Program

Scientific Program Commitee

ASSC4 includes one day of pre-conference workshops followed by an extensive scientific program consisting of plenary lectures and symposia, concurrent sessions of oral presentations, as well as poster presentations.

ASSC4 extends over four days: June 29th, June 30th, July 1st, and July 2nd.

Below you'll find a condensed version of the scientific program with links to increasingly detailed descriptions. Throughout these pages, abstracts referenced by a code between [] will appear in a separate window when you click on its code.

June 29th

08:00	Registration opens (Building S)
09:00	Morning Workshops:
W01	On the use of brain imaging to study the neural correlates of consciousness (Frith & Rees)
W02	Neural correlates of conscious and unconscious memory (Reber & Paller)
W03	Constraining consciousness: Towards a systematic catalogue of explananda (Metzinger & Engel)
W04	Unity and disunity in bodily awareness: Phenomenology and neuroscience (Cole, Depraz & Gallagher)
W05	Consciousness and the philosophy of mind (Rosenthal)
W06	Binding and the unity of consciousness (Revonsuo)
12:15	Lunch
14:00	Afternoon Workshops:
W07	Unity, association and dissociation of temporal consciousness in recurrent neural networks (Lloyd)
W08	Change detection, attention, and the contents of awareness (Rensink & Simons)
W09	Anaesthesia as a tool for exploring consciousness (Andrade & Jones)
W10	Criteria for consciousness in the brain: Methodological implications of recent developments in cognitive neuroscience (Baars, Tononi & Bickle)
W11	Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: Implications for research on consciousness (Keenan)
W12	Four ways of understanding consciousness: Conceptual blocks in dualism, physicalism, functionalism, and reflexive monism (Velmans)

17:00	Workshops End
19:00	Opening Lecture Chris Frith

June 30th

07:30	Registration opens (Building S)
08:15	Welcome
	Part 1: Neural Synchrony and Binding
08:30	Consciousness, Attention and Binding Anne Treisman	[PL-01]
09:30	Oscillatory synchrony as a signature for the unity of visual consciousness in humans Catherine Tallon-Baudry	[PL-02]
10:30	Coffee Break
10:45	Plenary symposium:
	Temporal Binding and the neural correlates of consciousness Andreas K. Engel	[PL-03]
	Neural Synchrony and consciousness: Are we getting somewhere? Francisco Varela	[PL-04]
12:15	Lunch
13:30	Concurrent Sessions 1: CS1.1 Foundational issues in the Science of Consciousness CS1.2 Mechanisms of Binding CS1.3 Color and Synaesthesia CS1.4 Conscious and Unconscious Memory
15:30	Coffee Break
	Part 2: Models of Integration
16:00	Plenary symposium:
	Consciousness integrated and differentiated Giulio Tononi	[PL-05]
	How the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex can contribute to the unity of consciousness Randall C. O'Reilly	[PL-06]
	Consciousness really explained? Rodney Cotterill	[PL-07]
18:00	Poster Session 1
20:00	Official Reception (University Great Hall)

June 1st

	Part 1: The Neuropsychology of Dissociations
08:30	Fractionating The Binding Process Glyn Humphreys	[PL-08]
09:30	Overt and Covert Face Recognition Andrew Young	[PL-09]
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	The Disunity of Consciousness Semir Zeki	[PL-10]
12:00	Lunch
13:30	Concurrent Sessions 2: CS2.1 Binding and Unity: Foundational issues CS2.2 Schizophrenia and Dreams CS2.3 Attention and Change Blindness CS2.4 Conscious and Unconscious Process
15:30	Coffee Break
	Part 2: What is the Unity of Consciousness?
16:00	Plenary symposium:
	Action and the Unity of Consciousness Susan Hurley	[PL-11]
	Consciousness and Co-consciousness Sydney Shoemaker	[PL-12]
	(Discussant: David Chalmers)
18:00	Poster Session 2
20:30	Conference Banquet

July 2nd