ENACTIVISM: a new paradigm?
From neurophenomenology
and Social / Evolutionary Robotics to Distributed Cognition
OCTOBER, 6-8 2008
TORUN, POLAND
Conference - program
Conference Center will be placed at Hotel Gromada, Conference Venue - Golden Room, Dambski Palace, Zeglarska Street.
Official conference program
is now available in downloadable file (PDF 293kb).
6 October 2009 - 1st Day
- 11.00 – 11.30 Opening session
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11.30 – 13.00 David Kirsh "Beyond Perception" - OPEN LECTURE [abstract]
13.00 – 13.10 Tea
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13.10 - 14.10 Natalie Depraz "Empathy and mirror-neurons: a neurophenomenological enactive approach" - plenary lecture
14.30 – 15.30 Lunch
- 15.30 – 16.30 Jean-Luc Petit "Motor resonance and speech sociality" - plenary lecture [abstract]
- 16.30 – 17.10 India Morrison "Social Touch and Empathy" [abstract]
17.10 – 17.20 Tea
- 17.20 – 18.00 Corrado Sinigaglia "Enactive Understanding and Motor Intentionality"
- 18.00 – 18.40 Anita Pacholik-Zuromska "Enactivism and the problems of self-knowledge" [abstract]
Voyage by ship 'Wanda' on Vistula River. Guide Tour - Torun Old Town, Torun at Night
7 October 2008 - 2nd Day
- 10.00 – 11.00 Oliver Gapenne "Kinaesthetic Coupling and Perception of Distal Object" - plenary lecture [abstract]
- 11.00 – 11.40 Pierre Steiner "Enactivism and Representationalism: A Lost Cause?" [abstract]
- 11.40 – 12.20 Wlodzislaw Duch "Is embodiment necessary for natural language understanding?" [abstract]
12.20 – 12.30 Tea
- 12.30 – 13.10 Masami Ishihara "Capturing time in space: Evidence for the spatial-temporal association of response codes" [abstract]
- 13.10 – 13.50 Elżbieta Szeląg “Time perception - a chance for neurorehabilitation: evidence from cross-linguistic comparisons” [abstract]
14.00 – 15.00 Lunch
- 15.00 – 16.00 Tom Ziemke "Enactive cognitive robotics: Taking organismic embodiment seriously" - plenary lecture [abstract]
- 16.00 – 16.40 Hiro Iizuka (with Hideyuki Ando and Taro Maeda) “Minimal Agency Detection in Evolutionary Robotics Model and Experiments” [abstract]
- 16.40 – 17.20 Anthony Morse “The Somatic-Sensorimotor Hypothesis” [abstract]
17.20 – 17.30 Tea
- 17.30- 19.30 Enactivism: a new paradigm? – panel discussion with David Kirsh, Olivier Gapenne, Tom Ziemke, and Wlodzislaw Duch as Moderator
20.30 BANQUET
8 October 2008 - 3rd Day
- 10.00 – 11.00 POSTER SESSION – Hotel Gromada:
POSTER I DRESZER, J., OSIŃSKI, G., SZELĄG, E."Intelligence-differences in fractal properties of motor timing"
POSTER II LEWANDOWSKA, M., BEKISZ, M., SZYMASZEK, A., SZELĄG, E. "Auditory evoked potentials related to the perception of temporal order"
POSTER III MEDYGRAL, J., WESIERSKA, M., LEWANDOWSKA, M., SZELĄG, E. "Stability of real idiothetic memory in men and women"
POSTER IV SZYMASZEK A., SZELĄG E., LEWANDOWSKA, M., SENIOW, J., FINK, M., ULBRICH, P., CHURAN, J., WITTMANN, M., PöPPEL, E. "Temporal training in aphasia therapy"
- 11.00 – 12.00 David Kirsh "Thinking with Things" [abstract]
- 12.00 – 13.00 Discussion with David Kirsh
14.00 Lunch – End of Conference
9 October 2008
For organizational reasons the conference has been shortened to 3 days and will end on October 8. We are sorry for any inconveniences related to the change.
Downloadable version of conference program (with details and abstracts) will be available soon.
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Guests
List of conference guests and participant will feature: Natalie Depraz, Wlodzislaw Duch, Olivier Gapenne, Hiro Iizuka, Masami Ishihara, David Kirsch, Jean-Luc Petit, Corrado Sinigaglia, Elzbieta Szelag, Pierre Steiner, Tom Ziemke and many more.
List of all guests (with details and external links) will be coming soon.