Symposium organized by Beatrice de Gelder, Paris IAS and Maastricht University & Julie Grezes, ENS Paris

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Presentation

Physical and virtual reality exist side by side but also increasingly merge.  This symposium addresses central notions like subjective experience and presence in real and in virtual worlds. Participants are world experts in this new and burgeoning fields. They will discuss how the potential of virtual worlds is currently harnessed by neuroscientists, for basic research and for societal applications, as well as for clinical use. Expected innovations and future perspectives of subjective experience will be discussed in the light of increasing virtualization of our social interactions.

 Program (symposium in english*)

1:00
Welcome by the Paris Institute for Advanced Study
Prof. Saadi Lahlou, Prof Gretty Myrdal

Presentation of the topic of the meeting
Beatrice de Gelder, Paris IAS and Maastricht University, & Julie Grezes, ENS Paris

1:20
Presence, body ownership and vicarious agency - the Illusions of Virtual Reality
Prof. Mel Slater, UB, Barcelona SP

2:00
Face-to-face interaction matters
Prof. Antonia Hamilton, UCL London, UK

2:45
A VR_EEG Study on automatic threat perception and behavioral control
Juanzhi Li, Brain and emotion lab, Maastricht University, NL

3:00
The Effect of body posture, outgroup affiliation, and proximity of virtual encounters on human freezing responses
Manuel Mello, SCN Lab, Sapienza University Rome, IT

Pause

3:15
My virtual self as you: agency and perspective in VR
Prof. Mavi Sanchez-Vives. Institute of Biomedical Research (ICREA) Barcelona, SP

4:00
How haptics can improve subjective experience in virtual reality
Prof. Anatole Lecuyer, INRIA, FR

4:40
Review of some major questions
Prof. Alain Berthoz, Collège de France

5:10-6:00
General Discussion

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