Sessions 2.1: Feeling, consciousness and decision-making

Sunday July 14 15:30-17:30

Concurrent Session C2.1: Feeling, Consciousness and decision-making (July 14th 1530-1730)

1. Is consciousness involved in deliberate decision making? Evidence from intracranial recordings
Uri Maoz [1], Liad Mudrik [1], Shengxuan Ye [1], Dawn Eliashiv [2], Jeffrey Chung [3], Ian Ross [4], Adam Mamelak [3], Ralph Adolphs [1], Christof Koch [1,5]
[1] Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology
[2] Ronal Reagen UCLA Medical Center
[3] Cedars Sinai Medical Center
[4] Huntington Memorial Hospital
[5] Allen Institute for Brain Science

2. Prospects for an experimental philosophy of mind: experimental philosophy with or without intuitions?
Jennifer M. Windt, Thomas Metzinger
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

3. Ventral Striatum but not Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Represents Stimulus Value without Perceptual Awareness
Leila M. Kouhsari [1], Christof Koch [2,3], Ralph Adolphs [1,2,3], Antonio Rangel [1,2]
[1] Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
[2] Computational and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
[3] Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

4. The mechanism of choice blindness: clues from patterns of preference alteration
Ilya Farber [1], Fumihiko Taya [2], Swati Gupta [1], O'Dhaniel Mullette-Gillman [2,3,4,5]
[1] Institute for High Performance Computing, A*STAR
[2] SINAPSE Institute for Cognitive Science and Neurotechnologies, National University of Singapore
[3] Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore
[4] Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School,
[5] Neurobiology Programme, National University of Singapore

5. Why has feeling not (yet) been selected against? Homeostasis, valence and biological value
Pietro (Cesare Andrea) Snider
Université de Fribourg (Switzerland)

6. Decoding the dynamics of action, intention, and error-detection for conscious and subliminal stimuli
Lucie Charles, Jean-Rémi King, Stanislas Dehaene
INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit