This year the INC DAY will focus on various aspects of the inter-relationship between brain and body: from nutrition and hormones to embodied cognition. Catherine Tallon-Baudry (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) will give the keynote lecture on the topic Viscerally conscious, that will followed by presentations of nine other French or foreign researchers by video-conferencing.
Registration is free, but it is mandatory to register on
https://framaforms.org/inc-day-2020-the-embodied-brain-5-novembre-2020-1602755793
Thursday November 5th. from 9am until 18:30pm
On line via Zoom
Program
8:45-9:15 Registration on Zoom
9:15-9:30 Welcome address
9:30-10:30 Keynote Lecture by Catherine Tallon-Baudry (ENS, Paris) Viscerally conscious
10:30-12:30 Brain , Nutrition and Microbiote
- Rochellys Diaz-Heijtztsanis (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm) – Bacterial Peptidoglycans from Microbiota in Neurodevelopment and Behavior
- Michel Neunlist (Université de Nantes, France) – What can the gut nervous system tell us about our brain?
- Sophie Layé (INRAE, Bordeaux) – Role of dietary n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in mood and cognitive disorders
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-16:00 Brain and Body, Sex and Hormones
- Valery Grinevich (University of Heidelberg) – The oxytocin system in the embodied brain: Social touch and communicative behaviours
- Julie Bakker (University of Liège) – Does the brain have a sex? Role of gonadal hormones
- Nicolas de Roux (Robert Debré Hospital, Paris) – Sexual dimorphism of the brain: role of hormones versus chromosomes
16:00-16:30 Afternoon break
16:30-18:30 Embodied Cognition
- Patrick Haggard (UCL, London) – Grounding experience of space and self on skin sensation
- Bryan Gick (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) – How talking stands on posture
- J. Kevin O’Regan (Université de Paris) – How embodiment can solve the problem of phenomenal consciousness
18:30 Conclusion
More info: inc@parisdescartes.fr
