Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Tuesday, 08/July/2025 | ||||
| 8:30am - 9:00am |
REGISTRATIONS Location: FOYER |
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| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Concurrent Session 13- States of Consciousness (Sleep) Location: KALOKAIRINOU HALL Introduced by: Delphine Oudiette Sleep-like Slow Waves Predict The Severity And Recovery Of Disorders Of Consciousness 1: Sorbonne University, INSERM-CNRS, Paris Brain Institute, Paris, France; 2: APHP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Sleep Disorders Unit, Paris, France; 3: APHP, Pitié- Salpêtrière Hospital, Department of Neurophysiology, Paris, France; 4: APHP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Department of Neurology, Neuro-ICU, Paris, France 9:10am - 9:20am From False Awakenings To Lucid Dreaming: Building Metacognitive Dream Awareness In A Virtual Sleep Lab 1: Institute of Sports Science, University of Bern, Switzerland; 2: Donders Center for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, the Netherlands 9:20am - 9:30am Causal Influence Of Frontal Over Posterior Brain Regions is Increased During Lucid REM Sleep Paris Brain Institute, France 9:30am - 9:40am Is DMT Dream-like? Comparing The Physiological Signatures Of Wake Under DMT And REM Sleep 1: Paris Brain Institute, France; 2: Imperial College London; 3: University of California 9:40am - 9:50am Unfolding Sleep’s Emergent Dynamical Organisation in the Temporal and Spectral Domains 1: Paris Brain Institute (ICM) / Inserm, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France; 2: Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; 3: Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science and Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; 4: Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness, Toronto, Canada; 5: Monash Centre for Consciousness & Contemplative Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia |
Concurrent Session 14- Psychedelics 1 Location: CONCERT HALL Introduced by: Pedro A.M. Mediano “Are They Still With Us?”: Experimental Studies of After Death Experiences (ADEs) 1: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland; 2: Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland 9:10am - 9:20am Jhana Meditation and the Entropic Brain McGill, Canada 9:20am - 9:30am Ketamine’s Impact on Hedonia: Reshaping the Brain’s Integration-Experience Association 1: Vienna Cognitive Science Hub, University of Vienna, Austria; 2: Department of Computing, Imperial College London, United Kingdom; 3: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Austria; 4: Comprehensive Center for Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health (C3NMH), Medical University of Vienna, Austria; 5: EVA-Labs, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria 9:30am - 9:40am Effects Of Psychedelics On Feedforward And Feedback Processing In Primate Visual Cortex UC Berkeley, United States of America |
Concurrent Session 15- Perception Location: EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE HALL Introduced by: Theofanis Panagiotaropoulos Electrophysiological Correlates of Conscious Perception in the Sound-Induced Flash Illusion 1: Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience, University of Muenster; 2: Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Muenster 9:10am - 9:20am Limited Evidence for Expectation Effects on Event-Related Potentials in Predictive Cueing Designs 1: University of Melbourne, Australia; 2: Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany; 3: Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 9:20am - 9:30am Motivation & Reward Processing Require Perceptual Awareness Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 9:30am - 9:40am Audiovisual Integration Obeys Different Rules For Detection And Confidence Judgements 1: Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LPNC; 2: Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM, GIN; 3: University of Oxford, All Souls College and Department of Experimental Psychology 9:40am - 9:50am From Surprise to Confidence: Computational and Physiological Correlates of Learning and Metacognition in Probabilistic Environments 1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; 2: Ghent University, Belgium |
Concurrent Session 16- Models and Mechanisms 2 Location: STUDIO THEATRE Introduced by: Simon van Gaal Beyond Conscious Perception: On The Metaphysical Aspirations Of Predictive Processing Monash University, Australia 9:10am - 9:20am CAMPEONES: Continuous Annotation and Multimodal Processing of EmOtions in Naturalistic EnvironmentS – Pilot Data and Preliminary Analysis 1: National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina; 2: COCUCO Lab, Institute of Interdisciplinary and Applied Physics, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; 3: Frontlab, Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Paris, France; 4: Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience, INECO Foundation, Favaloro University; 5: Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, University of Paris Cité, Paris, France; 6: Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Neuroscience and Rare Diseases, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F. Hoffmann–La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland; 7: Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; 8: Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 9: Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Santiago de Chile, Chile 9:20am - 9:30am Assessing the Phenomenology of Robot-Induced Presence Hallucinations with Conversational Agents 1: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; 2: Columbia University, USA; 3: Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG), Switzerland 9:30am - 9:40am Signatures of Criticality and Their Relationship to Human Consciousness 1: Imperial College London, United Kingdom; 2: University College London, United Kingdom; 3: Paris Brain Institute, France; 4: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 9:40am - 9:50am Does The Access/Phenomenal Consciousness Distinction Bear Marks Of A Degenerative Research Programme? Université libre Bruxelles, Belgium 9:50am - 10:00am Towards an Ecological Approach to Consciousness: Re-framing the Mind–Environment Interface in a Closed-Loop Framework 1: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; 2: Tel-Hai College; 3: Macadamia Living Lab; 4: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
