brain–body communication: respiratory modulation of heartbeat-evoked potentials |
S2-8: Erring together: multiple perspectives on the role of interpersonal action monitoring during social interaction Erring together: multiple perspectives on the role of interpersonal action monitoring during social interaction. Presentations of the Symposium Bouncing back together: how social context shapes athletes’ responses to own and others’ errors. Performance monitoring in joint tasks: post-error adjustments reflect sensitivity to co-actors’ effort. Monitoring others to act together: goal sharing modulates interpersonal error processing in healthy adults and individuals with schizophrenia. Dopaminergic modulation of behavioral, electrocortical, and autonomic markers of interpersonal performance monitoring in Parkinson’s Disease. |
S2-9: The socioemotional cerebellum through the lens of non-invasive brain stimulation and electrophysiology The socioemotional cerebellum through the lens of non-invasive brain stimulation and electrophysiology Presentations of the Symposium Cerebellar time course and connectivity pattern in emotional processing Cerebellar anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) improves implicit mentalizing sequence learning: A double-blind sham-controlled study The cerebellum in social prediction: effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on action anticipation Targeting the cerebellum with tDCS boosts social-emotional processing in autism Electrophysiological evidence for cerebellar contributions to language and emotion |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Tea Break Location: Catering Areas |
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| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
O1-1: Cognitive control Neuromelanin variability in the substantia nigra predicts individual differences in interference control Acute effects of cognitively engaging physical activity on inhibitory control and neural activity in preadolescent children: a randomised cross-over trial. When chaos helps: The pros and cons of a noisy brain Modulation of early TMS-Evoked Potentials reflects cortical disinhibition driven by error processing and disrupted embodiment in a virtual reality environment Effects of global and local target probability on proactive and reactive control |
O1-2: Social Cognition Love in the time of stress: how attachment links to empathic stress and partner support LSD increases interpersonal connection and emotional empathy and improves conflict resolution in romantic dyads Empathy shapes the dynamics of moral decision-making: physiological and computational evidence Functional neural network reorganization during naturalistic social cognition How attentional states modulate interpersonal autonomic synchrony: empirical evidence and a conceptual framework |
O1-3: Clinical Neuroscience, Psychopathology Does the personality of individuals on the autism spectrum influence their ability to decode mental states? Trauma Under Altered States of Consciousness: How trauma during altered states of consciousness impacts cognitive, physiological neural and clinical outcomes The paradoxical effect of repeated body checking on uncertainty Effective Connectivity Signatures of the Triarchic Model of Psychopathy in a Psychopathy Network A lesion network mapping study of focal brain lesions temporally associated with criminal behaviour |
| O1-4: Social cognition Shaping body-perception, behavior, and affect through sound: Multisensory integration and health support in physical inactivity, pain, and other health conditions Unconscious eye contact detection at the limits of vision Individual differences in infants’ neural sensitivity to parents’ communicative social cues: An AI-driven neuroadaptive approach On the same wavelength? How arousal and valence shape neural synchrony during emotional self-disclosure Distinct neural representations of action valence and intensity in the insula and amygdala |
O1-5: Social cognition Linking emotion recognition and autonomic balance: the integrative role of the posterior cerebellum When self- turn to other- sexual objectification: neuropsychological perspectives on female-to-female sexual objectification Spatiotemporal and spectral dynamics of shared neural substrates underlying architectural and social affective processing Confirmation bias and political polarization : Insights from neuroimaging It’s not what You Do, it’s what I expect. Predictions modulate social judgments, behavior, and electrophysiological correlates. |
O1-6: Decision-making Neurocomputational evidence of sustained Self-Other mergence after psychedelics The impact of reduced sense of agency on moral decision-making and its electrocortical correlates Agreement with instrumental harm differentially predicts moral choices based on consequences vs. norms, while estradiol predicts inaction Role of Supplementary Motor Areas in temporal estimation using transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Motivation under stress: a neuro-computational account using Meta-Reinforcement Learning |
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| O1-7: Interaction and Interpersonal Synchrony Interpersonal synchrony of laughter during shared amusement an EMG hyperscanning study Human-AI interaction: multidimensional appraisal and physiological dynamics in response to an adversarial embodied agent Eye-tracking and functional near-infrared spectroscopy in preverbal infants reveal the early stages of social interaction representation Finding the same wavelength: cooperative group interactions promote neural and behavioral synchronization How acting together reshapes the sense of self-agency |
O1-8: Stress A stress-free brain needs vitamin-T Characterizing Autonomic and Interoceptive Processes in Individuals with Borderline Hypertension at Rest and under Stress Playful and Alert: sympathetic path to positive affect in playful interactions Brain dynamics under graded stress during the Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task Dual faces of stress vulnerability: Resting HRV and emotional regulation |
