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Abstracts › Table of Contents The 13th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientifi c Study of Consciousness 5–8 June 2009 in Berlin, Germany www.assc13.com Abstracts › table of contents 1 Editorial Overview 6 Committees 8 Past Meetings 10 Program Schedule 16 Concurrent Sessions 24 Poster Sessions Abstracts 38 Alphabetical List of Abstracts Appendix 302 Index 312 Directions and Locations imprint Editor Patrick Wilken Design and Sebastian Lehnert, Munich Production ( www.deskism.com ) Printing Biedermann Off setdruck, Parsdorf editorial Welcome to the 13 tthh Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientifi c Study of Consciousness The annual assc conferences provide a forum where the most recent developments in the empirical and conceptual study of consciousness are presented and discussed. The vast bulk of the program comes from member presentations. We received just over 300 pro- posals for talks and posters for this year’s meeting – an increase of about 30 % over Oxford – making the fi nal selection of 36 talks and 140 posters particularly diffi cult. The shear depth and quality of the proposals, evident in the abstracts in this book, is testimony to the vitality and breadth of this fi eld. Over 40 % of attendees at the conference are stu- dents. So it is fi tting that the student committee of the assc – Chien-Hui Chiu, Joel Parthemore, Sundeep Teki, along with the tireless local help of Kati Hennig – have once again been very active on their constituents behalf. In addition to organizing a mentoring program to link up more “senior” attendees with students, the committee has organized a special “student party for students” on the Saturday night, to allow students to meet up and exchange information with each other in a relaxed environment. The student committee has also organized a prize for best student poster presen- tation in philosophy. On behalf of the students we would like to thank all those who agreed to take the time to judge this prize. At the time of writing these include: Ned Block, Robert Clowes, Uriah Kriegel, Tobias Schlicht, and Michael Tye. 1 editorial The conference has benefi ted from the help of many individuals and institutions. A special thanks is owed to Annette Winkelmann, the managing director of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, who has worked tirelessly to help make this conference a success. Organizing the meeting would have been a far more trying and diffi cult process with- out her constant and generous support. We are indebted to the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and its President Günter Stock, for their gracious support, and for kindly allow- ing us to hold our meeting in such an elegant venue. We would like to thank the following institutions for their generous fi nancial assistance of the conference: Deutsche Forschungs gemeinschaft ( dfg ), Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Carl und Max Schneider-Stiftung, and the Mind-Science Foundation. 2 editorial Many thanks are owed to the members of the Pro- gram Committee – Kathleen Akins, Axel Cleeremans, Frédérique de Vignemont, Christof Koch and Vincent Walsh – who guided the selection of all academic con- tent. In addition, we would like to thank the many people who helped at the local end to make this meet- ing a success: Katja Crone, Kati Hennig, Boris Kaloff , Isabel Kranz, Sigrun Laws, Sebastian Lehnert, Bryan Miller, Ulrike Roßberg, Michael Schütte, and Kathrin Trauer. We thank all these individuals for making the job of organizing this meeting, both scientifi cally and administratively, a relatively painless, and dare we say it, enjoyable experience, and without whose in- volvement the success of the meeting would be far less assured. On behalf of the organizing committees and the assc Board, john-dylan haynes, michael pauen, and patrick wilken Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 3 Overview › committees assc Executive Board President Giulio Tononi, University of Wisconsin-Madison President- Thomas Metzinger, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Elect Mainz Past David Rosenthal, Graduate Center, City University President of New York Members- Axel Cleeremans, Université Libre de Bruxelles at-Large John-Dylan Haynes, Bernstein Center for Compu- tational Neuroscience Zoltan Dienes, University of Sussex Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology Susana Martinez-Conde, Barrow Neurological Institute Alva Noë, University of California, Berkeley 6 committees assc 13 Program Committee Co-Chairs John-Dylan Haynes, Bernstein Center for Compu- tational Neuroscience Michael Pauen, Berlin School of Mind and Brain Patrick Wilken, Berlin School of Mind and Brain Committee Kathleen Akins, Simon Fraser University Members Axel Cleeremans, Université Libre de Bruxelles Frédérique de Vignemont, New York University Christof Koch, California Institute for Technology