Program 2011

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Monday 22

17:00 Registration
18:30 Opening, poster session and welcome reception

Tuesday 23 THEORIES OF EMOTION: EXPRESSION AND PERCEPTION

Theories of emotion and the study of emotion expression and perception
- Robert Levenson: Basic Emotions: New theory and science
- James Russell: Facial Expressions and the Psychological Construction Account of Emotion
- Klaus Scherer: An appraisal theory account of emotion expression and perception

Wednesday 24 DISCIPLINARY OVERVIEWS AND RESEARCH SHOW-CASE (I)

Facial expression of emotion: neuroscience approaches
- David Sander: Affective relevance in the perception of faces and emotional expressions: The role of the amygdala
- Philippe Schyns: Coding facial expression information in the brain
- Patrik Vuilleumier: Brain systems for processing faces and facial expressions

Emotional expression: Issues in philosophy and primatology
- Giovanna Colombetti: Is the body involved in understanding emotion expression?
- Lisa Parr: Perception of faces and facial expressions: Species differences and face space

Thursday 25 METHODS IN THE STUDY OF EMOTION EXPRESSION AND PERCEPTION

Brief overviews and hands-on workshops on leading-edge methods in the study of emotion expression and perception: verbal and non-verbal

OVERVIEWS

A review of selected corpora of emotion expressions (M. Mortillaro)
Body movement analysis using the BAP coding system (N. Dael)
Facial Expression Analysis (S. Kaiser)
Sequential Analysis of Behavioral Units: The T-pattern Model (S. With)
Multi-modal Synchronization in Emotion Expression (M. Mortillaro)
Measurement of Emotion Recognition Ability (K. Schlegel)
Investigation of Emotion Expression and Perception using fMRI(S. Pichon / C. Corradi Dell'Acqua)
Investigation of Emotion Expression and Perception Using Central and Peripheral Electrophysiology (S. Delplanque / L. Koban)

WORKSHOPS

Pattern Analysis of Facial Actions: The T-pattern model applied to FACS Action Units (S. With / M. Méhu)
Demonstration of electrophysiological techniques (S. Delplanque / L. Koban)
Facial Expression Synthesis using FACS Gen (L. Tamarit)
Linguistic approaches in the measurement of emotion (C. Ferdenzi / V. Sacharin / C. Soriano)
MIRtoolbox: A Matlab toolbox for audio feature extraction (O. Lartillot)
Introduction and demonstration of the Body Action and Posture coding system (N. Dael)
Demonstration of EMG Techniques & Thermal Image Analysis (S. Korb/ J. Van Peer/ S. Jarlier)

Friday 26 DISCIPLINARY OVERVIEWS AND RESEARCH SHOW-CASE (II)

Cross-cultural and social psychological approaches
- Reginald Adams: Intersecting Identities and Expressions:The Compound Nature of Emotion Perception
- Johnny Fontaine: What's in a word? Meaning and use of emotion words and emotion descriptors across cultural groups

Vocal expression of emotion
- Pascal Belin
- Didier Grandjean: Decoding of emotional prosody: an affective neuroscience approach
- Klaus Scherer: Vocal expression of emotion

Saturday 27 Social program (Excursion)

Sunday 28 FOCUS WORKSHOPS

Introductory plenary lecture FOCUS 1: Kendall Walton: Imagination and Emotion
Introductory plenary lecture FOCUS 4: Asif Ghazanfar: Communication emerges and evolves through coupled oscillations

Workshops by foci

Monday 29 FOCUS WORKSHOPS

Introductory plenary lecture FOCUS 2: Ian Cross: Music as a communicative medium: implications for understanding musical meaning and musical affect
Introductory plenary lecture FOCUS 3: Peter Robinson: Computation of emotions

Workshops by foci

Tuesday 30 FOCUS WORKSHOPS

Workshops by foci

Wednesday 31 GROUPS PRESENTATIONS AND CLOSING

Workshop presentations

Farewell reception

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THEME FOCUS WORKSHOPS - Program:

- FOCUS 1: Emotion expression and perception in literature, art, film and rhetoric
(Organized by Patrizia Lombardo)

- FOCUS 2: Emotion expression and perception in music and voice
(Organized by Bernardino Fantini and Eduardo Coutinho)
With the partial support of the FP7 EU ICT FET Project SIEMPRE

- FOCUS 3: Computational modeling of emotion expression and perception
(Organized by Marc Mehu and Guillaume Chanel)
With the support of SSPNet

- FOCUS 4: Neuro-behavioural mechanisms in the production and perception of emotion expression
(Organized by Didier Grandjean and Marcello Mortillaro)

17.08.2011

Summer School (ISSAS)

Program 2011