O1-9: Emotion Human bodily emotions in the dog brain: discriminating valence and representing happiness Emotion regulation and aggression in response to negative social feedback Uncovering individual differences in emotional expression understanding through a response‑driven expression‑rendering pipeline Feeling disgust towards one’s own body: A psychophysiological investigation using immersive virtual reality The moral stomach: cardiac, gastric and behavioral signatures of self-directed physical and moral disgust under vagal stimulation |
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| 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
S3-1: Affect in social contexts: Learning, regulation, and mental health Affect in social contexts: Learning, regulation, and mental health Presentations of the Symposium This might feel surprising: What a reinforcement-learning perspective can teach us about self-reported affect. Learning from social signals Emotion regulation in social contexts: When we turn to others The Dual Nature of Empathy and Theory of Mind in Mental Health Dysregulated brains: What affective disorders reveal about brain network dysfunctions in emotion processing |
S3-2: From brain circuits to daily feelings: Integrating brain measures with ecological momentary assessment of mental health From brain circuits to daily feelings: Integrating brain measures with ecological momentary assessment of mental health Presentations of the Symposium Sensitive brains in social worlds: linking childhood prefrontal development to adolescent experiences of social rejection The role of large-scale brain networks in the prediction of daily-life occurrence of repetitive negative thinking symptoms From neural responses to social reward to daily social functioning: insights into depression vulnerability Identifying anxiety subtypes from laboratory and real-life data: evidence from threat processing and momentary anxiety measures |
S3-3: Computational modeling of reward and punishment as transdiagnostic processes in psychopathology. Computational modeling of reward and punishment as transdiagnostic processes in psychopathology. Presentations of the Symposium Neural and computational mechanisms of motivation, affective, and cognitive control Individual difference in reward- and penalty-related cognitive control adaptation associated with obsessive and compulsive tendencies Reward and Punishment in Impulsivity and Compulsivity Reduced learning rate dynamics underlie reward learning deficits in depression and schizophrenia |
| S3-4: Social meaning in autism: multimodal, attentional, and affective pathways Social meaning in autism: multimodal, attentional, and affective pathways Presentations of the Symposium Micro-Analytic Pathways to Social Meaning: gesture, gaze, and multimodal Integration in Autistic and Non-Autistic young children Social Attention in Autism: gaze dynamics and Affective Salience during naturalistic reciprocal play Action Vitality Forms encoding in Autism: behavioral and neural perspectives Differential Responses to Social Touch across Neurotypes and within the Autistic Spectrum |
S3-5: Contextual influences on social decision-making: behavioral, neurocomputational, and pharmacological evidence Contextual influences on social decision-making: behavioral, neurocomputational, and pharmacological evidence Presentations of the Symposium Uncertainty and heat stress in cooperative decision-making How do we coordinate under uncertainty? Relying on co-efficiency as a potential focal point Uncertainty and valence in social information seeking about rewarding and aversive outcomes Neurocomputational mechanisms of effortful prosocial motivation across pain and monetary contexts Testosterone promotes context-sensitive engagement in competitive social environments |
S3-6: The science of social vision: perceiving people and interactions The science of social vision: perceiving people and interactions Presentations of the Symposium Relation Perception in Autism Provides Evidence for a ‘Social Brain’ From visual features to social meaning: Neural bases of interaction perception Dual routes of social chunking in working memory: behavioral and fmri evidence Simple 3D pose features support human social scene understanding |
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| S3-7: C-tactile afferents and the neural coding of pleasant touch C-tactile afferents and the neural coding of pleasant touch Presentations of the Symposium Influence of applied force on the peripheral encoding and perception of affective stroking touch on hairy arm skin EEG signatures of skin-to-skin touch in romantic couples Affective touch in newborns: exploring early correlates of C-tactile afferent functioning Effects of psilocybin on social touch perception in affective disorders |
S3-8: Inner speech as a flexible cognitive, predictive, and social tool Inner speech as a flexible cognitive, predictive, and social tool Presentations of the Symposium Inner speech as a component of functional systems Inner speech in concept use and action learning Rethinking inner speech through linguistic active inference Intentionality in inner speech: a predictive control perspective |
S3-9: Minds in contact: perception, alignment, and social pain in human interaction Minds in contact: perception, alignment, and social pain in human interaction Presentations of the Symposium Beliefs about others’ seeing modulate perceptual decision-making? Interpersonal Adjustment as an Account for Communication Challenges between Individuals with Low and High Autistic Traits Overt Attention to Social Signals during Social Exclusion: a pre-registered Study Implicit Effects of the Cyberball Paradigm: Towards a Validation of the Needs-Threat Model of Social Exclusion? A systematic Review |
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| 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
Special Interest Research Group (SIG) on Social Neuroscience Location: Conference Venue |
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| 7:00pm - 11:00pm |
Junior Social Event Location: The Apartment |
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