PLENARY SESSIONS

Program subject to alteration
(tbc: to be confirmed)

Monday April 27

PL1: The self

Chair: Shaun Gallagher

• G. Strawson, The self. Abstract#1276
• M.S. Gazzaniga, The mind's past. Abstract#1266
• J. Shear, Experiential clarification of `The problem of self'. Abstract#1115

PL2: Implicit processes

Chair: Kenneth Forster (tbc)

• A. Greenwald, Simple mental feats that require conscious cognition (because unconscious cognition can't do them.) Abstract#1284
• P. Merikle, M. Daneman, Is there memory for events during anesthesia? Abstract#1265

PL3: Pathways of visual consciousness

Chair: Christof Koch

• D. Milner, Unconscious visual processing for action: neuropsychological evidence. Abstract#1306
• M. Goodale, Unconscious visual processing for action: evidence from normal observers. Abstract#1285
• M. Mishkin, On the neural basis of visual awareness. Abstract#1286

Tuesday April 28

PL4: Sleep and dreaming

Chair: Bernard Baars

• B. McNaughton, Neural ensembles in sleep and waking and the reprocessing of recent experience Abstract#1307
• J.A. Hobson, D. Kahn, E. Pace-Schott, Neuropsychology of dreaming consciousness. Abstract#783
• S. LaBerge, Lucid dreaming: psychophysiological studies of consciousness during REM sleep. Abstract#1023

PL5: Integrative perspectives

Chair: Lynn Nadel

• C. Koch, Visual awareness and the frontal lobes. Abstract#1181
• M. Tye, Representation and consciousness. Abstract#1287

PL6: Color and consciousness

Chair: David Chalmers

• S.E. Palmer, Color, consciousness, and the isomorphism constraint. Abstract#1354
• L. Hardin, Color quality and color structure. Abstract#1290
• M. Nida-Rumelin, Pseudonormal vision and color qualia Abstract#1291

Wednesday April 29

PL7: Transpersonal psychology

Chair: Charles Tart

• F. Vaughan, Essential dimensions of consciousness: Objective, subjective and intersubjective. Abstract#1293
• H. Hunt, Transpersonal and cognitive psychologies of consciousness: a necessary and reciprocal dialogue. Abstract#1294
• M. Schlitz, Distant intentionality and healing: Exploring the transpersonal dimensions of consciousness. Abstract#1292

PL8: Emotional experience and the brain

Chair: Douglas Watt

• A.W. Kaszniak, S.L. Reminger, S.Z. Rapcsak, E.L. Glisky, Conscious experience and autonomic response to emotional stimuli following frontal lobe damage. Abstract#1197
• R.D. Lane, E.M. Reiman, G.E. Schwartz, G.R. Fink, P.M.L. Chua, R.J. Dolon, Subregions within the anterior cingulate cortex may differentially participate in phenomenal and reflective conscious awareness of emotion. Abstract#1198

Thursday April 30

PL9: Evolution and function of consciousness I

Chair: Tyler Volk

• S. Mithen, Handaxes : some hard evidence regarding the evolution of the mind and consciousness Abstract#1296
• W. Calvin, A Darwinian mechanism on the timescale of thought and action. Abstract#1336
• A.G. Cairns-Smith, If qualia evolved . . . Abstract#935

PL10: Evolution and function of consciousness II

Chair: Antti Revonsuo

• R.L. Gregory, What do qualia do? Abstract#837
• N. Humphrey, The privatization of sensation. Abstract#1295

PL11: The explanatory gap

Chair: David Chalmers

• J. Levine, Conceivability, possibility, and the explanatory gap Abstract#1297
• C. McGinn, How not to Solve the Mind-Body Problem Abstract#1298
• G. Rosenberg, On the intrinsic nature of the physical. Abstract#1299

Friday May 1

PL12: Culture and consciousness

Chair: John Searle

• A. Zajonc, Goethe and the science of consciousness: toward a scientist's phenomenology of mind. Abstract#1301
• C. Laughlin, Biogenetic structural theory and the neurophenomenology of consciousness. Abstract#1300
• M. Winkelman, The fundamental properties of systems with consciousness. Abstract#956

PL13: Blindsight

Chair: David Milner

• P. Stoerig, A. Cowey, R. Goebel, Blindsight and its neuronal basis. Abstract#1279
• R.W. Kentridge, C.A. Heywood, L. Weiskrantz, Attentional cueing in blindsight. Abstract#1049

PL14: Space, time and consciousness

Chair: Paul Davies

• P. Hut, Exploring actuality, through experiment and experience. Abstract#1303
• K. Yasue, Physics approaches to consciousness. Abstract#1305
• B.J. Hiley, Quantum theory, the implicate order and the mind/matter relationship Abstract#1314

Saturday May 2

PL15: Neural correlates of consciousness

Chair: Karl Pribram

• B.J. Baars, Is a real psychoscope possible? Inferring when brain images involve conscious experiences. Abstract#1288
• A. Revonsuo, How to take consciousness seriously in cognitive neuroscience. Abstract#1318
• J.B. Newman, Beyond pandemonium: the role of the reticular core in unifying the stream of consciousness Abstract#1318

PL16: Aesthetics and Consciousness

Chair: Marilyn Schlitz

• C.W. Tyler, The structure of interpersonal consciousness in art. Abstract#1223
• T. Grodal, Aesthetic feelings of subjectivity in film as blocked action potentials. Abstract#1356
• A. Bergesen, Artistic consciousness: the art faculty of mind. Abstract#1353