ESCAN 2026
3 - 6 June 2026 | Rome, Italy
Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview |
| 8:30am - 6:30pm |
Registration Location: Registration Desk and Secretariat |
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| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Keynote Lecture 2: Carmen Sandi: The metabolic roots of emotional vulnerability: mitochondria, anxiety and motivation Location: Plenary Room |
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| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Coffee Break Location: Catering Areas |
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| 10:45am - 12:00pm |
S4-1: Valence, value and consciousness Valence, value and consciousness Presentations of the Symposium Nothing is Neutral: Behavioral and Neural Evidence of Micro-Valence. On the Function and Structure of Positive Valence The Affective Gradient Hypothesis: An affect-centered account of motivated behavior Goals, abstractions and value |
S4-2: When bodily signals are missing: social interaction under conditions of sensory and motor absence When bodily signals are missing: social interaction under conditions of sensory and motor absence Presentations of the Symposium Cardiac interoception and occipital cortex plasticity in blindness: implications for social engagement The role of bodily experience in actions perception and interpretation: insights from individuals born without hands When facial feedback is altered: emotional contagion in Bell’s palsy Interoception and interpersonal motor interaction: the impact of internal bodily signals on social interactions |
S4-3: Body Codes: reading health, emotional, social and political meanings in bodily signals Body Codes: reading health, emotional, social and political meanings in bodily signals Presentations of the Symposium Cognitive immunity – cognitive immunity: how the brain predicts contact between the body and potential pathogens to prime defensive responses Interoceptive information shapes affective and aesthetic evaluations of the human body Parental interoceptive sensitivity: how parents read their children's bodily signals and distinguish them from their own Politics embodied: how politics shapes and is shaped by the bodily experience of emotion |
| S4-4: Respiratory modulation of stress and emotion: from mechanisms to interventions Respiratory modulation of stress and emotion: from mechanisms to interventions Presentations of the Symposium Respiratory modulation of cardiac interoception in response to psychosocial stress The immediate effects of a resonant breathing exercise on adolescents’ stress responses An experimental investigation of the effects of resonance frequency breathing on symptoms of anxiety. The effect of a short slow paced breathing exercise on positive reappraisal of autobiographic negative memories. Combining physical exercise and slow-paced breathing to improve psychophysiological indices of emotion reactivity, psychosocial stress reactivity and recovery. |
S4-5: Beyond hyperscanning: brain stimulation approaches to assess causal links between interpersonal synchrony and social Interaction Beyond hyperscanning: brain stimulation approaches to assess causal links between interpersonal synchrony and social Interaction Presentations of the Symposium Hyper-tACS-induced interbrain synchronization in the frontal cortex improves romantic relationships Online hd-trns over the right temporoparietal junction modulates social inference in human-machine social interactions Neural mechanisms of joint agency: A dual-brain stimulation approach Stress disrupts inter-neural synchrony in humans Inter-brain dynamics modulate emotion discrimination |
S4-6: Embodied Self and beyond: Interdisciplinary perspectives on bodily experiences and clinical vulnerability Embodied Self and beyond: Interdisciplinary perspectives on bodily experiences and clinical vulnerability Presentations of the Symposium The body as a source of evidence: Managing uncertainty and eating-related attitudes in non-clinical populations Modifying Bodily Self-Representation in AN via exteroceptive and interoceptive Interpersonal Multisensory Stimulation procedures Embodied synchronization in Schizophrenia: Sensorimotor and interoceptive coordination under social modulation Conceptualizing social media use disorder: clinical characterization and neurobiological processes |
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| S4-7: Neural and contextual mechanisms supporting and constraining empathy Neural and contextual mechanisms supporting and constraining empathy Presentations of the Symposium Emotion as a Gateway to Mind: Neural Dynamics of Dehumanization Referencing the self in empathy for physical pain: when autobiographical experience helps—and when it hinders From self to other: dynamic effects of treatment expectations on empathy for pain Task-dependent neural mechanisms of empathy in healthcare professionals |
