CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Program subject to alteration
(tbc: to be confirmed)

Monday April 27

C1: Qualia

Chair: Martine Nida-Ruemelin

• D. Pitt, The phenomenology of cognition. Or What is it like to think that p? Abstract#758
• L. Stubenberg, The old vs. the new qualia. Abstract#1143
• N. Newton, Why we can't describe conscious experience. Abstract#889
• W.S. Robinson, Qualia realism and neural activation patterns. Abstract#818
• Z. Jakab, Ineffability of qualia, representational atomicity and intermodal transfer. Abstract#891

C2: Neural correlates of consciousness

Chair: James Newman

• F.X. Vollenweider, A. Gamma, A. Dittrich, PET studies into altered states of consciousness and patterns of metabolic brain activity. Abstract#1201
• G. Rode, Y. Rossetti, A. Farne, M-T Perenin, D. Boisson, Anosognosia for left hemiplegia, hemianopsia, hemianesthesia and hemineglect : intermediate levels or interactions between implicit and explicit processing? Abstract#1179
• Gallese, V. 1270 Mirror neurons: from grasping to language.
• P.J. Snow, D.C. Trussell, Higher consciousness - the domains of the human psyche. Abstract#778
• Y. Tamori and K. Mogi, Construction of the manifold of qualia from neural activities. Abstract#1330

C3: Implicit cognition

Chair: Philip Merikle

• I. Apetroaia, D. Manier, w. Hirst, Context effects: towards an understanding of the way in which implicit learning affects explicit remembering. Abstract#1089
• M.C. Price, Responding directly to nonconscious visually-masked stimuli: Further evidence for the importance of passivity. Abstract#982
• R. Sun, Modeling the roles of implicit and explicit learning in consciousness. Abstract#751
• Y. Rossetti, L. Pisella, Temporal asynchony between sensory and between motor components of a visuo-motor response : a time-grounded dissociation between implicit and explicit processing? Abstract#968
• Speck, G.B. 937 Does classical conditioning imply animal consciousness?

C4: Time

Chair: Piet Hut

• C.T. Vehse, Religious practice and consciousness: a case study of time from the 19th century. Abstract#863
• F.A. Wolf, The timing of conscious experience: A causality-violating, two-valued, transactional interpretation of subjective antedating and spatial-temporal projection. Abstract#847
• J.A. Trevena, Readiness potentials and conscious decisions preceding a voluntary movement. Abstract#925
• R. Cook, Consciousness and the language-time nexus. Abstract#971
• S.A. Helekar, J-B Le Pichon, Experimental predictions based on the statistical and temporal aspects of a hypothetical neural mechanism for subjectivity. Abstract#1033

C5: Psychoneural Isomorphism

Chair: Alva Noë

• S. Gallagher, Isomorphism and explanation in cognitive science. Abstract#806
• D.Y. Teller, Linking propositions in visual science. Abstract#1246
• A. Noë, On the possibility of representing what one sees. Abstract#807
• E. Thompson, The perception of space: Lived experience and cognitive science. Abstract#808
• F.J. Varela, Mutual constraint: Lived experience and cognitive science. Abstract#809

C6: Crosscultural perspectives

Chair: Michael Winkelman

• B.A. Wallace, Training the attention and exploring consciousness in Tibetan buddhism. Abstract#748
• D. Deslauriers, Inquiry within traditional knowledge, an epistemological perspective. Abstract#990
• N. Maryboy, D. Begay, Consciousness in Navajo cosmology. Abstract#991
• R.A. Haag, Consciousness and sufism: A new paradigm for western scientists. Abstract#824
• T. Volk, Borders within the mind. Abstract#854

Tuesday April 28

C7: Materialism and dualism

Chair: William Robinson (tbc)

• K. Balog, The new conceivability arguments: Revenge of the zombies. Abstract#850
• R. Van Gulick, Reduction, supervenience and phenomenal consciousness. Abstract#1141
• M. Silberstein, Emergence, explanation and the hard problem of consciousness. Abstract#930
• T.C. Hughes, Phenomenal know-how. Abstract#843
• S. Torrance, Reconstruing experiential concepts: How to solve the hard problem. Abstract#1080

