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10th Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz

Friday 27th - Sunday 29th July 2007
The TWK programme consists of three symposia with invited speakers, an evening lecture by Prof. Dr. Petra Stoerig, and poster presentations. The complete programme can be downloaded as a (571 kB) PDF file here.

Friday 27th July 2007

14:00 Registration and hanging of posters
14:55 Welcome
Symposium 1: Spatial Cognition - the Active Observer in Real and Simulated Spaces
(Jenny Campos and Betty Mohler, MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen)
Symposium to be conducted in English
15:00 Introduction
Betty Mohler & Jenny Campos (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen)
15:10 Seeing Big Things in Real, Virtual, and Desktop Environments
Dennis Proffitt (University of Virginia)
15:40 Embedded and Embodied Cognition in Real-World Environments
Mark May (Universität der Bundeswehr, Hamburg)
16:10 Coffee break
16:40 Investigating Multi-Sensory Integration in the Estimation of Distance Traveled
Jenny L. Campos (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen)
17:10 Path Integration in Real and Virtual Environments: Mechanisms and Strategies
Jan Wiener (Collège de France, Paris)
17:40 It’s What You Feel That’s Important, Not What You See.
Roy Ruddle (University of Leeds, UK)

Saturday 28th July 2007

Symposium 2: Development of Perception and Cognition
(Sabina Pauen, University of Heidelberg)
Symposium to be conducted in English
09:00 The More You Give the More You Get: How Infants Identify Category Membership
Diana Sodtke (University of Magdeburg), Birgit Traeuble (University of Heidelberg) & Sabina Pauen (University of Heidelberg)
09:30 Neural Evidence for Intermodal Perception in Emerging Object Representations
Lysett Babocsai (University of Heidelberg), Sabina Pauen (University of Heidelberg) & Manuela Friedrich (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig)
10:00 The Development of Eye Gaze Perception in Triadic Interactions in Infancy
Stefanie Hoehl (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig) & Tricia Striano (Neurocognition and Development Group, University of Leipzig)
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Infants’ and Adults’ Fixation Patterns When Encoding Intentional Actions
Annina Neumann, Claudia Thoermer & Beate Sodian (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
11:30 The Development of Early Action Perception and the Relation Between Early Action Perception and Action Planning
Bianca Jovanovic (University of Giessen)
12:00 Gaze Perception Helps Infants to Infer Category Preferences
Sabina Pauen (University of Heidelberg)
12:35 Lunch break
Poster sessions
The posters will be divided into 4 groups. The authors should be present at their poster at least during the time allocated to their group as follows. The poster boards will be marked to indicate which group the poster is in. Note that we have extended the poster session to allow more time at the posters.
13:45 Group A
14:55 Group B
16:05 Group C
17:15 Group D
18:20 Poster prize to be awarded
Public evening lecture (to be given in German)
18:30 Töne sehen - Über Synästhesie und sensorische Substitution
Petra Stoerig (Universität Düsseldorf)
20:15 Banquet in the Casino am Neckar

Sunday 29th July 2007

Symposium 3: Social Nature of Perception and Action
(Guenther Knoblich, Rutgers University)
Symposium to be conducted in English
10:30 Introduction
Günther Knoblich (Rutgers University, US)
10:40 Understanding Goals and Actions in the Brain
Antonia Hamilton (Dartmouth College, US)
11:10 Coffee break
11:40 From Action Perception to Joint Action
Natalie Sebanz (Rutgers University, US)
12:10 The Motor Foundations of Social Perception
Patric Bach & Steve Tipper (University of Wales, Bangor, UK)
12:40 Eye and Thou
Daniel Richardson (University of California, Santa Cruz, US)
13:10 Closing discussion, removal of posters, end of conference
 
TWK 2007