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Sunday, June 1, 2003:

8:00 am:

Registration (Auditorium)

8:30 am - 9:30 am:

Plenary Talk: (Auditorium)
"The Fantasy of a First-Person Science of Consciousness"
by Daniel C. Dennett, Center for Cognitive Studies

9:30 am - 9:55 am:

Coffee Break

9:55 am - 12:25 pm:

Plenary Symposium 3 (Auditorium)
Feedback and Re-Entrant Processes in Consciousness:

"Why Visual Attention and Awareness are different" by Victor A.F. Lamme, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Title to be Announced by Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School

"Two-way Pathways in the Brain: What are they for ?" by Vince Di Lollo, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

12:25 pm - 13:35 pm:

Lunch

13:35 pm - 15:35 pm:

Concurrent Sessions:
CS 2.1 Binocular Rivalry/Neural Correlates (
Psychology 204)

"Variability and Adaptability of the Visual System in Binocular Rivalry" by Fumihiko Taya, Osaka University & Sony Computer Science Laboratories and Ken Mogi, Sony Computer Science Laboratories

"Differential Amygdala but not extrastriate activity is evidence for Categorization of objects not seen during Binocular Rivalry" by Brian Pasley and Robert Schultz, Yale Child Study Center

"Re-Entrant Loops, Neural Codes and Conscious Awareness" by Peter Cariani, Harvard Medical School

"Can Neural Darwinism explain Consciousness? An Empirical Evaluation" by Anil K. Seth and Bernard J. Baars, The Neurosciences Institute

CS 2.2 Phenomenology (Psychology 206)

"Phenomenology ain't just in the head" by Justin C. Fisher, University of Arizona

"Either Ho or Fo: A False Dichotomy" by Robert W. Lurz, Brooklyn College, CUNY

"Closing the gap on pain" by Thomas Polger, University of Cincinnati, and Kenneth Sufka, University of Mississippi

"Reportability and the Single Index Challenge" by Dan Ryder, Indiana University, and Zena Ryder, UNC Chapel Hill

CS 2.3 Perception (Dunn Hall 249)

"Studies of the Dichoptic Standing Wave of Invisibility: Implications for Visual Awareness" by Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, University College, London

"Perception Training of the Visual Potentialities" by Sharipov Amir and Gafurova Zulfia, Russian Eye and Plastic Surgery Center

"Changes in Shape are confunded with changes in Intensity in early Visual Neurons" by Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen L. Macknik, and Xoana G. Troncoso, University College, London

"Illusory Body Image induced by Double Touch in fingers" by Takayasu Sekine, Tokyo Institute of Technology & Sony Computer Science Laboratories, and Ken Mogi, Sony Computer Science Laboratories

15:35 pm - 16:00 pm:

Tea

16:00 pm - 18:30 pm:

Plenary Symposium 4 (Auditorium)
Computational Models of Consciousness:

"What kind of Virtual Machine is capable of Human Consciousness?" by Aaron Sloman, The University of Birmingham

"Is it Conscious? A question of Mechanism" by Igor Aleksander, Imperial College, London

"The Search for the Computational Correlates of Consciousness" by Axel Cleeremans, Universite Libre de Bruxelles

19:00 pm - 21:00 pm:

Southern Gourmet Banquet (Holiday Inn)

 

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