ESCAN 2026
3 - 6 June 2026 | Rome, Italy
Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview |
| 11:30am - 7:30pm |
Registration Location: Registration Desk and Secretariat |
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| 1:30pm - 1:45pm |
Welcome Coffee Location: Catering Areas |
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| 1:45pm - 5:15pm |
Pre-Congress 1: Social Neuroscience: how can we bridge the gap from basic research to societal impact? Pre-conference symposium ESCAN 2026, organised by SIG ESCAN-Social Neuroscience As social neuroscience matures as a field, its relevance to pressing real-world issues has never been more apparent. This one-day pre-conference brings together researchers at the forefront of applied social neuroscience to explore how neural insights can inform and improve interventions, policies, and public understanding across diverse domains. With a strong emphasis on translational research, societal engagement, and methodological reflection, this event highlights the power and responsibility of social neuroscience in the 21st century. Each section will be introduced by a senior expert in the field and features two Early Career Researchers (ECR). Program Structure: 13:30 Welcome and chats over coffee 13:50 Welcome address by Grit Hein 14:00 Session 1 14:00 Topic 1 - Artificial Intelligence and Human Interaction (Chair: Jan B. Engelmann) Human interaction with artificial intelligence has expanded rapidly in recent years. Social neuroscience can illuminate how the affective and cognitive processes that support human social interaction extend to artificial agents. This session examines the potential of this knowledge to guide the development of AI systems that are more aligned with human social cognition, as well as the pitfalls of anthropomorphizing AI or overlooking individual differences in social neural architecture. Introduction - Lasana Harris (Department of Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Brain Sciences (FBS) University College London, UK): AI and Social Neuroscience: Promises and Pitfalls Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds much promise for social neuroscience research, both as a research tool and as a topic of inquiry. As a research tool, AI has been used to classify biological (brain response patterns and physiological responses) and behavioural output (text and static/dynamic images), providing insight regarding human biological and psychological responses to stimuli. AI also provides glimpses into a multi-verse of brain responses patterns based on various analytic approaches. AI as a topic of inquiry further divides into perceptions of and decisions involving AI agents, and AI agents as psychological subjects. Research on AI perception and decision-making identifies differences in brain processing of AI social interaction partners relative to humans. Future research can track whether such differences persist as AI becomes further embedded as a social interaction partner. Research on AI as psychological subjects assumes computational analogues of psychological processes, and concessions of psychological states as biologically driven, raising methodological and philosophical questions not yet properly addressed in the field. Future research will have to grapple with such methodological and philosophical questions, potentially leading to novel methods, statistical approaches, ‘psychological’ concepts, and ultimately a new field of scientific inquiry. Flash talk 1 - Jairo Perez-Osorio & Eva Wiese (Cognitive Psychology & Ergonomics, Head of Brains, Minds & Bots Lab, Institute of Psychology and Ergonomics, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany): Teaming Up with AI Increases Own-Error Awareness The rise of smart algorithms and AI has brought challenges around how individuals perceive and interact with these technologies. People often misalign their reliance on automation, leading to overreliance or underuse, and trust in automation remains difficult to measure. Neural correlates, particularly event-related potentials (ERPs) such as the error-related negativity (ERN) and error positivity (Pe), offer promising tools for indexing error monitoring for both self-generated and observed errors. In a modified Eriksen Flanker task, participants either collaborated or competed with an algorithm while we recorded their EEG and performance. We examined neural responses during task performance and during observation of the algorithm. Observation ERPs (oERN, oPe) replicated typical flanker findings and tracked algorithm errors equivalently across both social conditions, indicating that social context did not modulate how participants monitored AI errors. However, social context did shape self-monitoring: Pe amplitudes were significantly larger in the collaborative condition, reflecting heightened awareness of one's own errors. Converging behavioral evidence showed that participants in the collaborative condition made fewer errors and fewer misses on attentional catch trials. These results suggest that collaborating with AI, rather than competing, promotes greater personal engagement and self-monitoring, without altering the neural mechanisms underlying observation of AI errors. Flash talk 2 - Ruud Hortensius (Department of Social, Health & Organisational Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands): From individual social cognition to group dynamics during naturalistic human–AI