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COFFEE BREAK Location: FOYER |
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| 10:30am - 12:30pm |
Symposium_03 Location: KALOKAIRINOU HALL Phenomenology And Neural Mechanisms Of Conscious Space Perception Presentations of the Symposium Testing The Role Of Background Neuronal Activity In The Generation Of Visuospatial Consciousness Investigating Spatial Consciousness Across The Visual Blind Spot Self-consciousness And Spatial Navigation Investigating Spatial Experiences In Patients With Occipital Stroke |
Symposium_04 Location: CONCERT HALL Integrating Cross-species And Cross-modal Approaches To Identify And Modulate States Of Consciousness Presentations of the Symposium Causal Evidence About Brain Function and Consciousness From Direct Electrical Stimulation in the Human Brain Central Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation to Exert Bidirectional Control of Consciousness Elucidating Mechanisms and Functions of “Default” Brain States: From Torpor to Psychedelics Systematic Phenotyping of Mammalian Brain Dynamics Reveals an Evolutionarily Conserved Dynamical Regime of Anaesthesia |
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| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
MENTOR LUNCH |
PS3: Poster Session 3 - Altered States, NonOrdinary States, hallucinations, Mental Imagery - LUNCH BREAK Location: FOYER Effect of Light Wavelength on Pseudo-Hallucination Production in the Multi-Modal Ganzfeld 1: Physiology of Cognition Lab, GIGA-CRC In Vivo Imaging Research Unit, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium, France; 2: Fund for Scientific Research FNRS, Brussels, Belgium; 3: Computational Bio-Medicine Lab, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas, Heraklion, Greece; 4: Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium Preliminary Evidence Suggests Multi-Modal Ganzfeld Approximates the Hallucinogenic Effects of Moderate-dose Psilocybin 1: University of Liège, Belgium; 2: University of Antwerp, Belgium; 3: University of Maastricht, Netherlands Bottom-up and Top-down Dynamics in Light-induced Visual Hallucinations 1: Department of Experimental Psychology, Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, UK; 2: Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, UK; 3: Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University, London, UK Do Brain Rhythms During Ganzfeld Reflect Changes in Attention or Sleepiness? 1: Columbia University, United States of America; 2: Barnard College, United States of America The Neurophenomenology of Altered States of Consciousness mediated by Yoga, Breathwork and Meditation 1: Cambridge Consciousness and Cognition Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2: Bitbrain Neurotechnology, Spain; 3: Human Experience Dynamics, Cambridge Enterprise, United Kingdom Comparing Complexity Measures for Distinguishing Conscious States 1: University of Sussex; 2: University of California San Francisco; 3: Maastricht University; 4: Imperial College London Sensory-mediated Disintegration: Engineering Intensive VR and Breathwork Experiences To Induce Altered States Of Consciousness University of California Merced, United States of America Altered States of Viscereality: Augmenting Breathwork with Bio-Responsive Virtual Reality to induce altered states of consciousness 1: ALIUS ResearchNetwork; 2: Intangible Realities Lab; 3: Pädagogische Hochschule Schaffhausen; 4: Humboldt University Berlin; 5: Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences; 6: Association for Independent Research; 7: Qualia Research Institute; 8: University of Konstanz Elucidating the Mechanisms of Psilocybin Therapy's Antidepressant Actions Using Innovative Clinical Trial Design Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada Conscious Experience of the Divine: Brain Dynamics During Ayahuasca and Ceremonial Music Listening Among the Santo Daime. 1: Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 2: Neuronal Dynamics Group, Paris Brain Institute, Paris, France; 3: FMRIB, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 4: Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; 5: University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany; 6: Center for Brain and Cognition, Theoretical and Computational Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; 7: Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Altered States, Altered Choices: Exploring Reinforcement Learning Under Psychedelic Influence 1: CONICET, Argentina; 2: University of Buenos Aires, INFINA, Argentina; 3: Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Santiago, Chile The Effect Of DMT On EEG Network Efficiency And Segregation 1: Neuroscience Department, Starlab Barcelona SL, Spain; 2: Centre for Psychedelic Research, Department of Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK; 3: Computational, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory (C3NL), Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK; 4: Data Science Institute Imperial College London London, UK; 5: Brain Modelling Department, Neuroelectrics, Barcelona, Spain