C8: The function of consciousness

Chair: Antti Revonsuo

• B. Mangan, Consciousness, biological systems, and the fallacy of functional exclusion. Abstract#1060
• S. Iwasaki, A functional role of conscious respresentation. Abstract#1174
• J.M. Schwartz, PET imaging of systematic cerebral changes after psychological treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A causal role for consciousness in the brain? Abstract#931
• Payne, T. 1101 The effects of olfactory imaging on odor recognition.
• Jordan, J.S., 1341Consciousness as the autocatalytic control of thermodynamic aboutness

C9: Attention and vision

Chair: Mary Peterson (tbc)

• J. Bickle, M. Bernstein, M. Heatley, G. Boyd, C. Worley, Modeling stimulus-driven selective visual attention using thalamorcortical and intrathalamic cell properties and connectivities. Abstract#789
• K.R. Abdulrazak, Neural basis of selective auditory attention in a gleaning bat, Antrozous Pallidus. Abstract#750
• T. Bachmann, Accelerative spatiotemporal distortion of motion of an aperture line in visual awareness. Abstract#1067
• L. Lou, Selective peripheral fading: A deletrious effect of sustained visual attention. Abstract#988
• Durgin, F.H. 1271 Supporting the "grand illusion" of direct perception: implicit learning in eye-movement control.

C10: Quantum biology and consciousness

Chair: Stuart Hameroff

• G. Rein, The topology of consciousness. Abstract#1025
• S. Hagan, M. Hirafuji, Locating the interface in a mixed quantum/classical model of brain function. Abstract#933
• S.A. Klein, The relevance of quantum mechanics to consciousness. Abstract#944
• U. Awret, The little engine that could, quantum mechanics, molecular biology and the thermal noise problems. Abstract#1100
• W. Lenzen, Why microtubules cannot matter for phenomenal consciousness. Abstract#972

C11: Parapsychology

Chair: Marilyn Schlitz

• D.J. Bierman, D.I. Radin, Non conscious processes and intuition: Is there an anomalous component? Abstract#914
• G.E.R. Schwartz, L.G.S. Russek, Z-S She, L.Z.Y.X. Song, Y. Xin, Anomalous organization of random events during an international Qigong meeting: Evidence for group consciousness or accumulated Qi fields? Abstract#1044
• K. Giuffre, Supraspatial reality with entangled particles: Quantum evidence for the possibility of extracerebral information transmission? Abstract#892
• N.S. Don, C.A. Warren, B.E. McDounough, "40 Hz" brain activity, consciousness, and psi. Abstract#962
• R. Targ, Remote viewing at Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s. Abstract#926

C12: Consciousness and literature

Chair: Roger Dahood (tbc)

• G. Hamilton, Consciousness and the creation of the self as poetic narrative. An examination of Wordsworth's "The Prelude" as a text of romantic psychology. Abstract#1213
• J.L. Diaz, A narratological method to study and model streams of consciousness from phenomenological texts. Abstract#860
• J.T. Stevens, A house divided can not-stand: William Faulkner and consciousness in a system of relation. Abstract#1229
• M. Skov, Reasoning in aesthetic experience: Cognitive structures in poetic language. Abstract#1081
• P. Menneteau, The notion of consciousness in William Blake's works. Abstract#1230

C13: Awareness, attention and memory during sleep

Chair: Richard Bootzin

• R. Bootzin, Consciousness and sleep: awareness, attention and memory during sleep. Abstract#1308
• D.H. Loewy, R.R. Bootzin, Event-related potential measures of information processing in insomniacs at bedtime and during sleep. Abstract#1313
• J. Harsh, J. Peszka, Event-related potentials and cognitive processing during the sleep onset period. Abstract#1311
• J. Wyatt, R. Bootzin, J.B.J. Allen, J.L. Anthony, M.E. Jewett, D-J. Dijk, Neurobehavioral functioning during the transitions from wake to sleep and sleep to wake. Abstract#1312
• K. Campbell, D. de Lugt, K. Coti, Event-related potentials as probes of consciousness during sleep. Abstract#1309
• T. Murphy, R. Ogilvie, EEG correlates of changes of consciousness during the sleep onset period. Abstract#1310

