[visionlist] abstract submission: July 15th 2009: WORKSHOP "SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS" in Nagoya, Japan

[Naotsugu Tsuchiya]

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"INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP "SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS"

Further information: http://www.nips.ac.jp/%7Emyoshi/workshop2009/
Date: September 19th-20th, 2009
Deadline: July 15th, 2009

Organizers: Masatoshi Yoshida, Nao Tsuchiya (naotsu at gmail.com)
Registration and abstract submission for poster presentation is open
till July 15. (all the presentations will given be in English)
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), John-Dylan Haynes (Humboldt-University Berlin), Ryota
Kanai (UCL), Christof Koch (Caltech), Shin'ya Nishida (NTT
Communication Science Lab), Petra Stoerig (Heinrich-Heine-University
Düsseldorf), Naotsugu Tsuchiya (Caltech), Melanie Wilke (Caltech,
NIMH), Takamitsu Yamamoto (Nihon Univ.), & Masatoshi Yoshida (NIPS)
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2. THE 32nd ANNUAL MEETING OF THE JAPAN NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY
(Neuroscience 2009) INTERNATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE CONFERENCE
Corresponding Author: Nao Tsuchiya (naotsu at gmail.com)
Further information: http://www.congre.co.jp/neurosci2009/english/index.html
Date:September 16th-18th, 2009

Plenary Lectures
- Christof Koch, Professor (Caltech)
- Barry W. Connors, Professor (Brown Univ.)
Special Lectures
- Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Professor (Primate Research Institute, Kyoto
University, Japan)

There will be two associated symposia, closely related to the topic of
the neuronal basis of consciousness:
1. Frontier of neuroscientific research on consciousness
2. Neuronal mechanisms of visual illusions : empirical approaches from
psychophysics, brain stimulation, electrophysiology, and pharmacology
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