Preliminary program
Day 1 - June 26
In-person Registration: 8:00 - 9:15 am
8:30 am-9:00 am: Breakfast
9:00 am-9:25 am: Introduction
Andrea Beckel-Michener, Deputy Director, NIH BRAIN Initiative
Joan Sereno, Direction, NSF Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Division
9:25 am-10:40 am: Session I: History and Theories of Consciousness Research.
Christof Koch
"An adversarial collaboration to arbitrate between Integrated Information Theory and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory"
Giulio Tononi
"Consciousness: From Theory to Practice"
Stanislas Dehaene
"Origins of human singularity: similar ignition mechanisms, but richer conscious contents in human compared to non-human primates"
10:40 am-11:10 am: General discussion session
Coffee break
11:30 am-12:20 pm: Session II-a: Conscious perception
Michael Cohen
"How much are we aware of during active, real-world vision?"
Biyu He
"Thoughts from studying conscious visual perception"
Lunch break
1:15 pm-2:30 pm: Session II-b: Conscious perception
Gabriel Kreiman
"Neural correlates of conscious recognition in the human brain"
Josef Parvizi
"Subjectivity and Sense of Self: The Causal Role of the Posteromedial Cortex"
Theofanis Panagiotaropoulos
"Gradients of consciousness: Insights from direct neuronal recordings in the primate brain"
Coffee break
2:50 pm-4:30 pm: Session III: Conscious and unconscious cognition
David Soto
"A framework to unconscious processing in higher-level visual cognition"
Marisa Carrasco
"On the relation among perception, attention and awareness"
Kalina Christoff
"What can spontaneous thought teach us about the mind and its consciousness?"
Bradley Postle
"Dissociating the focus of attention from the contents of working memory"
4:30 pm-5:00 pm: General discussion session
5:00 pm-6:00 pm: Poster presentation by trainees (in-person only)
Day 2 - June 27
8:30 am-9:00 am: Breakfast
9:00 am-9:50am: Session IV: Action and Volition
Itzhak Fried
"Neuronal codes of internal generation"
Patrick Haggard
"Volition: an elusive but important conscious state"
Coffee break
10:10 am-11:50am: Session V: Conscious Recall of Long-Term Memory
Daniel Schacter
"Constructive memory and conscious experience"
Jon Simons
"Brain mechanisms underlying the subjective experience of remembering"
Maureen Ritchey
“Transforming retrieved content into the subjective experience of recollection”
Lila Davachi
"TBA"
11:50 am-12:20pm: General discussion session
Lunch break
1:30 pm-2:45pm: Session VI: Animal consciousness
Jonathan Birch
"Insects as a model system for the study of consciousness"
Peter Godfrey-Smith
“Inferring Conscious Experience in Octopuses and Others”
Yuri Saalmann
“Controlling consciousness and evidencing its neural basis in animal models”
2:45 pm-3:35pm: Session VII: Development of Consciousness
Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
“Are infants aware of their environment and how to assess it?”
Philippe Rochat
“Developmental roots of human self-consciousness”
Coffee break
4:05 pm-5:45pm: Session VIII: Feelings and Emotion
Antonio Damasio and Hanna Damasio
”Homeostatic Feelings, Interoception, and the Emergence of Consciousness”
Elizabeth Phelps
"Consciousness and threat processing: What is it good for?"
Joseph LeDoux
“HO HO Consciousness”
Karl Deisseroth
"Precise elicitation and elucidation of altered states"
5:45 pm-6:15pm: General discussion session
Day 3 - June 28
8:30 am-9:00 am: Breakfast
9:00 am-10:15 am: Session IX: States of Consciousness
Emery Brown
“Anesthesia-Mediated States of Unconsciousness”
George Mashour
“Consciousness and Anesthesia”
Matthew Banks
"Cortical network reorganization specific to changes in consciousness: Insights from comparing sleep and general anesthesia"
Coffee break
10:35 am-11:50 am: Session X: Disorders of Consciousness
Hal Blumenfeld
“The role of transient modulation of subcortical arousal in normal consciousness and impaired consciousness in epilepsy”
Marcello Massimini
“Consciousness and brain complexity: from principles to bedside (and beyond)”
Sima Mofakham
“Recovery of Consciousness after Traumatic Brain Injury”
11:50 am-12:20 pm: General discussion session
Lunch break
1:15 pm-2:30 pm: Session XI: Neuroethics of consciousness research and AI
Syd Johnson
“Entities and Uncertainties: Ethical Implications of Consciousness ”
Joseph Fins
“Neuroethics, Disorders of Consciousness and Disability Rights: The Normative Challenge of Covert Consciousness”
Eric Oermann
“Building blocks of consciousness”
Coffee break
2:50 pm-4:00 pm: Presentations by Funding Agencies on Consciousness Research
4:00 pm-5:30 pm: Final discussion: big ideas and roadmap for consciousness research (in-person only)
5:30 pm: Adjourn