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Old Ship Hotel Dome theatre Pavilion theatre

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Closing address 17:00

Opening remarks & James prize lecture

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Special lecture: Christof Koch 18:30

Presidential address: Victor Lamme

19:00

Pre-dinner drinks 19:30

Welcome reception

20:00

ASSC social: The Loft

Consciousness Salon:

Latest Music Bar

Conference dinner and

Poor man’s dinner

ASSC after party: The Globe

20:30

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MONDAY, JULY 2, 2012

Time Topic Presenter Location

09:30

Tutorial Workshops Old Ship

T1 Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Subjectivity and Selfhood: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Neurology, and Neuroimaging

Olaf Blanke & Thomas Metzinger

T2 Sensory Substitution Jamie Ward & Thomas Wright

T3 A Primer on Experimental Hypnosis Research

Devin Terhune

T4 Self-Knowledge: Philosophy meets Cognitive Science

Axel Cleeremans, Morten Overgaard , Bert Timmermans & Ryan Scott

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Tutorial Workshops Old Ship

T5 The Science of Magic: Turning magic into Science

Gustav Kuhn & Ronald Rensink

T6 Meditation and Consciousness: Two ways Meditation can Contribute to Consciousness Science

Susan Blackmore

T7 Neurosurgery and its Role in the Study of Consciousness

James Laban , Harutomo Hasegawa & Keyoumars Ashkan

T8 The Phenomenology, Neurobiology, and Neurocognitive Basis of Depersonalization

Heather Berlin & Nick Medford

17:15

Opening Remarks and James Prize Lecture

18:30

Presidential Address Victor Lamme Dome

19:30 Welcome Reception Dome Foyer Bar

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TUESDAY, JULY 3, 2012

Time Topic Presenter Location

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Keynote Lecture Dome

The Unity Of Consciousness Tim Bayne

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Symposium 1: Consciousness Fading Chair: Andreas Engel

Block Of Intracortical Communication By Propofol-Induced Neural Hypersynchrony

Gernot Supp

Is Propofol-Induced Loss Of Consciousness A Sleep-Like State?

Melanie Boly

The Neural Dynamics of Loss and Recovery of Consciousness under General Anesthesia

Emery Brown

13:00

Lunch

Concurrent Session 1

14:00

CS 1.1 Metacognition and Higher Order Consciousness

Dome

How To Determine If Knowledge Is Unconscious.

Zoltan Dienes

ERP Correlates Of Consciousness Depend On The Measurement: Decisional Confidence Vs. Visual Experience.

Manuel Rausch

Knowing If They Know: A Novel Bias-Free Method For Incentivising Accurate Metacognitive Reports.

Ryan Scott

How Can We Know When We Know We Know? Towards Measuring Metacognition.

Adam Barrett

Titchener’s “Introspectionism” Contra Contemporary Introspective Approaches In Scientific Psychology.

Christain Beenfeldt

There Is No Introspective Attention. Kevin Reuter

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TUESDAY, JULY 3, 2012

Time Topic Presenter Location

14:00

CS 1.2 Altered States Corn Exchange

Immersion Consciousness Carolyn Jennings Is Asymbolia The Only “Genuine” Case Of

Dissociation Between The Affective And Sensory Dimensions Of Pain?

Adam Shriver

Communicating With The Unconscious: The

Development Of A Brain-Computer Interface For The Vegetative And Minimally Conscious States.

Damian Cruse

Thalamic Generator For Propofol-Induced

Alpha-Rhythm: A Simultaneous EEG-fMRI Study.

Ithabi Gantner

Cognitive Capacity But Not Sedation Level

Predicts Neural Signatures Of Conscious Processing.

Jacobo Sitt

The Neural Correlates Of Psychedelic

Consciousness As Determined By fMRI Studies With Psilocybin.

Robin Carhart-Harris

14:00

CS 1.3 Unity and the Unconscious Pavilion

Visual Sensory Memory Contains Phenomenal

Rather Than Unconscious Representations. Annelinde Vandenbroucke

Behavioural Priming: It’s All In The Mind, But

Whose Mind? Axel Cleeremans

Objective Markers Of Detection Process

During A Choice Blindness Task. Philip Pärnaments

Adaptation To Unconscious Conflicts In

Unconscious Contexts. Heiko Reuss

Do Split-Brain Subjects Have Unified

Consciousness? Ting-An Lin

Access And The Unity Of Consciousness. Michael Klincewicz 16:00

Coffee Break

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TUESDAY, JULY 3, 2012

Time Topic Presenter Location

Concurrent Session 2

16:30

CS 2.1 Implicit Learning and Perception

Dome

The ‘Sublink’ Effect: Inducing An Attentional Blink From Subliminal Stimuli.

