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PROGRAM UNDER REVIEW 01.04 |Wednesday 02.04 |Thursday 01.04 | Wednesday 03.04 | Friday 04.04 | Saturday 20:00-21:15 Registration 2nd session - The biology of time 3rd session - The experience of time 21:15-21:45 Opening Session (in Portuguese) Moderator - Miguel Castelo-Branco Moderator - Caroline Watt 21:45-22:30 Opening Conference 09:00-09:15 Opening remarks 09:00-09:15 Opening remarks Chairman | Axel Cleeremans 09:15-09:45 Predictive anticipatory activity: How do biological systems 09:15-09:45 The brain is a time machine: The neuroscience of time The perception of time in humans, brains and pre-spond to future events? Dean Buonomano machines Julia Mossbridge Anil Seth 01.04 09:50-10:20 Remembering the future: Facilitating the recall of future events 09:50-10:20 Kinship: Life time memories Daryl Bem Michael Brecht 10:25-10:55 Visualising time in the brain: Perceiving the present and predicting the future 10:25-10:55 Circadian clocks and their Impact on metabolism, Jennifer Coull 02.04 | Thursday aging and longevity Joseph S. Takahashi 11:00-11:30 Coffee, posters session and contacts with faculty 1st session - The arrow of time 11:00-11:30 Coffee, posters session and contacts with faculty 11:30-12:15 Keynote lecture How we experience the passage of time: The body, feelings, and the self Moderator - Etzel Cardeña 11:30-12:15 Keynote lecture Marc Wittmann Time as construct and implicit coding space. 09:00-09:15 Opening remarks A neurobiological perspective 12:30-13:00 Morning Discussion 09:15-09:45 Time, the hidden dimension Wolf Singer Orfeu Bertolami 12:30-13:00 Morning Discussion 13:00-14:30 Lunch 09:50-10:20 The trouble with Einstein's time Jimena Canales 13:00-14:30 Lunch 14:30-16:30 Conversation time Moderator | Teresa Firmino 10:25-10:55 Retrocausation and precognition: Taking time seriously Participants: Jimena Canales, Anil Seth, Wolf Singer, Joseph S. Takahashi Daniel Sheehan & Patricia Cyrus 14:30-16:30 Parallel Workshops (W) 11:00-11:30 Coffee, posters session and contacts with faculty W 1 – Room Auditorium; there will be simultaneous translation The physics and metaphysics of time 11:30-12:15 Keynote lecture Moderator | Axel Cleeremans The many-faceted enigma of time: Invited presenters: Orfeu Bertolami, Bernard Carr, A physicist’s perspective Daniel Sheehan & Patricia Cyrus Registration Fee Bernard Carr W 2 – Room Conferências 12:30-13:00 Morning Discussion Precognition and anomalous experiences €200 , for university students under the age of 25 and PhD students Moderator | Caroline Watt €80 Invited presenter: These amounts do not include meals 13:00-14:30 Lunch Julia Mossbridge There will be simultaneous translation from English to Portuguese and vice-versa, excluding – Room Medioteca W 3 workshops 14:30-15:30 Oral poster presentations - Grant holders The experience of time in altered states of consciousness Moderator | Limited number of registrations Moderator | Mário Simões Stefan Schmidt PROGRAMInvited presenters: Etzel Cardeña,UNDER Marc Wittmann REVIEW Online registration - www.fundacaobial.com 15:30-16:00 Coffee, posters session and contacts with faculty W 4 – Room Braga 16:00-17:00 Cont. Perception and memory of time Oral poster presentations - Grant holders Moderator | Rui Costa, Rainer Goebel Invited presenters: Dean Buonomano, Jennifer Coull 02.04 17:00-18:00 Get-together Cheese & Wine 03.04 04.04 th Daryl Bem | Professor Emeritus of Miguel Castelo-Branco | Professor of Rainer Goebel | Professor of Mário Simões | Retired Professor 13 SYMPOSIUM OF Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, Biostatistics and Visual Sciences and Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychiatry and Consciousness NY, USA, and Fellow of the American Director of CIBIT at ICNAS, University of of Psychology and Neuroscience, Sciences and Director of LIMMIT BIAL FOUNDATION Psychological Association. Joined Cornell Coimbra, Portugal. Scientific interests: Maastricht University, The - Laboratory of Interaction faculty in 1978, and has also taught at sensory and perceptual neuroscience, and Netherlands. Founding director of the Mind-Matter with Therapeutic Intention, Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford, and neurobiology of decision-making, social cognition Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre (M-BIC). Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, Portugal. Harvard. Scientific interests: parapsychological and reward in health and disease. Scientific interests: neuronal Scientific interests: psychology and BEHIND AND phenomena, personality theory, beliefs, attitudes representations in the brain and how they psychophysiology of altered states of and public opinion and sexual orientation. are processed to enable specific consciousness, ethnomedicine, human perceptual and cognitive functions, neural exceptional experiences and psychology PROGRAM BEYOND THE BRAIN Axel Cleeremans | Research Director, correlates of visual awareness, clinical and spirituality. Aquém e Além do Cérebro Orpheu Bertolami | Professor of Physics, Consciousness, Cognition & Computation applications in brain computer interfaces Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Group, Université Libre de Bruxelles, (BCls) and neurofeedback studies. Portugal. Scientific interests: astroparticle Belgium. Scientific interests: | Professor, studied physics, cosmology, classical and consciousness and implicit learning, models of Wolf Singer The mystery of time Medicine in Munich and Paris, quantum gravity, applied and fundamental conscious and unconscious cognition, neural | Visiting Julia Mossbridge obtained his MD and PhD in Casa do Médico - Porto physics in space, earth system physics. network of cognitive processes. Scholar, Northwestern University, Evanston, and Associated Full Munich. Director emeritus at the April 1 to 4, 2020 Professor, California Institute of Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Michael Brecht | Professor of Systems Integral Studies, San Francisco, USA. Frankfurt, Germany. Founding Director Neuroscience, Humboldt University Rui Costa | Professor of Neuroscience 2014 recipient of the Charles Honorton both of the Frankfurt Institute for Organizing Committee: Berlin. Coordinator of the Bernstein and Neurology, Columbia University, and Integrative Contributions Award from the Advanced Studies (FIAS) and of the Ernst Center for Computational Neuroscience Director and CEO of Columbia’s Parapsychology Association. Scientific Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience President Berlin, Germany. Scientific interests: memory Zuckerman Institute, New York, USA. interests: the relationship between (ESI) and Director of the Ernst formation, social touch, social neuroscience and Strüngmann Forum. Scientific interests: AXEL CLEEREMANS (Brussels) Investigator at the Champalimaud Centre for the psychological and physical time, biological approaches to brain function. Unknown, Neuroscience Programme, Lisbon, unconscious access to future events, the neuronal substrate of higher cognitive ETZEL CARDEÑA (Lund) Portugal. Scientific interests: molecular, cellular training people to improve their future functions. and systems mechanisms of action generation, MIGUEL CASTELO-BRANCO (Coimbra) Dean Buonomano | Professor of orientation. Neurobiology and Psychology, University sequence and skill learning, goal-directed actions RUI COSTA (New York and Lisbon) of California, Los Angeles, USA. Author of versus habits, across-level approach to study Joseph S. Takahashi | Professor | Professor of “Your Brain is a Time Machine”. Scientific cognitive and sensorimotor disorders (PD, OCD, Stefan Schmidt and Chair, Department of RAINER GOEBEL (Maastricht) Systemic Family Therapy and interests: neural basis of timing, and autism). Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Head of the Academic Section of STEFAN SCHMIDT (Freiburg) neurocomputation, neural dynamics, learning and Medical Institute, University of Systemic Health Research, CAROLINE WATT (Edinburgh) memory. Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine Dallas, USA. Scientific interests: genetics Jennifer Coull | Senior CNRS Research and Psychotherapy, University Medical and molecular neuroscience of circadian Jimena Canales | Writer and Professor of Scientist, Laboratory of Cognitive Centre, Freiburg, Germany. Scientific clocks in mammals, genetic basis of the Graduate College, University of Neurosciences, CNRS & Aix-Marseille interests: systems approaches in health behaviour, healthy aging and longevity. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Author University, France. Scientific interests: research, psychophysiology, of “A Tenth of a Second” and “The functional neuroimaging & psychopharmacology consciousness research, mindfulness of timing (temporal expectations and duration Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, meditation, experimental parapsychology, Caroline Watt | Holder of the and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding judgements), development of the “sense” of time exceptional experiences, placebo Koestler Chair of of Time”. Scientific interests: history of science. in childhood, timing in schizophrenia, functional research and brain-computer interface. Parapsychology, and founder neuroimaging & psychopharmacology of attention member of the Koestler Symposium’s Venue and arousal. Etzel Cardeña | Thorsen Professor of Anil Seth | Professor of Cognitive Parapsychology Unit, Psychology Casa do Médico • Rua Delfim Maia, 405 • 4200-256 Porto Department, University of Edinburgh, Tel. +351 22 507 0100 Psychology and Director of the Center for and Computational Research on Consciousness and Neuroscience, University of Scotland. Scientific interests: replication Anomalous Psychology (CERCAP),
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