interaction In this short talk, I will show how a neurocognitive approach can help us understand not only how people perceive but also interact with robots and other forms of AI. Combining socialising interventions, behavioural observations, neuroimaging (fMRI and fNIRS), and multivariate analyses, we can probe the flexibility of social cognition during naturalistic interactions with artificial agents. I will also outline how -with a group-based neurocognitive approach- we can move from one-off interactions in a sterile lab to group interactions at home. Discussion – 5 minutes 14:30 Topic 2 - Clinical and Health Applications (Chair: Henryk Bukowski, Grit Hein) Social neuroscience can inform clinical and health applications by revealing how social interactions and relationships influence brain function, stress responses, and overall well-being. This session discusses the potentials and pitfalls of using this knowledge to improve treatments for mental and physical disorders and sheds light on future directions in the field. Introduction Senior Researcher - Giorgia Silani (University of Vienna, Austria): Neurodivergent Thinking: Addressing Myths and Misconceptions about Autism in social neuroscience Flash talk ECR – Fiona Eslami Tehrani (University of Vienna, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Austria): Anticipatory and consummatory responses to touch and food rewards in anorexia nervosa I will present recent research using a reward paradigm that includes trial-by-trial anticipation and consumption of matched primary social (affiliative touch) and non-social (real food) stimuli in anorexia nervosa (AN). Results from simultaneous fMRI and electromyography (EMG) indicate that dissecting social and non-social reward processing into anticipation and consumption phases is an important step toward a better understanding of the complex mechanisms underlying AN. Flash talk ECR – Sofia Orellana Aguirre (University of Cambridge, UK): Challenges and promises of translating population neuroscience stress research for social workers in the England NHS This talk will briefly discuss my findings on the long-term effects of childhood maltreatment on immuno-metabolic, psychosocial and brain health in adulthood as well insights that emerged from translating these findings into actionable information for NHS social workers and doctors. Discussion – 5 minutes 15:00 – 15:15 Break 15:15 Session 2 - Environmental and Climate Neuroscience (Chair: Claus Lamm) The climate emergency is a pressing societal challenge to which neuroscience has made relatively little research contributions so far (cf. Doell et al., Nature Climate Change 2023). 15:15 – 15:45 Topic 3 Introduction Senior Researcher - Claus Lamm (University of Vienna, Austria): Understanding (non)sustainable behavior and climate (in)action - opportunities and challenges Flash talk ECR – Zoe Bollen (Psychological Science Research Institute, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium): Make it real: Challenges in studying environmental decisions and nature exposure in real-world contexts This talk will first present an eye-tracking study examining the attentional processes underlying pro-environmental decision-making, and discuss the challenges of studying pro-environmental behaviors in laboratory settings while ensuring that these behaviors remain consequential and impactful. Then, it reports on an eye-tracking study investigating the restorative effects of exposure to preserved versus deteriorated nature, highlighting some of the methodological challenges of studying these effects in an in situ experiment. Flash talk ECR – Leslie Tricoche (INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, Bordeaux University, France): Beyond WEIRD brains: Cross-cultural and developmental challenges for understanding environmental decision-making In this talk, it will be argued that understanding pro‑environmental behavior requires studying a wider range of people beyond WEIRD adult populations. Because cultures and societies experience environmental issues differently, expanding research to non‑WEIRD communities is essential. Beyond culture, incorporating age, and in particular children and adolescents whose values and social norms are still forming and who will be heavily affected by the ecological crisis, is equally important. Discussion – 5 minutes 15:45 – 16:15 Topic 4 - Societal and Political Applications of Social and Affective Neuroscience (Chair: Dan Campbell-Meiklejohn). Can social and affective neuroscience really help solve political and social issues? Can it be a useful measure of social forces on our biopsychology? In this session we will explore these issues. Introduction Senior Researcher - Manos Tsakiris (Royal Holloway University, London, UK): "Is there a need for social neuroscience to engage with politics?" Flash talk ECR – Victoria Rambaud (Ghent University, Belgium): The Prison Brain: Using Social Neuroscience to Study the Impact of Incarceration How do institutional environments like prisons shape the brain? And what does this mean for rehabilitation? This talk explores how social neuroscience can be applied to understand the effects of incarceration on cognitive and emotional processes. Drawing on longitudinal behavioral and EEG data, I will present the opportunities and challenges of translating neuroscience findings into meaningful societal and policy-relevant insights. Flash talk ECR – Sofia Orellana (University of Cambridge, UK): Neurophysiological Targets for Resilience: Implications for Intervention Childhood adversity and early-life stress are robustly associated with adverse mental and physical health outcomes across the lifespan. In this talk, I will discuss which physiological and brain system pathways appear to be altered by these experiences, and how emerging social interventions may potentially modify these mechanisms and alter long-term outcomes. Discussion – 5 minutes 16:15 – 16:30 Break 16:30 – 17:15 ECR panel discussion (Chair: Grit Hein) |