Big Claims About Small Doses: What Microdosing Psychedelics Can Reveal About Cognition, Beliefs and Consciousness 1: Macquarie University, Australia; 2: Monash University, Australia Co-Creating Altered States of Consciousness: The Intersubjective Field in Psychedelic Therapy McGill University, Montreal, Canada Comparative Connectivity Profiles of Psychedelics and Related Compounds: Insights from Resting-State fMRI University of Lübeck, Germany Effects of Low-Dose LSD on Perceptual Decision Making in Healthy Subjects 1: University of Basel, Department of Psychiatry (UPK) and Department of Clinical Research, Switzerland; 2: University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Biomedicine and Department of Clinical Research, Switzerland; 3: Maynooth University, Department of Psychology, Ireland; 4: University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, Germany Trauma Under Psychedelics: How Trauma During Altered States Of Consciousness Impacts Cognitive, Physiological Neural And Clinical Outcomes University of Haifa, Israel Transient Or Transformative? Psychedelics And Long-term Change 1: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin; 2: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nurnberg Synthetic Trips: A Universal Embedding for Psychedelic-Induced Neural and Phenomenological States 1: University College London, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, United Kingdom; 2: University College London, Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, United Kingdom; 3: University College London, Department of Experimental Psychology, United Kingdom; 4: University of Cambridge, Department of Psychology; 5: University of Buenos Aires, Department of Physics Spatiotemporal Brain Activity Under DMT Reveals Reduced Synchronization and Increased Complexity 1: Center for Brain and Cognition, Computational Neuroscience Group, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Roc Boronat 138, Barcelona, 08018, Spain; 2: National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 3: Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Paris, France; 4: Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg 8000, Denmark; 5: Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Department of Psychiatry, Linacre College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX39BX, United Kingdom; 6: Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX37JX, United Kingdom; 7: Psychedelics Division, Neuroscape, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; 8: Centre for Psychedelic Research, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK; 9: Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; 10: Institució Catalana de la Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain Neural Information Dynamics in Altered States of Consciousness 1: Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK; 2: Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, UK Processing of Self-related Thoughts in Experienced Users of Classic Psychedelics: a Source Localisation EEG Study 1: Institute of Psychology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Poland; 2: Center of Excellence for Neural Plasticity and Brain Disorders: BRAINCITY, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland; 3: Consciousness Lab, Psychology Institute, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland; 4: Centre for Brain Research, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland; 5: Department of Psychology, University SWPS, Warsaw, Poland Subjective Effects of Intranasal 5-MeO-DMT: A Phenomenological Investigation 1: Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London.; 2: Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, King’s College London Predicting Psychedelic Responses: Toward a Personalized Approach to Psychedelic Therapy Psynautics, United States of America Ontologically Diversifying Experiences: How Psychedelics Transform Selfhood, Relationships, and Reality University of Exeter, United Kingdom The Role of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Ego Dissolution and Emotional Arousal During the Psychedelic State 1: King's College London, London, UK; 2: Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; 3: Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; 4: Oxford Mathematics of Consciousness and Application Network, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Time-Resolved Neural and Experience Dynamics of Medium and High-dose DMT 1: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2: University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; 3: The Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, University of Paris, Paris, France; 4: Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Santiago, Chile Effects Of 5-MeO-DMT On The Human Brain 1: University College London; 2: Imperial College London; 3: University of Oxford An Interhemispheric Frontoparietal Network Supports Hypnotic States University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Navigating The Inner Landscape: Minds, States, & Experiences Compassion Institute Heartbeat-Evoked Potentials Track Depth of Meditation Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, United States of America Brain Functional Connectivity Demonstrates Changes in Nonlinear Processing in Long-term Practitioners of Transcendental Meditation 1: Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.; 2: Conscious Brain Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.; 3: Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom; 4: Laboratory of Sleep Neurobiology, Department of Physiology, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.; 5: Neuroscience Center, Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.; 6: Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Catolica del Maule, Talca, Chile. Beyond