SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM: OVERVIEW

ASSC6 starts with 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.

ASSC6 extends over four days: May 31st, June 1st, June 2nd, and June 3rd.
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.

AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS: Please consult the authors instructions page (also linked from the menu on the left of the program pages).

Friday May 31st

08:00	Registration opens
09:00	Morning Workshops: W01 Using a computational model of consciousness and cognition (Franklin & Baars) W02 Memory, Dreaming and Consciousness in the Sleeping Brain (Peigneux & Schwartz) W03 Language and Consciousness: A linguistic perspective (Stamenov)
12:00	Lunch
13:20	Afternoon Workshops: W04 Consciousness and Functional Brain Imaging: Methods and Applications (Lloyd) W05 Conscious and unconscious visual processing: Cognitive and sensorimotor aspects of vision (Bridgeman) W06 Animal cognition and consciousness (Call)
16:20	Coffe Break
17:00	Evening Workshops: W07 The Phylogenetic Origins of Theory of Mind (Hare) W08 The Role of Language in Perceptual Categorisation (Davidoff) W09 Forward models and consciousness (Blakemore) W10 Emotions and Consciousness (Prinz & de Gelder)
20:00	Workshops End
20:30	Welcome Reception Gardens of the Universitat de Barcelona (Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585)

Saturday JUNE 1st

08:00	Registration opens
09:15	Welcome
09:30	Aware or unaware? Verbal and Non-Verbal Assessment of Blindsight Petra Stoerig	[PL-01]
10:30	Plenary symposium: Consciousness Without Language
	On the content of chimpanzee consciousness Daniel J. Povinelli	[PL-02]
11:10	Coffee Break
11:40	Plenary symposium: Consciousness Without Language (cont..)
	Rationality and Reasoning Without Language José Luis Bermúdez	[PL-03]
	The early development of executive function: A levels of consciousness approach Philip David Zelazo	[PL-04]
	General Discussion
13:30	Lunch
15:15	Concurrent Sessions 1: CS1.1 Disorders CS1.2 Science of consciousness CS1.3 Language of Thought CS1.4 Higher-Order Thought
17:15	Coffee Break
17:30	A dualism of dependent variables Larry Weiskrantz	[PL-05]
18:30	Poster Session 1
20:30	Poster Session End

Sunday JUNE 2nd

09:15	Plenary symposium: Reportability
	The end of anonymous phenomenology? Anthony I. Jack	[PL-06]
	Why Are Verbally Expressed Thoughts Conscious? David M. Rosenthal	[PL-07]
	Re-representing consciousness: Dissociations between experience and meta-consciousness Jonathan Schooler	[PL-08]
11:15	Coffee Break
11:45	Plenary symposium: Reportability (cont.)
	Consciousness, Attention, and Reportability Jesse Prinz	[PL-09]
	Discussant: David Chalmers
	General Discussion
13:45	Lunch
15:15	Concurrent Sessions 2: CS2.1 Visual Consciousness CS2.2 Language Processing CS2.3 Animals/Infants CS2.4 Conscious Thought
17:15	Coffee Break
17:30	Artificial Collective Consciousness Luc Steels	[PL-10]
18:30	Poster Session 2
20:30	Poster Session End
21:00	Conference Banquet Restaurant Can Cortada (Av. Estatut de Catalunya, 88)

Monday JUNE 3rd

09:15	Unconscious semantic priming Pío Tudela	[PL-11]
10:15	Conscious and Unconscious Aspects of Language Structure Ray Jackendoff	[PL-12]
11:15	Coffee Break
11:45	Plenary symposium: Synesthesia
	Do Small Balls Squeak? Re-evaluating Neonatal Synesthesia Daphne Maurer	[PL-13]
	Synesthesia, Qualia and Consciousness Edward M. Hubbard	[PL-14]
	Discussant: Philip Merikle
	General Discussion
13:45	Lunch
15:15	Concurrent Sessions 3: CS3.1 Implicit Processes CS3.2 Imagery/Synesthesia CS3.3 Reportability CS3.4 Ontology
17:15	Coffee Break
17:30	A Fork in the Road to the Neural Correlate of Consciousness Ned Block	[PL-15]
18:30	End of the ASSC6