Sunday, July 14, 2013

Keynote 4: Cavanagh

Sunday July 14 17:30-18:30

Patrick Cavanagh (Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Université Paris Descartes) will deliver the fourth Keynote lecture.

Sessions 2.3: Perception

Sunday July 14 15:30-17:30

Concurrent Session C2.3: Perception (July 14th 1530-1730)

1. Distinct MEG correlates of conscious experience, perceptual reversals and stabilization during binocular rivalry
Kristian Sandberg [1,2], Gareth Robert Barnes [3], Bahador Bahrami [2,4], Ryota Kanai [2,5], Morten Overgaard [1,6], Geraint Rees [2,3]
[1] Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit, Aarhus University Hospital
[2] Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
[3] Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London,
[4] Interacting Minds Project, Aarhus University
[5] Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex
[6] Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit, Aalborg University

2. A cellular mechanism for perceptual binding
Matthew Larkum
Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

3. Causal role of gamma oscillations in bistable perception revealed by transcranial alternating current stimulation
Melanie Wilke [1,2], Yuranny Cabral-Calderin [1], Carsten Schmidt-Samoa [1]
[1] Department of Cognitive Neurology, University of Goettingen, Germany
[2] German Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Germay

4. Transient induced gamma-band responses in MEG during binocular rivalry: Do they reflect perceptual transitions or microsaccades?
Laila Hugrass, David Crewther
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

5. Emergence of illusory shapes from invisible inducers
Marjan Persuh [1,2], Tatiana Aloi Emmanouil [2], Tony Ro [1,2]
[1] Program in Cognitive Neuroscience, The City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York
[2] Department of Psychology, The City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York

6. High-level contextual integration without awareness: evidence from unconscious processing in visual masking
Mudrik L [1], Koch C [1,2]
[1] Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
[2] Allan Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA, USA

Sessions 2.2: Metacognition

Sunday July 14 15:30-17:30

Concurrent Session C2.2: Metacognition (July 14th 1530-1730)

1. Metacognition versus Mindreading, Some Differences from Error Awareness Studies
Santiago Arango-Munoz
Institute of Philosophy II, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany

2. Metacognition and two kinds of visual awareness
Hakwan Lau [1,2,3]
[1] Columbia University,
[2] UCLA
[3] Donders Institute of Brain Behavior and Cognition

3. A New Method for Manipulating Metacognitive Awareness while Keeping Performance Constant
Man Song [1], Brian Maniscalco [2], Ai Koizumi [2], Hakwan Lau [1,2]
Columbia University, Psychology Department

4. Metacognition and Cognitive Insight: Two sides of the same coin?
Emma C. Palmer [1], Anthony S. David [1], Stephen M. Fleming [2]
[1] Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK
[2] New York University

5. The effects of metacognitive awareness on top-down cognitive control
Ai Koizumi [1,2], Brian Maniscalco [1], Hakwan Lau [1,3,4]
[1] Department of Psychology, Columbia University
[2] Graduate school of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
[3] Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen, [4] Department of Psychology, UCLA.

6. Dissociable effects of attention and expectation on perceptual decision and metacognition
Maxine Sherman [1,2], Anil Seth[1,3], Ryota Kanai [1.2]
[1] Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex
[2] Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
[3] Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

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

Symposium 2: Projecting bodily consciousness

Sunday July 14 10:30-12:30

Projecting bodily consciousness: How the body affects consciousness in personal, peripersonal and interpersonal space

Chairs: Olaf Blanke (Cognitive Neuroscience, Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne, CH),
Thomas Metzinger (Dep’t of Philosophy, Universität Mainz, DE)

Philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience, and neurology stress the importance of bodily input in forming of the experience of self and person. Such bodily aspects of self-consciousness have been shown to arise from the complex integration of interoceptive and exteroceptive body-related signals. An intrigu- ing aspect of bodily self consciousness is that it is not limited to the body itself, but also depends on stimuli related to external objects and in turn influences the experience of the external world. In this sense, bodily self-consciousness extends beyond the limits of our body over the space around us (i.e. peripersonal space) and impacts the interaction with other humans.

The presentations of this symposium will highlight complementary findings from multisensory, motor, and affective approaches and discuss their relavance for self-consciousness. Roy Salomon will focus on how bodily information, that has been shown to alter self-consciousness, can also modulate visual consciousness.

Andrea Serino will show how the boundaries of peripersonal space adapt when interacting with objects and others. Federique de Vignemont will extend the notion of embodiment to the study of social interactions and intersubjectivity.

Body-building-awareness: Bodily factors shaping our consciousness
Roy Salomon (Cognitive Neuroscience, Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne, CH)

Spatial boundaries of Body-self Consciousness
Andrea Serino (Cognitive Neuroscience, U. Bologna, IT )

Seeing other people’s bodies
Frédérique de Vignemont (Dep’t of Philosophy, Institut Jean Nicod/CNRS, Paris, FR)

Keynote 3: Kastner

Sunday July 14 09:15-10:30

Sabine Kastner (Dep’t of Psychology, Princeton University) will deliver the third keynote lecture.

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Special Event for G.M. Edelman

Saturday July 13 20:00-22:00

A special event will be held in honour of G.M. Edelman.