PIRE Workshop/Summer School 2017:

Hierarchical Multisensory Integration: Theory and Experiments

June, 18-19 2017

Hotel La Costa Golf & Resort in Pals, Girona

The workshop will gather a small group of experts to informally  exchange the latest ideas and findings, both experimental and theoretical, in the field of multisensory integration. It will consist of two days packed with talks by invited speakers (see below) as well as discussions. There will also be a poster session, and participants are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract. Researchers, postdocs and graduate students interested in multisensory integration and hierarchical processing are all invited to apply. Click here for more information on the event and here for more information on registration and abstract submission.

This event is jointly organized by the Center for Brain and Cognition at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and Georgetown University, with funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness.

Organizers: Gustavo Deco (CBC), Josef Rauschecker (Georgetown Univ.), Maximilian Riesenhuber (Georgetown Univ.)

Coordination: Klaus Wimmer (CBC), Katharina Glomb (CBC)

Contact email: abstracts (dot) pire2017 (at) gmail (dot) com

Invited speakers

Amir Amedi (Hebrew Univ.),  Dora Angelaki (Baylor), Michael Beauchamp (Baylor), Gustavo Deco (UPF Barcelona), Alex Martin (NIMH), Alex Meredith (VCU), Uta Noppeney (Univ. Birmingham), Josef Rauschecker (Georgetown Univ.), Maximilian Riesenhuber (Georgetown Univ.), Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells (Univ. Barcelona), Salvador Soto (UPF Barcelona), Josh Tenenbaum (MIT, tbc), Virginie van Wassenhove (INSERM), Ilker Yldirim (MIT)

Location: The hotel "La Costa" is in Pals, located at the Costa Brava (map), 135 km from downtown Barcelona (1.5 hour drive), 150 km from Barcelona airport, and 60 km (50 min) from Girona airport. Pals is close to the Ruins of Empuries (Greek and Roman), the Dali museum in Figueres and the Cap de Creus natural park.

Photo credit: By DagafeSQV (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons