ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
3rd ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEME:
CONSCIOUSNESS AND SELF: NEURAL, COGNITIVE, AND PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO
JUNE 4-7, 1999: LONDON, ONTARIO, CANADA
The third annual conference of the Association for the Scientific Study
of Consciousness will be held from June 4-7, 1999, at the University of
Western Ontario in London, Ontario, on the theme of "Consciousness and
Self".
Details about the conference, including the program and how to register,
can be found at:
http://watermelon.psych.uwo.ca/~assccon3/
WORKSHOPS
Several pre-conference workshops will be offered on Friday June 4, the
day before the main conference begins. Attendance at these workshops,
which will cover a variety of topics relevant to the study of
consciousness, will be limited to 25 people. Each workshop will last for
three hours and will offer plenty of opportunity for discussion and
questions. The workshops are listed below. Further details can be
obtained from the website:
http://watermelon.psych.uwo.ca/~assccon3/
It is possible to attend two workshops, one in the morning and one in
the afternoon. The registration fee for attending one workshop is $75
(CDN); for two, $150 (CDN). Note that a separate registration fee must
be paid to attend the conference itself, which begins the day after the
workshops. See Registration on the main menu of our website for details.
http://watermelon.psych.uwo.ca/~assccon3/
FRIDAY JUNE 4th: MORNING SESSIONS (9am to 12pm)
Workshop 1: Schizophrenia and Consciousness. Chris Frith, Wellcome
Department of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology,
University College London
Workshop 2: Actions, Faces, Objects and Space: How to Build a
Neurobiological Account of the Self. Vittorio Gallese, Istituto di
Fisiologia Umana, Universitý degli Studi di Parma, Italy
Workshop 3: The Phenomenological Study of Consciousness: A Survey
with Special Emphasis on the Work of Edmund Husserl. Eduard
Marbach, University of Bern, Switzerland
Workshop 4: Functional Magnetic Imaging of Perceptual Processes and
Higher Cognitive Function. Ravi S. Menon, The John P. Robarts
Research Institute, London, Canada
Workshop 5: Relationships between Conscious and Unconscious
Processes: Different Theories and Relevant Evidence, Howard Shevrin,
University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, USA
Workshop 6: Emotion and Consciousness: Affective Neuroscience,
Global Workspace, and the Self, D.F. Watt, Quincy Hospital, Quincy,
MA, USA
FRIDAY JUNE 4th: AFTERNOON SESSIONS (2pm to 5pm)
Workshop 7: Efference, Agency, and Phenomenal Unity of
Consciousness. Ralph D. Ellis, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta GA,
USA and Natika Newton, Nassau County College, Garden City, NY, USA
Workshop 8: The Mammalian Visual System, Christof Koch, California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Workshop 9: Binding and the Unity of Conscious Perception: Current
Research and Thinking. James Newman, Colorado Neurological
Institute, USA and Antti Revonsuo, University of Turku, Finland
Workshop 10: Neurological disorders of consciousness. Nicholas Schiff,
New York Hospital- Cornell Medical Center, NY, USA
Workshop 11: Change Detection, Attention, and the Contents of
Awareness. Dan Simons, Harvard University, USA and Ronald A.
Rensink, Cambridge Basic Research, Nissan Research & Development,
Inc. Cambridge MA, USA
Workshop 12: The Neurochemical Basis of Consciousness and Sense of
Self. John Smythies, University of California, San Diego, USA
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Patrick Wilken http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~patrickw/
Editor: PSYCHE: An International Journal of Research on Consciousness
Board Member: The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/ http://www.phil.vt.edu/ASSC/