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IASAT 2019
September 11, 2019 – September 13, 2019 CEST
3rd IASAT Congress
Wednesday 11th – Friday 13th September 2019
♦ Agenda ♦ Venue ♦
We once again look forward to bringing together researchers from around the world to explore and discuss the biology and psychology of affective touch, and its role in brain development and social behaviour.
Several influential studies have examined the neurobiology, physiology and genetics of affective touch, and highlighted its social and cognitive importance. The aim is to provide a platform for fruitful scientific exchanges in this nascent field, and foster interdisciplinary dialogue between scientists and professionals in education, health and social care.Â
The programme will be built around four larger topics to cover a wide range of relevant research questions related to affective touch. The four main topics are (1) The C story: pain, pleasure and itch (2) The spinal cord and the peripheral nervous system (3) Cognitive, affective and social perspectives (4) New advances in the field of affective touch: methods & applications. The congress will involve a wide variety of options for the speakers, such as data blitz sessions, research presentations, keynote talks, symposia and poster presentations. Furthermore, to create opportunities for causal discussions, a gala dinner will be held on Thursday. We will organize a visit and dinner to the nearby lakeside village of Vadstena, the birthplace of Yngve Zotterman.
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Accommodation
Find out more about our host city at: VisitLinköping
Agenda
| Day 1 | Wednesday Sept. 11th | |
| 8:30 | 9:00 | Coffee and Registration |
| 9:00 | 9:10 | Welcome Commencement |
| 9:10 | 9:45 | Keynote – Victoria Abraira: Wired for Touch: the neurons and circuits of the somatosensory system |
| 10 minute break/buffer | ||
| 9:55 | 11:25 | Session 1 – C story: pain, pleasure, itch |
| Session Leader – Francis McGlone: C+++: A Protection Racket | ||
| Speaker – Gudrun Gosseau: C-tactile function in postherpetic neuralgia | ||
| Speaker – Adarsh Makdani: Itch | ||
| Speaker – Grazia Spitoni: Pleasure | ||
| 11:25 | 12:00 | Keynote – Emmanuel Bourinet: Chasing the function of affective touch neuronal circuits in mice |
| 12:00 | 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 | 13:35 | Keynote – David Mahns: C tactile fibres: to what affect? |
| 13:35 | 15:05 | Session 2 – Spinal Cord and PNS |
| Session Leader – Saad Nagi: Richness of peripheral afferent responses to touch and pain | ||
| Speaker – Sarah McIntyre: The physical characteristics of social touch | ||
| Speaker – Andy Marshall: Signalling of pleasant touch in the human spinal cord | ||
| Speaker -Max Larsson: Synaptic substrates of social touch | ||
| 15:05 | 15:25 | Coffee Break |
| 15:25 | 16:00 | Keynote – Alex Chesler: Touch and Pain in health and disease |
| 16:00 | Poster Session 1 Open | |
| Day 2 | Thursday Sept. 12th | |
| 9:00 | 9:35 | Keynote – Annett Schirmer: Felt or seen – Affective touch modulates the social brain |
| 9:35 | 11:15 | Session 3 – Cognitive, affective and social perspectives |
| Session Leader – Aikaterini Fotopoulou: Sensitivity, metacognition, stroke and anorexia studies | ||
| Speaker РRebecca B̦hme: The bodily self in Autism and ADHD | ||
| Speaker – Juulia Suvilehto: | ||
| Speaker – Ilona Croy: Developmental and PTSD studies | ||
| 10 minute break/buffer | ||
| 11:25 | 12:00 | Keynote – Katalin Gothard: From sensing to feeling along a cortico-amygala pathway for social touch |
| 12:00 | 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 | 15:00 | Data Blitz – Hosted by Chris Dijkerman |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 | Poster Session 2 Open – Guided Tour | |
| 17:00 | Bus to Vadstena | |
| 19:00 | Dinner at Vadstena | |
| 21:30 | Returning Bus from Vadstena | |
| Day 3 | Friday Sept. 13th | |
| 9:00 | 9:35 | Keynote – Catherine Bushnell: Brain processing of superficial and deep touch |
| 9:35 | 11:15 | Session 4 – Methods and Applications |
| Session Leader – Greg Gerling: Quantitative Methods for Uncovering Human-to-Human Physical Interactions that Underlie Social and Emotional Touch Communication | ||
| Speaker – Uta Sailer: Individual stability of pleasantness ratings for stroking touch | ||
| Speaker – Charles El Rawadi: Better understanding tactile ability and skin neurological disorders with aging to improve life quality of elderly | ||
| Speaker – Robin Heron: Analysing meaning making of social touch in computer-mediated interaction | ||
| Speaker – Ingvars Birznieks: Making recipes for touch sensation using the key ingredient of the timing of individual spikes in tactile afferents | ||
| Speaker – Martina Fusaro: Feeling touch in absence of tactile stimulation: subjective and bodily reactivity to observation of virtual touches on taboo body zones | ||
| 11:25 | 12:00 | Keynote – Karon MacLean: What part of our internal experience is readable by a touch-sensitive machine? |
| 12:00 | Closing Remarks & Award Ceremony | |
| Take Away Lunch |
Venue
IASAT 2019 will be held at Konsert&Kongress, Linköping, Sweden
https://youtu.be/dB1CF4jy2IoFind out more about our host city at: VisitLinköping
Organisers:
Scientific Organising Committee:Â The scientific committee of IASAT 2019 consists of HÃ¥kan Olausson, India Morrison, Francis McGlone and Aikaterini Fotopoulou.
Administrative Support: The administrative support team includes Lina Homman, Andrew Wold, Anikó Kusztor, and Adarsh Makdani.
For more information:Â help@iasat.org
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