Wednesday June 20th - Ruhr-Universität Bochum

13 th European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition
(EWIC 2012), 20 - 22 June, 2012
Preliminary Programme and Poster Session
Wednesday June 20 th
9.00- 9.20 Welcome to the 13 th EWIC
SESSION 1: MENTAL IMAGERY
9.20- 9.40 Weakness in blind mental imagery may not be due to the absence of visual experience
per se, but to poor strategies and mobility
Susanna Schmidt, Micaela Fantino, Carla Tinti, Irene C. Mammarella, Cesare Cornoldi
University of Turin, Italy; University of Padua, Italy
9.40- 10.00 A Computational theory of mental imagery
Jan Frederik Sima
University of Bremen, Cognitive Systems
10.00 COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 2: VISUAL WORKING MEMORY
10.30- 10.50 Cognitive and neural changes on the interplay between selective attention and visual
short-term memory
Andria Shimi, Gaia Scerif
University of Oxford
10.50- 11.10 Can impairment in visualization contribute to poor visuospatial working memory
performance in Major Depressive Disorder?
Colin J. Hamillon*, Jonna Nilsson*/**, Lucy J. Robinson**, Juliana Salgado*, Nicol Ferrier**,
Peter Gallagher**
*Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, **Institute of Neuroscience (Academic
Psychiatry), Newcastle University
11.10- 11.30 Executive processes support visual imagery
T Narimoto and Gerry Quinnn
University of Social Welfare, Tokyo and University of St Andrews
11.30- 11.50 Discrete resource limits determine the efficiency of visual search
David E. Anderson, Edward K. Vogel, and Edward Awh
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon
11:50 LUNCH

SESSION 3: MENTAL ROTATION
13.20- 13.40 Emotion modulate mental rotation speed
Grégoire Borst
LaPsyDE, CNRS unit 3521, University Paris Descartes and Caen, PRES Sorbonne Paris Cite
13.40- 14.30 Correlation of motor skill, mental rotation and working memory in 3- to 6-year-old
children
Jennifer Lehmann*, Claudia Quaiser-Pohl**, Petra Jansen*
*University of Regensburg, **University of Koblenz-Landau
14.30- 14.50 Mental rotation performance in soccer players
Jessica van Doren*, Jennifer Lehmann*, Claudia Quaiser-Pohl**, Lukas Ulrich*, Johannes
Krinninger*, Petra Jansen*
*University of Regensburg, **University of Koblenz-Landau
14.50- 15.10 Parcellation of the mental rotation network
Heinrich R. Liesefeld, Hubert D. Zimmer
Department of Psychology, Saarland University & International Graduate School „Adaptive
Minds“ (GK 1457)
15.10- 15.30 The influence of gender, rotational axis, and stimulus features on mental rotation
Sarah Neuburger*, Vera Heuser*, Petra Jansen**, Claudia Quaiser-Pohl
*University of Koblenz-Landau, Institute of Psychology; **University of Regensburg, Institute
of Sports Science
15.30 COFFEE BREAK
15.30- 16.30 POSTER SESSION
16:30 KEYNOTE LECTURE
THURSDAY JUNE 21 th
Prof. Ed Awh, Institute of Neuroscience Faculty, Oregon
SESSION 4: MOTOR IMAGERY
9.00- 9.20 Motor imagery during parabolic flights
Tanja Hohmann, Nadja Schott
Department of Sport & Exercise Science, University of Stuttgart
9.20- 9.40 Development of motor imagery across the lifespan
Nadja Schott, Tanja Hohmann
Department of Sport & Exercise Science, University of Stuttgart, Allmandring 28,
9.40- 10.00 The role of self-produced locomotion and manual object exploration for 9-month-old
infants’ mental rotation ability
Gudrun Schwarzer, Claudia Freitag
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Entwicklungspsychologie