Pathology: Expert Consensus on the Intersection of Emergent Experiences and Mental and Medical Conditions Emergence Benefactors, United States Spontaneous Unmedicated Labour Mimics Altered States Imperial College London, United Kingdom Neural Complexity and Extended Cessations: A Source-localized Meg-Eeg Analysis of the Advanced Meditative Endpoint Nirodha Samapatti 1: University of Oxford, United Kingdom; 2: Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, United States Virtual Reality Hypnosis Fails to Enhance Hypnotic Experience in Low-Suggestible Individuals 1: Conscious Care Lab, GIGA Consciousness, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 2: Cognitive Psychology Unit, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; 3: Coma Science Group, GIGA Consciousness, Liège University, Liège, Belgium; 4: Centre du Cerveau, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 5: ISIA Lab, Numediart Institute, Mons University, Mons, Belgium; 6: Oncomfort SA, Wavre, Belgium; 7: Algology Interdisciplinary Center, Liège University Hospital, Liège, Belgium Positively-Valenced Meditation-Induced Self-Boundary Dissolution Is Associated With MEG-Markers Of Death Acceptance 1: Integrated Brain and Behavior Research Center (IBBRC), University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.; 2: Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.; 3: Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.; 4: Department of Cognitive Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.; 5: Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.; 6: Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg, Germany.; 7: The Israel Insight Society (Tovana), Kibbutz Ein-Dor, Israel.; 8: Eduwell team, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, INSERM, Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France.; 9: Department of Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.; 10: Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. The Rhythms of Trance: An Anthropological and Neuroscientific Perspective on Music-Induced Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness 1: Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; 2: Fitchburg State University, Massachusetts, USA; 3: McGill University, Montreal, Canada Meditation Induces Shifts in Neural Oscillations, Brain Complexity and Critical Dynamics 1: Institute for Applied Mathematics ”M. Picone”, CNR, Rome, Italy; 2: Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, QC, Canada; 3: Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, INT, Inst Neurosci Timone, Marseille, France; 4: Centre de recherche du CHUM, Montreal, QC, Canada; 5: Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; 6: Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy; 7: Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy; 8: Department of Engineering and Geology, University of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, Italy; 9: Mila, Quebec AI institute, Montreal, QC, Canada; 10: UNIQUE Center, Quebec Neuro-AI Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada Of Hidden Springs and Endless Oceans University of Vienna, Austria Valence, Uncertainty and Meditative Experience: Understanding Affective Valence with the Active Inference Framework Monash University, Australia More than Attention: Brief Practice of Focused-attention Mindfulness Suppresses Automatic Word Meaning Processing 1: Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, United States; 2: New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, People's Republic of China; 3: The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States Neurofeedback As A Mirror For Meditation-induced Self-boundary Dissolution - Closing The Loop Between Phenomenology And Neural Activity 1: University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; 2: University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands; 3: University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel Shared Neural Processes Induced By Hypnotic Verbal Suggestion For Pain Modulation 1: Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada.; 2: Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, Canada; 3: Department of psychology, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada; 4: Department of Anesthesiology and pain Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada; 5: Department of Anatomy, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada; 6: Stomatology Department, Faculté de médecine dentaire, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada. Integrated Phenomenology and Brain Connectivity Demonstrate Changes in Nonlinear Processing in Jhana Advanced Meditation 1: Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Canada; 2: Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 3: Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, United States; 4: Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom What Kind of Suffering Does Meditation Reduce? 