Neurobiology of " Umwelt"

Neurobiology of “Umwelt”:

How living beings perceive the world

Paris

,

February 18, 2008

Provisional scientific Program

Scientific Committee:               Alain Berthoz (Collège de France, Paris)

                                      Yves Christen (Fondation IPSEN, Paris)

8:00 am                         Registration : Espace Charles Louis Havas

                                      136, Avenue Charles-de-Gaulle, 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine

8:30 am                       Alain Berthoz, Yves Christen: Welcoming remarks

8:45 am                       Anne Fagot-Largeault

Anthropological physiology : von Uexküll, Portmann, Buytendijk

9:15 am                       Susan A. Gelman (

University

of

Michigan

,

Ann Arbor

)

Essentialist reasoning about the biological world

9:45 am                       Alain Berthoz (Collège de France, Paris)

The human brain "projects" upon the world simplifying principles and rules for perception and action.

10:15 am                     Posters and coffee break

10:45 am

                     Rodolfo llinas (

New York University Medical Center

,

New York

)

Umwelt from the Perspective of Thalamo-cortical Evolution

11:15 am                     Wolf Singer (Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research,

Frankfurt

)

The brain's view of the world depends on what it has to know about the world

11:45 am                     Gérald Jacobs (

University

of

California

 

Santa Barbara

,

Santa Barbara

)

How mammals color the world: the biology of variations in color vision

12:15 pm

                     Lunch

2:00 pm

                       Robert M. Seyfarth(

University

of

Pennsylvania

,

Philadelphia

)

Mind and Society in Monkeys

2:30 pm

                       Brian Hare (Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Antropology,

Leipzig

)

From nonhuman to human ape: what is the effect of affect on the hominoid umwelt?

3:00 pm

                       Juliane Kaminski (Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Antropology,

Leipzig

)

I know what you mean: Dog’s understanding of human forms of communication

3:30 pm

                       Posters and coffee break

4:00 pm

                       Nicola S. Clayton (

University

of

Cambridge

,

Cambridge

)

What do crows know about other minds and other times?

4:30 pm

                       Richard A. Holland (

Princeton

University

,

Princeton

)

Blind as a bat? The sensory basis of orientation and navigation at night

5:00 pm

                       Tim Ingold (

University

of

Aberdeen

,

Aberdeen

)

Sensory pathways through the weather-world: movement, flux and perception

5:30 pm

                       Conclusion