Schedule

Every conference schedule is subject to change. Please check back here closer to the date of the meeting for information about the location of conference venues, titles and abstracts of talks, etc.

Thursday, 4 June
Special Satellite Symposium

Coma and Consciousness: Clinical, societal and ethical implications

Registration for the satellite event is separate from that of the main conference. Please direct any enquires about the satellite meeting – attendance, registration etc. – to Steven Laureys.

Friday, 5 June

• 9:30–12:30 Morning Workshops
• 12:30–14:00 Lunch
• 14:00–17:00 Afternoon Workshops
• 17:30–18:00 Opening Remarks: Michael Pauen and Patrick Wilken (local co-chairs), and Thomas Metzinger (President-Elect ASSC)
• 18:00–19:00 Presidential Address: An integrated information theory of consciousness. Speaker: Giulio Tononi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 19:00–late Opening Reception

Saturday, 6 June

• 9:00–10:00 Keynote Lecture: Origins of Shared Intentionality
  Speaker: Michael Tomasello, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology
• 10:00–10:30 Coffee Break
• 10:30–12:30 Symposium 1: Attention and Consciousness
  Chair: Tobias Schlicht
  
  • Alva Noë: Does phenomenal consciousness outstrip cognitive access?
  • Ronald Rensink: Towards a taxonomy of visual attention.
  • Michael Tye: Attention, seeing, and change blindness.
• 12:30–14:00 Lunch
• 14:00–15:30 Concurrent Session 1
• 15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
• 16:00–17:30 Concurrent Session 2
• 17:30–19:30 Poster Session 1
• 20:00–late Student Reception

Sunday, 7 June

• 9:00–10:00 Keynote Lecture: Armchair reflections on consciousness and the science of consciousness Speaker: Jaegwon Kim, Brown University
• 10:00–10:30 Coffee Break
• 10:30–12:30 Symposium 2: Mirroring the Self and Others.
  Chair: Noam Sagiv
  
  • Jamie Ward: Your body is my body: The remarkable “mirror touch” synaesthesia.
  • Peter Brugger: Anarchic limbs, anarchic bodies: hostility in the breakdown of corporeal awareness.
  • Olaf Blanke: Merging cognitive neuroscience with virtual reality to study self-consciousness.
• 12:30–14:00 Lunch
• 14:00–15:30 Concurrent Session 3
• 15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
• 16:00–17:30 Concurrent Session 4
• 17:30–19:30 Poster Session 2
• 20:30–late Conference Dinner

Monday, 8 June

• 9:00–10:00 Keynote Lecture: What is the Explanatory Gap?
  Speaker: David Papineau, King’s College London
• 10:00–10:30 Coffee Break
• 10:30–12:30 Symposium 3: Visual Perception Across Short Timescales.
  Chair: Niko Busch
  
  • Rufin van Rullen: Is perception discrete or continuous?
  • Ryota Kanai: Perceived timing, transients and feature binding.
  • Valtteri Arstila: Vision and perceived simultaneity.
• 12:30–14:00 Lunch
  
• 14:00–15:00 Keynote Lecture by the winner of the 2009 William James Prize
• 15:00–16:00 Keynote Lecture: The development of a theory of mind: a tutorial.
  Speaker: Susan Carey, Harvard University
• 16:00–16:30 Coffee Break
• 16:30–18:30 Symposium 4: Measuring Consciousness: Neurophysiological and Behavioral Approaches
  Chair: Anil Seth
  
  • Anil Seth: A framework for measuring consciousness.
  • Andreas Engel: Measuring consciousness through neural coherence.
  • Zoltan Dienes: Confidence, gambling and control: Dissociating measures of the conscious status of knowledge.
• 18:30–19:30 Keynote Lecture: Human volition: Towards a neuroscience of will
  Speaker: Patrick Haggard, University College London
• 19:30–19:45 Closing Remarks: John-Dylan Haynes (local co-chair)
• 19:45–v. late ASSC-13 After Party