ESF-EMBO Symposium
THREE DIMENSIONAL SENSORY AND MOTOR SPACE: PERCEPTUAL CONSEQUENCES OF MOTOR ACTION
Chaired by
CHAIR:
- JeroenSmeetsE-Mail
- Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamFaculty of Human Movement SciencesAmsterdamNetherlands
VICE-CHAIR:
- FrankBremmerE-Mail
- Philipps-University MarburgFaculty of PhysicsDepartment of NeurophysicsMarburgGermany
Dates
6-11 October 2007
Location
Hotel Eden Roc, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain
The conference will take place in Sant Feliu de Guixols, on the Spanish Costa Brava, 120 km north of Barcelona and 30 km south of Girona. Group transportation will be arranged from/to Barcelona airport, on arrival and departure days.
Final Programme & List of Accepted Participants
There is a long tradition of studying perception independent of motor control. The main interaction that has received much attention is the transformation from sensory information to motor output. However, there are some remarkable recent findings in the last decade that suggest that voluntary movement plays a key role in visual perception. Examples are the role of cortical motor areas in perception (mirror neurones), target mislocalisation associated with saccades, and the effect of prism adaptation on hemispatial neglect. Voluntary movements play also an important role in other modalities, such as haptics.
The aim of this conference is to bring together experienced and young researchers from various disciplines (psychology, biology, neuroscience, physics) that are interested in the perceptual consequences of motor action.
Time will be alloted to poster presentations (to be selected from abstracts).
Final Programme PDF (183 KB) Last Updated 27-September-2007 |
Abstracts, Posters & Short Oral Contributions
There will be no short talks. Abstracts accepted as posters are listed here:
List of Accepted Posters Word (292KB) PDF (167KB) Last Updated 6-August-2007
Posters can be fixed with blue tack or tape onto poster panels. Poster size should be no more than 130 cm high x 130 cm wide. Use letters and drawings that can be read from approximately 100 cm distance.
Group Transportation & Practical Information Guide
Detailed information on all practical aspects of the conference (access to site, registration & fee payments, accommodation, travel reimbursements...) is available from the Practical Information Guide. Please read it fully and carefully...
| Practical Information Guide PDF (196 KB) Last Updated 6-August-2007 |
GROUP TRANSPORTATION
Three buses will be arranged on arrival day from Barcelona airport to Sant Feliu. The journey takes approximately 90 minutes, depending on traffic.
Bus departure times – Saturday 6 October: 16.00 and 17.30 and 18.30
Airport departure point: the buses will wait in the special bus parking area located just before the A terminal. Each bus has been requested to be at the meeting point 20-30 minutes before scheduled departure. The coaches will have a sign in the window indicating “ESF Research Conferences” for easy recognition.
Group transportation back to Barcelona airport will be arranged in a similar way for the departure day.
Bus departure times – Thursday 11 October: 12.30 and 13.30
ACCOMMODATION
Please note that SINGLE accommodation can only be guaranteed to invited speakers. All other participants will have to share a TWIN room. In case single rooms would become available at the time of the conference, rooms will be attributed on a “first come, first served” basis. Only the TWIN conference fee should be paid to the ESF when registering. The supplement for single should be paid to the venue directly. Should you wish to be put on waiting list for single accommodation, please contact Ms. Anne Blondeel-Oman.
Conference Fees
Fees | What the fees cover |
EUR 850 | conference, meals and single room |
EUR 750 | conference, meals and twin OR double room |
EUR 510 | non-resident: conference, meals (no room) |
Note: Participants working for private industries (to the exception of Invited Speakers) are requested to pay an additional EUR 190 to the above fees. | |
Some grants available for young researchers to cover the conference fee and possibly part of the travel costs. Grant requests should be made by ticking appropriate field(s) in the paragraph "Grant application" of the application form.
Registration Form
All participants - including speakers & session chairs - are kindly expected to confirm their attendance (and, when applicable, to pay the conference fee) by filling in a Registration Form.
Closing date for registration & fee payment: 7 September 2007 
ESF Contact
- AnneBlondeel-OmanE-Mail
- Senior Conference Officer
Phone: +32 (0)2 533 2020
Fax: +32 (0)2 538 8486
Please quote 07-226 in any correspondence.
Partnership
This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
