ICSC Welcome Presentation
- 1. ICSC 2012 – “Space and Embodied Cognition” Space and Embodied Cognition WELCOME to the fifth edition of the International Conference of Space Cognition By Marta Olivetti Belardinelli Space and Embodied Cognition
- 2. ICSC 2012 – “Space and Embodied Cognition” ICSC 2000: Spatial cognition: Scientific 2000 Research and Application • 3 Keynotes: Michel Denis (Paris) Hanspeter A. Mallot (Tuebingen) Jonathan R. Wolpaw (Albany) • 5 Symposia • 6 Oral sessions • 1 Poster session • 1 Demo session 2
- 3. ICSC 2012 – “Space and Embodied Cognition” ICSC 2003: European year of People with disability Space and Disability • 4 Keynotes: Jerome E. Bickenbach (New Kork) Luigi Pizzamiglio (Rome) Alan Roulstone (Sunderland) Marcia J. Scherer (Rochester) • 7 Oral sessions • 1 Poster session • 1 Demo session 3
- 4. ICSC 2012 – “Space and Embodied Cognition” ICSC 2006: Dynamics in Spatial Interactions • 4 Keynotes: Paolo Calabresi (Perugia) Albert Postma (Utrecht) Charles Spence (Oxford) Cees van Leeuwen • 6 Symposia • 14 Oral sessions • 3 Poster sessions 4
- 5. ICSC 2012 – “Space and Embodied Cognition” ICSC 2009: Spatial Cognition and Action • 4 Keynotes: Christian Freksa (Bremen) Juan Lupianez (Granada) Thomas C. Ormerod (Lancaster) Barbara Tversky (Stanford) • 12 Symposia • 14 Oral sessions • 2 Poster sessions • 8 Tutorials 5
- 6. ICSC 2012 – “Space and Embodied Cognition” ICSC 2012: Space and Embodied Cognition • 5 Keynotes: Alain Berthoz (Paris) Marc Ernst (Bielefeld) Luciano Fadiga (Ferrara) Karl Friston (London) Michael Spivey (Merced) • 18 Symposia • 12 Oral sessions • 8 Poster sessions 6
- 7. ICSC 2012 – “Space and Embodied Cognition” Participants to ICSC 2012 • First of all I want to thank all the participants to this Conference: • Among 252 participants: • 194 are from Europe • 9 from Asia • 42 from North America • 3 from South America • 3 from Oceania
- 8. ICSC 2012 – “Space and Embodied Cognition” Thanks to: .................our Keynotes Alain Berthoz “Neural basis of Marc Ernst “Human Luciano Fadiga “The changing perspective in spatial multisensory perception and action motor framework of peripersonal orientation and navigation. Implication - Putting the puzzle together” space” for empathy” Karl Friston “Active Michael Spivey “The inference and spatial cognition” spatial intersection of minds”
- 9. ICSC 2012 – “Space and Embodied Thanks to: Cognition” ...........our Scientific Committee • Thomas Hünefeldt – (Rome) • Daniele Nardi (Rome) • Antonio Jesus Bandera Rubio (Malaga) • Davide Nardo (Rome) • Anna M. Borghi (Bologne) • Nora Newcombe (Philadelphia) • Alessandro D’Ausilio (Genova) • Massimiliano Palmiero (L’Aquila) • Franco Delogu (Detroit) • Francesca Pazzaglia (Padua) • Michel Denis (Paris) • Albert Postma (Utrecht) • Dina Di Giacomo (L’Aquila) • Alberto Priori (Milan) • Stefano Federici (Perugia) • Valerio Santangelo (Perugia) • Ken Forbus (Evanston), • Marcia Scherer (Rochester) • Dedre Gentner (Evanston) • Kerstin Schill (Bremen) • Cecilia Guariglia (Rome) • Werner Schneider (Bielefeld) • Stephen Hirtle (Pittsburgh) • Thomas Shipley (Philadelphia), • Christoph Hoelscher (Freiburg) • Boris Suchan (Bochum) • Tina Iachini (Naples) • Narayanan Srinivasan (Allahabad) • Elisabetta Ladavas (Bologne) • Barbara Tversky (Stanford) • Emiliano Macaluso (Rome) • Cees van Leeuwen (Leuwen) • Hanspeter Mallot (Tübingen) 9
- 10. ICSC 2012 – “Space and Embodied Cognition” ...the President of the Organizing Committee Dr. Thomas Hünefeldt
- 11. ICSC 2012 – “Space and Embodied Cognition” …and his Lieutenants Daniele Nardi Luca Simione
- 12. ICSC 2012 – “Space and Embodied My thanks to the Organizing Cognition” Committee: the Ladies… MARIA LAURA MELE FEDERICA MAURO OLA HUSSEIN GISELLA MICCIANTUONO SIMONA ARIANNA DI FRANCESCO ROSANNA VIGNOLA LINDA PECORIELLO
- 13. ICSC 2012 – “Space and Embodied Cognition” My thanks to the Organizing Committee: …and the Gentlemen ALESSANDRO GIANNANDREA MAURIZIO GIORGIO GIULIO TIRINELLI
- 14. ICSC 2012 – “Space and Embodied Cognition” Looking for an exhaustive definition Embodied Cognition: • the brain circuits responsible for abstract thinking are closely tied to those circuits that analyse and process sensory experiences (Isanski & West,2010) • “Not only … our concrete experience of the physical world(…) can impact our conception of higher order,…. But also these abstract constructs can alter the way we experience the concrete and physical” (Zhong, 2008) 14
- 15. ICSC 2012 – “Space and Embodied Cognition” A broader definition including Agency “Cognition is embodied when it is deeply dependent upon features of the physical body of an agent, that is, when aspects of the agent’s body beyond the brain play a significant causal or physically constitutive role in cognitive processing” (Wilson & Foglia, 2011)
- 16. ICSC 2012 – “Space and Embodied Cognition” Mind and Body the agent’s Body as: • Constraint: it constrains the nature and content of the cognitive representations • Distributor: it distributes computational and Distributor representational load betweeen neural and non-neural structures • Regulator: it regulates cognitive activity over Regulator space and time in motor action
- 17. ICSC 2012 – “Space and Embodied Cognition” Mind, Body and What else? We should confront ourselves with: • Situated Cognition • Grounded Cognition • Socially Distributed Cognition • Extended Mind • Consciousness • Agency ….in Space and time BUT……….
- 18. ICSC 2012 – “Space and Embodied Cognition” Combining robots with babies • Embodied cognition reflects the idea that the motor system influences bodily actions • Researchers from Ithaca College in New York are working on a way to fuse babies with robots to give mobility to all babies, babies even those with conditions that may delay independent mobility, like Down syndrome, spina bifida, or cerebral palsy (WeeBot: a Novel Method for Infant Control of a Robotic Mobility Device, presented last May at ICRA 2012 by S. Stansfield, C. Dennis, & H. Larin) • With these devices babies can be turned in robot driver: they became able to control the WeeBot in goal-directed movement during periods of free play • Which is the mind and which the body?
- 19. ICSC 2012 – “Space and Embodied Cognition” All the topics (problems) to you • I am sure you will work hard and from my embodied heart I wish you to Enjoy the conference 19