S4-8: Early environmental risk factors and vulnerability in aging: a life-course perspective revealed by EEG and mental disorders Early environmental risk factors and vulnerability in aging: a life-course perspective revealed by EEG and mental disorders Presentations of the Symposium Socioeconomic and cultural challenges affect spontaneous eeg and event-related brain responses in infants Associations between early experiences with caregivers and social cue processing in adulthood: behavioral and neural evidence Analogies between resting-state electroencephalographic rhythms in children and patients with Alzheimer's disease Understanding effects of late-life depressive symptoms on event-related oscillations in cognitively unimpaired seniors and individuals with mild cognitive impairment |
S4-9: Mu and beta brain rhythms in action–perception research Mu and beta brain rhythms in action–perception research Presentations of the Symposium Neural entrainment to rhythmic actions in perception–action coupling Mu rhythm desynchronization as neurophysiological blueprint of biological motion: implications for early development of self-identity in the motor context The limits of sensorimotor mu suppression as a measure of emotional action simulation Does µ rhythm desynchronization reflect activation and/or competition between distinct action representations during object perception? |
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| 12:00pm - 12:15pm |
Group Photo |
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| 12:15pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch Break Location: Catering Areas |
P2: Poster session Location: Catering Areas Reduced affective touch sensitivity in depersonalisation and the influence of respiratory phase The Effects of Psychosocial Stress in the Intrinsic Reward Elicited by Word Learning and its Impact on Memory Formation From beliefs to brain: attitudes toward intimate partner violence against women modulate neural response to violence Does conversation timing influence social bond formation? A hyperscanning study Voluntary thermoregulation can only be achieved via skeletal muscle activation Balancing inner and outer rhythms: Interoceptive regulation of self–other boundaries Exploration-exploitation dilemma in joint value-based decisions is driven by resistance to erratic randomness Behavioral and neural signatures of the joint Simon effect: Are its mechanisms equivalent to the standard Simon effect? Emotion regulation as protection against misinformation biasing brain responses and social judgments Stress-prospective memory interactions: challenges and future directions Not all theta is real: removing illusory induced oscillations with Woody filtering and single-trial regression Evaluative conditioning shapes affective face perception and approach responses: A behavioral and eye movement study Topographical effects of emotional dominance on readiness potential One molecule, one thousand noses - a study investigating variability in smell perception How environmental temperature reshapes your interpersonal space Neural and behavioral correlates of self-recognition across unedited and edited self-images Involvement of physiological reactivity and interoception in emotional experience: evidence from a traumatic brain injury (TBI) population Emotion suppression and the Cardiovascular Conundrum: Hemodynamic responses to Minority Stress in LGB individuals When harm comes from those we love: Neural evidence of moral conflict in the evaluation of gender-based violence. Impact of emotional and cognitive load on the expression of intersectional social biases during first-impression formation Interoceptive Trait Prediction Error mediates the placebo effect on fatigue: evidence supporting the Bayesian framework Core executive functions and cognitive emotion regulation among temperament based types in community-dwelling older adults Time and ethics: The Effects of Temporal-Discounting on Moral Conflict Decision Making Effect of expectancy and pain conditioning on muscle synergy composition and timing in healthy adults The lives of others: bias in neural response and costly information seeking about risks to life Neural Responses to Maternal vs. Unfamiliar Affective Touch: an fNIRS study among 10-month-old Infants Shared physiological markers of vicarious pain in humans and rodents Exploring anxiety-dependent responses to vagus nerve stimulation in probabilistic learning Functional brain connectivity in patients with chronic back pain strengthened after interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy Effect of acoustic variability on novel word learning in children AIRCA: A robot-mediated social gaze training protocol for children with autism spectrum disorder One Capacity, Multiple Profiles: A Functional Framework for mechanistically mapping inhibitory Control Preliminary findings from the Italian validation of the Behavioral Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (BERQ) Phantom limb sensation and gaze behavior in upper-limb amputation: Shunning or persistent phantom limb behavior in the presence of obstacles The lonely body: a cross species systematic review of neural, cardiac, gastrointestinal, respiratory and inflammatory correlates of social isolation Embodied dynamics of empathy through listening: A multimodal dataset Association between sleepiness, sleep quality, and resting-state electroencephalographic markers in Parkinson’s disease participants Social anxiety shapes psycho-physiological and visual exploratory responses in emotionally connoted virtual environments Interpersonal neural synchrony in mother–father–child triads during a problem-solving task: associations with family profile. EEG Signatures of Sense of Agency: a Systematic Review Vagal stimulation optimizes the dynamics of multisensory affective integration Performance of serious videogames of SMARTME&YOU home telemonitoring platform is associated with cognitive and electroencephalographic biomarkers in Parkinson’s disease participants Location- and affordance-related cues in interactive gestures and objects elicit distinct spatiotemporal EEG responses Inhibitory control as a transdiagnostic deficit in disorders of motivation: a multilevel meta-analytic account Assessing the roles of belief attribution and perceptual cues in social brain responses to a robotic agent When being in synch backfires:context-dependent effects of physiological synchrony on reciprocity Higher-order models for fNIRS hyperscanning in complex and ecological interactions. Neural correlates of adolescents' trust in police: developmental and socio-economic status influences Visual event-related connectivity is more affected in Parkinson’s disease MCI than in amnestic MCI due to Alzheimer’s disease Anticipatory and consummatory responses to touch and food rewards in anorexia nervosa Changes of neural activity in major depressive disorder associated with cognitive behavioral therapy – A meta-analysis of longitudinal fMRI studies Inter-brain synchrony explains how joint action differs from acting side-by-side Understanding the attractiveness of human body odors: the link between perception and chemical composition When touch shapes space: neural bases of social and instrumental peripersonal space Resting Aperiodic Exponent χ as a Stable Individual Marker and Its Relation to Contextual Emotional Decisions and FAA A cross-cultural approach to future thinking across adulthood Spatial but not temporal orienting of attention enhances the temporal resolution of human vision. Hormone replacement therapy and adaptive brain functioning in postmenopausal women Dissociating subjective and neural markers of joint agency: Robot’s expression of intentionality enhances sensory attenuation but reduces subjective joint agency Enhancing action with a supernumerary robotic digit alters Which psychological processes support emotion regulation? A mechanistic fMRI approach The internal–ecological validity trade-off in social neuroscience: Lessons from autism Investigating social touch and peripersonal space in autistic adults through participatory research and multimodal measures in immersive virtual reality Boosting nature’s regulatory effects on emotion: An fMRI investigation of guided nature exposure Empathy accelerates subjective time perception, independent of physiology but not of visual attention Fear related human odour modulates affective sentence processing: a naturalistic multisensory study Inter-Brain Plasticity as a Neural Mechanism of Interpersonal Change in Psychotherapy How action shapes emotion: Subjective and physiological evidence Strengthening cognitive control to improve emotion regulation When the eyes disappear: neural dynamics of emotion recognition under eye occlusion Alpha and beta event-related synchronization (ERS) as a marker of self and other processing during finger tapping Emotional modulation of temporal density in natural grasping: a vision-based kinematic study The INTERACT project: A protocol for assessing neural and physiological correlates of social interaction in naturalistic task settings. How does existing friendship affect synchrony and pro-sociality? Heart rate dynamics and EEG correlates in Parkinson’s disease cognitive decline using wearable monitoring Is neuroscience challenged by a gender bias? Networks of the social brain. Connecting dog to human social brain function using comparative neuroimaging Thin-ideal glorification versus criticism: Effects on body image and affective responses among young women Sensorimotor cortex causally modulates pain empathy through interactions with anterior insula: A TMS-fMRI study The aversive action control task (aACT): Emotional modulation of continuous whole-body tracking in virtual reality Reduced inhibitory performance during the systolic but not the diastolic cardiac phase Understanding quality of life in Parkinson’s disease: contributions of social cognition and interpersonal relationships Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) of neural-behavioural dynamics during maternal cognitive load in naturalistic work-from-home environments Hemodynamic cortical correlates of critical game phases in mind sports: First insights from Go and chess The role of mood and effort on shifts toward approach motivation following exertion of self-control Triangulating Physiological and Neural Signatures of Sustained Attention to Social and Non-Social Stimuli in Toddlers