Pre-Congress 2: Multisensory Integration in Body Representation Organized by the ESCAN Special Interest Research Group on Embodied Neuroscience (SIREN) Aim The event also aims to foster networking and collaboration, supporting the development of SIREN as a European research community. Format Programme Overview
Open to all ESCAN delegates. Participants will be invited to join SIREN and contribute to future activities. |
| 3:30pm - 5:15pm |
Pre-Congress 3: Junior Scientific Pre-Conference Event Organized by the ESCAN Junior Committee Aim Programme Overview 15:30 – Welcome & coffee 15:45 – Lei Zhang (15 minutes) 16:00 – Audience discussion (5 minutes) 16:05 – Anita Harrewijn (15 minutes) 16:20 – Audience discussion (5 minutes) 16:25 – Henryk Bukowski (15 minutes) 16:40 – Audience discussion (5 minutes) 16:50 – Open Q&A discussion (30 minutes) |
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| 4:00pm - 5:15pm |
Pre-Congress 4: Social Neuroscience in Organizations: From Brain Mechanisms to Workplace Practice Organized by EY and AgliotiLab Aim: As organizations navigate increasing complexity and rapid change, understanding the social and cognitive mechanisms underlying workplace behavior is essential. Social neuroscience provides a valuable framework to examine how individuals perceive and respond to social dynamics within organizational contexts. Drawing on research conducted in real-world organizational settings, the event adopts a translational perspective, highlighting how neural and physiological measures can inform leadership, decision-making, emotional contagion, trust, and collaboration. By fostering dialogue between academia and practice, the workshop aims to bridge laboratory research and organizational application, advancing more human-centered and evidence-based approaches to organizational design. This event has been organized by Ernst & Young -EY- and AgliotiLab. Programme Overview – 16.00 – 17.15
16:00 – 16.05
Francesco Bianchi (Senior manager at EY and Personality and Organizational Psychology PhD@SAPIENZA Roma) & Althea Frisanco (Postdoc fellow at CLNS@SAPIENZA Roma – Italian Institute of Technology and EY People Consulting) The session opens with an introduction highlighting the growing importance of building strong synergies between academic research and organizational practice, including an overview of ongoing collaborations between EY—a leading firm in consulting and professional services—and Academia. It will also present how neuroscience and psychology can support individuals and organizations in navigating complex processes of organizational transformation. The talk will outline key themes explored throughout the event, such as leadership and followership dynamics, emotional contagion, public speaking, individual differences in managing stress-inducing tasks, and interpersonal distance in workplace interactions. 16:05 – 16:15
Giorgia Ponsi (Postdoc fellow at CLNS@SAPIENZA Roma – Italian Institute of Technology) Talk: “Hierarchical rank modulates visual attention to faces: Insights from eye-tracking in real organizations” 16:15 – 16.25
Sarah Boukarras (Assistant professor at Sapienza University of Rome) Talk: “The building blocks of positive emotional contagion in the workplace” 16:25 – 16.35
Francesca March (PhD student at Sapienza University of Rome and University of Camerino) Talk: “Infrared thermal imaging to detect public speaking anxiety” 16.35 -16.45
Althea Frisanco (Postdoc fellow at CLNS@SAPIENZA Roma – Italian Institute of Tecnology and EY People Consulting) Talk: “Do Leaders Sound Different? Evidence from Verbal and Paraverbal Cues in Public Speaking” 16:45 – 16.55
Piero Lamia (Postdoc fellow Sapienza University of Rome) Talk: What Employees Wear Shapes Manager's Integration of Multisensory Information in Peripersonal Space: A Virtual Reality Study 16.55 – 17.05
Matteo Lisi (Postdoc fellow at CLNS@SAPIENZA Roma – Italian Institute of Technology) Talk: “Proxemics and Social Touch in Immersive VR: Cross-Cultural Evidence and Organizational Implications” 17.05 – 17.15
Conclusion and Q&A – Chair: Althea Frisanco (Postdoc fellow at CLNS@SAPIENZA Roma – Italian Institute of Technology and EY People Consulting); Discussant: Francesco Bianchi (Senior manager at EY and Personality and Organizational Psychology PHD@SAPIENZA Roma)
The final part of the session will explore how these research streams are translated into practical applications within EY, examining their impact on organizational processes and how data can be leveraged in different ways—such as to enhance effectiveness or drive business performance. |
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Pre-Congress 5: ERC Funding Opportunities This session is designed for researchers interested in exploring European funding opportunities and gaining practical guidance on preparing competitive grant applications within the ERC framework.