1: Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia; 2: Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia Contemplative Path or Pathology? A Culturally-Sensitive Approach to Meditation-Related Difficulties in Abrahamic Meditative Traditions McGill University, Canada Holy Spirit or Holy Psyche? Energy-like Somatic Experiences in Contemporary Abrahamic Meditative Traditions 1: McGill University, Canada; 2: McLean Hospital, Harvard University; 3: Brown University Altering The Sense of Self In Meditation With One’s Avatar In Virtual Reality Enhances Self-compassion And Perspective-taking 1: Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuro-X Institute and Brain-Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; 2: Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland; 3: All Here SA, Geneva, Switzerland Religious Experiences In The Lab? Uncertainty, Cultural Learning, And Feelings Of Presence 1: LEVYNA Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion, Masaryk University, Czech Republic; 2: Mathematical Cognition and Learning Lab, Jagellonian University; 3: Cognitive Psychology unit, Leiden University Decoding Sense Of Reality: A VR-EEG Study Of Virtual Hallucinations 1: Bar Ilan University; 2: Haifa University Comparing Subjective Report Elicitation Methods for Psychiatric Symptom Prediction: A Computational Approach 1: Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal; 2: Département de Psychiatrie et d'Addictologie, Université de Montréal; 3: Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Montréal Hallucination as Embodied Imagination University of York, United Kingdom Subjective and Physiological Effects of Phenomenologically Distinct Simulated Hallucinations in Virtual Reality 1: Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; 2: Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; 3: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA; 4: Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CHAIN), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; 5: Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom Neural Mechanisms of the Sense of Reality: An fMRI Study 1: Bar Ilan University, Israel; 2: Haifa University, Israel A Novel Questionnaire to Measure the Contents of Visual Hallucinations 1: University of Sussex, United Kingdom; 2: Program for Brain, and Consciousness, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Toronto, Canada Neural Correlates of Cognitive Impairments in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease with Minor and Well-Structured Hallucinations 1: Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuro-X Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Geneva, Switzerland; 2: Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Altered Prior Weighting in Hallucinations: A Hierarchical Predictive Processing Approach 1: Department of Psychiatry (UPK), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.; 2: Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. Modeling Delusional Experiences in the Human Brain 1: Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada; 2: Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada; 3: Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada Behavioural and Neural Correlates of Presence Hallucinations with Perceived Identity in Parkinson’s Disease 1: Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuro-X Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Geneva, Switzerland; 2: Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland What Makes Mental Images Vivid? Sharpness As The Key Visual Dimension 1: Northeastern University, United States of America; 2: University of California, Irvine, United States of America; 3: University College London, United Kingdom True cases of Mind Blindness are More Difficult to Identify than Typically Thought: Revisiting Aphantasia Classification in a Large-Scale Study (N = 1,295) 1: Université de Montréal, Canada; 2: University of Leeds, England Vividness Reports of Mental Imagery Correlate with Dimensionality of Imagery Representations in V1 1: University of Minnesota, United States of America; 2: Maastricht University, Netherlands MIRAGE: Robust Multi-modal Architectures Translate fMRI-to-image Models from Vision to Mental Imagery 1: University of Minnesota, United States of America; 2: Former Medical AI Research Center (MedARC); 3: University of Sydney; 4: Stanford University; 5: Alljoined; 6: University of Waterloo; 7: Former Stability AI; 8: Princeton Neuroscience Institute An Inwardly Focused Cognitive Style Link Mental Imagery And Mental Health 1: School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, United Kingdom.; 2: Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Denmark; 3: Consciousness Lab, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland; 4: Centre for Brain Research, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland; 5: Life Sciences Centre, Institute of Biosciences, Vilnius University, Sauletekio ave 7, LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania; 6: Danish Pain Research Center, Aarhus University, Denmark When Outliers Become Frontrunners: Mental Imagery Diversity and the Re-evaluation of Simulation Theories Monash University, Australia When Perception Shapes Reality: Insights From Face Pareidolia University of Verona, Italy Absence Of Shared Representation In The Visual Cortex Challenges Unconscious Imagery in Aphantasia 1: Institut für Philosophie II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstr. 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany; 2: Sorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau – Paris Brain Institute – ICM, Inserm, CNRS, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, F-75013 Paris |
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KEYNOTE_03 - Lenore Blum Location: KALOKAIRINOU HALL Introduced by: Emmanuel Andreas Stamatakis A Theoretical Computer Science Lens on Consciousness: AI Consciousness is Inevitable Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America |
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Symposium_05 Location: KALOKAIRINOU HALL A Neurophenomenological Approach to Non-ordinary States of Consciousness: Meditation, Hypnosis, Trance, Psychedelics and Near-Death Experiences Presentations of the Symposium Neurophenomenology of Consciousness: Insights from Psychedelic Research Mapping the Mind in Meditation and Hypnosis Using Neurophenomenology Hypnosis and Trance: From Neuroscience to Therapeutic Applications Modeling Near-Death Experiences: Insights from Hypnosis, Trance, Meditation, and Psychedelics |