Thursday April 30

C14: The concept of consciousnesss

Chair: Leopold Stubenberg (tbc)

• Siewert, C. 955 Blindsight as a guide to consciousness.
• A. Bailey, William James, chaos theory and consciousness. Abstract#1024
• N.J.T. Thomas, Imagination, eliminativism, and the pre-history of consciousness. Abstract#1079
• R. McBride, Can the state-conscious/creature-conscious/transitive-conscious distinction help unravel the nature of consciousness? Abstract#1009
• G. Gomes, Consciousness as higher-order representation. Abstract#1103

C15: Computational and cognitive models

Chair: Douglas Matzke (tbc)

• T. Cazenave, Machine introspection for machine learning. Abstract#947
• A. Sloman, Architectures and types of consciousness. Abstract#848
• G. Barbastathis, D. Psaltis, C. Koch, Awareness-based computation. Abstract#1180
• S. Franklin, A. Graesser, Conscious software: Oxymoron or inevitability? Abstract#781
• J.A. Goguen, What can we learn from AI, robotics, virtuality? Abstract#1202

C16: Blindsight and related phenomena

Chair: Petra Stoerig (tbc)

• N. Osaka, H. Kondo, M. Morishita, Blindsight in transparent motion perception. Abstract#1042
• G. Guzeldere, The blindsight debate and the function of consciousness. Abstract#1221
• T. Radil, C.J. Wysocki, Liminal perception and unconscious olfaction (and taste). Abstract#851
• Mozaz, M. 1250 A case of deaf hearing related to central pontine myelinolysis and extrapontine lesions.
• N. Schiff, U. Ribary, F. Plum, R. Llinas, Words without thought and other fragments of behavior in chronically unconscious humans. Abstract#1093

C17: Evolution of consciousness

Chair: Nicholas Humphrey

• E. Gilissen, Brain size, encephalization and emergent processes in comparative perspective. Abstract#1142
• J. Pickering, On the semiotic ecology of selfhood. Abstract#830
• J.H. Collins, Art, mythic image, and holistic consciousness in the paleolithic world. Abstract#820
• P. Slurink, Innate structures of experience: Consciousness and the sediments of a history of choice. Abstract#1177
• S. Krippner, Shamanic consciousness as technology and epistemology. Abstract#795

C18: Altered states of consciousness

Chair: Charles Tart

• C.N. Alexander, Understanding higher states of consciousness: Theory and research. Abstract#1088
• D.A. Hocker, R.W. Hood, Pure consciousness and the creation of experience. Abstract#1176
• F.H. Atwater, Inducing propitious altered states of consciousness via cortico-thalamic adaptation. Abstract#846
• H.R. Wasserman, Altered states of consciousness in psychotherapy. Abstract#803
• M. Nagel, Are state-specific sciences of advanced meditative states possible? Abstract#752

C19: First-, second- and third-person perspectives

Chair: Jonathan Shear

• C. de Quincey, Intersubjectivity: exploring consciousness from the second-person perspective. Abstract#1225
• I. West, The anomaly: a moment in the story of consciousness. Abstract#946
• P. Mutalik, Mental tagging and phenomenal consciousness. Abstract#995
• S. O'Nuallain, Inner versus outer empiricism in consciousness research. Abstract#802
• W. Wilkerson, Functionalist consciousness from the first person. Abstract#998

C20: Affective and motivational influences from outside of conscious awareness

Chair: Jeffrey Greenberg

• S. Solomon, Classical and contemporary conceptions of the unconscious and psychological defense. Abstract#1127
• M. Baldwin, Relational schemas and the interpersonal nature of self-experience. Abstract#1129
• J. Greenberg, Exploring the defenses aroused by conscious and unconscious concerns about death. Abstract#1128
• T. Pyszczynski, A dual process theory of psychological defense: implications for understanding the nature of what is conscious and what is not. Abstract#1130