Vincent Walsh, University College London assc 13 Local Organizing Committee Co-Chairs John-Dylan Haynes, Bernstein Center for Compu- tational Neuroscience Michael Pauen, Berlin School of Mind and Brain Patrick Wilken, Berlin School of Mind and Brain Kati Hennig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Boris Kaloff, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Bryan Miller, Johns Hopkins University Michael Schütte, Berlin School of Mind and Brain Annette Winkelmann, Berlin School of Mind and Brain 7 past meetings assc 12 Chairs: Allen Houng and Ralph Adolphs June 19 – 22, 2008 National Taiwan University, Taipei assc 11 Chairs: Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez- Conde June 22 – 25, 2007 The Imperial Palace Hotel, Las Vegas assc 10 Chairs: Geraint Rees and Patrick Wilken June 23 – 26, 2006 St. Anne’s College, Oxford assc 9 Chairs: Christof Koch and Patrick Wilken June 24 – 27, 2005 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena assc 8 Chair: Erik Myin June 25 – 28, 2004 University of Antwerp, Antwerp assc 7 Models and Mechanisms of Consciousness Chair: Stan Franklin May 30–June 2, 2003 University of Memphis, Memphis assc 6 Consciousness and Language: Reportability and Represen tation in Humans and Animals Chairs: Manuel García-Carpintero and Josep Macià May 31–June 3, 2002 La Caixa Foundation Science Museum, Barcelona 8 past meetings assc 5 The Contents of Consciousness: Perception, Attention, and Phenomenology Chairs: Güven Güzeldere and Ron Mangun May 27 – 30, 2001 Duke University, Durham assc 4 The Unity of Consciousness: Binding, Integration, and Dissociation Chair: Axel Cleeremans June 29–July 2, 2000 Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels assc 3 Consciousness and Self: Neural, Cognitive, and Philo sophical Issues Chair: Mel Goodale June 4 – 7, 1999 University of Western Ontario, London assc 2 Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Empirical and Conceptual Issues Chair: Thomas Metzinger June 19 – 22, 1998 Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Bremen assc 1 What Does Implicit Cognition Tell Us About Consciousness? Chairs: William Banks and Patrick Wilken June 13 – 16, 1997 The Claremont Colleges, Claremont 9 program schedule Friday, 5 June 9:30 – 12:30 Morning Workshops m 1 Willpower: From Metaphysical Problems to Empirical Challenges Heather Berlin and Henrik Walter m 2 Manipulating Perception: Misdirection, Magic and Consciousness Amory Faber, Gustav Kuhn, and David Edelman m 3 Philosophical Issues Concerning Consciousness and Representation Uriah Kriegel m 4 Synesthesia Noam Sagiv 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 17:00 Afternoon Workshops a 1 How Can We Experimentally Induce and Measure Emotional Feelings? Silke Anders and Raffael Kalisch a 2 Consciousness in a Natural World: From Biological Function to the Meanings of Life Owen Flanagan and Güven Güzeldere a 3 Neurocognitive Theories of Consciousness Sid Kouider, Anil Seth, and Vincent de Gardelle a 4 Markers of Awareness? eeg Potentials Evoked by Faint and Masked Events, with Special Reference to the “Atten tional Blink” Rolf Verleger 10 program schedule Friday, 5 June 17:30 – 18:00 Opening Remarks Michael Pauen and Patrick Wilken, local co-chairs, and Thomas Metzinger, President-Elect assc 18:00 – 19:00 Presidential Address An Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness Giulio Tononi, University of Wisconsin- Madison 19:00–late Opening Reception 11 program schedule Saturday, 6 June 9:00 – 10:00 Keynote Lecture Origins of Shared Intentionality Michael Tomasello, mpi for Evolutionary Anthropology 10:00 – 10:30 Coff ee Break 10:30 – 12:30 Symposium 1 Attention and Consciousness Chair: Tobias Schlicht Alva Noë Does Phenomenal Consciousness Outstrip Cognitive Access? Ronald Rensink Towards a Taxonomy of Visual Attention Michael Tye Attention, Seeing, and Change Blindness 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 15:30 Concurrent Session 1 15:30 – 16:00 Coff ee Break 16:00 – 17:30 Concurrent Session 2 17:30 – 19:30 Poster Session 1 20:00 – late Student Reception 12 program schedule Sunday, 7 June 9:00 – 10:00 Keynote Lecture Armchair Refl ections on Consciousness and the Science of Consciousness Jaegwon Kim, Brown University 10:00 – 10:30 Coff ee Break 10:30 – 12:30 Symposium 2 Mirroring the Self and Others Chair: Noam Sagiv Jamie Ward Your Body Is My Body: The Remarkable “Mirror Touch” Synaesthesia Peter Brugger Anarchic Limbs, Anarchic Bodies: Hostility in the Breakdown of Corporeal Awareness Olaf Blanke Merging Cognitive Neuroscience with Virtual Reality to Study Self-consciousness 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 15:30 Concurrent Session 3 15:30 – 16:00 Coff ee Break 16:00 – 17:30 Concurrent Session 4 17:30 – 19:30 Poster Session 2 20:30 – late Conference Dinner 13 program schedule Monday, 8 June 9:00 – 10:00 Keynote Lecture What is the Explanatory
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