Wednesday, July 4 2012 18:00-19:00 @ Dome theatre
Special lecture: "Studying the Murine Mind using Large Scale Observatories"
Christof Koch (Caltech)
SUMMARY
Mice are a promising model system for studying the neuronal correlates of consciousness. Their brain structure is similar to that of the human, they display complex behavior, their underlying neuronal responses can be measured using optics and silicon probes at cellular level of resolution and the underlying neuronal networks can be modeled. In contrast to the blunt and edentate tools available to probe the human brain, optogenetics allows scientists to delicately, transiently, and reversibly control defined events in defined cell types at defined times in mice with millisecond resolution. That is, unlike the vast majority of human studies, experiments in mice move from correlation to causation, from observing that this circuit is activated whenever the subject is perceiving something to inferring that this circuit is necessary for a particular behavior or a conscious perception. I shall report on the ten year, large-scale (several hundred scientists and engineers) and high throughput efforts to build brain observatories to understand the mouse visual system that are ongoing at the Allen Institute.
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Concurrent sessions 3.3: Self, agency, and hypnosis
Wednesday, July 4 2012 11:00-13:00 @ Pavilion
Concurrent session 3.3: Self, agency, and hypnosis
Athena Demertzi, "Increased fMRI Resting State Network Functional Connectivity in Hypnotic State."
Michael Lifshitz, "Using Suggestion to Gain Control Over Increasingly Automatic Processes."
Pedro De Saldanha da Gama, "Placebo-Suggestion Modulates Conflict Adaptation in the Stroop Task."
Helene Gaucho, "Zombies, Ouija, and the Ideomotor Effect: When Implicit Cognition Turns Explicit."
Max Seeger, "Authorship of Thoughts in Thought Insertion."
Georgina Torbet, "Disturbances of Agency in Schizophrenia."
Concurrent session 3.3: Self, agency, and hypnosis
Athena Demertzi, "Increased fMRI Resting State Network Functional Connectivity in Hypnotic State."
Michael Lifshitz, "Using Suggestion to Gain Control Over Increasingly Automatic Processes."
Pedro De Saldanha da Gama, "Placebo-Suggestion Modulates Conflict Adaptation in the Stroop Task."
Helene Gaucho, "Zombies, Ouija, and the Ideomotor Effect: When Implicit Cognition Turns Explicit."
Max Seeger, "Authorship of Thoughts in Thought Insertion."
Georgina Torbet, "Disturbances of Agency in Schizophrenia."
Concurrent sessions 3.2: Neural correlates and mechanisms
Wednesday, July 4 2012 11:00-13:00 @ Corn Exchange
Concurrent session 3.2: Neural correlates and mechanisms
Moti Salti, "Decoding the Contents of Conscious Perception."
Kazuhisa Shibata, "Perceptual Learning Incepted by Decoded fMRI Neurofeedback without Stimulus Presentation."
Roger Koenig-Robert, "The Time Course and Spatial Distribution ofConsciousness-Dependent Activity in the Brain."
Martijn Wokke, "Confuse Your Illusion: Feedback to Early Visual Cortex Contributes to Perceptual Completion."
Tessa Van Leeuwen, "Perceptual Closure in Grapheme-Colour Synaesthesia."
Marcus Rothkirch, "Looking Without Seeing: A Direct Oculomotor Correlate of Unconscious Visual Processing."
Concurrent session 3.2: Neural correlates and mechanisms
Moti Salti, "Decoding the Contents of Conscious Perception."
Kazuhisa Shibata, "Perceptual Learning Incepted by Decoded fMRI Neurofeedback without Stimulus Presentation."
Roger Koenig-Robert, "The Time Course and Spatial Distribution ofConsciousness-Dependent Activity in the Brain."
Martijn Wokke, "Confuse Your Illusion: Feedback to Early Visual Cortex Contributes to Perceptual Completion."
Tessa Van Leeuwen, "Perceptual Closure in Grapheme-Colour Synaesthesia."
Marcus Rothkirch, "Looking Without Seeing: A Direct Oculomotor Correlate of Unconscious Visual Processing."
Concurrent sessions 3.1: Theories and models
Wednesday, July 4 2012 11:00-13:00 @ Dome theatre
Concurrent session 3.1: Theories and models
Robert Van Gulick, "Integration Theories of Consciousness and the Unity of the Self- A Proposal for Mutual Exchange Between Research Programs."
Kevin O'Regan, "How to Build a Robot that Feels."
Aaron Schurger, "Stability as a Hallmark of the Neural Dynamics Underlying Conscious Sensory Perception."
Paul Verschure, "Consciousness as an Answer to Pervasive Intentionality."
Michael Cohen, "A Multi-Access Model of Conscious Awareness."
Bert Windey, "Is Consciousness Graded, Dichotomous, or Both?"
Concurrent session 3.1: Theories and models
Robert Van Gulick, "Integration Theories of Consciousness and the Unity of the Self- A Proposal for Mutual Exchange Between Research Programs."
Kevin O'Regan, "How to Build a Robot that Feels."
Aaron Schurger, "Stability as a Hallmark of the Neural Dynamics Underlying Conscious Sensory Perception."
Paul Verschure, "Consciousness as an Answer to Pervasive Intentionality."
Michael Cohen, "A Multi-Access Model of Conscious Awareness."
Bert Windey, "Is Consciousness Graded, Dichotomous, or Both?"
Keynote 2: Rees
Wednesday, July 4 2012 09:15-10:30 @ Dome theatre
Keynote 1: "Decoding consciousness"
Geraint Rees (University College London, UK)
SUMMARY
Everything we know about the world comes to us through our brain. Yet for each of us our own conscious mental world of thoughts and feelings is isolated and private. Despite several centuries of research on the brain, communication through language or gesture remains the only way we can discover the conscious thoughts and experiences of others. This makes it difficult to compare our conscious experiences and discover whether we all experience the world in the same way. In this talk I will discuss recent work using non-invasive brain imaging showing that not only does our conscious perception of the world differ across individuals, but also that these individual differences are correlated with the structure and function of primary visual, parietal and prefrontal cortices. I will explore the implications of these findings for both neuroscience and society.
Keynote 1: "Decoding consciousness"
Geraint Rees (University College London, UK)
SUMMARY
Everything we know about the world comes to us through our brain. Yet for each of us our own conscious mental world of thoughts and feelings is isolated and private. Despite several centuries of research on the brain, communication through language or gesture remains the only way we can discover the conscious thoughts and experiences of others. This makes it difficult to compare our conscious experiences and discover whether we all experience the world in the same way. In this talk I will discuss recent work using non-invasive brain imaging showing that not only does our conscious perception of the world differ across individuals, but also that these individual differences are correlated with the structure and function of primary visual, parietal and prefrontal cortices. I will explore the implications of these findings for both neuroscience and society.
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