The 12th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC 12)
The 12th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness was held at the Gis Convention Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei from June 19th-22nd, 2008. Allen Houng (assc12@ym.edu.tw) was the local organizer.
Visit the archived conference website at http://www.ym.edu.tw/assc12/notie/index_ntie.php
Visit the online conference photo album at http://www.ym.edu.tw/assc12/photo_album.html
Presidential Address:
- David Rosenthal, City University of New York, USA. Topic: Why Are Mental States Ever Consciousness?
Keynote Speakers:
- Thomas Metzinger, The Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Germany. Topic: The Phenomenal Self and the First-Person Perspective
- Mitsuo Kawato, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Japan. Topic: Computational Advantages of Internal Models as Self-Consciousness
- Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Kyoto University, Japan. Topic: Comparative Cognitive Science: Trade-off Theory of Memory and Symbolization in Humans and Chimpanzees
- Susana Martinez-Conde, Barrow Neurological Institute, USA. Topic: Microsaccades: Windows on the Mind
Symposium Speakers:
- Ned Block, New York University, USA. Topic: Evidence That Phenomenal Consciousness Has a Distinct Neural Basis from Cognitive Access
- Victor Lamme, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Topic: How Neuroscience Should Attack the Hard Problem
- Sid Kouider, Ecole Normale Superieure, France. Topic: Unattended and Unaccessible Consciousness: Puzzle or Illusion?
- Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology, USA. Topic: Attention and Consciousness: Two Independent Processes
- Barbara Jones, McGill University, Canada. Topic: Neural and Chemical Substrates of Consciousness across Waking and Sleeping
- Donald Pfaff, The Rockefeller University, USA. Topic: Generalized CNS Arousal in Animal and Human Brains
- Steven Laureys, University of Liege, Belgium. Topic: Eyes Open, Brain Shut: Consciousness in the Vegetative State
- Haibo Di, Hangzhou Normal University, China.Topic: Imaging in Disorders of Conscious
- Charles Spence, Oxford University, UK. Topic: The Colavita Effect: An Example of Crossmodal Extinction in Normal Participants?
- Keiji Tanaka, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan. Topic: Coding of Cognitive Control Demand in the Medial Prefrontal Neurons
- Glyn Humphreys, University of Birmingham, UK. Topic: Interactions between Implicit Processing and Working Memory Revealed through Visual Extinction
- Shaul Hochstein, Life Sciences Institute and Neural Computation Center, Israel. Topic: Explicit vs. Implicit Perception and Working Memory Processes
- Tim Bayne, University of Oxford, UK. Topic: Are Delusions Pathologies of Consciousness?
- Ryan McKay, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Topic: Conscious and Unconscious Processes in Persecutory Delusions - Evidence for a Defense Account
- Ian Gold, McGill University, Canada. Topic: The Misidentification Delusions
- Robyn Langdon, Macquarie University, Australia. Topic: The Role of Conscious Experience Differentiates between Received and Reflective Delusions
Tutorial Workshops:
- Antoine Bechara. Topic: Emotions, Feelings, and Decision-Making
- Juliane Wilcke. Topic: The Evolutionary Function of Consciousness
- Jennifer Windt & Thomas Metzinger. Topic: Neurophilosophical Approaches to the Dreaming Mind—a Contrastive Analysis of Dreaming and Wakefulness
- Tim Bayne & Jakob Hohwy. Topic: Conscious States and Conscious Creatures: Explanatory Strategies in The Science of Consciousness
- Andrew Brook. Topic: Terminology in Consciousness Studies
- Shigeru Kitazawa & Shin'ya Nishida. Topic: Adaptive Anomalies in Conscious Time Perception
Download conference program books:
ASSC conference book 1: Abstracts [ pdf 1.8 mb ]
ASSC 12 Program book 2: Conference program and general information [ pdf 39 mb ]
ASSC12 Poster Contest Winner:
Julianne Wilcke, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
News Coverage of ASSC11:
Nature | New York Times |
Sponsors:
 National Science Council |  Ministry of Education |
 National Yang Ming University |  National Taiwan University |
|  Mind Science Foundation |
