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International Organization of Psychophysiology (IOP) - Editorial: Proceedings of IOP2023 - The 21st World Congress of Psychophysiology
It is a great honor to guest edit the proceedings of IOP2023 – the 21st World Congress of Psychophysiology of the International Organization of Psychophysiology (IOP), taking place at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, from the 26th till the 29th June 2023. This is the first in presence conference of IOP since the 2018 congress in Luca, Italy. Switzerland, and especially Geneva, is a hotspot for research in psychophysiology and neuroscience. The University of Geneva and Lake Geneva area hosts many internationally profiled laboratories and research centers that are specialized in studying the interaction between the mind and the body. We are honored to welcome the international scientific community to showcase the recent advances in this research area. Even though the last IOP congress that was organized by the University of Chengdu, China, and held—due to the COVID19 pandemic—as an online conference was a great success, in presence conferences give our scientific communications the special social human touch that is vital for the exchange and the discussion of research. We are happy that this is again possible and to host this special event at the University of Geneva. IOP2023 is indeed a very international scientific conference, which is visible in the fact that we can welcome more than 360 attendants coming from 34 different countries. Beside the presidential address and six invited keynote lectures, IOP2023 hosts 38 symposia, two poster sessions, and as a new format nine single talk sessions, presenting recent innovative findings in psychophysiology and neuroscience. The program with its 400 scientific presentations and social events is very rich and divers and reaches from fundamental to applied research covering basic studies on the role of the nervous system in psychological processes to research on pathologies.