Sessions 1.3: Unconsciousness

Saturday July 13 15:30-17:30

Concurrent Session C1.3: Consciousness & Unconsciousness (July 13th 1530-1730)

1. Interaction between spontaneous fluctuation and auditory evoked activity during wakefulness and propofol-induced loss of consciousness: an EEG-fMRI study
O. Gosseries [1], A. Vanhaudenhuyse [1], MA. Bruno [1], R. Phan-Ba [2], C. Phillips [1], P. Boveroux [1,3], V. Bonhomme [3], D. Ledoux [1,4], J.F. Brichant [3], M. Schabus [5], E. Balteau [1], C. Delgueldre [1], A. Luxen [1], P. Maquet [1], S. Laureys [1], M. Boly [1]
[1] Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
[2] Department of Neurology, Myelin Disorder Research Team (MYDREAM), University Hospital of Liege, Liège, Belgium
[3] Department of Anesthesia, University Hospital of Liege, Liege, Belgium.
[4] Department of General Intensive Care, University Hospital of Liege, Liege, Belgium
[5] Department of Psychology, Laboratory for Sleep and Consciousness Research and Division of Physiological Psychology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

2. Signatures of consciousness and predictors of recovery in vegetative and minimally conscious patients
Jacobo D. Sitt [1,2,3], J.R. King [1,2,3], I. El Karoui [3], B. Rohaut [3,4], F. Faugeras [3,4], A. Gramfort [2,5], L. Cohen [3,4,6], M. Sigman [7], S. Dehaene [1,2,8,9], L. Naccache [3,4,6]
[1] Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U992, F-91191 Gif/Yvette, France
[2] NeuroSpin Center, Institute of BioImaging Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, F-91191 Gif/Yvette, France
[3] Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière Research Center, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U975 Paris, France
[4] AP-HP, Groupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Department of Neurophysiology, Paris, France
[5] Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom ParisTech, CNRS LTCI
[6] Faculté de Médecine Pitié-Salpêtrière, Université Paris 6, Paris, France
[7] Integrative Neuroscience Laboratory, Physics Department, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
[8] Université Paris 11, Orsay, France, [9] Collège de France, F-75005 Paris, France

3. The reach of the unconscious
Axel Cleeremans [1,2,3]
[1] Université Libre de Bruxelles
[2] Center for Research in Cognition & Neurosciences
[3] Consciousness, Cognition & Computation Group

4. Threshold for subjective visibility is associated with striatal dopamine D2 receptor binding
Filip Van Opstal [1], Tom Verguts [1], Nick Van Laecken [2], Filip De Vos [2], Ingeborg Goethals [3], Wim Fias [1]
[1] Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium
[2] Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Ghent University, Belgium
[3] Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium

5. Neurodynamics of transitions between sleep and wakefulness revealed by Granger causality analysis of intracranial EEG data
Anil Seth [1,2], Adam Barrett [1,2], Andrea Pigorini [3], Lionel Barnett [1,2], Lino Nobili [4], Marcello Massimini [3]
[1] Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
[2] Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
[3] Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Milan, Milan 20157, Italy
[4] Centre for Epilepsy Surgery, “C. Munari”, Niguarda Hospital, Milan 20162, Italy

6. Unconscious arithmetic –arithmetic problems are solved without conscious awareness
Asael Y. Sklar [1], Ran R. Hassin [1,2]
[1] Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Psychology Department
[2] Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Center for Rationality