MIT Consciousness Club

The MIT Consciousness Club aims to foster interdisciplinary research on consciousness at MIT and in the broader Boston area by organizing a monthly event featuring an expert talk on consciousness followed by a Q&A session. It is organized by Matthias Michel & Earl Miller as one of the projects of the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC), which brings together humanities and the sciences at MIT.

You can register to the email list here.

Schedule:

All talks 12pm to 1:30pm, in MIT Building 46 - Room 3310 for members of the Boston Area research community. Zoom links will be provided and talks will be recorded.

September 19, 2025 - Matthias Michel (Department of Linguistics & Philosophy, MIT) - “Sensory Horizons and the Evolution of Visual Consciousness”

October 16, 2025 - Rachel Denison (Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Boston University) - "Attentional Distortions of Subjective Perception" (Zoom link for the meeting here)

November 20, 2025 - Earl Miller (Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT)

December 11, 2025 - Marisa Carrasco (Department of Psychology, New York University)

January 22, 2026 - George Mashour (University of Michigan Medical School)

February 19, 2026 - Marco Tamietto (Department of Psychology, University of Turin)

March 19, 2026 - Melvyn Goodale (Department of Psychology, Western University)

April 16, 2026 - Nadine Dijkstra (Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, UCL)