Invited International Symposium Speaker

24.Aug.2009     ECVP, Invited Symposium Speaker „Memorial Symposium for Ruxandra Sireteanu“, 32nd ECVP meeting Regensburg.

16.Sep.2008     Workshop: Face and Gesture IEEE, Amsterdam „Information sensitivity of the brain for faces revealed by classification images”(invited by Frank Pollick and Anne Puce)

12-13.Jul.07      Invited Conference Speaker: Conference on Fallibilities, Illusion and Metacognition (Ecol. Normale Sup.  Paris, France; Organized by Proust and Billon, CNRS, Paris) Paris, France.

24.May.2007     Investigation of subjective motion perception. Symposium title: Consciouness and the Brain, organizer and chair Konstantinos Moutoussis, The Second European Cognitive Science Conference, Delphi, Greece,

31-1.Oct.06       BIC-MEG Opening Symposium Frankfurt „Brain Imaging of Cortical Networks“. Organizer

23.Apr.2005      MBIC – Opening Symposium of the Maastricht Brain Imaging Center “Cortical trace of apparent motion” (invited by Prof. Rainer Goebel)

22.Jul.2004       ECVP, invited symposium speaker, 27th ECVP meeting Budapest. “Brain activity along the apparent motion path - recurrent feedback of area hMT/V5 to V1?” (invited by Prof. Zoe Kourtzi)

12.Jun.2004      Conference Symposium 4th FENS Meeting. “fMRI for the mapping of activity in early visual areas related to bistable apparent-motion perception”.(invited by Prof. Miguel Castelo-Branco)

08.Sept.2001    Conference Symposium CogVis 2001, Leipzig, “Structure-From-Motion in man and monkeys using fMRI”.

Invited National Symposium Speaker

19. Mar. 2007    Keynote speaker at the Fifth BION (Bender Institute of Neuroimaging) Spring School on functional brain imaging in Psychology, University of Giessen, Germany (Prof. D.Veitl)

27. Oct. 2006    Philosophy of Mind Symposium: „Feedforward backwards“ Frankfurt FIAS Mindgroup. (Prof. T. Metzinger)

22. Sep. 2006   Mind the gap – cortical activity in response to apparent motion and motion imagery
Osnabrück, 3. Westerberger Herbsttagung

28. Feb. 2003   Keynote Lecture. 37. Münchner EEG-Tage 2003 „Invasive Elektrophysiologie und funktionelle Bildgebung in den Neurowissenschaften“. (Dr. O. Pogarell, Psychiatric Clinic of the Munich University).

07. Feb. 2003   Special Lecture, Experimental-Kongress, Braunschweig (Prof. Dr. Dirk Vorberg). „Bilder aus dem Gehirn: fMRT vom Sehen und Hören“.

29. Sep. 2000   Special lecture public understanding of Science: Turm der Sinne, Nürnberg. „Der Blick in das Gehirn: Integrative Hirnprozesse zur visuellen Wahrnehmung“

30. May. 2000   Special lecture public understanding of Science: Singener Utopie-Tage: „Wie denkt der Mensch und wie weit können wir ihm dabei folgen? Aus der Perspektive der Hirnforschung an Hand bildgebender Verfahren“.

Invited lectures (Selection)

19. Nov. 2009    Newcastle, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

20. Nov. 2008   Boston, Medical School, Boston University, Departmental seminar talk: Visual Prediction -Brain imaging studies on apparent motion and the memory prediction framework. Boston, MA, USA. –(invited by Prof. Dae-Shik Kim)

21. Oct. 2008    York, Psychology Department, University of York: Departmental seminar talk. Psychology Dept. York, Visual Prediction -Brain imaging studies on apparent motion and the memory prediction framework. York, UK (invited by Prof. Antony Morland)

07. May. 2008   Sterling, Psychology Department, University of Stirling,  Brain imaging studies on apparent motion and the memory prediction framework. Stirling, UK – (invited by Prof. Bill Philips)

25. Jan. 2007    Recurrent feedback activation for apparent motion perception- brain imaging studies using fMRI, EEG and TMS. Seminar Lecture, Psychology Dept., University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (invited by Prof. Romi Nijhawan)

29. Apr. 2005    School of Psychology Colloquia, University of Wales, Bangor. “Mind the gap – fMRI of visual illusions and motion perception”.(invited by Prof. D. Linden)

11. Feb. 2005    MPI Colloquium, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. „Mind the gap - fMRI studies on apparent motion and other contextual illusions”.(invited by Prof. G. Rainers)

09. Dec. 2004   FIAS Colloquium, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. “Functional imaging of the human visual system”.

28. Jul. 2004     Colloquium, Leipzig Max Planck Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience „Filling the gap - cortical activity in response to visual illusions“. (invited by PD. Dr. Ricarda Schubotz).

05. May. 2003   Colloquium „Visuelle- und multisensorische Integration – Untersuchungen mit Hilfe der fMRT“. Gießen (invited by Prof. K. Gegenfurtner).

27. Jun. 2002    Ringvorlesung, Frankfurt. Neurobiology Cognition II, Graduiertenkolleg SFB 269 (Prof. Dr. W. Singer).  „Molekulare und zelluläre Grundlagen neuronaler Organisationsprozesse“.

24. Jun. 2002    Neurobiological Mondaycolloquium, Tübingen ”Multimodal imaging of perceptual integration processes in humans and monkeys”(invited by Dicke, Ilg and Prof. Karnath)

23. May. 2002   Colloquium, Frankfurt. Cognitive Neuroscience II, Dept. Psychologie. (invited by Prof. Dr. R. Sireteanu) „Hirnaktivität beim Sehen und Hören“.

24. Jan. 2001    Colloquium, Marburg „Stumpfes und blindes Sehen – funktionelle Magnetresonanz- tomographie bei Amblyopie und Blindsight“. (invited by Prof. F. Rössler, Prof. B. Roeder).