Building upon the success of our 2019 meeting, this Eastern Arc-funded workshop will once again bring together researchers from the Universities of Essex, East Anglia, and Kent to promote new research directions and collaborations in our work on cognitive and bodily aspects of the self. We welcome postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and academics working in this area to join us and share their own work in a poster session.

The workshop will take place at the University of Essex on Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th June 2022. Please register your attendance using the button above. If you would like to present a poster, you must e-mail alex.sel@essex.ac.uk with your poster title after you register. Registration will close on Tuesday 7th June.

We are grateful to the Eastern Academic Research Consortium (Eastern Arc) for their generous funding of this event. There is some funding available to help postgraduate student attendees with the costs of travel/accommodation for this workshop. Please e-mail alex.sel@essex.ac.uk for further information about how to apply.

LOCATION: STEM Building, Room 3.1, University of Essex Colchester Campus

Campus map available here: https://findyourway.essex.ac.uk/

PROGRAMME:

Monday 13th of June

13.00 - Welcome (Dr Alex Sel, University of Essex)

13.10 - Dr Sebastian Korb (University of Essex): Facial neuromuscular electric stimulation and emotion perception

13.40 - Dr Jon Brooks (University of East Anglia): Pain in body and mind

14.10 - Dr Luigi Tamè (University of Kent): Tactile coding and body representations

14.40 - Short break

14.50 - Dr Celia Foster (Bielefeld University): Decoding body shape from human brain activity (online talk)

15.20 - Dr Alex Sel (University of Essex): Advanced brain stimulation methods to investigate action control

15.50 - Poster session; tea and coffee

17.00 - Dr Megan Klabunde (University of Essex): Sex and trauma: the child's body keeps the score

17.30 - Dr Louis Renoult (University of East Anglia): From knowing to remembering: a component process view

18:00 - Drinks reception

Tuesday 14th of June

09.00 - Welcome (Dr Alex Sel, University of Essex))

09.10 - Dr Katie Daughters (University of Essex): Oxytocin, emotion, and living with a rare brain tumour

09.40 - Dr Brianna Beck (University of Kent): Pain and the sense of self

10.10 - Dr Ruben Azevedo (University of Kent): Methods to investigate interoceptive influences on cognition and behaviour

10.40 - Tea and coffee break

11.00 - Dr Gethin Hughes (University of Essex): The role of physiological arousal in feelings of control

11.30 - Dr Helge Gillmeister (University of Essex): Atypical cognitive and bodily self-awareness in people with symptoms of depersonalisation

12.00 - Dr Elia Valentini (University of Essex): Is there a brain measure specific to the experience of pain?

12:30 - Dr Maria Laura Filippetti (University of Essex): The developmental mechanisms underlying self-face representations

13.00 - Concluding discussion

POSTER PRESENTERS:

Dr Carina De Klerk: Investigating the development of body representations in infancy

Anna De Laet: Gating of tactile stimulation impacts sleep onset in infants

Themis Efthimiou: The effects of facial NMES on emotion recognition

Michelle Giraud: The role of vision in body representations: a study on hand distortions in blind and sighted individuals

Vassilis Kotsaris: Interoception and interpersonal expectations in emotion recognition under uncertainty

Dan Liang: Embodying Nietzsche's duality through kinesthetic exploration

Emma Limond: Can mindfulness improve orgasm quality?

Antonio Zafarana: Visual perceptual learning near and far from the body

2nd Bodily and Cognitive Selves Eastern Arc Workshop