Emotional valence influences memory distortion: a signal detection approach Monitoring vagal dynamics: a biomarker for cognitive effort in language comprehension. Comparing P300 visual ERP responses between Logopenic PPA, Posterior Cortical Atrophy and healthy controls State and trait anxiety modulate hemodynamic amygdala responses to innocuous auditory stimulation How does soft power work? Neural mechanisms of attraction-based influence Emotion regulation flexibility: strategies effectiveness depends on emotional situation characteristic and baseline HRV Evaluating body structural representation under affective touch Multi-methodological characterization of sleep deprivation: from standard EEG power spectra to aperiodic dynamics in humans and mice. Emotion regulation as a proactive buffer: behavioral and neural effects on subsequent stress responses Implicit expectations: neural evidence for reward pavlovian conditioning in the absence of stimulus-outcome contingency awareness Investigating approach/avoidance tendencies through a gait initiation task: An exploratory posturography study in male AUD patients More normative event segmentation is associated with more future-oriented choice Context matters: controllability and reward richness modulate willingness to exert effort Association among serious videogames of the SmartMe&You-TELEMAIA home telemonitoring platform, cognitive status and resting-state electroencephalographic markers in Alzheimer’s disease participants The Em-Body study: exploring the link between interoception, emotion, and mental health Action prediction and mu rhythm suppression: differences associated with autistic traits Emotion-specific neural spillover affects memory for subsequent stimuli Investigating the relationship between mental and embodied experiences in trait depersonalization Sadness-specific facial emotion recognition deficits in mild cognitive impairment relate to cortical thickness in the superior parietal cortex Nose tip temperature: a thermal marker of public speaking anxiety – evidence from two studies in an organizational setting Gender-related effects of simulated microgravity in the somatomotor network during long-term head-down bed rest Blurred lines or clear boundaries? Synchrony and social dominance shape domain-specific self–other processing Emotional attention dysregulation in insecure attachment style Approach-avoidance conflict modulates frontal lpp amplitude and alpha asymmetry The impact of virtual nature on stress buffering and recovery The whole-body dynamics of social threat avoidance in virtual reality Cognitive and Neural Bases of Expectancy and Uncertainty in Assessing Others’ Pain Against the male average: hierarchical drift diffusion modelling of sex judgments The E2 Atlas: A large-scale normative database of self-transcendent emotions in nature imagery Low affect sharing impairs observational fear learning: different roles for sympathetic and parasympathetic systems Spatiotemporal dynamics of social perception along an occipitotemporal visual stream When do discrete emotions matter? Emotion specificity and attentional effects beyond valence Body-odor cues shape social perception in human–human and human–robot interaction Face identity memory and emotion recognition in autism: evidence for shared processing mechanisms Emotional priming effects on secondary hyperalgesia development: A multimodal psychophysiological approach Bodies that change with pain after spinal cord injury Do hypomanic traits affect emotional interference control in a non-clinical sample ? Microscopic sensorimotor alterations in psychosis and chronic cannabis use Resting state EEG eigenvector centrality negatively correlates with math anxiety Decreased delta-band functional connectivity in posterior cortical atrophy during a visual oddball paradigm Entropy-Based EEG Metrics and Psychological Flexibility/Inflexibility in Aging: Preliminary Evidence from High-Density Recordings Neural basis of attentional deployment in affective forecasting of hypothetical medication outcome trade-offs Top-Down modulation of Interoception and Moral Behavior: A TMS Study on the right Anterior Insula and right TPJ The environmental sculpting of phenomenal experience and agentic action: Hierarchical inference dynamics underlying environment-induced wellbeing Neural Correlates of Self-Control Conflicts in social Interactions Embodied dishonesty in competitive Online Interactions – the Roll & Tell mobile application Exploring the sensorimotor system's role in emotion authenticity discrimination: a ccPAS study Differential fatigability of cognitive flexibility and cognitive stability over time-on-task? Neural adaptation to socio-emotional auditory stimuli in autistic children Gravitational manipulation shapes task-load–dependent Ownership and Agency during virtual tool-use Validation of a French-speaking video set to measure empathic accuracy and physiological synchrony during emotional sharing Feasibility of PIANO-Cog for older adults: A randomised controlled pilot trial exploring changes in cognition and brain microstructure Leveraging esketamine to enhance