The European Research Council (ERC) supports excellence in research through grants expected to advance the frontiers of existing knowledge. It provides flexible longer-term, portable funding and independence for researchers to pursue ambitious and high-impact research projects. During the session, the different ERC funding schemes and opportunities will be presented, together with the main novelties of the 2027 Work Programme. Chair: Salvatore M. Aglioti (Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome) Programme17:30–18:15 | Invited Talk 18:15–18:45 | Q&A Session and Final Remarks |
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| 7:00pm - 9:30pm |
Welcome Cocktail Location: Catering Areas |
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| 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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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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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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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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Junior Social Event Location: The Apartment |
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| 8:30am - 6:30pm |
Registration Location: Registration Desk and Secretariat |
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Keynote Lecture 2: Carmen Sandi: The metabolic roots of emotional vulnerability: mitochondria, anxiety and motivation Location: Plenary Room |
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Coffee Break Location: Catering Areas |
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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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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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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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Tea Break Location: Catering Areas |
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Award: Young Investigator Awards Location: Plenary Room |
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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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Conference Dinner Location: La Limonaia |
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Registration Location: Registration Desk and Secretariat |
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Keynote Lecture 3: Ewelina Knapska: Emotional echoes: how the brain uses others’ emotions to guide adaptive behavior Location: Plenary Room |
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Coffee Break Location: Catering Areas |
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O3-6: Social Cognition Too close? How conversational context and social anxiety shape dynamic coordination of social behavior in naturalistic dyadic interaction Comprehensive assessment of social cognition in Parkinson's disease: the distinct roles of cognitive and motor status Neurocomputational mechanisms of social threat avoidance under distinct sources of uncertainty Selective amplification of emotional-affective representations during observed touch in individuals with high vicarious touch propensity Early neural attunement to peer status predicts future social network position and popularity in adolescents |
O3-7: Interpersonal Synchrony Computational insights on interbrain synchrony from biophysically constrained Kuramoto models Are we really synchronous? Multiverse-Based Validation of Windowed Cross-Correlation Parameter Space with Synthetic and Human Cardiac Dyadic Data The multimodal propagation of smiles in free social interactions Audience gaze reflects felt social connection with individual performers in live dance. EEG of the dancing brain: Decoding sensory, motor, and social processes during dyadic dance |
S6-1: Multimodal coordination in naturalistic dyadic social interactions Multimodal coordination in naturalistic dyadic social interactions Presentations of the Symposium Using embodied social neuroscience to understand mechanisms of interactive social learning Coordinating conversation with the face What makes us “click”? Predicting rapport in neurodiverse online interactions Individual differences in conversation: Insights from autism and non-native speakers |
| S6-2: Moral behaviour: from social learning to real-life decision-making Moral behaviour: from social learning to real-life decision-making Presentations of the Symposium In Amygdala we trust: How the amygdala influences trust learning A distributed fMRI-based signature of graded moral wrongness in the human brain From isolation to interaction: rethinking moral decision in real-life social contexts Multiple motivations in moral choice: a decision neuroscience approach How external goals shape prosocial learning under moral conflict |
S6-3: Peripersonal and interpersonal spaces of interaction: from individual sensorimotor control to social interaction dynamics Peripersonal and interpersonal spaces of interaction: from individual sensorimotor control to social interaction dynamics Presentations of the Symposium Nearby in the dark: multisensory coding of objects permanence in peripersonal space during navigation Neural dynamics of integrating space and ownership information during object processing Embodied process, interoceptive activation, and interpersonal dynamics in online vocal conversations across levels of abstractness and age groups Attuned minds: how reciprocity, cooperation, and friendship shape real-time social interaction |
S6-4: Artificial emotion: affective responses and interaction with artificial intelligence Artificial emotion: affective responses and interaction with artificial intelligence Presentations of the Symposium The effect of AI-beliefs and personality on the appraisal of evolutionary salient stimuli Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying the bias toward AI in aesthetic experience From disclosure to cooperation: Mapping the boundaries of affective engagement with social robots Social engagement with artificial agents: Multimodal physiological and neural signatures of natural interaction |
