Anthony Trewavas
(University of Edinburgh, UK): Plant Intelligence
15.05-15.35
František Baluška (co-founder of the Society of Plant Neurobiology, University of Bonn,
DE): Synaptic Concept in Expansive Mood
15.40-16.10
Peter Barlow (University of Bristol, UK): The Origins of Life, of Living and
Cognition, and of the Phytoneural System
16.15-16.45
Coffee/tea break
16.50-17.20
Stefano Mancuso (Leader of International
Lab for Plant Neurobiology (LINV) - DIPSA - University of Firenze, IT): At the Root of Plant Intelligence
17.25-17.55
Giorgio Celli (Emeritus Professor, University of Bologna, IT): The Language of Bees
18.00-18.30
Giorgio
Vallortigara (Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences Associate Director, University of Trento,
IT): Core Knowledge of Object, Space and Number in Newborn Chicks
20.00
Conference dinner
Friday, November 19th, 2010
Morning session (Chairman P.W. Barlow)
09.00-09.30
Andrea Cavagna (Institute for Complex Systems - CNR, and University of Roma
"La Sapienza", IT): Collective Behaviour in Starling Flocks: Can We Read Cognitive Constraints
from the Unusual Interaction Rules?
09.35-10.05
Fortunato Tito Arecchi
(National Institute of Applied Optics - CNR, IT): Dynamics of Consciousness- Complexity and Creativity (Recovering Ontology: Things versus
Objects)
10.10-10.40
Luigi Francesco Agnati (IRCCS Lido VE, IT, and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SW):
New Aspects of Communication and Integrative Processing in the Central Nervous System
10.45-11.15
Coffee/tea break
11.20-11.50
Pierfrancesco Ferrari (University of Parma, IT): The evolution of mirror systems in human
and non-human primates in relation to higher cognitive functions
11.55-12.25
Torbjřrn Dahl
(Leader of the Cognitive Robotics Research Centre, University of Wales, UK):
Bio-Inspired Self-Organisation for Multi-Robot Task-Allocation
12.30-14.30
Lunch break
Special Friday Afternoon Session for Oral Presentations
As previously announced, we are extending the Conference to Friday Afternoon with this Special Session for Oral
Presentations. The Scientific Committee warmly encourages you to actively join
our speakers' growing list: you have time untill November 11st
Afternoon session (Chairman F. Baluska)
14.30-15.00
Joseph Neumann
(Emeritus Professor,Tel-Aviv University, IL):
The Nature and History of Mind
15.05-15.35
Bruno Apolloni
(Leader of Neural Networks Research Laboratory, LAREN, University of Milano, IT):
A Moving Agent Metaphor to Model Some Motions of the Brain Actors
15.40
Closing of the meeting with a special roundtable through the several issues
discussed during the meeting, held by the outstanding invited speakers. The roundtable
will be held by Dello Iacovo, correspondent for the Italian Nňva 24 (Il Sole 24 ORE)