cognitive recovery in treatment-resistant depression: A framework integrating neuroplasticity and cognitive remediation Ingroup–outgroup dynamics of interpersonal coordination: group EEG hyperscanning beyond dyads Social learning of abstract concepts in middle childhood: a multimodal hyperscanning study of behavioural and neural dynamics Sustained Looking and Face-Region Biases to Emotional Faces in Elevated likelihood of atypical development/neurodevelopmental conditions META-MUSEUM: EEG, physiological and psychometric assessment of visitors’ experiences across European museums How should phenomenology guide the neuroscientific study of mixed emotional affect? Feeling the heart: Dynamic coupling between emotion and cardiac interoception in blindness Augmenting enhanced cognitive behavioral therapy with transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation in eating disorders: preliminary evidence from the DIGEST study Clear enough? Neural signatures of prototypical and subtle emotional Ffaces The combined effects of prefrontal tDCS and slow-paced breathing on stress reactivity, emotional reactivity, and emotion regulation Attentional and behavioral signatures of emotional flexibility in emotional eating: an Eye-Tracking study Searching for belonging: social exclusion and selective enhancement of visuospatial working memory for affiliative stimuli Do affective symptoms predict cognitive performance during remote neuropsychological assessment? Alignment in touch behaviours among romantic couples Reaching Distance Estimation as a novel Paradigm to measure Peripersonal Space Plasticity in Physical and Virtual Reality Brain activation differences in emotional perspective-taking between adolescents and adults ; an fMRI study Cognitive foundations of problem gambling: Early markers of gambling disorder Structural vulnerability of social cognition networks in alcohol use disorder: A meta-analysis of grey matter alterations Respiration phase modulates aversive responding and varies with generalised anxiety - initial evidence for altered respiratory allostasis in anxiety The role of reality monitoring in clinical and non-clinical dissociation Modulating gastric acidity to probe the psychophysiological signatures of disgust and pathogen-avoidance: a study protocol Modulation of reward prediction errors by negative emotion Interoceptive contribution to time perception in a cue combination framework Non-rapid eye movement sleep oscillations and memory consolidation in children with self-limited focal epilepsies of childhood Reduced efficiency in thermal homeostasis is linked to decreased body ownership and out-of-body experiences. When context shapes social understanding: developmental patterns in predictive processing from early adolescence to adulthood Negatively biased feedback impairs confidence in social judgments Can heartbeat-evoked potentials be separated from Cardiac Field Artefact (CFA) using beamforming? Navigating Frustration: Neural insights into emotion regulation mechanisms High-cost emotion regulation in excessive social media users: inflexible strategy selection and compensatory neural recruitment. When AI acts social: Processing costs reveal tension in agent representation Less money now, or more later? A Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) study of the angular gyrus and delay discounting The breathing mind: Respiratory phase-dependent brain oscillations and states of consciousness during sustained interoceptive attention Setting the stage: the influence of real-time vocal masculinity transformations on group decision-making The emotional effects of heartbeat-like vibrotactile stimulation of the chest Face Identity Recognition as an Endophenotype in Autism: Linking to Oxytocin Mechanisms From persons to objects: cognitive mechanisms underlying sexual objectification of women Childhood Adversity and Reward–Stress Neurobiology of Resilience and Vulnerability in Depression A multilevel model of perspective-taking and the self Developing a predictive coding task for social cognition: A tool for investigating individual differences in prior-sensory integration Why does social cognition resist modeling? From conceptual limitations to computational opportunities in social neuroscience Post-Traumatic clinical need as a guide for translational neurobiology Neuromodulation and context in PTSD pathogenesis: Modelling, simulation studies, Expert by Lived Experience feedback Visual and auditory Predictive Processing in Autistic and Schizotypal traits: A preregistered ERP study Periodic and aperiodic rsEEG markers in healthy elderly subjects and patients with mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease EEG correlates of social grouping: The time-course of integrating interacting bodies into a new whole Sensorimotor engagement within architecture dynamically shapes multisensory space representation: behavioral evidence and corticospinal probes. The effects of interoceptive attention modulation on the neural correlates of emotional perspective-taking: an EEG study EEG Markers of Cognitive Flexibility in Response to Misinformation Feedback Social approach–avoidance conflict: behavioral, emotional and neural correlates across depression and social anxiety symptoms |
