Program

17 February 2022

13:00 Saadi Lahlou (Pais IAS), Gretty Mirdal (Paris IAS): Welcome by the Paris Institute for Advanced Study

         **Beatrice de Gelder** (Paris IAS and Maastricht University),  **Julie Grezes** (ENS Paris): Presentation of the topic of the meeting

13:20 Mel Slater (University of Barcelona): Presence, body ownership and vicarious agency - the Illusions of Virtual Reality

14:00 Antonia Hamilton (UCL): Face-to-face interaction matters

14:45 Juanzhi Li (Maastricht University): A VR_EEG Study on automatic threat perception and behavioral control

15:00 Manuel Mello (Sapienza University): The Effect of body posture, outgroup affiliation, and proximity of virtual encounters on human freezing responses

15:15 Mavi Sanchez-Vives (ICREA): My virtual self as you: agency and perspective in VR

16:00 Anatole Lecuyer (INRIA): How haptics can improve subjective experience in virtual reality

16:40 Alain Berthoz (Collège de France): Review of some major questions

17:10 General Discussion