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Festival of Touch: full program
4th July 2023
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8:15
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9:00
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Pick-up badges, coffee & croissants
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9:00
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9:15
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Welcome
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9:15
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10:00
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Plenary: Sliman Bensmaia
Biological and Bionic Hands: Natural Neural Coding and Artificial Perception
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10:00
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10:20
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Short oral presentations 1
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10:20
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10:40
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Break
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10:40
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12:00
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Session 1: Illusions & prosthetics
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Calogero Oddo
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Recovering touch through biomimetic prosthetics
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Nick Holmes
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The use of TMS centrally and peripherally to interfere with basic aspects of touch
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Laura Crucianelli
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Touch and temperature illusion with the rubber hand
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Chris Dijkerman
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Touch time: The effect of a finger length illusion on tactile temporal-order judgments
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12:00
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14:00
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Lunch, posters, demos
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14:00
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15:00
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Short oral presentations 2
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15:00
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15:45
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Plenary: Davide Filingeri
Wet, damp, moist, humid…what do we really feel? Thermo-tactile interactions in skin wetness sensing
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15:45
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16:00
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Break
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16:00
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17:45
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Session 2: Wetness, slip, and texture
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Rochelle Ackerley
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The perception of drops of water in humans
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Roland Bennewitz
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Tactile perception of finger pad friction
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Mariama Dione
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The encoding of touch during active exploration of natural textures
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Benoit Delhaye
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Mechanisms in fingertip slip
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Gustavo Luengo
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Tribological and Physico-chemical aspects that drive tactile perception of hair/skin in cosmetics
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5th July 2023
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8:30
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9:00
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Coffee & croissants
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9:00
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10:00
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Session 3: Touch interactions and social touch
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Malika Auvray
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Social touch at a distance: Recognizing tactile gestures and their emotional content through auditory signals
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Katerina Fotopolou
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Not the Protagonist of my Own Life: Touch, the Body and Anorexia Nervosa
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Konstantina Kilteni
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Self-touch versus externally generated touch: the influence of motor prediction on somatosensory perception
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10:00
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10:30
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Short oral presentations 3
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10:30
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10:55
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Methods focus: microneurography in humans
Roger Watkins
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10:55
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11:15
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Break
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11:15
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12:00
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Plenary: Rochelle Ackerley
IASAT presidential lecture: The story of C-tactile (CT) afferents and their role in affective touch
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12:00
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14:00
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Lunch, posters, demos
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14:00
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15:00
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Short oral presentations 4
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15:00
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15:45
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Plenary: Gary Lewin
Touch is really skin deep: cellular and molecular mechanisms of sensory mechanotransduction
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15:45
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16:00
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Break
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16:00
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17:30
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Session 4: Traversing the periphery: 1st order neurons
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Amaury Francois
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In search of the neuronal basis of social and affective touch (in mice)
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Slav Bagriantsev
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Three-dimensional architecture and bi-cellular mechanism of touch detection in Meissner corpuscle
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Andreas Themistocleous
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Understanding the link between neuropathic pain & neuronal injury after nerve injury
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Saad Nagi
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Insights into human DRGs and A-beta nociceptors
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6th July 2023
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8:30
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9:00
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Coffee & croissants
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9:00
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9:45
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Plenary: Ingvars Birznieks
Sense of touch and movement go hand in hand
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9:45
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10:05
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Short oral presentations 5
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10:05
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10:20
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Break
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10:20
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12:00
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Session 5: Skin mechanics
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Cornelius Schwarz
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The Slip hypothesis: Temporally Local Coding and Perception of Tactile Stimuli in Rodents and Humans
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Victor Infante
Hannes Saal
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Influence of skin physiology on friction and perception in touch
Deformation of individual fingerprint ridges during tactile interactions
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Neeli Tummala
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Biomechanical filtering diversifies whole-hand tactile encoding
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Sarah McIntyre
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From skin to social nervous system: primary afferent responses to human touch
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12:00
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14:00
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Lunch, posters, demos
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14:00
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15:40
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Session 6: Affective touch: more than skin stroking
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Annett Schirmer
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EEG insights into the somatosensory processing of affective touch
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Uta Sailer
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Positive and negative emotional impact in touch interactions
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Anna Ciaunica
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The First Senses - touch and in utero experiences
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Martine Van Puyvelde
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Affective touch measures in babies
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Laura Case
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Affective Sensory Pathways of Light Stroking and Deep Pressure Touch
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15:40
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16:00
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Break
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16:00
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16:30
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Short oral presentations 6
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16:30
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17:15
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Plenary: India Morrison
The neuroscience of human social touch
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19:30
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00:00
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Gala dinner
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7th July 2023
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8:30
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9:00
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Coffee & croissants
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9:00
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9:45
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Plenary: Francis McGlone
Tribute to Tiffany Field, Touch and neuroprotection: A putative contribution by C-LTMRs
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9:45
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10:40
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Short oral presentations 7
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10:40
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11:00
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Break
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11:00
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12:00
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Session 7: Affective touch and disorders
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Leehe Peled-Avron
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The effects of psilocybin (‘magic mushrooms’) on social touch perception in individuals with resistant major depressive disorder
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Helge Gillmeister
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Touch and peripersonal space profiles in persons with different interpersonal sensitivities
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Paula Salamone
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Self- and other-produced affective touch after Ketamine: a double-blind placebo-controlled study
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12:00
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12:15
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Close of meeting, prizes
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