[visionlist] ASSC15 Kyoto (Association for Scientific Studies of Consciousness) announcement

[Naotsugu Tsuchiya]

(Apologies for multiple postings)

1. ASSC15 abstract deadline >> Feb 1, 2011.
http://www.theassc.org/assc15_abstract_submission
Contact person
Masaki Tomonaga
tomonaga at pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp


The 15th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of
Consciousness will be held in Kyoto, Japan from Thursday 9th Sunday 12th,
June 2011. The Program committee invites online submissions for talk and
poster presentations on any topic relevant to the scientific study of
consciousness.  Neuroscientific, anthropological, evolutionary,
psychological, philosophical, or computational perspectives are all welcome.
Any person may present only one submission, but may co-author on more than
one. Submissions for both posters and talks will be accepted (please specify
preference). We would, however, like you to be aware that there are a
limited number of both talk sessions and poster space available. Talks and
posters will be awarded to the presentations of greatest relevance to the
aims of the ASSC. All presenters must register for the conference
(registration will be open soon and payment can be made after acceptance
notification has been received).

All abstracts need to be submitted using the online system. Please see our
website for more information.

This year, there will be a limited amount (~20 people) of travel award for
students and postdocs living outside of Japan.   Also, an express review
option for accept/reject is also available for those who need it for visa
application.

2. ASSC15 symposia
http://www.theassc.org/assc15_symposia
Contact person
Tadashi Isa
tisa at nips.ac.jp

SYMPOSIUM 1: Metacogntion and consciousness
Ryota Kanai, University College London
Stephen Fleming (University College London)
Robert Hampton(Emory University, USA)
Peter Carruthers(University of Maryland)

SYMPOSIUM 2: Consciousness: Powerful or useless?
Simon van Gaal (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Roy F. Baumeister (Florida State University, USA)
Hakwan Lau (Columbia University, USA)
Al Mele (Florida State University, USA)

SYMPOSIUM 3: Robotics & Consciousness
Shinsuke Shimojo (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Yasuo Kuniyoshi (University of Tokyo, JAPAN)
Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University/ATR, Japan)
Thomas Metzinger (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität)

3. ASSC15 tutorials
http://www.theassc.org/assc15_tutorials
by Masatoshi Yoshida
myoshi at nips.ac.jp

Note that the registration for the tutorials will close when the number of
the participants reach the maximum (30 for half-day tutorial).

Full-day tutorials
1. (max 20 people) Tour to the robotics laboratory in the ATR Computational
Neuroscience Laboratories.
2. (max 8 people) Tour to the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute

Half-day tutorials
1: "Integrated information, causal density and conscious level."
    * Adam Barrett (University of Sussex, UK)
    * Anil Seth (University of Sussex, UK)
2: “Disorders of Consciousness: Coma, Vegetatitve State and Minimally
Conscious State."
    * Tristan A Bekinschtein (Cambridge, UK)
    * Melanie Boly (University of Liege Sart-Tilman, Belgium)
    * Martin M Monti (Cambridge, UK)
    * Caroline Schnakers (University of Liege Sart-Tilman, Belgium)
3: “Towards a comprehensive theory of subjectivity and selfhood: Philosophy,
Cognitive Science, Neurology and Neuroimaging ."
    * Olaf Blanke (Brain Mind Institute, Switzerland)
    * Thomas Metzinger (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Germany)
4: “Self-Knowledge: Philosophy meets Cognitive Science. "
    * Peter Carruthers (University of Maryland)
5: “The Phenomenology, Neurobiology, and Neurocognitive Basis of
Depersonalization.  "
    * Heather A. Berlin (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA)
    * Mauricio Sierra-Siegert (Institute of Psychiatry, KCL, UK)
    * Nick Medford (University of Sussex, UK)
6: “Towards the neuroscientific definition and empirical investigation of
Qualia.   "
    * Naotsugu Tsuchiya (RIKEN, BSI)
    * Ryota Kanai (UCL, UK)
7: “Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Conscious Awareness."
    * Tony Ro (The City University of New York, USA)
    * Hakwan Lau (Columbia Univ, USA)
8:  “Bodily sensations. "
    * Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean-Nicod, France)


4. ASSC15 satellite events.
The main conference will be preceded by the Social Neuroscience Satellite
and Metacognition Satellite and will be followed by the Neurophysiology
Satellite.  Registration is free for all the satellite!

contact person:
Social Neuroscience Satellite
Kenji Matsumoto
matsumot at lab.tamagawa.ac.jp
http://www.theassc.org/conferences/assc_15/social_neuroscience_satellite

Metacognition Satellite
Ryota Kanai
kanair at gmail.com
http://www.theassc.org/metacogniton_and_consciousness_from_animals_to_humans

Neurophysiology Satellite
Naotsugu Tsuchiya
naotsu at gmail.com
http://www.theassc.org/conferences/assc_15/neurophysiology_satellite

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土谷尚嗣
Nao (Naotsugu) Tsuchiya, Ph.D.

1. PRESTO (Sakigake) fellow, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST),
Japan
2. Visiting scholar in Laboratory for Adaptive Intelligence, RIKEN, Japan
3. Visitor, Division of Biology, Caltech, USA

homepage: www.emotion.caltech.edu/~naotsu<http://www.emotion.caltech.edu/%7Enaotsu>

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