2018 Movement and Cognition International Conference

Starts:  Jul 27, 2018 12:00 AM (ET)
Ends:  Jul 29, 2018 07:00 AM (ET)
Harvard University School of Medicine
Boston, MA

Dear colleagues,

We have the distinct pleasure to invite you to the 2018 world conference on Movement and Cognition to be held at Harvard University’s School of Medicine 27-29 July 2018 in Boston.

Among the other institutions involved in this event include the Harvard University School of Medicine’s affiliated hospitals Spaulding Rehabilitation, McLean, and Beth Israel-Deaconess, as well as the Computational Neurosciences Laboratory at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford and the Synthetic Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, the School of Medicine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the School of Health Sciences of University of Haifa, the Wingate Institute for Sports and Exercise Science, the National Institute for Brain and Rehabilitation Sciences, Nazareth, Israel, the Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Havana and the University of the Medical Sciences Facultad ‘Manuel Fajardo’ Havana and the School of Public Health of the University of Havana, Cuba and Bielefeld University in Germany.

The purpose of the conference is to share knowledge of all those whose interests lie in the nature of human movement and its relation to cognitive function.

You are welcome to join us in the conference, and if you wish (not obligatory) you can also propose an abstract for symposium, or oral presentation, for a workshop or a poster.

Please submit your abstracts to the attention of the scientific committee at: g.leisman@welfare.haifa.ac.il. The abstracts of the conference will be published in the Conference Proceedings as well as selected papers published in volume 8 of the journal Functional Neurology, Rehabilitation, and Ergonomics.

The format for abstracts is available on the website: www.movementis.com

Among the broad topic areas in this call for abstracts include scientific explorations of Cognitive-Movement applications in: rehabilitation, sports, human development, gerontology, genetics/genomics, technologies and measurement, science of aesthetics, behavioral and communication sciences, occupational and physical therapy, and biomedical engineering.

We welcome your participation in this event that addresses the relationship between movement and cognition and I personally welcome your enquiries and suggestions. In the meantime, please check out our website for more details.

Should you have any questions about the nature and form of the abstracts or pertaining to the larger papers, please feel free to connect with me at: g.leisman@welfare.haifa.ac.il.   Should you have questions with relation to the organization of the conference including special needs, accommodation, travel etc. please get in contact with the conference organizers at: office@movememntis.com

We hope to meet you at Harvard University in July 2018.

Wish very best wishes,

 

Gerry Leisman                                                                     León Morales-Quezada

Chair, Scientific Committee                                                   Co-Chair, Scientific Committee

MOVEMEMNT-2018                                                              MOVEMENT-2018

Professor, Neuro- and Rehabilitation Sciences                 Assoc. Director Neuromodulation Center

University of Haifa School of Health Sciences                   Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital

Director, The National Institute of Brain &                        Integrative Medicine Research Fellow

Rehabilitation Sciences, Nazareth, Israel                           Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Profesor Neurológica Restaurativa                                      Harvard University School of Medicine

Universidad de Ciencias Medicas de la Habana, Cuba    lmorales@neuromoulationlab.org

g.leisman@welfare.haifa.ac.il