overview

 

 

ASSC8 Schedule

 

Unless indicated otherwise, all events will happen in the UA City Campus buildings in the Rodestraat, 14 (building R -see map 1 and map 3)
(map1, map2, map3, map 4)

 

Download a detailed version of the program here (pdf)

 

Thursday June 24

Satellite symposium on Coma and Impaired Consciousness

Download a detailed version of the satellite program here (pdf)

 

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