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Integrating movements in neuroscientific investigations
04. - 06.12.2025
The human brain is part of a movable body. Moving the body and its sensory organs helps reduce uncertainty in a dynamic environment. Cognitive Neuroscience has traditionally considered bodily movements a confound, with largely unknown effects on and interactions with neural activity. In classical laboratory experiments, participants’ movements have often been minimized, e.g., by reducing behavior to a single button press at the end of an experimental task or by using fixation crosses and chinrests to avoid eye- and head movements. Recently, researchers have started to explore the potential of encouraging and recording participants’ body movements to understand perception and cognition.
The primary objective of the conference is to promote exchange between international scientists, methods experts, and researchers of all career levels on the use of movement recordings as an asset in explaining variability in brain activity. This objective is based on three pillars. First, the conference will foster new approaches to address so far unsolved research questions that will benefit from the employment of movement data. Second, since we believe that the future of Cognitive Neuroscience will base significantly on combining movement- with brain activity recordings, this conference enables participation and offers a platform to kickstart individual participants’ research projects. Third, the conference will lay the foundation for a so-far missing consensus on best practice, common challenges, and solutions for movement recording in Cognitive Neuroscience.
Submission and registration details
Early bird rate (until September 1st): €100 (Student); €150 (Regular)
Standard rate (after September 1st): €150 (Student); €200 (Regular)
Submission deadline: October 1st, 2025
Poster abstracts will be accepted on a running basis. If you want to be sure to have your abstract accepted before the early bird registration deadline (September 1st), please submit your abstract until August 25th.
The organizing committee will select ~9 abstracts for short talks.
Organizing committee:
Malte
Wöstmann
Malte Wöstmann is a senior researcher at the Department of Psychology at the University of Lübeck, where he leads the Dynamics of Attention group. His research focuses on the neural and behavioural mechanisms of enhancement and suppression in selective attention.
Sarah
Jessen
Sarah Jessen is a Heisenberg Professor at the Institute of Medical Psychology at the University of Lübeck and is working in developmental cognitive neuroscience. She is head of the Babylab and her research currently focuses on the neural basis of early social development.
Marcus
Heldmann
Marcus Heldmann is a trained psychologist and Professor at the Department of Neurology at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein in Lübeck, where he leads the group Cognitive Neurology. His research interests are focussed on cognitive processes associated with movement disorders and their treatment.
Lisa
Kunkel-Bode
Lisa Kunkel-Bode is a neuropsychologist and research associate at the Department of Neurology at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein in Lübeck. Her research interests include the use of mobile eye-tracking and EEG methods to examine stroke patients with neglect.