Our talks
Olivier Collignon
Upcoming events
2023
Olivier Collignon
YES meeting
Olivier Collignon
MySpace Workshop
Olivier Collignon
The interplay between brain plasticity and sensory deprivation/restoration: a two-edged sword?
Past events
2023
Olivier Collignon
HES-SO/SENSE
2022
Olivier Collignon
Journée thématique du GDR TACT. Toucher et multimodalités/multisensorialités. CEA-LIST.
Olivier Collignon
Sensing space without sight
Iqra Shahzad
Frame of reference supporting tactile direction selectivity
Jacek Matuszewski
Functional involvement of occipital cortex during reading and speech processing in congenital blindness: evidence from fMRI and TMS
Olivier Collignon
Symposium “Neurovision” organisé par l’association « Amis des Aveugles »
Olivier Collignon
Symposium “Les enjeux de la privation sensorielle :Savoirs au carrefour de la recherche et de la pratique"
Ceren Battal
Structural and functional network-level reorganization in the coding of auditory motion directions and sound source locations in the absence of vision
Francesca Barbero
Common neuronal assemblies integrate emotion expressions from the face and the voice
Olivier Collignon
Functional reorganization of occipital regions in blindness
Roberta Pia Calce
Neural categorization of voices at four months of ageMohamed Rezk
A brief and early period of visual deprivation selectively impairs visual motion responses in V1
Ceren Battal
Structural and functional network-level reorganization in the coding of auditory motion directions and sound source locations in the absence of vision
Francesca Barbero
Common neural assemblies integrate emotion expressions from the face and the voice
Stefania Mationi
Representation of sound and sight in the occipito-temporal cortex of sighted and blind
Siddharth Talwar
Automatic brain categorization of discrete auditory emotion expressions
Roberta Pia Calce
Neural categorization of voices at four months of ageGiulia Esposito
Psychophysical and electrophysiological study of the cortical processes underlying tactile-auditory-visual integration in conditions of active touch
Iqra Shahzad
Visual experience alters the tactile anisotropies
Iqra Shahzad
Touch and pain, neurosciences at the skin level
Olivier Collignon
Centre Cerveau et Cognition (CerCo)
2021
Olivier Collignon
Neurosciences des Systèmes et de la Cognition
Olivier Collignon
IEEE World Haptics Conference 2021
Olivier Collignon
Erasme Hospital – Ulb (Brussels, BE)
Marina Bedny, Nancy Kanwisher, Olivier Collignon, Ilker Yildirim, Elizabeth Saccone, Apurva Ratan Murty, Stefania Mattioni
Generative Adversarial Collaborations: How does visual experience shape representations and transformations along the ventral stream? (watch it online here)Olivier Collignon
Journée de Neuropsychologie de Langue FrançaiseIqra Shahzad
Mapping multisensory representations using fMRI ( Advance Training Course (ATC) 5 by multitouch (MSCA-ITN H2020) project) . Find the video here.Olivier Collignon
Instituto de Neurociencias (Alicante, Spain)Olivier Collignon
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2021)Olivier Collignon
Centre de recherche en neuropsychologie et cognition, University of Montréal.Olivier Collignon
UCLA UniversityOlivier Collignon
University of Birmingham
2020
Olivier Collignon
Journée annuelle du Groupement des Professeurs et Educateurs d'Aveugles et d'Amblyopes (GPEAA)Ane Gurtubay
Tactile processing and Plasticity mechanisms in blindnessStefania Mattioni
Categorical representation from sound and sight in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex of sighted and blind (eLife talks on line 2020). Find here the recording of the talk!
Olivier Collignon
Les Journées de neurologie de langue française
Olivier Collignon
Université de BourgogneOlivier Collignon
Areces FoundationOlivier Collignon
European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology (EWCN)
Olivier Collignon
Fonctions cérébrales: innées ou acquises? Nouvel éclairage en l'absence de vision.