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| S6-5: Identifying the unifying principles governing endogenous opioid regulation of human behaviour Identifying the unifying principles governing endogenous opioid regulation of human behaviour Presentations of the Symposium Facts and myths about how opioids shape human behaviour, an introduction Endocannabinoid and endogenous opioid contributions to placebo hypoalgesia The impact of opioids on curiosity and information seeking: the case of music enjoyment The neurochemical basis of social connectedness |
S6-6: From bodily signals to emotional meaning and social understanding From bodily signals to emotional meaning and social understanding Presentations of the Symposium From heartbeats to breathing: linking individual differences in interoception to social and spatial cognition One step closer to my heart: cardiac cycle is coupled with footsteps in typical but not in Depersonalisation individuals How interoceptive signals shape emotional meaning during aesthetic chills Communicating and recognising emotion by hand |
S6-7: The neuroscience of real-world social dynamics of strangers, friends, and families The neuroscience of real-world social dynamics of strangers, friends, and families Presentations of the Symposium Affect during Social Interactions in Infancy Where is the synchrony? a multiverse test of mother–child physiological coupling Using neurocognition-at-home to understand social dynamics of families The Empathy Factory: a community science social biofeedback initiative to study multigenerational communication |
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| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
GA: ESCAN General Assembly |
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Lunch Break Location: Catering Areas |
P3: Poster session Location: Catering Areas Do bilateral saccadic eye movements enhance memory retrieval of emotion-related words? FOCAL tDCS TO THE LEFT DLPFC IMPROVES SOCIAL BELIEF UPDATING IN INDIVIDUALS WITH SOCIAL ANXIETY Graded motor recruitment in literal and metaphorical Language: an fMRI representational similarity study The answer is blowin’ in the brain: early oscillatory dynamics of moral decision-making I see you! Performer gaze conveys levels of acting during live performances The music of the skin: An objective quantification of the sounds produced by skins’ hydration Altered affective–attentional coupling in social touch perception after amputation Rhythm drives early auditory processing: evidence from an event-related potential study Impact of incidental anxiety and inter-individual strategies on Visuo-Spatial Perspective-Taking Robust circular cluster-based statistics for respiration-brain coupling Magnetoencephalographic mapping of cross-modal fear conditioning and generalization Multisensory reciprocity: Dissociating visual and auditory pathways to interpersonal coordination Probing the relationship between midfrontal theta oscillations and autonomic responses to errors and conflict during the Flanker task Awareness of developmental prosopagnosia counters the negative effects of facenormativity Sentience-like processes are revealed in low arousal by employing interoceptive stimulation Periodic and aperiodic electroencephalographic markers in Lewy body and Alzheimer’s diseases with cognitive decline Interoceptive integration modulates body representations in anorexia nervosa Schizotypal traits are associated with affective sound evaluation and increased thalamo-amygdala structural connectivity Independent effects of cardiac phase and spatial attention on early visual processing in humans Enhancing imagery rescripting for pathological guilt and disgust through non-invasive neuromodulation: a transdiagnostic study protocol Encoding others’ attention as an implied motion signal: A novel mechanism underlying implicit and explicit theory of mind (ToM) Deep-body correlates of gut feelings: gastric activity during emotional experience Neuromodulation of visceral signals and interoceptive neural representations: a systematic review Inside and out: how tactile stimulation and Heart Rate Variability impact autobiographical memory retrieval The influence of cardiac changes on error awareness and decision confidence in a perceptual judgment task START project: temporal dynamics of cognitive–motor integration under dual-task conditions in neurological populations Effects of Zen meditation on inhibitory control: An Electroencephalography study with experienced meditators and non-meditators Confidence updating of visual information gathering in difficult and costly situations "Can we Prime Disobedience?" The role of arousal and attentional narrowing in emotional memory trade-offs: links with individual differences Perceptual audiovisual inference in interpersonal motor contexts The plasticity of interoceptive grounding: how pregnancy modulates conceptual knowledge Respect my space: investigating interpersonal space and multisensory integration with autistic and social anxiety traits using fNIRS. Socioeconomic influences on vicarious reward processing across adolescence Social touch as an observer: Somatosensory processing during vicarious social touch perception Co-developing a novel computational modelling peer-feedback task for adolescent using Patient and Public Involvement An investigation of the somatosensory engagement during autonomous sensory meridian response: An ERP study Altered modulation of body perception and affect through movement sonification in individuals with depressive symptoms Do gender stereotypes shape emotion? Evidence from self-report and autonomic measures Seeing emotions through social categories: ethnicity and legal status shape emotion recognition in