BRNet 2026 — Lecture Transcripts Index
Created 2026-06-17
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Transcripts of five lecture recordings from the 8th Annual Body Representation Network Meeting, Padova, Italy, June 8–9, 2026. All recordings were ambient room audio — no dedicated microphone.
Audio originals: synology:/volume1/baseworks/research/conferences/2026-06-brnet/audio/
Transcription tool: Groq Whisper large-v3, forced English, segment timestamps
Transcript format: [MM:SS] text per segment
Quality Reference
Section titled “Quality Reference”| File | Speaker | Talk | Quality | Usable for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olaf Blanke BRNet.txt | Olaf Blanke (EPFL) | Neuropsychiatry of Invisible Presences | Good — 966 segments, consistent | Direct quotes, content summary, theoretical framing |
| Manja Engel BNNet.txt | Manja Engel (Utrecht) | Feedback-based body size updating in AN (VR) | Good — 243 segments, clear methodology | Methodology, findings, Q&A |
| Jamie Feusner BRNet.txt | Jamie Feusner (U Toronto) | When the Brain Misrepresents the Body (keynote) | Mixed — 906 segments; clear in places, drops in others | Framework overview, measurement tool limitations; cross-check with abstract |
| Alkistis Saramandi BRNet.txt | Alkistis Saramandi (UCL) | Precision-weighted body belief updating in AN | Partial — 189 segments; garbles badly from ~07:54 | Opening framing and pilot study description only; hard dropout mid-talk |
| Gabriele Vercelli BRNet.txt | Gabriele Vercelli (Roma La Sapienza) | Interoceptive conditioning for AN | Poor — 28 segments, almost entirely garbled | Use abstract only |
Cross-References
Section titled “Cross-References”- Conference program and abstracts: See the BRNet 2026 program booklet — cross-reference abstracts for any speaker before using transcript content. Asia’s personal lecture notes will supplement these when she joins the post collaboration.
- Asia’s poster abstract:
02-areas/method-admin/core/science-docs/conferences/BRNet 2026 Abstract.md - Conference landscape doc:
02-areas/method-admin/core/science-docs/conferences/BRNet 2026 Conference Landscape.md - Communications post working context: 2026-06-brnet-session-context
Notes on Re-transcription
Section titled “Notes on Re-transcription”If higher-quality transcription is needed for a specific talk:
- Original m4a files are on NAS (path above) — use these, not the originals on the external SSD
- Re-compress for Groq:
ffmpeg -i "Speaker.m4a" -ar 16000 -ac 1 -b:a 32k "Speaker.mp3"(keeps under 25MB for most talks; Jamie Feusner and Olaf Blanke need 32kbps to stay under limit) - Groq Whisper large-v3 with
language=enforced — prevents Welsh hallucination on quiet audio - Gabriele Vercelli would need a higher-quality source recording to improve — the ambient audio is too degraded to recover with better tooling