10.00 COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 5: SPATIAL PROCESSING AND LANGUAGE
10.30- 10.50 Detection of vertical mirror symmetry in acquired blindness
Micaela Fantino*, Andrew Herbert**, Zaira Cattaneo*** , Tomaso Vecchi*
*Dpt Psychology, University of Pavia, **Dpt Psychology, Rochester Institute of Technology;
***Dpt Psycholgy, University Milano Bicocca
10.50- 11.10 Reasoning about spatial relations in remote environments encoded through texts
Marios Avraamides, Alexia Galati, Chiara Meneghetti, Francesca Pazzaglia, Marie-Paule
Daniel, Michel Denis,
Univ.of Cyprus (Avraamides, Galati), Univ.of Padova (Meneghetti, Pazzaglia), LIMSI-
CNRS(Daniel, Denis)
11.10- 11.30 Learning spatial descriptions under spatial interference: Which of spatial ability and
strategy makes the differences?
Chiara Meneghetti*, Valerie Gyselinck**, Francesca Pazzaglia*, Rossana De Beni*
*Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Italy, **Université Paris Descartes,
France
11.30- 11.50 Is memory of routes affected by the richness of an environment in visual landmarks?
Marie-Paule Daniel, Michel Denis
LIMSI-CNRS
11.50- 12.10 Integrating spatial information across vision and language
Stephanie N Pantelides, Marios N Avraamides, Jonathan W Kelly
University of Cyprus
12.15 LUNCH
SESSION 6: SPATIAL PROCESSING VISUAL INFORMATION
13.30- 13.50 Predicting collisions in peripersonal and extrapersonal space in virtual reality
Tina Iachini, Michela Vinciguerra, Francesco Ruotolo
Laboratory of Cognitive Science and Immersive Virtual Reality, Department of Psychology,
Second University of Naples, Italy
13.50- 14.10 Distinct retinotopic activation patterns in spatial relation processing
Ineke J.M. van der Ham, Mathijs Raemaekers, Richard J.A. van Wezel, Anna Oleksiak, Albert
Postma
Utrecht University
14.10- 14.30 Factors affecting gender differences in virtual navigation
Marina Tsagkla, Ineke van der Ham
Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University

14.30- 14.50 The development of children’s spatial representations: Evidence from map-
drawing and visual recognition based on a virtual itinerary
Marion Nys*/**, Valérie Gyselinck*, Maya Hickmann**
1Université Paris Descartes, 2CNRS & Université de Paris 8
SHORT COFFEE BREAK
15.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Prof. Lutz Jäncke, Psychologisches Institut, Universität Zürich
16:30 BUS LEAVES FOR EWIC CRIUSE
Friday June 22 th
9.00-10.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Prof. Onur Güntürkün, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Biopsychology, Ruhr-University
Bochum
SESSION 7: NEURAL BASIS OF VISUO-SPATIAL IMAGERY
10.00- 10.20 The role of the ventral intraparietal area in recoding spatial information in the audiotactile
ventriloquist effect
Chiara Renzi, Patrick Bruns, Kirstin-Friederike Heise, Maximo Zimerman, Friedhelm Hummel,
Brigitte Röder
Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany;
Cognition Psychology Neuroscience Lab, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
10.20- 10.40 EEG analyses of mental practice - Results from basic research, sports and
rehabilitation
Marie Ottilie Frenkel*, Simona Maltese**, Andrea Schankin***
*University of Heidelberg, Department of Sport and Sport Science, **University of Landau,
Department of Social Psychology, ***University of Heidelberg, Department of Psychology
10.40- 11.00 The role of the left precuneus in visuo-spatial and motor imagery: evidence from a case
study
Gennaro Ruggiero*, Tina Iachini*, Francesca Frassinetti**, Alessandro Iavarone***
*Laboratory of Cognitive Science and Immersive Virtual Reality, Department of Psychology,
Second University of Naples, Italy; **Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy;
***Neurological and Stroke Unit, CTO Hospital, Naples, Italy
11.00 COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 8: CORRELATES OF MULTIMODAL REPRESENTATIONS
11.20- 11.40 ERP signatures of novel visual stimuli in a repetition priming task
Kristina Küper, Hubert D. Zimmer
Brain & Cognition Unit, Saarland University
11.40- 12.00 Auditory stimuli reset phase of visual oscillations
Christoph S. Herrmann
Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg

12.00- 12.20 Investigating object representations by means ot the steady-state visual evoked
potential (SSVEP)
Ulla Martens, Thomas Gruber
University of Osnabrück, Institute of Experimental Psychology I
12.20 LUNCH
SESSION 9 SPATIAL MEMORY
13.30- 13.50 Interference in spatial memory
Albert Postma
Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University
13.50- 14.10 What about the largest consistent sex difference in human cognition?
Catherine Brandner, Cédric Deavaud
LERB, Lausanne University
14.10 CLOSING REMARKS