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| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
O2-1: Action Disruption of the dlPFC eliminates the emotion-based advantage in action inhibition Peripersonal neurons of the ventral premotor cortex in freely moving monkeys Causal enhancement of AON feedback connectivity improves prediction of observed human actions Shared Principles in Brains and Models: Causal and Motor-Based Representations for Speech Perceived time shapes fatigue via frontal, cingulate, and interoceptive areas |
O2-2: Social cognition Seeing Together: Inter-agents Motion Energy coupling as a Cue for Perception of Sociality Functional network organization underlying individual differences in false feedback susceptibility: a graph theoretical analysis Oxytocin enhances social cognition: converging evidence from several pharmaco-psychophysiological studies Asymmetries in Basic Valence: Testing for the Limits of Pain and Pleasure Conceptions The good, the bad and the broken: neural processing of robot’s aligned and misaligned autonomous behaviour |
O2-3: Decision-making When body-brain communication goes awry: Altered body-brain communication and decision-making in fibromyalgia Impact of social context on brain-predicted craving Neural basis of social metacognition Deciding to RegulateEmotion:Representingthe SubjectiveValueofProspectiveEmotionalStatesin thedACC Does arousal guide adaptive choice? Evidence from pupil dynamics in reinforcement learning |
| O2-4: Interoception Interoceptive Phenomenology in Affect and Motivation Task-dependent contribution of interoception and body representation to time perception Isolating the cortical heartbeat response: EEG in brain death reveals a negative early heartbeat evoked potential Beyond digestion: the stomach as a critical modulator of large-scale brain activity Preliminary voxel-based evidence linking disrupted cardiac interoception and enhanced self-serving deception to insula and amygdala lesions |
O2-5: Attention Does shared information create attentional alignment? Neurophysiological correlates of spatial attention in individuals with subclinical anxiety-depressive symptoms Dynamics of emotional lability and inhibitory control in adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: An ecological momentary assessment study Right and left DLPFC differentially modulate attentional scope in pre-goal and post-goal Positive affect: An rTMS study Body size modulates eye movements during body perception |
O2-6: Pain / Social Interaction When synchrony diverges: Dissociable behavioral and cardiac alignment under threat EEG reveals the interplay between attention and motor preparation in the placebo effect New evidence challenging the role of endogenous opioids in the regulation of human pain and fear Social transmission of fear: motor system involvement in vicarious fear conditioning Resilience in context: eye-gaze synchrony and stress regulation in family triads across cooperation and conflict |
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| O2-7: Phychophysiology Differences in psychological functioning and cardiovascular stress reactivity between sexual minority and heterosexual adults Dissociable cardiac–cortical signatures of physical and moral disgust Weighting sensory inputs in sensorimotor- and multisensory-based body representation Effects of High-Definition tDCS Targeting the dlPFC on Effort-Related Cardiac Reactivity Rapid anticipatory cardiac deceleration predicts near-threshold visual detection |
O2-8: Social decision-making Oxytocin-opioid modulation of social reinforcement learning in autism spectrum disorder Semantic dimensions of teaching that guide human reinforcement learning The neurocomputational mechanisms of prejudice formation: from a learning model perspective Effortful control and decision dynamics underlying race and intersectional biases in first impressions Social and cognitive adaptation to incarceration: Longitudinal evidence from behavior and EEG. |
O2-9: Clinical Neuroscience, Psychopathology Life-span effects of early life stress on peripheral physiology, brain structure and psychosocial risk. The cost of scrutiny: social anxiety constrains frontal-midline theta neural network reconfigurations during probabilistic learning Gestational age and resting-state brain connectivity: neuropsychological and socio-cognitive outcomes in very preterm children Altered sensory attenuation grounds perception of fatigue in clinical and healthy populations Intranasal oxytocin transiently normalizes amygdala connectivity during facial emotional recognition in psychosis |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Tea Break Location: Catering Areas |
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| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Award: Young Investigator Awards Location: Plenary Room |
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| 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
