PROGRAM

Wednesday

Time Session Speaker(s) Title
08:30 Registration
09:00 Opening Michel Denis, Ineke van der Ham
09:45 Keynote 1 Roland Benoit The mechanisms and functions of episodic simulation
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Imagery
11:00 Enea Weber; Daniel Fitze; Fred Mast Visual Mental Imagery Enhances Sensory Processing of High and Low Spatial Frequency Information
11:20 Stephanie Hartgen-Walker; Giorgio Ganis; Alastair Smith Same performance, different process: Mental rotation across the imagery spectrum
11:40 Bilge Sayim; Rahel Aschwanden; Fazilet Zeynep Yildirim-Keles Improving peripheral visual discrimination by mental imagery
12:00 Lunch Break
13:20 VR and Methods
13:20 Angela Schwering GeoGami: An Open-Source Platform for Spatial Navigation Studies in Real and Virtual Environments
13:40 Vasiliki Kondyli; Mehul Bhatt A Visuospatial Complexity Framework for Analysing Anticipation in Naturalistic Active Vision
14:00 Celine Kuipers; Ineke van der Ham; Judith Schomaker; Angus Mol; Jos van der Hage Headfirst into VR: Teaching Brain Anatomy Through Immersive Technology
14:20 Elaine Herkul; Judith Schomaker Toward More Comfortable VR
14:40 Angelo Lucio Silvino et al. Modeling Sustainability: How Virtual Agents Influence Pro-Environmental Behavior
15:00 Coffee Break & Posters
16:00 Spatial Cognition
16:00 Juliette Dutay Balcarce; Simon Lhuillier; Valérie Gyselinck Influence of postural constraints on the upper and lower limbs on our memory of near and far spaces
16:20 Veronica Muffato; Sonia Betti; Luisa Sartori; Chiara Meneghetti Environmental representation in Action
16:40 Michela Possenti; Renato Orti; Tina Iachini; Francesco Ruotolo; Giovanni Formisano; Gennaro Ruggiero The Role of Semantic Information and Temporal Dynamics on Egocentric and Allocentric Spatial Representation Processes
17:00 Renato Orti; Tina Iachini; Gennaro Ruggiero Switching Between Egocentric and Allocentric Reference Frames
17:20 Jolien Moorkens et al. From Objects to Environments: Exploring Spatial Abilities and Anxiety in Children
17:40 Opening Reception
19:00 Closing

Thursday

09:00 Individual Differences
09:00 Chiara Meneghetti; Tommaso Feraco; Veronica Muffato; Francesca Taufer; Elisa Visintin The orienteering practice and spatial abilities
09:20 Judith Schomaker Human spatial exploration behavior
09:40 Hatice Dedetaş Şatır; Benedict C.O.F. Fehringer; Stefan Münzer Age-Related Differences in Map Reading for Wayfinding
10:00 Keynote 2 Margaret Tarampi Seeing space differently: How we think, move, and imagine in space
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Tomasz Zaleskiewicz; Agata Sobkow; Julie Ji; Lewend Mayiwar; Jakub Traczyk Imagining Climate Change Promotes Pro-Environmental Motivation and Donation Behavior
11:50 Aytac Karabay; Puck Vriens; Jonathan Adams; Ngoc-Anh Tran; Muhammet Ikbal Sahan How you encode is how you remember
12:10 TBD
12:30 Lunch Break
13:30 Clinical
13:30 Marit Ruitenberg; Megan Soppe; Patrick Santens; Ineke van der Ham Spatial abilities in Parkinson's disease
13:50 Sara Albarran-Berlanga; Albert Postma Understanding forgetting mechanisms in Korsakoff's syndrome
14:10 Dawn Rose; Rebecca Schaefer; Ellen Poliakoff Musical and motor imagery in Parkinson's care
14:30 Julia Braams; Siddharth Ramanan; Zoe-Lee Goldberg; Rebekah Ahmed; Olivier Piguet; Albert Postma; Muireann Irish Exploring the boundary extension effect in memory drawings
14:50 Dominique Blokland; Nathan Van der Stoep; Albert Postma; Krista Overvliet A novel tool for assessing wayfinding preferences
16:00 Excursion
19:00 Conference Dinner

Friday

09:00 Attention
09:00 Madeleine Vohs; Oliver Lindemann; Rolf Zwaan Investigating Visual Imagery in Aphantasia: A Multi-Method Approach
09:20 Jiayi Yao; Joshua Snell; Jan Theeuwes Distraction Masks but Does Not Disrupt Across-Trial Learning in Older Adults
09:40 Yayla Ilksoy; Dirk van Moorselaar; Sander Los; Jan Theeuwes The transfer of learned distractor suppression
10:00 Coffee Break & Posters
11:00 Perception
11:00 Giulia Cristoforetti; Simone Vigano; Marco Ciapparelli; Roberto Bottini Eye movements reveal conceptual search dynamics
11:30 Jean Ribot; Rawad Chaker; Mélanie Gallot Multimodal assessment of visuospatial abilities
11:50 Britt Petit; Robbe Vidts; Céline Gillebert; Joyce Bosmans Embodied Navigation
12:10 Rebecca Frinco et al. Visual experience and peripersonal space boundaries
12:30 Lunch Break
13:30 Keynote 3 Christian Doeller Structuring experience in cognitive space
14:30 Coffee Break
14:50 Emotion
14:50 Luming Zheng; Valentin Baumann; Ineke van der Ham; Judith Schomaker Role of stress in spatial exploration
15:10 Francesco Ruotolo et al. Emotion and Spatial Memory
15:30 Closing & Award Albert Postma, Ineke van der Ham
16:00 End of Meeting