---------------- WELCOME This conference could not occur without the help of many individuals ---------------- and institutions. Welcome to the Ninth meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study We would like to thank the Mind-Science Foundation and its Executive of Consciousness. Director, Joseph Dial, for directly supporting this conference and making it possible to invite so many speakers from throughout the world. The annual ASSC conferences provide a forum where the most recent developments in the scientific study of consciousness are presented and Thanks to the California Institute of Technology for hosting this event. discussed. Following on the success of last year's member symposia, this year we sent out a call for proposals to the membership at large, for Thanks for Moran Surf and Constanze Hofstoetter for setting up the web- focussed symposia on relevant topics in consciousness research. This portal at assc.caltech.edu/assc9, the database and dealing with the resulted in the pleasantly difficult task of selecting three proposals from enormous amount of minor details that go into bringing more than 250 the many received. The ones we chose introduce issues that have only individuals from around the globe to one university. been tangentially addressed at previous meetings. One symposium organized by Romi Nijhawan went on to spawn a satellite event devoted Thanks to the Scientific Program Committee, composed of Ralph to problems of space and time in perception and action, which will be Adolphs, Tim Bayne, Christof Koch, David Leopold, Geraint Rees, held on the Tuesday immediately following this meeting. We are very Shinsuke Shimojo, Petra Stoerig and Patrick Wilken, which guided the grateful to Romi for organizing this excellent addition to the program. content of ASSC9. The Mind-Science Foundation (www.mindscience.org) has been active On behalf of the organizing committees and the ASSC Board, in supporting the establishment of a Science of Consciousness. They do so by virtue of an excellent and diverse range of scientific studies of Patrick Wilken, Magdeburg consciousness via the auspices of the Tom Slick award. This year we invited a number of the recipients of this award to present their work in a and special symposium. Christof Koch, Pasadena Following on the success of last year's student night in Antwerp, a student committee was formed whose aim is to foster greater involvement of graduate students within the ASSC. A few of the initial fruits of this committee are evidenced at this meeting. A student social is has been organized immediately after the poster session on Saturday (we thank Roberts and Company for generously sponsoring this event), and a new $250 cash prize is being offered for the best student presentation to acknowledge and encourage new researchers. The vast bulk of the program comes from member presentations. The shear depth and quality of the proposals, evident in the abstracts in this book, is testimony to the vitality and breadth of this field. ------------------------------ ASSC9 ORGANIZERS ------------------------------ Scientific Program Committee * Christof Koch, Caltech (Chair) * Ralph Adolphs, Caltech * Tim Bayne, Macquarie University * David Leopold, NIMH * Geraint Rees, University College London * Shinsuke Shimojo, Caltech * Petra Stoerig, Heinrich-Heine-University * Patrick Wilken, Otto von Guericke University Local Organizing Committee * Christof Koch, Caltech (Chair) * Constanze Hofstoetter, Caltech * Moran Surf, Caltech * Patrick Wilken, Otto von Guericke University 3 ------------------ -------------------------------- SCHEDULE ------------------ 9:00-12:30 Plenary Symposium 1: 2004 TOM SLICK RESEARCH AWARD IN CONSCIOUSNESS -------------------------------- Friday, June 24, 2005 * Susan Greenfield: The neuroscience of consciousness. -------------------------------- * Christof Koch: Tracking the hemodynamic footsteps of awareness in visual cortex. 9:30-12:30 MORNING TUTORIALS * Ralph Adolphs: Emotion, feeling and the brain. 10:15-10:45 Coffee Break * Alex Maier & Melanie Wilke: Investigating neuronal correlates of conscious visual perception. * Fred Gage: Experience-dependent modification of dentate gyrus * Thomas Metzinger & Stephan Schleim: Emerging ethical issues in through adult neurogensis. consciousness research: From neuroethics to consciousness * Allan Hobson: The brain basis of differences between the waking ethics. and dreaming states of consciousness. * Steven Laureys: Wakefulness without awareness: Lessons from Terri 12.30-14:00 LUNCH Schiavo and other victims of the vegetative state. 14:00-17:00 AFTERNOON TUTORIALS 12:30-14:00 Lunch * Bruno Breitmeyer & Vince di Lollo: Psychophysical methods for rendering stimuli invisible. 