Friday May 1

C21: Unity of consciousness and the self

Chair: Thomas Metzinger (tbc)

• D. Forest, Human split brain and the unity of consciousness: A matter of content or a question of relevance? Abstract#1185
• A. Brook, Unity of consciousness and other mental unities. Abstract#907
• G.A. Mashour, Philosophic and neuroscientific aspects of the cognitive binding problem. Abstract#999
• J. Quitterer, Can a model simulate the self? Abstract#1037
• T.S. Roberts, Beyond the hard problem. Abstract#966

C22: Ethics and Values

Chair: Anthony Freeman

• D. Salt, What religious fundamentalists and strong AI fundametalists have in common. And why it matters. Abstract#794
• M. Kliegel, How important is an appropriate anthropological foundation of an ethic of human brain research? -- Philosophic-theological remarks. Abstract#756
• M. Perlman, Psychological egoism and the legitimacy of reinterpreting first-person reports of mental state content. Abstract#857
• R.H. Bradshaw, The application of the precautionary principle to consciousness studies in non-human animals. Abstract#888
• A.J. Freeman, Good old fashioned sin: a neglected area of consciousness studies. Abstract#1355

C23: Sleep and dreaming

Chair: Stephen LaBerge

• A. Combs, D. Kahn, S. Krippner, The dreaming brain as a self-organizing system. Abstract#853
• J. Gackenback, Consciousness and the Central Alberta Cree: Observations on the importance of dream states. Abstract#992
• L. Mason, C.N. Alexander, F.T. Travis, G. Marsh, D.W. Orme-Johnson, , J. Gackenbach, Investigation of the electrophysiological correlates of higher states of consciousness during sleep. Abstract#1111
• T.L. Hubbard, E.M. Reiman, R.R. Bootzin, D. Bandy, L.S. Yun, T. Muntlinger, Brain regions preferentially affected during different stages of sleep and wakefulness: A PET study. Abstract#1092
• T.L. Kahan, S. LaBerge, Consciousness, dreaming and waking, II: Phenomenological comparisons. Abstract#1046

C24: Consciousness and physical reality

Chair: Paavo Pyllkanen (tbc)

• G. Strawson, Realistic monism. Abstract#1260
• S. Hameroff, Pan-experientialism and physical reality. Abstract#1261
• M. Hirafuji, s. Hagan, An universal model for evolution of consciousness in quantum and macroscopic hierarchical systems. Abstract#894
• S. Malin, What does quantum mechanics imply about the nature of the universe? Abstract#812
• J. Sarfatti, Progress in the Post-Quantum Physics of Consciousness Abstract#832

C25: Emotion and volition

Chair: Lis Nielsen (tbc)

• C. Taddei-Ferretti, C. Musio, S. Santillo, R.F. Colucci, A. Cotugno, A quantitative approach to the problem of will. Abstract#1235
• D.F. Watt, Affect and the 'hard problem': neurodevelopmental and corticolimbic network issues: Implications for ERTAS theories of consciousness. Abstract#1146
• J. Panksepp, Affective consciousness and the neural origins of the self: The case of animal laughter. Abstract#961
• P. Goddard, G. Hamilton, Conscious control of perceptual reversals: Eye movements or volition? Abstract#1191
• R. Ellis, Why isn't consciousness empirically observable? Emotional purposes as basis for self-organization. Abstract#785

C26: Art, music and consciousness

Chair: Jim Laukes (tbc)

• A.J. Palmer, Conscious and unconscious choice in varying musical systems. Abstract#923
• D. Meyer-Dinkgrafe, Effecting change of consciousness through theatre. Abstract#1016
• F. Bogzaran, Exploring consciousness through art of the mind. Abstract#983
• H. Sills, Mozart, Stravinsky and space-time mental imaging. Abstract#1165
• R. Ascott, Art, technology and the matter of consciousness. Abstract#1061