Sid Kouider

The Evolution Of Masked Priming Effects Using The Incremental Priming Technique.

Eva Van den Bussche

Subliminal Sequence Learning In Peripheral Vision.

Anne Atas

Cultural Differences In Implicit Sequence Learning.

Qiufang Fu

Retro-Attention: Triggering Conscious Perception After The Stimulus Is Gone.

Claire Sergent

Stimulus Size Has Opposite Impacts On The Speed Of Unconscious Processing And The Timing Of Conscious Perception.

Ryota Kanai

16:30

CS 2.2 Prediction Expectation, and

Consciousness

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Predictive Coding In The Visual Cortex. Lars Muckli

Pre-Stimulus Activity Predicts Awareness In Visual Extinction.

Maren Urner

An Interoceptive Predictive Coding Model Of Conscious Presence

Anil Seth

Can We Tell What We Said When We Hear Ourselves Saying Something Else?

Andreas Lind

Making Predictive Coding More Predictive, More Enactive.

Ron Chrisley

The Anticipation/Fulfilment Model Of Vision Connects Phenomenology And Cognitive Neuroscience.

Michael Madary

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TUESDAY, JULY 3, 2012

Time Topic Presenter Location

16:30

CS 2.3 Time Perception and Attention Pavilion

Attention and The Passing Of Time. Ian Phillips Time Consciousness and Object Constancy. Jan Almäng

Unconscious Attention. Bence Nanay A Unified Neuroanatomical Model Of Time

Perception. Sundeep Teki

The Role Of Action-Effect Prediction In

Intentional Binding And Sensory Attenuation. Gethin Hughes

Quantative Evaluation Of Conscious And

Nonconscious Temporal Integration. Nathan Faivre

20:00 ASSC Social The Loft

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 2012

Time Topic Presenter Location

09:15

Keynote Lecture Dome

Decoding Consciousness Geraint Rees

10:30

Coffee Break

Concurrent Session 3

11:00

CS 3.1 Theories and Models Dome

Integration Theories of Consciousness and the Unity of the Self- A Proposal for Mutual Exchange Between Research Programs.

Robert Van Gulick

How to Build a Robot that Feels. Kevin O’Regan

Stability as a Hallmark of the Neural Dynamics Underlying Conscious Sensory Perception.

Aaron Schurger

Consciousness as an Answer to Pervasive Intentionality.

Paul Verschure

A Multi-Access Model of Conscious Awareness. Michael Cohen

Is Consciousness Graded, Dichotomous, or bothbBoth?

Bert Windey

Both?

11:00

CS 3.2 Neural Correlates and Mechanisms Corn Exchange

Decoding the Contents of Conscious Perception.

Moti Salti

Perceptual Learning Incepted by Decoded fMRI Neurofeedback without Stimulus Presentation.

Kazuhisa Shibata

The Time Course and Spatial Distribution of Consciousness-Dependent Activity in the Brain.

Roger Koenig-Robert

Confuse Your Illusion: Feedback to Early Visual Cortex Contributes to Perceptual Completion.

Martijn Wokke

Perceptual Closure in Grapheme-Colour Synaesthesia.

Tessa Van Leeuwen

Looking Without Seeing: A Direct Oculomotor Correlate of Unconscious Visual Processing.

Marcus Rothkirch

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 2012

Time Topic Presenter Location

11:00

CS 3.3 Self, Agency and Hypnosis Pavilion

Increased fMRI Resting State Network Functional Connectivity in Hypnotic State.

Athena Demertzi

Using Suggestion to Gain Control Over Increasingly Automatic Processes.

Michael Lifshitz

Placebo-Suggestion Modulates Conflict Adaptation in the Stroop Task.

Pedro De Saldanha da Gama

Zombies, Ouija, and the Ideomotor Effect: When Implicit Cognition Turns Explicit.

Helene Gaucho

Authorship of Thoughts in Thought Insertion.

