[visionlist] Call for papers and travel awards: (1) 32nd Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society + (2) NIPS international workshop for "Scientific Studies of Consciousness"

[Naotsugu Tsuchiya]

This is the announcement on (1) 32nd Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience
Society and its travel award (deadline Feb 28) and (2) the NIPS
international workshop "Scientific Studies of Consciousness".

(1) The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society (Neuroscience
2009)
International neuroscience conference (expected attendee : >3500 people)
 (All the talks and posters will be given in English)

Sep 16-18, 2009 at Nagoya Congress Center, Aichi, Japan.
Official homepage:  http://www.congre.co.jp/neurosci2009/english/index.html

Registration now open
http://www.congre.co.jp/neurosci2009/english/registration/registration_main.html

Travel award (Deadline: Must arrive by February 28, 2009)

Travel Awards are offered to participants in the 32nd Annual Meeting of the
Japan Neuroscience Society who come from Asian nations or developing
countries in the neighborhood of Japan, and who will give a presentation at
the meeting. Details of the Travel Awards are as set out below.
http://www.congre.co.jp/neurosci2009/japanese/travel_award/index_travel.html
(decision will be notified in April)

Plenary Lectures
- Christof Koch, Professor (California Institute of Technology, USA)
- Barry W. Connors, Professor (Brown University, USA)
- Gail Mandel, Professor (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Oregon Health and
Science University, USA)
- Robert W. McCarley, Professor（Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical
School, USA

Special Lectures
- Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Professor (Primate Research Institute, Kyoto
University, Japan)
- Kozo Kaibuchi, Professor (Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University,
Japan)
- Yasuo Ihara, Professor (Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha
University, Japan)
- Hideyuki Okano, Professor(Keio University, School of Medidine, Department
of Physiology, Japan)

For details : see
http://www.congre.co.jp/neurosci2009/english/program/program_main.html



(2)  International workshop : National Institute for Physiological Sciences
(NIPS) presents a workshop for
 "Scientific Studies of Consciousness"

International workshop for scientific studies of consciousness
(all the presentations will given be in English)
Date: Sep 19-20, 2009
Place: Okazaki Conference Center, Aichi, Japan
http://www.orion.ac.jp/occ-e/

Organizer: Masatoshi Yoshida,  Nao Tsuchiya (naotsu at gmail.com)

Official homepage http://www.nips.ac.jp/%7Emyoshi/workshop2009/
Registration opens on Mar 1
Abstract submission for poster presentation starts on Mar 1 and closes on
July 15.
(Abstract acceptance will be notified within 2-4 weeks from the submission)

(No registration fee required.  Participation fee is required only for a
banquet and a lunch)

Tentative themes:
1) Time and consciousness
2) Electrophysiological approach towards consciousness
3) Reliability of subjective reports on phenomenology
 4) Consciousness vs. Attention
5) The role of thalamus in consciousness


Confirmed speakers:
Ralph Adolphs  (Caltech)
Ned Block (NYU)
Olivia Carter (U of Melbourne)
Ryota Kanai (UCL)
Christof Koch (Caltech)
Petra Stoerig (Heinrich-Heine-University)
Naotsugu Tsuchiya (Caltech)
Melanie Wilke (Caltech, NIMH)
Masatoshi Yoshida (NIPS)


There will be two associated symposia, closely related to the topic of the
neuronal basis of consciousness:
1. Frontier of neuroscientific research on consciousness (Block (NYU), Koch
(Caltech), Stoerig (Heinrich-Heine-University), Yoshida(NIPS))
2. Neuronal mechanisms of visual illusions : empirical approaches from
psychophysics, brain stimulation, electrophysiology, and pharmacology
(Carter (U of Melbourne), Kanai (UCL), Tsuchiya (Caltech), Wilke(Caltech,
NIMH) )

(Note: Overlapping speakers for these symposia will present different topics
at the workshop on Sep 19 and 20)

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Nao (Naotsugu) Tsuchiya, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral scholar in Psychology and Neuroscience
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences in Caltech
homepage: www.emotion.caltech.edu/~naotsu<http://www.emotion.caltech.edu/%7Enaotsu>
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