the context of migration Dissociating multisensory binding from socio-affective appraisal in a virtual kissing paradigm When other minds reshape agency perception: selective social updating of chasing judgments Enhancing Performance Monitoring abilities in Parkinson’s Disease through transcranial alternating current stimulation Sleep electroencephalography biomarkers as trait indicators across psychiatric disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Neural correlates of rule-following Enhancing motivational drive: effects of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on reward-based behavior Modulation of auditory-sensorimotor brain connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorder through music-based intervention: A crossover RCT Dogs are not for Eating: Attributing Affective Abilities to Animals Embodied attunement: Affective touch and inter-brain synchrony in mother-infant dyads Do negative Expectations become biologically embedded? Investigating CRP DNA methylation in Major Depressive Disorder Dynamic action-based markers in immersive XR for computational phenotyping in precision psychiatry Effect of asymmetric noise on interpersonal coordination dynamics during verbal interactions Neurocognition under acute stress: the relative contribution of dopamine and noradrenaline to the shift from contextual to stimulus-response memory Observational learning in humans and artificial agents: A mouse-tracking study Body budget co-regulation as organisational semiosis: field evidence from multi-stakeholder coordination Exploring Mindless and Mindful Reactions to Robots in EEG Thermoregulation and mental health in Parkinson’s Disease: uncovering an under-explored connection Neuromodulating moral emotions: the effect of tDCS on disgust, morality and their physiological underpinnings A novel virtual environment rt-fMRI neurofeedback paradigm to improve resilience and well-being Learning and Decision-Making in a Social World: A Scoping Review of Social Influences in Reinforcement Learning Gravity-dependent modulation of time perception: behavioural and computational evidence Beyond morphing: photorealistic graded facial expressions using Facial Action Coding and GANs Neural and autonomic signatures of emotion recognition under varying expressive intentions Comparing the Self and Co-Regulation in low and high stakes moments in Autistic and Neurotypical Child-Caregiver Dyads. Is social cognition structurally coherent? Empirical comparison of competing theoretical models Does music therapy enhance action prediction in autistic children? Do dyads synchronize or are we just imagining it? Novel pipeline for dyadic movement analysis The subjective cost of cognitive flexibility The psychometric structure and neuromodulation of inhibitory control functions Interpersonal neural synchrony analysis for fNIRS: A signal processing perspective Emotional Egocentricity Bias is modulated by implicit expectations of interpersonal emotional contingencies How prison settings impact empathy for pain: An EEG study A double-blinded real-time fMRI neurofeedback study of supplementary motor-cortex modulation in healthy controls and patients with major depressive disorder Comparison of visual P300 event-related potentials: cognitive impairment due to Parkinson’s disease and prodromal dementia with Lewy Bodies Functional neuroimaging evidence supports norm-based coding of human-like timing in artificial speech Exploration of the link between attentional bias, interoception, and autonomic reactivity in the general population: a planned study Decoding deep sampled brains: high-accuracy binary emotion classification from audiovisual stimuli Letting thoughts go: Cognitive mechanisms in rumination The Impact of Affective Appraisals on the Desire to Eat How empathy beliefs shape intergroup relations via empathy regulation strategies How do acoustic features predict somatosensory and emotional responses in ASMR and misophonia? Subcortical thalamo-amygdala structural connectivity predicts sensitivity to temporal acoustic modulation during aversive sound perception Older adults with subjective memory complaints and brain amyloidosis show stable electroencephalographic rhythms, cortical structure, and cognition over 2 years Neural correlates of implicit sustainability attitudes in a modified stroop task Measuring prosocial behaviour: the roles of empathy, morality and social reward When others move differently: alpha-band sensory gating and conflict-monitoring networks track kinematic dissimilarity Early neural differentiation of visual task-irrelevant alcohol content is associated with subjective craving levels in severe alcohol use disorder Noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation impairs source and reality monitoring Emotional response and regulation in BD, TUD and their comorbidity: a fear conditioning study Automatic imitation and interoceptive processes. Hypnosis and fear extinction in immersive virtual reality: preliminary evidence from a conditioning paradigm Contextual cues shape facial emotion recognition: a combined behavioral and ERP study Effects of repetitive negative thinking on neural and behavioral correlates of anhedonia in depressive symptomatology Does eco-anxiety disrupt cognitive control? Neurophysiological insights into behavioral adaptation in the context of climate crisis. Electric field modelling of the insular cortex in DLPFC-Targeted rTMS for depression Effects of autistic and alexithymic traits on neural responses to emotional faces Dissociable neural pathways for accuracy and confidence in emotion discrimination Trauma under psychedelics: How peritraumatic substance use during the Oct 7 attacks shaped posttraumatic affective and social responses Expecting the worst: the brain’s costs of dysfunctional expectations Multidimensional representations of dynamic facial expressions in the right superior temporal sulcus The relationship between ongoing pain and cognitive effort in fibromyalgia: a brain-spinal