The Fourth International Conference on Neuroesthetics

Saturday, January 15, 2005, Berkeley Art Museum
University of California, Berkeley

See and register at http://plaisir.berkeley.edu

Speakers

Judy Dater
Photographer
Berkeley, California
http://www.temple.edu/photo/photographers/dater/index/dater.html

"From Either Side: Portrait Photography and Emotional Identification"

Ray Dolan
Professor, Wellcome Dept. Cognitive Neurology
Institute of Neurology
London, England

Paul Ekman
Professor Emeritus of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry,
University of California, San Francisco
http://www.emotionsrevealed.com/

"Recognizing the Subtleties in Facial Expressions"

Vittorio Gallese
Associate Professor of Human Physiology
Department of Neuroscience, Physiology Section
University of Parma, Italy
http://www.unipr.it/arpa/mirror/english/staff/gallese.htm

"Intentional attunement: From mirror neurons to empathy"

Alice O'Toole
Professor, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences
The University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, Texas
http://www.utdallas.edu/~otoole/index.html

Leonard Pitt
Writer and Movement Artist
Berkeley, California
http://www.leonardpitt.com/bio.html

"The Art of Face - a mask, a body, a movement"

Aina Puce
Professor & Director of Neuroimaging
Center for Advanced Imaging
Department of Radiology
West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia
http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/cai/aina_puce/index1.asp

"The neuroesthetics of dynamic face perception"

Frans B. M. de Waal
Professor, Department of Psychology
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia
http://www.emory.edu/living_links/

"Cultural Teachings from the Apes"