Program Schedule

Wednesday, October 9 – Arrival day

Thursday, October 10
Session #1
  • 13:45-14:00 - Welcome by the directors of the workshop: Pier Francesco Ferrari, Paola Sessa and Fausto Caruana
  • 14:00-14:45 - José Miguel Fernández Dols - The Study (and Exploitation) of Facial Expression: Do's, Dont's and Maybes
  • 14:45-15:30 - Elisabetta Palagi - How animals sync, mimic, and groove together. Motor resonance phenomena through the eyes (and ears) of a comparative ethologist
  • 15:30-16:00 - Coffee break
  • 16:00-16:45 - Michael Mendl - Expressing emotions through decisions: a potential cross-species and translatable marker of affect
  • 16:45-18:45 - Short communications – (8 x 15mins)

Friday, October 11
Session #2
  • 09:00-09:45 - Fausto Caruana - Exploring laughter and its contagion using neuroscientific techniques
  • 09:45-10:30 - Sophie Scott:  What’s the point of studying laughter?
  • 10:30-11:00 - Coffee break
  • 11:00-11:45 - Katalin Gothard - Who is controlling the face?
  • 11:45-12:30 - Beatrix De Gelder - Perceiving body expressions. Neurobiological and computational perspectives.
  • 12:30-14:15 - Lunch
Session #3
  • 14:15-15:00 - Eva Krumhuber - Facial movement and emotion recognition in humans and machine
  • 15:00-15:45 - Pier Francesco Ferrari - Neural mechanisms simulating others' emotions in human and nonhuman primates
  • 15:45-16:15 - Coffee break
  • 16:15-17:00 - Mike Kuba - Cephalopodos communicate through intricate skin patterns. Do they experience emotions, and if so, do they express them via their skin
  • 17:00-19:00 - poster session

Saturday, October 12
8:30 EXCURSION TO THE ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES

Sunday, October 13
Session #4
  • 9:00-9:45 - Mariska Kret - Emotion expression production and perception in homo and pan.
  • 9:45-10:30 - Holly Rayson - Multidimensional encoding of facial expressions in the infant brain
  • 10:30-11:00 - Coffee break
  • 11:00-11:45 - Sebastian Korb - Electrically induced facial feedback effects
  • 11:45-12:30 - Gilles Vannuscorps - The role of motor simulation in facial expression recognition
  • 12:30-14:45 - Lunch
Session #5
  • 14:45-15:00 - Paola Sessa – Sensorimotor experience in the processing of facial expression: the case of patients with congenital facial paralysis
  • 15:00-15:45 - Ida Gobbini - The role of familiarity in identity and facial expression recognition
  • 15:45-16:15 - Coffee break
  • 16:15-16:45 - Marco Tamietto - Redefining Non-Conscious Emotion Processing: Exploring Low and High-Level Stimulus Features
  • 16:45 - Concluding remarks
  • 20:30 - Social Dinner

Monday, October 14 - Departure Day