6th Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum
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6th Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum
Conference Schedule
June 5 - 8, 2005

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Castel ToblinoCastel Toblino
MART MuseumMART

Sunday, June 5, 2005
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM in MART Hall Registration
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in MART Auditorium Tutorial lecture
Presentation
 
Charles E. Schroeder, The Nathan Kline Institute, USA
"Use of animal models to define the neuroanatomy and physiology of multisensory processing"
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM in MART Hall Coffee Break
(Included with registration)
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM in MART Auditorium Paper session
Chair: Angelo Maravita, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
 
Presentations
 
Adele Diederich, School of Humanities and Social Sciences International University Bremen
Hans Colonius, Department of Psychology University of Oldenburg
"Modeling spatial effects in visual-tactile saccadic reaction time"
 
Fabrizio Doricchi, Dipartimento di Psicologia 39 - Universita' "La Sapienza" Roma - Fondazione Santa Lucia
Francesca Figliozzi, Dipartimento di Psicologia 39 - Universita' "La Sapienza" Roma - Fondazione Santa Lucia
"Effects of vestibular rotatory accelerations on covert attentional orienting in vision and touch."
 
Krish Sathian, Dept. of Neurology, Emory Univ Sch Med
*Randall Stilla, Dept. of Neurology, Emory Univ Sch Med
*Erica Mariola, Dept. of Neurology, Emory Univ Sch Med
"VISUAL CORTICAL ACTIVITY DURING TACTILE SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION IN SIGHTED AND BLIND HUMANS"
 
Massimiliano Zampini, Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education, University of Trento, Italy
Norimichi Kitagawa
David I. Shore
Charles Spence
"SPATIAL MODULATION OF AUDIOTACTILE TEMPORAL ORDER JUDGMENTS DEPENDS ON WHETHER STIMULI PRESENTED FROM THE FRONT OR REAR"
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM in MART Auditorium Symposium
Chair: Hendrik Schifferstein, Delft University of Technology, Holland
 
Presentations
 
Soledad Ballesteros, CEEN Research Institute UNED
José Manuel Reales , CEEN (UNED)
Montserrat González , CEEN (UNED)
Beatriz García, CEEN (UNED)
"Priming between modalities in normal aging and dementia"
 
Marc O. Ernst, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Johannes Burge, School of Optometry, Vision Science Program, UC Berkeley
Martin S. Banks, School of Optometry, Vision Science Program, UC Berkeley
"Resolving visual-tactual incongruity depends on sensory reliability"
 
Geke Ludden, Industrial Design, Delft University of Technology
*Rick Schifferstein, Industrial Design, Delft University of Technology
*Paul Hekkert, Industrial Design, Delft University of Technology
"Visual – tactual incongruities as sources of surprise"
 
Fiona Newell, Department of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin
*Achille Pasqualotto, Department of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin
*Ignace Vendrell, Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin
"Visual and tactile spatial information is updated with observer movement."
 
Hendrik Schifferstein, Department of Industrial Design, Delft University of Technol
"Experiencing objects through vision and touch"
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM in MART Hall Coffee Break
(Included with registration)
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM in MART Balcony Poster session
8:00 PM - 10:30 PM in MART Café Buffet dinner
(Included with registration)
Monday, June 6, 2005
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM in MART Auditorium Symposium
Chair: Elisabetta Lŕdavas, University of Bologna, Italy
 
Presentations
 
Nadia Bolognini, Department of Psychology University of Bologna
"Multisensory localization of sounds: behavioral and neuropsychological evidences."
 
Elisabetta Lŕdavas, Dipartimento di Psicologia, Univeristŕ di Bologna
"Within-modal vs. cross-modal processes: neurons, behavior and clinical studies"
 
Terrence Stanford, Wake Forest Univ. Sch. of Med.
*Benjamin Rowland, Wake Forest Univ. Sch. of Med.
*Barry Stein, Wake Forest Univ. Sch. of Med.
"Modeling the Biophysical Basis of Multisensory Integration in the Superior Colliculus"
 
Mark Wallace, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Wake Forest Univ Sch Med
"Developmental Plasticity in Multisensory Representations"
 
Discussant: Barry E. Stein, Wake Forest University, USA
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM in MART Hall Coffee Break
(Included with registration)
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM in MART Auditorium Paper session
Chair: David Shore, McMaster University, Canada
 
