2nd EMBRACE Summer School

The 2nd EMBRACE Summer School “Neuroimaging beyond the individual – Monitoring interacting human brains” was organized by partner TUIL in Leipzig (Germany) together with the 10th International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering from 28 to 31 of August, 2023.

The school was open to researchers external to the EMBRACE consortium, from both academia and industry, and was organized in hybrid mode, so that also researchers who could not attend the school on site could follow the lectures and courses.

A total of 50 researchers and professors from universities and companies in Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Netherlands, UK, USA, Algeria and India attended the school, of which 19 researchers attended the school online.

The flyer and the detailed program of the school, as well as a couple of pictures of the researchers attending the school on site are included in the following pages.

DETAILED PROGRAM

Monday 28. August 2023

09:00 – 09:15 Welcome and Introduction (Thomas Knösche and Jens Haueisen)
09:15 – 17:00 Symposium 1: “Scientific research projects – implementation & management”
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
17:00 – 18:00 Keynote “Connecting brains within and beyond the lab: toward community

neuroscience” Suzanne Dikker

ab 18:00 “Get together” – welcome reception

Tuesday 29. August 2023

Symposium 2: Measurement technologies for Hyperscanning
09:00 – 09:45 “Dry mobile EEG” Jens Haueisen
09:45 – 10:30 “Mobile OPM-MEG” Burkhard Maess
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 “fNIRS Hyperscanning – Underlying Theory and Experimental Design”

Pascal Vrtička

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:30 “How to collect synchronized data in the Amazon during the Ayahuasca ritual”

Tomáš Páleníček

14:30 – 15:30 “Technical challenges in hyperscanning acquisitions and data analysis”

Patrique Fiedler

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 Keynote “Embodied Cognition” Peter König

Wednesday 30. August 2023

09:00 – 09:45 “fNIRS Hyperscanning – Practical Application” Pascal Vrtička
Symposium 3: Data analysis / Modelling
09:45 – 10:30 “EEG/MEG source localization” Thomas Knösche
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:40 “Introduction into coupling analysis using coherence and phase-locking”

Guido Nolte

11:40 – 11:50 Break
11:50 – 12:30 “Advanced coupling methods: multivariate methods and bicoherence”

Guido Nolte

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:30 “Inter-brain coupling and multi-subject models of the social brain”

Laura Astolfi

15:00 Social activity

Thursday 31. August 2023

09:00 – 09:45 Poster session
Symposium 4: Applications
09:45 – 10:30 “EEG synchronization of the emerging collective brain during the

Ayahuasca ritual: methods and pilot results” Vlastimil Koudelka

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45 “It sounds like connectivity: EEG hypersynchrony in a musical duet”

Ricardo Bruna

11:45 – 12:30 “EEG of joint action: A functional connectivity approach” Gabriella Tamburro
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:15 “Hyperscanning in Applied Settings: Implications for the Development

of High-Performing Teams and Sub-Teams” Edson Filho

14:15 – 14:30 Farewell Thomas Knösche & Jens Haueisen
Social activity