08:45 Opening

09:00 SYMPOSIUM: Ecological Neuroscience
Chair: Vicente Raja, Universidad de Murcia, Spain

09:00 Neural reuse, dynamics, and constraints: Getting beyond Componential mechanistic explanation of neural function
Michael L. Anderson
Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University, Canada

09:20 An ecological approach to the neural dynamics of event perception
Robyn E. Wilford, University of Toronto, Canada

09:40 Blink-related brain activity: A pathway to study cognition in ecological valid settings
Anna Wunderlich (presenter), Klaus Gramann, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

10:00 Sensory symphony in infant perceptual development
Ruud van der Weel (presenter), Audrey van der Meer, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway

Chair, part I: Benoît Bardy

10:50 Information-based control of steering through multiple waypoints
Brett Fajen (presenter), A. Jansen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

11:10 Passenger-Environment dynamics in self-driving vehicles: An ongoing multi measure investigation
Zsolt Palatinus (presenter), Z. Dudás, University of Szeged, Hungary

11:30 The information available in virtual reality
Ed Baggs, University of Southern Denmark

11:50 Adjudicating experimentally between body-in-brain and radical embodiment accounts of perception, action, and cognition
Matthieu M. de Wit, Muhlenberg College, USA

Chair, part II: Claire Michaels

12:10 The role of exploratory activity in affordance perception
Alen Hajnal, University of Southern Mississippi, USA

12:30 Social affordances: A descriptive note on how Brazilian parents and infants co-construct the field of promoted actions
Edison de Jesus Manoel (presenter), Maylli Graciosa, Y. dos Reis, Luiz Dantas, University of São Paulo, Brazil 
Priscilla Ferronato, McGill University, Canada/Paulista University, São Paulo, Brazil

12:50 Nested affordances in crossing apertures task by bike make emerge functional equivalent behaviors
Pierre Vauclin (presenter), University of Rouen, France
J. Wheat, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Ludovic Seifert, University of Rouen, France/Institut Universitaire de France

13:10 Reaching beyond end effectors: Validating a lightweight approach to predicting configurations of multi-joint systems
Maurice Lamb (presenter), E. Pérez Luque, University of Skövde, Sweden

Chair: Matthew Rodger, Queen’s University of Belfast, UK

14:30 Augmented feedback and the development of synergies in a novel motor task
Matthew Rodger (presenter), Michal Toth, Queen’s University of Belfast, UK

14:50 Affordance-based control creates the uncontrolled manifold
Andrew D. Wilson, Leeds Beckett University, UK

15:10 Role of variability in search for synergies during motor learning
Anadi Mehta (presenter), Joanne Smith, Raoul Bongers, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
David Travieso, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

15:30 Challenging norms: Is motor flexibility a predictor of upper limb performance in individuals post-stroke?
Valeria Andrade (presenter), Alysson Mazoni, Riley Myar, Scott Fasone, Paula Silva, University of Cincinnati, USA

Bring your swimming gear for both the sauna and a refreshing dip in the fjord afterwards Havet Arena | Bathing | Trondheim | Norway (visitnorway.no), Strandveien 104, Trondheim, 18 minutes’ walk from Dokkhuset. It will be possible to buy dinner there.

Around the corner, a table will be booked at EC Dahls Brewery «Pub&Kjøkken», PUB OG KJØKKEN | E. C. Dahls (ecdahls.no), Strandveien 71, Trondheim.