The COSY division is pleased to invite you to the symposium "Research in active touch" organized in the context of Giulia Esposito's Public PhD defence, which will take place on the 13th of June 2025 at 5:00 p.m. 

Programme of the day:

Morning session: 

10.15 – 12.00 – Room Gerty Cori (57 av Hippocrate, Tour Laënnec, +0)

10.15– 10.25: Opening remarks/welcome

10.30 – 11.10: Benoit Delhaye (UCLouvain) - Experimental and modeling approaches to tap into tactile feedback during manipulation.

11.15 – 11.55: David Gueorguiev (UCLouvain) - Tactile perception at the microscale.

 

12.00 – 13.30: LUNCH - IoNS Cafeteria (Avenue Mounier 53, Tour Pasteur +0)

Afternoon session:

13.45 – 16.00 – Room Gerty Cori (57 Avenue Hippocrate, Tour Laënnec, +0)

13.45 – 14.25: Konstantina Kilteni (Radboud University & Karolinska Institute) - Attenuation of self-generated touch: Evidence from psychophysics and neuroimaging.

14.30 – 15.10: Luke Miller (Radboud University) - Tool embodiment: A computational perspective.

15.15 – 15.55: Luigi Tamè (University of Kent) - Sensorimotor interactions for touch and pain.

16.00 – 16.55: COFFEE BREAK - IoNS Cafeteria (Avenue Mounier 53, Tour Pasteur + 0)

 

17.00: Public defense Giulia Esposito – Methodological approaches for the study of auditory-tactile interactions in conditions of active touch - Room Gerty Cori (57 Avenue Hippocrate, Tour Laënnec, +0)