The Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition

workshop: "Cognitive Processes and the Motor System"

Preliminary Programme

4:00 Luigi Cattaneo
CIMEC, University of Trento, Italy
New approaches to the study of action observation using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

4:25 Alessia Tessari
University of Bologna, Italy
Cognitive and neural basis of action imitation

4:50 Fabian Chersi
CNR, Italy
How does the brain encode action-sequences?

5:15 Cosimo Urgesi
University of Udine, Italy
Anticipatory Motor Simulation of Body Actions

5:40 Andrei Gorea
C.N.R.S & Paris Descartes University, France
Free will or not free will: causality preserved but access to motor decision obscured
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6:05 Pierpaolo Busan, Pierpaolo Battaglini, Anna Pelamatti, Fabrizio Monti, Gilberto Pizzolatto
University of Trieste, Italy
Segregation of the human channel for the planning of reaching movements: a TMS approach
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6:30 Arno Koning, Herbort, O., van Uem, J. & Meulenbroek, R.
Radboud University Nijmegen, NL
End-state comfort in interaction
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