2019
CPP-lab
MRI workshopOlivier Collignon
B-Audio conferenceAne Gurtubay
Direct structural connection between auditory temporal and visual-occipital motion selective regions (B-Audio conference)Ceren Battal
Coding auditory motion directions in the sighted and in the blind individuals (B-Audio conference)Roberta Pia Calce
Ultra-fast brain and behavioural categorisation of voices (B-Audio conference)Ane Gurtubay
Structural connections between motion selective regions in humans (Cosy symposium)Olivier Collignon
PsyCHIC SeminarOlivier Collignon
Journée GPEAA
Stefania Mattioni
Categorical representation from sound and sight in the occipito-temporal cortex of sighted and blind (ESCOP 2019)
Stefania Mattioni
Categorical representation from sound and sight in the occipito-temporal cortex of sighted and blind (ECVP 2019)
Ceren Battal
Early blindness triggers an imbalance between temporal and occipital regions coding for auditory motion directions (ECVP 2019)
Mohamed Rezk
Multi-modal representation of visual and auditory motion directions in hMT+/V5 (ECVP 2019)
Stefania Mattioni
How input modality and visual experience affect the neural encoding of categorical knowledge (OHBM 2019)
Olivier Collignon
PsyChic-SCAlab
Olivier Collignon
Nouveauté en imagerie des voies auditives. 50ans des cliniques centre d’audiophonologie des Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc.
Stefania Mattioni
How sensory input and visual experience affect the categorical representation in the occipital-temporal cortex (Laboratory of Biological Psychology Lab meeting)
Olivier Collignon
Donders institute (Host: M. Peelen).
Olivier Collignon
Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Salzburg (Host: Nathan Weisz)
Olivier Collignon
Symposium "Translational NeuroTechnology for Real-World Vision: from Light to Sight”. (Keynote Lecture).
2018
Olivier Collignon
Face and voice integration and deprivation. (Host: L. Garrido).
Olivier Collignon
Crossmodal plasticity: Recycling the neural and computational architecture of the occipital cortex? (Host: S. Majerus).
Olivier Collignon
2018 Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium. (Keynote Lecture).
Olivier Collignon
Crossmodal plasticity: Recycling the neural and computational architecture of the brain? Blind Brain Worshop.
Ceren Battal
Coding auditory motion and sound location in the sighted and in the blind individuals. International Max Planck Research School Alumni Meeting.
Olivier Collignon
Space without sight. Symposium on ‘Multisensory space’ held on the 19th International Multisensory Research Forum.
Mohamed Rezk
Multi-modal representation of visual and auditory motion directions in hMT+/V5. Vision Science Society- VSS 2018
Stefania Mattioni
The balanced act of cross modal and intramural plasticity: enhanced representation of auditory categories in the occipital cortex of early blind links to reduced temporal coding. Annual Vision Science Society 2018;
Stefania Mattioni
The balanced act of cross modal and intramural plasticity for the processing of auditory categories. Symposium "Windows on brain plasticity".
Olivier Collignon
Crossmodal plasticity: Recycling the neural and computational architecture of the occipital cortex?
Stefania Benetti
Plasticity and rigidity: selectivity of crossmodal plasticity in the auditory cortices. Italian Workshop on Developmental Neuropsychology - XIII edition
2017
Olivier Collignon
Brain Modes 2017. (Keynote Lecture).
Olivier Collignon
Journee scientifique de la chaire UCL-IRSA en déficiences sensorielles et troubles d'apprentissage. (Keynote Lecture).
Olivier Collignon
Recycling of computational bias in sensory deprived region. (Host: T. Makin).
Olivier Collignon
A-Modal vs Crossmodal: How sensory input and experience shapes categorical responses in the brain. OHBM. (Chair of Symposium).
Ceren Battal
Mapping Functional Organisation of the Occipital Cortex in Blind Individuals.
Olivier Collignon
Are faces the voices of the deaf and voices the faces of the blind? Functional reorganization in face and voice brain networks in blind and deaf people. Symposium on ‘Supramodality and cross-modal plasticity in blindness and deafness: their balance and the implications for rehabilitation’held on the 19th International Multisensory Research Forum (Chair: Striem-Amit, Ricciardi, Collignon).