Max Seeger

Disturbances of Agency in Schizophrenia. Georgina Torbet

13:00 Lunch (and ASSC mentor lunch)

14:00 Poster Session 1 Corn Exchange

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Poster browsing session Corn Exchange

18:00 Special Lecture Dome

Studying the Murine Mind using Large Scale Observatories

Christof Koch

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THURSDAY, JULY 5, 2012

Time Topic Presenter Location

09:15 Keynote Lecture Dome

Social Emotions From The Lens Of Social Neuroscience: Modulation, Development And Plasticity

Tania Singer

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Symposium 2: Bringing the In-Depth Body to the Surface: Interoception, Awareness and Prediction

Chair: Manos Tsakiris

Dome

Visceral Afferent Signaling, Interoceptive Awareness And Predictive Coding: Impact On Emotional Processes

Hugo Critchley

Interoception And The Problem Of Consciousness

Jim Hopkins

Just A Heartbeat Away From One’s Body: Interoceptive Sensitivity And Malleability Of Self-Representations

Manos Tsakiris

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Symposium 3: Perceptual Consciousness and Cognitive Access

Chair: Ned Block

Dome

The Fundamental Methodological Problem of Consciousness Research

Ned Block

Kinds of Access and Phenomenality Jérôme Sackur

Making Perceptual Consciousness Accessible Ilja Gabriël Sligte

Indeterminate Perceptual Consciousness and Cognitive Access

James Stazicker

16:00 Coffee Break 16:30 Poster Session 2 Corn

Exchange 19:00 Pre-Dinner Drinks (dinner guests only) Foyer Bar 20:00 Conference Dinner Foyer Bar

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FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2012

Time Topic Presenter Location

09:15

Keynote Lecture Dome

Infants’ Sensitivity to Others’ Belief: Unconscious Theory of Mind?

Josef Perner

10:30 Coffee Break

Concurrent Session 4

11:00 CS 4.1 Stability and Neural Mechanisms Dome

Effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Conscious Awareness and Perception.

Chris Allen

GABA Concentrations Predict Individual Differenced in Bistable Perception.

Anouk Van Loon

EEG Correlates of Stable and Unstable Object Representations are Similar Across Stimulus Categories.

Jürgen Kornmeier

Visual Rivalry in the Fly Brain Reveals a Dissociation Between Salience and Time.

Bruno Van Swinderen

Binocular Rivalry Requires Attention. Jan Brascamp

Object-Based Attention Without Awareness. Liam Norman

11:00 CS 4.2 Embodied Consciousness Corn Exchange

In-Depth Body and its Non-Topographic Representation.

Helena De Preester

Is Proprioception a Form of Perception? Lana Kuhle

Mineness, Minimal Self, and Self-Related Processing.

Timothy Lane

When Social Cognition Meets Cross-Modal Interactions: Mirroring Other People’s Experiences.

Noam Sagiv

Blinded by your Heart: Awareness of Fear Stimuli is Influenced by Cardiac Cycle.

Sarah Garfinkel

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FRIDAY, JULY 6, 2012

Time Topic Presenter Location

Why did I Stop Myself? The Effect of Non-Conscious Primes on Intentional Inhibition of Actions.

Jim Parkinson

11:00 CS 4.3 Phenomenology Pavilion

Analyzing Phenomenal Concepts Relying on Mental Files.

Albert Newen

Tye on Acquaintance and the Knowledge Argument.

Esa Diaz-Leon

Towards a Specification of the Phenomenology of Conscious Thought.

Marta Jorba-Grau

Attention, Phenomenology, and the Semantics of Questions.

Philipp Koralus

A Puzzle Concerning Spatial Consciousness. Adrian Alsmith

Smelling Phenomenal: Rethinking the Distinction between Access and Phenomenal Consciousness.

Benjamin Young

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Symposium 4: Balancing the Self: Vestibular Contributions to Self-Consciousness

Chair: Christophe Lopez

Dome

Vestibular Contribution to Multisensory Mechanisms Underlying the Sense of Self

Bigna Lenggenhager

Vestibular and Multisensory Foundations of Self-Location and Self-Other Distinction

Christophe Lopez

Is There A Vestibular-Somatosensory Interaction? Evidence from Brain-Damaged Patients and Healthy Participants”

Gabriella Bottini

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Closing Address

20:00 ASSC after Party The Globe

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June 30th 2012 at the Brighton Corn Exchange

State of Mind is a one-day public Expo interactively showcasing the latest developments

in the new science of consciousness. Taking place just before the academic meeting of the

association for the scientific study of consciousness (ASSC16), the Expo will form a key part

of a citywide celebration of consciousness science, all compered by Sussex University’s

Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science.

The Expo, hosted in central Brighton at the magnificent Corn Exchange complex, will feature

an interactive showcase of new technologies that exploit and explore many aspects of

consciousness, perception, and human experience. Exhibits will have a strong interactive

component allowing you to be immersed in, and to learn about, different aspects of your

own conscious experience and their biological basis. There will also be plentiful

opportunities to talk with the scientists, technologists, and artists investigating

consciousness from their many differing perspectives.

State of Mind will have a strong focus on the core theme of consciousness science, with

exhibits covering topics such as: introspection, mind-bending visual illusions, striking

scientific images of the brain, sensory substitution devices, impossible objects, myths,

morphs and memes, virtual-reality environments, bio-feedback, eye-tracking, and much,

much more.