Presentations
 
Daniel R. Berger, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Psychophysics Department
Heinrich H. Bülthoff, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Psychophysics Department
"Effects of Attention and Cue Conflict Awareness on Multimodal Integration in Self-Rotation Perception"
 
Polly Dalton, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Nilli Lavie, Department of Psychology, University College London
Charles Spence, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
"Attentional capture in serial visual and audiovisual search tasks"
 
Manuel Gomez-Ramirez, Cognitive Neuroscience Program at The City College of The City University of New York
*Glenn Wylie, Nathan S. Kline Institute
*John Foxe, Cognitive Neuroscience Program at The City College of The City University of New York
"A high-density electrical mapping and fMRI investigation of biased intersensory attentional sets"
 
Daniel Senkowski, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, The Cognitive Neurophysiology Lab
Dave Saint-Amour, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, The Cognitive Neurophysiology Lab
Thomas Gruber, Universität Leipzig, Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie
John J. Foxe, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, The Cognitive Neurophysiology Lab; City College of the City University of New York, Department of Psychology, Program in Cognitive Neuroscience
"The role of visual cortex in multiple speaker interference"
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM in MART Auditorium Symposium
Chair: Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Harvard Medical, USA School
 
Presentations
 
Amir Amedi, Harvard Center for Non-Invasive Magnetic Brain Stimulation,
Peter Meijer, Philips Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands
"Neural correlates of visual-to-auditory sensory substitution in proficient blind users."
 
Paul Bach-y-Rita, Departments of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Medicine and B
Kathi Kamm, Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"Tactile Sensory Substitution for Blindness"
 
Lotfi Merabet, Neurology and Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Joseph Rizzo, Neuro ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
"Visual Neuroprosthesis Development: The Implications of Neuroplasticity"
 
Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
"Can the Blind See?"
 
Claude Veraart, Neural Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, Universite de
Anne De Volder, Neural Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, Universite de Louvain
Jean Delbeke, Neural Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, Universite de Louvain
"Vision rehabilitation in case of blindness"
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM in MART Hall Coffee Break
(Included with registration)
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM in MART Balcony Poster session
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM in MART Museum Guided tour to the MART Museum
(Included with registration)
Tuesday, June 7, 2005
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM in MART Auditorium Graduate Student Symposim
Chair: Micah Murray, University Hospital Center Lausanne, Switzerland
 
Presentations
 
Julien Besle, INSERM Unité 280
*Catherine Fischer, Hôpital Neurologique de Lyon
*Olivier Bertrand, INSERM Unité 280
*Marie-Hélčne Giard, INSERM Unité 280
"Audiovisual interactions during the perception of speech recorded directly from the temporal cortex of epileptic patients"
 
M. Luisa Demattč, Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education - University of Trento
Daniel Sanabria, Department of Experimental Psychology - University of Oxford
Francesco Pavani, Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education - University of Trento
Charles Spence, Department of Experimental Psychology - University of Oxford
"Assessing colour-odour congruency using the Implicit Association Test"
 
Joost Maier, MPI Biological Cybernetics
Nikos Logothetis, MPI Biological Cybernetics
Asif Ghazanfar, MPI Biological Cybernetics
"Multisensory processing of looming signals in primates"
 
Roberto Martuzzi, Department of Radiology, University Hospital, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
Micah Murray, Division of Neuropsychology, University Hospital, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
Christoph Michel, Department of Neuroscience, University of Geneva, Geneva, SWITZERLAND
Philippe Maeder, Department of Radiology, University Hospital, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
Jean-Philippe Thiran, Signal Processing Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
Stephanie Clarke, 3Division of Neuropsychology, University Hospital, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
Reto Meuli, Department of Radiology, University Hospital, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
"Auditory-visual Multisensory Interactions Modulate the Dynamics of BOLD Responses in Unisensory Cortices"
 
Jessica Phillips-Silver, McMaster University Department of Psychology
Laurel J. Trainor, McMaster University Department of Psychology
"Perception of Musical Rhythm Relies on Auditory, Motor and Vestibular Sensory Systems"
 