fMRI study A novel measure to high-order functional connectivity: application in Autism reveals imbalance between redundancy and synergy Stress reactivity in Virtual Scenarios is differentially modulated following a Mindfulness vs a Cognitive training: Cardiac, Gastric, and Interoceptive markers Delusion-like thinking is associated with lower individual alpha peak frequency ACT2: Exploring kinematic profiles in autism Behavioral and cortical characterization of Moral Decision-Making: evidence from a multimodal approach Competing to Win, Collaborating to Explore: Strategic versus Exploratory Risk-Taking in Human-Robot Interaction Effects of oxytocin in brain activity during naturalistic social-affective processing Closing the loop: developing adaptive biofeedback systems for stress management in Virtual Reality Using virtual reality to explore children’s empathy: Combining emotional self-report and heart-rate as physiological indicator of cognitive and affective empathy State-dependent changes in Gut–Brain coupling: Mapping gastric sensations before and after a meal Lone actor terrorism revisited: Comparative predictors and ideological heterogeneity in the United States Reducing the harmful effects of stress on decision-making: effects of non-invasive electrical brain stimulation The effects of loving-kindness meditation and psilocybin on heart rate variability and affective outcomes Changing the experienced past and expected future: the role of executive abilities and depressive symptoms in counterfactual thinking The Relationship between subjective Quality of Sleep, cognitive Performance, and structural MRI in Major Depressive Disorder Face identity recognition ability stratifies the neural dynamics of familiar and unfamiliar face processing in autism Cross-task computational phenotyping of motivation predicts daily-life affect How do social contexts influence audience engagement Modulating interoception through brain stimulation: a systematic review of invasive and non-invasive approaches Can musical training protect cognitive function in later life? Be-Flex: Neurobehavioral correlates of cognitive flexibility A naturalistic multimodal observation of lifestyle modulation of temporal stress persistence in day and night shift workers Heider and Simmel revisited: the grammar of nonverbal trust in borderline personality disorder Practice makes cohesion: longitudinal multi-brain EEG study in a newly formed musical ensemble Interacting with a robotic wheelchair: Associations with subjective embodiment and body representation Psychophysiological and subjective correlates of cognitive load during arithmetic and reading tasks Hypersexuality across neurological disorders: a systematic review of aetiologies, clinical manifestations, assessment methods, and management strategies Group-Specific Pupillary Responses to Social and Non-Social Stimuli in infants at elevated likelihood of atypical neurodevelopmental conditions Motivational effects on decision noise Neural dynamics of respiratory interoception From perception to emotion: CFS breakthrough predicts anger reactivity beyond trait anger Using computational modelling and fMRI to study peer influences on empathy formation A pupillometric and oculometric analysis of painting perception in autistic, artist, and neurotypical adults. Comparing the Effectiveness of Cognitive-Fatigue-Inducing Tasks Cognitive control dysfunction under sleep loss: Neurophysiological evidence of attention and error monitoring Dissociations between objective and subjective reports suggest a common post-perceptual basis for valence and conscious awareness Social prediction error processing and associated cerebellar-cerebral connectivity changes in patients with cerebellar neurodegeneration. From facial expressions to empathy for pain: preliminary validation of a set of face stimuli depicting varying pain intensities Beyond the session: Wearable monitoring of autonomic and circadian dynamics in psychedelic-assisted therapy Analyzing lead-lag movement dynamics in autistic and neurotypical mother-child dyads using cross-recurrence quantification Computational mechanisms of mentalization across large language models and humans Growing bigger than the gap: Investigating body-space interactions during a haptic illusion altering perceived body size The role of motor and contextual information in the creation of (predictable) false memories for actions How normal are depressive brains? Combining normative, network and predictive modelling Motivational determinants of effort-based choice across reward context and time Dissociating periodic and aperiodic EEG components under prolonged war-related stress: insights from spectral parameterization Effects of neuromodulation on mental state recognition: unveiling the cerebellar role Who trusts prior expectations? A Bayesian approach to age, gender, and personality differences in decision-making Phenomenological control of bodily sensations and heart rate variability Neural markers of occupational burnout: ERP correlates and moderating role of depression Avoiding fear keeps it alive: how avoidance of learned fear shapes extinction learning and fear retention Turning a blind eye: self-report, immersive virtual reality (IVR), and neurophysiology to investigate bystander intervention when prison officers witness misconduct Tobacco smoking is associated with impaired error-related cardiac slowing How does Alexithymia modulate electrophysiological and physiological responses to emotional stimuli? Exploration-exploitation trade-offs in uncertain aversive contexts: The role of threat proximity Interoceptive modulation of mirror-induced dissociation Parental interoceptive inferences: reading children’s cardiac states and links to interoception Stress and cardiorespiratory cycle effects on behavioral and electrophysiological correlates of threat processing in an affectively primed weapon identification task. Reward prediction errors drive emotional valence Combined Reduction of the Sense of Ownership