Come and join in with a citywide celebration of consciousness science.

Everyone is welcome as long as they keep an open mind.

For more information visit http://www.consciousnessexpo.co.uk/

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Consciousness Salon – Exploring Hypnosis

Peter Naish

July 4th 2012 at the Latest Music Bar

It was not long ago that science was skeptical about hypnosis - it simply wasn't "real". However,

recent research suggests that hypnosis actually produces changes in the brain; there is a reality that

begins to explain why it has therapeutic value (and potential dangers). Hypnosis has always been

fascinating to the general public; now the scientists are fascinated too, because it seems to help with

unravelling that most fascinating topic of all - the nature of consciousness.

Peter Naish will set recent intriguing findings in context, and consider why some people are more

hypnotisable than others. Are they in some sense "more conscious" - or are they more vulnerable?

Peter Naish has long had an interest in hypnosis, and in a varied career, including research in

academia, for the Home Office and for the Ministry of Defence, he has taken every opportunity

either to research or to use hypnosis. He has discussed the subject on numerous TV and radio

programmes, at home and abroad, given lectures on it at science festivals and serves as an expert

witness in court cases involving hypnosis. He is currently Chair of Council of the British Society of

Clinical and Academic Hypnosis, and is the President of the Section for Hypnosis and Psychosomatic

Medicine, at the Royal Society of Medicine, of which he is a Fellow.

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Satellite Symposium

Neuropsychiatry and Consciousness: Bringing

Consciousness Science to the Clinic

Saturday 7th July 2012

Organizers:

Dr Nick Medford (Brighton and Sussex Medical School), Ms Hazelle Woodhurst

Venue: Michael Chowen Lecture Theatre, (BSMS) Brighton & Sussex Medical School - Teaching

Building (No 46 on map at bottom of page).

Registration: £30 for the full day - Note there is a capacity limit of 140 people.

NOTE: Registration for this event is separate to general ASSC 16 registration.

Summary: Psychiatric disorders entail disturbances of first-person experience, such as altered mood

or anomalous perceptions. To what extent can they be considered consciousness disorders? And

what can theoretical approaches to consciousness gain from considering the mental and biological

disturbances that are seen in clinical neurology? The disturbances that arise in neuropsychiatric

disorders can provide clues to the underlying structure of conscious awareness itself. In this satellite

symposium, a range of medical neuroscientists will address these issues, covering such topics as

disturbances of volition, anomalies of self-representation, and the interaction of body and brain.

Recommended for clinicians interested in consciousness science, and for consciousness scientists

wishing to learn more about the functions and dysfunctions of consciousness.

Program

9.15-9.30 Welcome and Introduction - Dr Nick Medford, Prof Hugo Critchley

9.30-10.30 Keynote lecture: ‘The neuropsychiatry of core and extended consciousness’ - Prof Adam

Zeman

10.30-11.10 ‘Self-representation, neurovisceral phenotypes and anxiety’ - Prof Hugo Critchley

11.10-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.10 ‘Premonitory urges and sensory tics: is Tourette syndrome a pathology of

consciousness?’ - Dr Andrea Cavanna

12.10-12.50 ‘Psychogenic movement disorders: why and how’ – Dr Valerie Voon

12.50-14.00 Lunch

14.00-14.40 ’Selves unreal and divided: dissociation and psychosis’- Dr Nick Medford

14.40-15.20 ‘Body perception illusions in epilepsy’- Dr Lukas Heydrich

15.20-15.40 Coffee

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15.40-16.20 ‘Hypnosis, Consciousness, and Dissociation’- Dr Quinton Deeley

16.20-17.00 ‘The role of the body in emotional experience’- Dr Neil Harrison

Venue: Michael Chowen Lecture Theatre, (BSMS) Brighton & Sussex Medical School - Teaching

Building (No 46)

Travel:

If travelling from overseas or within the UK to the University of Sussex, Brighton and Sussex Medical

School (BSMS)

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/findus/uktravel

By Train:

If arriving by Train into Brighton please take a connecting train to Falmer Station for the University.

Falmer Station: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/FMR.html National Rail Enquiries http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/

By Car

Should you prefer to come by car, the closest car park to the Medical school is car park 3 in Biology Road, which is parallel to the BSMS Teaching Building. The medical school has long white steps at the front leading up to its entrance and will be signposted outside for the satellite symposium.

By Taxi

Taxis are available at both Brighton and Lewes train stations and at many places in the centre of Brighton. It is about four miles (six kilometres) from central Brighton to the University. (There is no taxi service at Falmer station itself.)