Purpose of the Workshop
    The overall purpose of The Blind Brain Workshop is to highlight how the view of the brain has changed from the study of the sensory deprived model. Within this framework the Workshop aims to provide the optimal setting for a full immersion into the most recent research advancements on the sensory deprived brain, with the aim to tackle from multiple perspectives, conceptual and methodological challenges. We aim to gather scientists from all-over the world to understand the role of perceptual experiences in brain morphological and functional development and plasticity. We would like to provide the context for knowledge exchange and confrontation within the fields of research of sensory deprivation and brain plasticity.

The workshop will include the following scientific areas:

• Experience-dependent brain plasticity
• Experience-independent brain development
• Sensory deprivation and restoration
• Innovative approaches for the study of the sensory deprived brain
• Comparative sensory-deprived models
• Intramodal and Crodss-modal plasticity
• Supramodality
• Task/Functional Selectivity
• Rehabilitative approaches after sensory loss (e.g. sensory substitution devices)
• Novel Methods
  

Speakers

Amir Amedi
Holly Bridge
Velia Cardin
Zaira Cattaneo
Olivier Collignon
Stefan Debener
Marc Ernst
Monica Gori
Stephen Lomber
Lotfi Merabet
Maria Concetta Morrone
Micah Murray
Maurice Ptito
Ella Striem-Amit
Emiliano Ricciardi
Marcin Szwed
Brigitte Röder
Ehud Zohary
Bernhard Sabel