and Agency Decreases Dishonesty: Behavioral and Physiological Evidence from a Virtual Reality Study Divergent Gaze Strategies in Decisions from Experience and Description PreSMA rTMS interacts with Need for Cognitive Closure to impact strategy use in multi-attribute choice Neurodevelopment of social and asocial emotion regulation Neural signatures of trust: tracking attention allocation in human–AI collaboration How parents and peers shape self-esteem in depressed and healthy adolescents Oscillatory motor dynamics reveal correlates of implicit error processing The human affectome: a philosophical odyssey Disorientation assessment using accelerometric and spatial gait features in healthy older adults navigating in a virtually enriched environment Addressing biases in emotional stimuli: toward an inclusive database of facial and whole-body expressions The social brain in context: integrating affective and cognitive processes across scales Salivary lactoferrin as a new Alzheimer’s disease non-invasive biomarker: link between oral dysbiosis and infective hypothesis Does cognitive fatigue disrupt the theta gamma code? An electroencephalography test of the Missing Link hypothesis |
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O3-1: Clinical Psychology/Neuroscience Rethinking flexibility: Valence-specific emotional shifting as a transdiagnostic mechanism Modulating pain through the embodiment of interoceptive signals: The contribution of virtual vicarious affective touch and breathing in fibromyalgia. Domain-specific impairments in self–other distinction in borderline personality disorder: Evidence from a multi-center study Towards a better understanding of impulsivity in adolescents with ADHD by dissociating the expression and inhibition of impulsive responses |
O3-2: Decision-making The Neurobiological Craving Signature (NCS) predicts social craving and responds to social isolation A body worth the effort: Reduced effort discounting in individuals with greater body image disturbance Is democracy worth the effort? The Role of Stress-Driven Multivariate Associations Between Brain Networks and Gut Microbiota on value-based (food) decision-making |
O3-3: Social interaction Inside the frontal face network: multimodal evidence for distinct emotional and motor resonance circuits Time-frequency coordination in plant dyads: a non-neural model of synchrony From inter-brain synchrony to generalized empathy: the effects of inter-brain plasticity through dyadic neurofeedback Why do we laugh when we get tickled? - Emotionally ambivalent responses to ticklish touch on the foot soles |
| O3-4: Social Cognition How social can robots be perceived? Disentangling context- and appearance-dependent dimensions of social competence in human-robot interaction conversations using fMRI. Beyond mirroring: goal-dependent somatosensory dynamics in emotion and social perception When AI sounds human: discriminating human and AI-generated emotional vocalizations in autistic and non-autistic adults |
O3-5: Touch Social touch in adolescence: Heightened sensitivity and stress regulation. Threat, agency, tactile feedback: behavioral, cardiac and cortical determinants of self-related processing in self-touch What makes a touch feel ticklish? Investigating the emotional responses elicited by the sounds of affective touch “Mom, is that you?” Mother-infant behavioral synchrony predicts 6-month-olds’ somatosensory discrimination of maternal versus unfamiliar woman’s touch |
S7-1: Neural alignment and synchronization in real-time social interaction Neural alignment and synchronization in real-time social interaction Presentations of the Symposium Multi-brain neuroscience of inter-brain synchronization: theory, methods, and applications Exploring interbrain alignment using two-brain eeg microstates Interbrain synchrony during small and large group interactions Interpersonal dynamics of mitigating loneliness using intergenerational creative art-making |
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| S7-3: Social and cognitive perspectives on AI, conspiracy beliefs, and public health Social and cognitive perspectives on AI, conspiracy beliefs, and public health Presentations of the Symposium Debunking anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracies with AI: limited belief change, clear emotional shifts Prosociality, anxiety and hesitancy: understanding COVID-19 vaccination intention in India When artificial faces feel real: memory and confidence in the recognition of GAN-generated faces |
S7-4: From self to social: neural and behavioral signatures of multisensory perception and social interaction From self to social: neural and behavioral signatures of multisensory perception and social interaction Presentations of the Symposium Growing in interaction: the role of social interactions in modulating the effects of rubber hand illusion in adolescents and adults The plasticity of the bodily self in interactions: investigating the neurophysiological interplay between interpersonal motor interactions and the body schema The microstructure of intra- and interpersonal coordination Self-other body boundaries in the healthy and pathological brain |
S7-5: Crossmodal Remapping in Sensory and Motor Cortices: evidence from “Touch to See” PRIN project Crossmodal Remapping in Sensory and Motor Cortices: evidence from “Touch to See” PRIN project Presentations of the Symposium Developmental timing constrains modality-specific cortical plasticity Shared Neural Codes for Touch and Vision: Inter-subject correlation revealed crossmodal remapping of visual input in primary somatosensory cortex Body ownership gates tactile awareness by reshaping somatosensory functional connectivity Crossmodal modulations of the motor system by action observation and non-invasive brain stimulation: evidence from the healthy and injured brain |
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Best Poster Awards Location: Plenary Room |
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