Thursday June 24
Satellite symposium on Coma and Impaired Consciousness
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Friday June 25
9.15-12.15 Morning Workshops
13.45 - 16.45: Afternoon Workshops
17.00 - 18.10: Opening lecture
by Petra Stoerig:
Reflections on
self-recognition
followed by the proclamation
of the ASSC William James Prize.
18.15: Opening reception at the 'Brantyser'
(Sint-Jacobsmarkt 11-13), as indicated on map
5.
Main
conference
Saturday June
26
9.20 -9.30:
Opening
9.30 -10-30: Keynote
lecture by Stanislas Dehaene:
The transition from non-conscious
to conscious processing: Simulations and experimental tests of
a neuronal workspace model
Chair: Thomas Metzinger
10.30 -11. 00: Coffee Break
11.00 -13. 00 Plenary
Symposium: Brain function in pathological unconsciousness
Joy Hirsch: Principles of functional
neuroimaging
Steven Laureys: Brain function
in pathological unconsciousness
Adrian Owen: Using functional
neuroimaging to detect residual cognitive function in persistent
vegetative state
Nicholas Schiff: Characterizing residual
cerebral activity following severe brain injuries
13.00 -14. 30 Poster session 1
Food will
be available, for a 'walking Lunch'
PS1: Vakalopoulos, Coello,
Lucero, Bailey, Voelzke, Shanahan, Holland, Thomas Schmidt, Aleksander,
Franklin, Chella, Dooremalen, Ansorge, Wierzchon, Tomiczek, Niklaus,
Jakobsen, Hunt, Scharlau, Phaf, Sturzenegger, Balas, Reynvoet,
Vandenberghe, Davelaar, Destrebecqz, Eckstein, Vellozzo, Jimenez,
Dorris, Godlewska, Bach, Geng, Caessens, Repovs, Ruby
14.30-16.30: Concurrent session 1
CS1.1. Philosophy
1 (Chrisley,
Van Gulick, Veldeman, Reeve)
CS 1.2. NCC
(Schwarzbach, Christensen, Sergent, Boly)
CS 1.3. Free will 1 (Huebl, Vierkant, Lau, Gomes)
CS 1.4 Implicit learning (Peigneux, Balas, Gaillard, Norman)
16.30 -17. 00: Coffee Break
17.
00- 18.00 Plenary debate: Stanislas
Deheane and Daniel
Holender on the plausibility of unconscious perception.
Moderated by Axel Cleeremans.
Sunday June 27
9.15 -11.15: Plenary Symposium:
The relationship of visibility,
brightness, and salience to visual awareness
Ronald Rensink: Relating salience,
attention, and visual awareness: The problem of ontological poverty
Susana Martinez-Conde: Shape
and saliency are confounded in the early visual system
Steve Macknik: Physiological and perceptual studies of visibility
and visual awareness in primates
11.15 - 11.45: Coffee Break
11.45 -12.45 Keynote lecture by Takeo
Watanabe:
Perceptual learning
without conscious awareness is not passive
Chair: J. Kevin O'Regan
12.45 -14. 15: Poster
session 2
Food will be available,
for a 'walking Lunch'
PS2: Bekinschtein, Legrand. Beaton, Schnakers, Todd,
Frantzen, Bianca, Vosgerau, Cook, Rietveld, Delbecque, Blackmore,
Hoogenboom, Twyman, Brown, Sweklej, Schmidt & Stoerig, Isenman,
Turabi, Camprodon, Tanabe, Stoerig, Bengtsson, Torrance, Terrier,
Sergent, Laurent, Schmidt-Felzmann, Melloni, Farber, Valente,
Yao, De Preester, Daurat, McGann. Tschacher, Whiteley
14.15-16.15: Concurrent session 2
CS2.1. Sensorimotor accounts (Bompas, Love, Philipona, Auvray)
CS 2.2. Visual approaches (Davies, Cohen-Kadosh,
Sagiv, Zeman)
CS 2.3. Memory, attention & sensory integration (Hall,
Wilken, Banks, Smallwood)
CS 2.4 Philosophy 2 (Lloyd, Kriegel, Meeks, de Regt)
16.15 -16.
45: Coffee Break
16.45 -18.45: Plenary Symposium:
Dynamical approaches
to Consciousness
Chair: Alva Noë
Evan Thompson: Neurophenomenology
and the neurodynamics of consciousness.
Jean-Philippe
Lachaux: What was my subject doing
? The status of First person data in Brain Imaging
J. Scott Kelso: The
complementary nature
Alicia Juarrero:
Consciousness as a dynamic attractor
20.15: Conference dinner at the Elzenveld
Monday June 28
9.30 -11.30: Plenary Symposium: Conscious volition: experimental and
conceptual approaches
Matthew Rushworth: The medial
motor areas and voluntary action
Jonathan
Cole: The sense of agency in clinical
patients with sensorimotor impairments
Patrick
Haggard: Neural events associated
with awareness of simple intentional actions
Pierre
Jacob: Varieties of self-awareness
11.30 - 12.00: Coffee Break
12.00 -13.00 Keynote lecture by J.
Kevin O'Regan
Phenomenal Consciousness
Explained Better
Chair:Dan Lloyd
13.00 - 14.30: Lunch Break
14.30 -16-30: Concurrent session 3
CS3.1. Biology/techniques (Breitmeyer, Schnakers, van Swinderen,
Petrovic)
CS 3.2. Phenomenology (Mangan,
Price, Myin-Germeys, Ohme)
CS 3.3. Self (de Vignemont, Lou, Barresi, Baars)
CS 3.4 Free will 2 (Jordan, Ehrsson, Pauen, Kiesel)
16.30 -17.00:
Coffee Break
17.00 -18.00: Keynote lecture by Geraint
Rees:
Neural correlates
of conscious and unconscious vision
Chair: Ned Block