14:00-16:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS * C. Richard Chapman: The feeling of hurt: A brain-body perspective on pain. 1.1: NCC 1 * Robert Kentridge: Color and consciousness. * Giedrius Buracas: Awareness as validation of prediction. * Walter Freeman: Temporal and spatial analysis of * Toby Collins: An in vitro model for consciousness? electroencephalographic signals. * Lucia Melloni: Phase synchronization but not gamma oscillations correlates with conscious perception. 17:30-17:45: WELCOME * Kristy Sundberg: Neural mechanisms underlying a motion- dependent distortion of retinotopy in Area V4 17:45-18:45 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS * Stanislas Dehaene: Timing conscious access. 1.2: PHILOSOPHY 1 * Eric Schwitzgebel: Experience without attention? 18:45-19:45: 2005 WILLIAM JAMES PRIZE SPEAKER * Colin Klein: An imperative theory of pain. * Josh Weisberg: A limited defense of the ability hypothesis. 19:30 OPENING RECEPTION * Brian Glenney: Consciousness and crossmodal integration. 1.3: IMPLICIT PROCESSING -------------------------------- * Jonathan Smallwood: Reaction time and meta-awareness: your Saturday, June 25, 2005 hands reveal what your mind doesn't know. 4 * Arnaud Delorme: Neural dynamics of thought-full versus thought- free responses in orbitofrontal cortex. 2.1: ATTENTION * Michael Snodgrass: On the fate of negative emotional stimuli: levels * Ran Carmi: Attention deployment in a changing world - from of (un)consciousness mediate vigilance vs. defense. amnesia to memory and back. * Ahmad Sohrabi: An fMRI study of conscious and unconscious * Nao Tsuchiya: Awareness and attention are different: Study of priming in a line length comparison task: The role of conscious aftereffects produced by invisible stimulus. conflict monitoring and illusion. * Mark Stokes: Controlling the contents of visual consciousness: Mechanisms of competition and selection revealed by 'virtual 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break lesions' of human parietal cortex. * Laurent Itti: Visual salience facilitates entry into conscious scene 16:30-17:30 KEYNOTE LECTURE representation. * Derek Denton: Primal emotion, instinct and the dawning of consciousness. 2.2: SELF * Tim Bayne: Consciousness and attention in the split-brain. 17:30-20:00 POSTER SESSION (see end of booklet) * Roblin Meeks: You are not here: Locating the self in the brain. * Uriah Kriegel: No consciousness without self-consciousness: The 20:00 GRADUATE STUDENT SOCIAL empirical argument. * Henrik Ehrsson: Activity in the premotor cortex reflects the feeling of ownership of a limb. -------------------------------- Sunday, June 26 2.3: TEMPORALITY -------------------------------- * Gerrit Maus: Transient signals mask extrapolated position information of moving objects. 9:00-12:30 Plenary Symposium 2: VISUAL AFTEREFFECTS AND THE * David Eagleman: Illusory reversals in the timing of actions and NEURAL CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS sensations: when can effect precede cause, and why? * Ryota Kanai: Visual motion dilates the time. * Randolph Blake: Visual aftereffects and the neural correlates of * Rufin VanRullen: The temporal structure of visual perception: consciousness. Insights from an illusion of reversed motion. * Geoffrey Boynton: Perceptual deterioration. 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 16:30-17:30 KEYNOTE LECTURE * David Leopold: Visual aftereffects to simple and complex shapes. * Jean-Pierre Changeux: Do mice have consciousness? * Shinsuke Shimojo: Visibility, gaze specificity, and crossmodal synchrony assessed by aftereffect. 17:30-19:30 Plenary Symposium 3: PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOPHYSICS AND NEUROSCIENCE OF SPACE AND TIME 12:30-14:00 Lunch * Stanley Klein: Philosophy, physics and psychology in Libet's 14:00-16:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS subjective time experiments 5 * David Burr: Saccades cause relativistic misperception of time as well as space. 3.2: PHILOSOPHY 2 * Romi Nijhawan: Motor space, visual space and the flash-lag effect. * Andrew Brook: The Representational basis of consciousness. * Marius Dumitru: The quale of a thought. 20:30 CONFERENCE DINNER * David Pitt: Meaning psychologism. * Brian Felsen: The conscious room. -------------------------------- 3.3: NCC 2 Monday, June 27 * Simone Wehling: Alteration of visual perception by direct influence -------------------------------- from auditory cortex to visual cortex. * Joel Pearson: Suppressed patterns alter vision during binocular 9:00-10:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE rivalry. * Giulio Tononi: An information integration theory of consciousness. * Olivia Carter: The brainstem and binocular rivalry: The role of serotonin in arousing perceptual switching. 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break * Axel Kohler: Neural correlates of a motion illusion in primary visual cortex. 10:30-12:30 Plenary Symposium 4: HYPNOSIS AND THE DIVISION OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITIVE CONTROL 16:00-16:30 Coffee