Olivier Collignon
Seminar series at the Core for Advanced MRI (CAMRI). (Host: M. Beauchamp).
Olivier Collignon
How sensory experience shapes the mind/brain. (Host: Micah Murray).
2016
Olivier Collignon
Privation visuelle et plasticite cerebrale. Seminar of “Neurosciences cognitives et affectives”. (Host: F D’Hondt).
Olivier Collignon
Perdre et retrouver la vue: Prodige et Vertige de l’etonnante plasticite du cerveau.
Olivier Collignon
Consequences cerebrales de la privation et restauration visuelle.
Olivier Collignon
Building the brain in the dark. Neurocog’16 meeting (Keynote Lecture).
Olivier Collignon
How sensory experience shapes the mind/brain: New light from the blind. (Host: J. Lundstrum).
Olivier Collignon
The complex interplay between brain reorganizations following sensory deprivation and restoration. Louvain Bionics Day (Keynote Lecture).
Olivier Collignon
How to get an ERC: The MADVIS story.
Olivier Collignon
Crossmodal plasticity: Recycling the neural and computational architecture of the occipital cortex? Seminar series at the ICM-Paris (Spine and Brain Institute). (Host: L. Cohen).
Olivier Collignon
T Symposium on ‘Cross-modal plasticity and integration in sensory restoration by invasive/non-invasive approaches (and their potential combination): from basic science to rehab’ held on the 18th International Multisensory Research Forum (Chair: A. Amedi, B. Heimler).
Olivier Collignon
How visual experience shapes numerical processing. New trends in arithmetic development (Chair: A. De Vischer).
Olivier Collignon
Building the brain in the dark. (Host: D. Crepaldi).
Olivier Collignon
Building the brain in the dark. (Host: P. Haggard).
Olivier Collignon
Space without Sight.
2015
Olivier Collignon
Concrete and abstract space without sight.
Olivier Collignon
Interplay between crossmodal plasticity and sight restoration.
Olivier Collignon
Space without sight. (Host: M. Gori).
Olivier Collignon
Brain plasticity underlying sight deprivation and restoration. (Host: Micah Murray).
Olivier Collignon
Impact of sight deprivation and restoration on the functional organization and connectivity of the occipital cortex. Symposium on ‘Cortical Plasticity following visual or auditory impairment’ held on the 16th International Multisensory Research Forum (Chair: S. Lomber).
Olivier Collignon
How (visual) experience shapes the mind/brain: new lights from the blind. (Host: Daniel Casasanto).
Olivier Collignon
Brain plasticity underlying sight deprivation and restoration. (Host: Fang Jiang).
Olivier Collignon
A short period of visual deprivation at birth triggers long-lasting crossmodal reorganization of the occipital cortex in humans. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting.
Olivier Collignon
Impact of sight deprivation and restoration on the functional organization and connectivity of the occipital cortex. Symposium ‘Vision loss: dysfunction, plasticity, restoration and rehabilitation’ (organizer: Bernhard A. Sabel, PhD).
2014
Olivier Collignon
How to build a successful ERC application: Personal tale story.
2013
Olivier Collignon
Impact of sight deprivation and restoration on the functional and structural organization of the occipital cortex. 'The Blind Brain Workshop: How blindness can open our eyes on brain function' (Organizers: P. Pietrini & E. Ricciardi).
Olivier Collignon
Building a brain in the dark. ‘Sensory Substitution, Visual rehabilitation and brain plasticity’ workshop; Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (Organizer: A. Amedi).
Olivier Collignon
Impact of sight deprivation and restoration on the functional and structural organization of the occipital cortex. Symposium on ‘Crossmodal Plasticity Following Sensory Loss and Restoration’ held on the 14th International Multisensory Research Forum (Chair: S. Lomber).
Olivier Collignon
L’aveugle: Un modèle unique pour comprendre le développement de la specialization cérébrale fonctionelle.
Olivier Collignon
MADVIS: Mapping the Deprived Visual System: Cracking function for prediction. Second round of the ERC-starting grant 2013.
