Program schedule
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FRIDAY JUNE 23
9.30-12.30 Morning Workshops- M1. Marbach: Phenomenological methods for investigating consciousness
- M2. O'Regan: The sensorimotor approach to phenomenal consciousness revisited
- M3. Tsuchiya & Koch: The relationship between selective attention and consciousness
- M4. Verleger: Event-related EEG potential correlates of conscious perception
12.30-13:30 Lunch
13.30-16.30 Afternoon Workshops
- A1. Aleksander, Chrisley, & Shanahan: Machine models of consciousness
- A2. Cowey: Exploring aspects of consciousness by TMS
- A3. Edelman & Seth: A scientific framework for the study of animal consciousness
- A4. Rosenthal: Higher-Order Theories of consciousness
17:30-18:30 2006 WILLIAM JAMES PRIZE SPEAKER
18:30-19:30 Presidential Address: Daniel Dennett, Tufts
19:30 Opening reception
SATURDAY JUNE 24
9.00-10:00 Keynote lecture by Jon Driver, University College London
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.30 Plenary Symposium 1: RECURRENT PROCESSING AND VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Hakwan Lau
- Vincent Walsh: Why primary sensory areas are the gateways to awareness
- Victor Lamme: Solving the mind-brain relation for conscious vision
- Ned Block: The NCC: A mistaken methodology
- Hakwan Lau: Subjective awareness, not performance or information processing
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Concurrent session 1 (4 talks/stream x 1/2 hr)
CS 1.1. Implicit Processes (Cleeremans, Rolls, Sumner, Azzopardi)
CS 1.2. Sensorimotor (Sarrazin, Nijhawan, Jacobson, Bultitude)
CS 1.3. Philosophy 1 (Klein, Myin, Philipona, Meeks)
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-17.30 Keynote lecture by J. David Smith, State University of New York at Buffalo
17:30-19:30 POSTER SESSION 1
20:00 STUDENT RECEPTION
SUNDAY JUNE 25
9:00-12:30 Plenary Symposium 2: 2005 TOM SLICK RESEARCH AWARD IN CONSCIOUSNESS- Joseph Dial: Opening remarks
- Christof Koch: Toward the cellular architecture of consciousness
- Jim Blascovich: Virtual Reality and the clash of consciousness
- Aaron Schurger: Something happened: Within a visual field defect, gamma oscillations correlate uniquely with awareness
- Michael Snodgrass: What can unconscious perception tell us about consciousness?
14.00-16.00 Concurrent session 2 (4 talks/stream x 1/2 hr)
CS 2.1. Philosophy 2 (Beaton, Meehan, Lloyd, Wu)
CS 2.2. Capacity Limits (Gauchou, Sligte, Bridgeman, Farber)
CS 2.3. Clinical Insights (Boly, Bekinschtein, Schnakers, Cavanna)
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-17.30 Keynote lecture by Fred Dretske, Duke University
17:30-19:30 POSTER SESSION 2
20.30 CONFERENCE DINNER
MONDAY JUNE 26
9.00-10.00 Keynote lecture by Anthony Greenwald, University of Washington10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:30 Plenary Symposium 3: ACTION, PERCEPTION, AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Susan Hurley
- Alessandro Farnè: Uni- and multi-sensory modulation of perception
- Sean Kelly: Perceptual normativity and human freedom.
- David Milner: Consciousness and the dorsal stream.
14.00-16.00 Concurrent session 3 (4 talks/stream x 1/2 hr)
CS 3.1. Sensation and perception (Cohen Kadosh, Martinez-Conde, Brouwer, Proulx)
CS 3.2. Philosophy 3 (Irvine, Van Gulick, Thomas, Shea)
CS 3.3. Self (Stoerig, Tsakiris, Ehrsson, Persaud)
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:30 Plenary Symposium 4: BRAIN-READING OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: John-Dylan Haynes
- John-Dylan Haynes: Brain reading of conscious and unconscious mental states
- Rainer Goebel: BOLD Brain Pong: Self-regulation of local brain activity in synchronously scanned, interacting subjects
- Thomas Metzinger: High-level content NCCs: Conceptual and methodological issues
- Frederique de Vignemont: Brain reading and the privacy of the mind
18.30-19.30 Gordon Holmes lecture by Martha Farah, University of Pennsylvania
19:30 ASSC10 AFTER PARTY