The Trieste Symposium on
Perception and Cognition

Oral communications

Preliminary Programme

Friday, 13 November 9:00 - 11:00 am
Room 2B 2nd floor. H3 building. via A Valerio 12 - Trieste

9:00
Increased facial mimicry after administration of intranasal Oxytocin 

Sebastian Korb1; Jennifer Malsert2,3; Lane Strathearn4; Patrik Vuilleumier5; Paula Niedenthal6
1 Neuroscience Area, SISSA, Trieste, I
2 Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland, CH
3 Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, CH
4 Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
5 Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Geneva, CH
6 Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

9:15

A possible role of reward sensitivity and impulsivity in weight gain after deep brain stimulation.

M Aiello1, F Foroni1, R Eleopra2 , G Pergola3 and RI Rumiati1
1 SISSA, Trieste, Italy;
2 AOUD “Santa Maria della Misericordia”, Udine, Italy
3 Univ. degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy

9:30

Inferring Cognitive Traits of Individual Subjects through Gaze Controlled Video Games

Bolis D 1, Heinzle J 2, Mathys C 2,3,4, Stephan KE 2,3,5
1 Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
2 Translational Neuromodeling Unit (TNU), Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
3 Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, United Kingdom
4 Max Planck University College London Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, London, United Kingdom
5 Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany

9:45 

Error Predictability across large-scale cortical activity

Giovanni Mirabella
University of La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

10:00

Negative afterimages as locally filtered perception
Riccardo Manzotti
IULM University, Milan, Italy

10:15

On gaze agency 

Regina Gregori Grgiča 2, Sofia Crespi 1,2, Claudio de’Sperati 1,2
1 Laboratory of Action, Perception, Cognition, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
2 Experimental Psychology Unit, Division of Neuroscience, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

10:30

Attractiveness of human body and fluency of gender categorization

Slobodan Marković and Tara Bulut
Laboratory for Experimental Psychology, University of Belgrade, Serbia

10:45

Effects of caricatured features on experience of facial beauty

Tijana Todić Jakšić1, Slobodan Marković2
1 Faculty of Philosophy, University of Priština, Serbia
2 Laboratory for Experimental Psychology, University of Belgrade, Serbia

11:00

Colored backgrounds and perceptual sensitivity

Nicola Bruno, Gioacchino Garofalo, Vera Ferrari
Department of Neuroscience, University of Parma, Italy

11:15

The Ebbinghaus illusion is not a size contrast illusion

Dejan Todorović and Ljubica Jovanović
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Belgrade, Serbia

11:30

Anisotropy space odyssey - perceived anisotropy of near distances

Oliver Tošković
Laboratory for experimental psychology, Faculty of philosophy, University of Belgrade