S5-1: Neural, Physiological, and Behavioural Bases of Engagement in Aesthetic and Live Performances Neural, Physiological, and Behavioural Bases of Engagement in Aesthetic and Live Performances Presentations of the Symposium Individual neural mechanisms of neuroaesthetic experience Delta-band audience brain synchrony tracks audience engagement with live and recorded dance performances Physiological Synchrony as a Measure of Audience Engagement Physiological synchrony and collective effervescence in theatre |
S5-2: From body representation to self-experience: neural mechanisms and clinical applications From body representation to self-experience: neural mechanisms and clinical applications Presentations of the Symposium The bodily self in anorexia and schizophrenia Interpreting bodily signals under stress: interoceptive accuracy, daily sensibility, and stress reactivity Neural and behavioural changes in the bodily self during pregnancy Affective and self-applied touch as modulators of bodily self-epresentation in relational and therapeutic contexts |
S5-3: Naturalistic neuroscience: addressing real-world behaviour in controlled settings Naturalistic neuroscience: addressing real-world behaviour in controlled settings Presentations of the Symposium Revealing canonical learning phenomena in naturalistic avoidance using immersive virtual reality Critical Intelligence: Towards understanding the neural mechanisms of naturalistic adaptive behaviour Closed-loop microstimulation of primate prefrontal cortex causally modulates dynamic social attention Testing the mutual prediction hypothesis in fNIRS hyperscanning Temporal dynamics of neural synchronization in naturalistic cooperative interactions |
| S5-4: Early life adversity shapes affective processing and regulation across the lifespan Early life adversity shapes affective processing and regulation across the lifespan Presentations of the Symposium Social buffering and resilience following early life adversity in adolescence Early life adversity biases neural and behavioral representations of ambiguity Early life adversity and affective health during pregnancy |
S5-5: Social homeostasis: from social structure to physiological stability Social homeostasis: from social structure to physiological stability Presentations of the Symposium Daily social isolation shapes reward processing and anhedonia-related behavior Social Predictors of Rewards Consumption during COVID-19 lockdowns Shared physiological markers of pain in social dyads Social physiology: human homeostasis is more efficient in social proximity |
S5-6: Studying social interactions: from lab to real-life Studying social interactions: from lab to real-life Presentations of the Symposium Social tasks in the lab: The influence of peer observation on error monitoring throughout adolescence Interactions in the lab: effect of social closeness on inter-brain and motor synchrony Toward greater generalizability: Studying real-life (im)moral behaviors across diverse populations From the lab to real-life and back: Neural mechanisms of attention in educational settings Designing naturalistic studies: Participatory research for improving gender bias in autism detection |
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| S5-7: Neuroethology of social and affective behaviour Neuroethology of social and affective behaviour Presentations of the Symposium Roots of social behaviour: innate perception of faces and motion cues From Animacy to sociality: Sensitivity to interacting biological motion in visually naïve chicks Neural representations of real world places and societies Multidimensional analysis of a fear-like state in honeybees |
S5-8: How do individual goals shape the processing of emotional stimuli and behavioral responses? How do individual goals shape the processing of emotional stimuli and behavioral responses? Presentations of the Symposium Task relevance determines whether facial emotion valence shapes behavior Goal-directed avoidance of social threat Emotional attention revisited: multiplexed effects of value and goal on early sensory processing in the visual cortex Reconciling opposing effects of emotion on relational memory Words as Catalysts: How words evoke emotions, self-relevance, agency, and ownership |
S5-9: The neural chemistry of effort and control: computational, pharmacological and clinical perspectives. The neural chemistry of effort and control: computational, pharmacological and clinical perspectives. Presentations of the Symposium The computational and neurochemical mechanisms of effort allocation and persistence Dopaminergic and noradrenergic modulation of effort-based decision-making and response vigor in humans Optimal control through meta-RL: a computational framework for cross-disease investigation in psychiatry Impact of Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy on effort-reward computations in adolescents with depression Disrupted metacognitive control of decision-making in compulsivity |
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| 8:00pm - 11:30pm |
Conference Dinner Location: La Limonaia |
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