Nienke van Atteveldt, Dept. of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Elia Formisano, Dept. of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Leo Blomert, Dept. of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Rainer Goebel, Dept. of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
"Binding of letters and speech sounds in the human auditory association cortex critically depends on temporal synchrony"
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM in MART Hall Coffee Break
(Included with registration)
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM in MART Auditorium Paper session
Chair: David J Lewkowicz, Florida Atlantic University, USA
 
Presentations
 
Ville Ojanen, Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of computational engineering
Johanna Pekkola, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Department of Radiology
Iiro, P. Jääskeläinen, Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of computational engineering
Riikka Möttönen, Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of computational engineering
Taina Autti, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Department of Radiology
Veikko Jousmäki, Low temperature laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology
Mikko Sams, Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of computational engineering
"Common brain areas activated by hearing and seeing speech"
 
Sarah Partan, University of South Florida, Department of Psychology
"Multisensory Enhancement in Dove Courtship Signals"
 
Richard Reilly, University College Dublin
Niall Fox, University College Dublin
"Speaker Identification based on Automatic Crossmodal Fusion of Audio and Visual Data"
 
Katharina von Kriegstein, Functional Imaging Laboratory, University College London, UK
Andreas Kleinschmidt, Cognitive Neurology Unit, J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Anne-Lise Giraud, Departement d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
"Behavioural relevance of activity in fusiform face area and anterior temporal lobe in multisensory person identity recognition"
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM in MART Auditorium Paper session
Chair: Fiona Newell, University of Dublin, Ireland
 
Presentations
 
Nicola Bruno, Dipartimento di psicologia, Universitŕ di Trieste
Alessandra Jacomuzzi, Dipartimento di psicologia, Universitŕ di Trieste
"Proprioceptive reversible objects"
 
Sophie Molholm, The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory of The Nathan Kline Institute
*Pejman Sehatpour, The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory of The Nathan Kline Institute
*Ashesh Mehta, Department of Neurosurgery, Cornell Medical Center
*Beth Higgins, The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory of The Nathan Kline Institute
*Marina Shpaner, The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory of The Nathan Kline Institute
*Antigona Martinez, The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory of The Nathan Kline Institute
*Theodore Schwartz, Department of Neurosurgery, Cornell Medical Center
*John J. Foxe, The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory of The Nathan Kline Institute
"Direct Human Intracranial Recordings Reveal Early Multisensory Integration in the Ventral Visual Stream"
 
Glenn Wylie, The Cognititve Neurophysiology Lab, The Nathan Kline Institute
John Foxe, The Cognititve Neurophysiology Lab, The Nathan Kline Institute
Micah Murray, Division Autonome de Neuropsychologie & Service Radiodiagnostique et Radiologie Interventionnelle Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
"The Brain Uses Single-Trial Multisensory Memories to Discriminate without Awareness"
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM in MART Hall Coffee Break
(Included with registration)
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM in MART Auditorium Keynote lecture
Presentation
 
Giacomo Rizzolatti, University of Parma, Italy
"The Mirror Neuron System and its role in understanding the others"
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Castel Toblino Social dinner
(Included with registration)
Wednesday, June 8, 2005
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM in MART Auditorium Symposium
Chair: Salvador Soto-Faraco, University of Barcelona, Spain
 
Presentations
 
Ruth Campbell, Department of Human Communication Sciences, University College London
"Seeing silent speech - cortical correlates in relation to visual processing requirements"
 
Mikko Sams, Laboratory of Computational Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology
"Visual influences on auditory processing of speech"
 
Salvador Soto-Faraco, Dept. Psicologia Bŕsica - Facultat de Psicologia and Parc Científic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona
Agnčs Alsius, Dept. Psicologia Bŕsica - Facultat de Psicologia and Parc Científic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona
Jordi Navarra, Dept. Psicologia Bŕsica - Facultat de Psicologia and Parc Científic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona
Ruth Campbell, Human Communication Sciences, Univesity College London
"Attention modulates multisensory integration: The case of audiovisual speech"
 
Virginie van Wassenhove, Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco
"‘Analysis-by-synthesis’ in auditory-visual speech perception"
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM in MART Hall Coffee Break
(Included with registration)
11:30 AM - 12:30 AM in MART Auditorium Keynote lecture
Presentation
 
Kevin G. Munhall, Queen's University, Canada
"Auditory and Visual Conditions that make Speech a Multisensory Event"
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM in MART Auditorium Business meeting
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