2012
Olivier Collignon
Impact of early versus late acquired blindness on the functional organization and connectivity of the occipital cortex. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting.
Olivier Collignon
Construire un cerveau dans le noir: organization fonctionnelle et connectivité du cortex occipital chez l’aveugle. (Host: J. Doyon).
2011
Olivier Collignon
Développement multisensoriel: Fonction, Déficit, Réhabilitation.
Olivier Collignon
Crossmodal organization in the blind’s brain. (Host: E. Ricciardi).
Olivier Collignon
Building the brain in the dark: Crossmodal plasticity in visually deprived subjects.
Olivier Collignon
Audio-visual and visuo-motor interaction in autism and during typical development. Multisensory Processing Workshop.
Olivier Collignon
Crossmodal plasticity and functional specialization in the occipital cortex of early and late blind individuals. 6th retraite annuelle du Centre d’Excellence en Neuroscience de l’Université de Montréal (CENUM).
Olivier Colignon
Cerebral reorganization in the blind. (Host: D. Maurer).
Olivier Collignon
Multisensory processing and cerebral reorganizations in the blind. (Host: A. Caramazza).
2010
Olivier Collignon
Crossmodal plasticity and multisensory integration. (Host: I. Blanchette).
Olivier Collignon
Compensations sensorielles et plasticité cérébrale chez la personne aveugle.
Olivier Collignon
Cerebral reorganization in the blind. (Host: C. Philips).
Olivier Collignon
Behavioral compensations and cerebral reorganization in the blind. (Host: S. Soto-Faraco).
Olivier Collignon
Processing spatial and pitch attributes of sounds in the absence of visual experience: an fMRI study. 16th Human Brain Mapping Meeting (HBM).
Olivier Collignon
Déficit d’intégration multisensorielle automatique chez la personne autiste: “Pip mais pas Pop”. 32thannual meeting of the “Société Quebecoise de Recherche en Psychologie (SQRP)”.
Olivier Collignon
The right dorsal occipital stream maintains its functional specificity for spatial processing in absence of visual experience. 18èmes journées scientifiques du CERNEC.
Olivier Collignon
Auditory information does not improve complex visual search for persons with autism and Asperger syndrome: « pip » but no « pop ». 5th Retraite Annuelle du Centre Centre d’Excellence en Neuromique de l’Université de Montréal (CENUM).
2009
Olivier Collignon
Gender differences in the multisensory processing of emotion expressions. Cem09 - Cognition, Emotion & Motivation International Congress.
Olivier Collignon
Développement de l’intégration multisensorielle chez l’enfant: étude du développement normal et pathologique. (Host: Alain Moureau).
Olivier Collignon
Réorganisations comportementales et cérébrales chez la personne non voyante. Conférence scientifique du centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en réadaptation du Montréal métropolitain (CRIR).
Olivier Collignon
Gender difference in the multisensory processing of emotion. 4th retraite annuelle du Centre d’Excellence en Neuromique de l’Université de Montréal (CENUM).
2008
Olivier Collignon
Functional cerebral reorganization for auditory-spatial processing and auditory substitution of vision in early blind subjects. Invited speaker in the symposium « Auditory plasticity in the blind » held on 9th International Conference on Low Vision.
Olivier Collignon
Audio-Tactile interactions in early blind subjects. 17èmes journées scientifiques du CERNEC.
Olivier Collignon
Audio-Visual Integration of Emotion Expressions. 30thannual meeting of the “Société Quebecoise de Recherche en Psychologie (SQRP)”.
2007
Olivier Collignon
Réorganisations comportementales et cérébrales en cas de privation visuelle précoce. Symposium « Perception, integration et plasticité » held on the 29thannual meeting of the “Société Quebecoise de Recherche en Psychologie (SQRP)”.
2006
Olivier Collignon
Cognitive-cerebral reorganization and sensory substitution in early blindness. Centre de Recherche en Neuropsychologie et Cognition. (Host: F. Lepore).
2004
Olivier Collignon
Functional crossmodal plasticity for auditory spatial processing in early blind subjects. 13ième journées scientifiques du GRENEC.