Symposium_06 Location: CONCERT HALL Brain Criticality and Consciousness Presentations of the Symposium Phase Transitions and the Emergence of Typical and Atypical Consciousness Critical Dynamics of Network Oscillations The Critical Behavior of the Mammalian Brain: Inferring Functional Cognitive Capabilities across Species from Anatomy Brain Networks’ Proximity to a First-Order Phase Transition Determines Early or Prolonged Recovery from Unconsciousness. |
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Poster Session 4 - Unconscious processing, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy & Theories - COFFEE BREAΚ Location: FOYER Non-invasive Electrical Stimulation Modulates Thalamocortical Connectivity During Mental Illusion 1: Ajou University School of Medicine, Republic of (South Korea); 2: Korea University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) Noise Modulation in a Single-Route Model Can Explain the Apparent Selective Effect of Prefrontal Damage on Conscious Visibility Chapman University, United States of America Auditory Awareness of Errors in Self-produced Vocalization: An ERP Study University of Turku, Finland Unveiling The Electrocortical Correlates Of Subjective Duration Through The Magnitude-duration Illusion Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, France Pareidolia in Visual Crowding 1: CNRS & École Normale Supérieure; 2: University of Bern; 3: Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg The Role Of Visual Awareness In Size Coding 1: University of Trento, Italy; 2: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), France; 3: University of Verona, Italy Manipulating Predictive Focus Facilitates Awareness of Quality in Coffee Tasting 1: Osaka University, Japan; 2: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan; 3: ALTALENA Co. Ltd., Japan; 4: Value way Inc., Japan; 5: Hokkaido University, Japan To Report Or Not To Report? Unravelling The Electrophysiological Markers Of Visual Awareness University of Verona, Italy Seeing Vs. Noticing: Revisiting Gradual Change Blindness 1: Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; 2: School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Structure of Indescribable Textural Qualia in Vision The University of Tokyo, Japan Investigating Perceptual Reality Monitoring Using Afterimage Perception 1: Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA; 2: Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University of College London (UCL), Institute of Neurology, UK; 3: 3Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Core Facility, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA Does V1 Preferentially Encode Conscious Perception? UCL, United Kingdom Studying The Electrophysiological Dynamics Of Visual Consciousness Through A Partial Report Paradigm University of Verona, Italy The Pulse: Role of Transient Subcortical Arousal Modulation in Visual, Auditory, Tactile and Gustatory Perceptual Awareness Yale School of Medicine, United States of America State- And Hemifield-Dependent Modulation Of Orientation-Tuned Responses During Binocular Conflict In Mouse Visual Cortex University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Oscillatory Phase Alignment In Auditory Perception 1: Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience, Germany; 2: Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Germany Decoding Illusory Colours From Human Visual Cortex 1: Health and Medical University Potsdam, Germany; 2: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; 3: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany; 4: Universität Basel, Switzerland; 5: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany The Neural Basis of Overflow: Decoding Category Information from Multi-object Visual Arrays 1: Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany; 2: Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig, Germany; 3: Tel Aviv University, Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv, Israel Brain-states Supporting Upcoming Visual Confidence Assessed from fMRI Dept. of Neuroradiology, Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University Munich, Germany When Prediction Meets Perception: The Effect of Action-Based Expectations on Visual Perception 1: ONERA (French Aerospace Lab), Salon-De-Provence, France; 2: Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives et Intégratives d’Aquitaine (UMR 5287), CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, France; 3: Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (UMR 7289), CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille F-13005, France; 4: Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center (UMR 8002), CNRS and Université Paris Cité, Paris F-75006, France Cognitive and Neural Factors Involved in the Perception of Real and Fake Information Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore Keeping It Stable: Multisensory Integration In Object Size Constancy Across The Ventral And Dorsal Visual Streams 1: University of Verona, Italy; 2: University of Trento, Italy The Higher Order Structure Underlying Unconscious Vision 1: Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy; 2: CENTAI Institute, Torino, Italy; 3: Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 4: Laboratory for Neuro- and Psychophysiology, Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 5: Wellcome Trust Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 6: Network Science Institute, Northeastern University London, London, United Kingdom; 7: Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands Beauty and Consciousness: Aesthetic Judgments Predict Access and Dominance in Visual Awareness University of Turin, Italy When Sparse Is Rich 1: EPFL, Switzerland; 2: University of Padova, Italy Can non-conscious knowledge support instrumental conditioning? A Registered Report 1: Babes-Bolyai University, Romania; 2: Heinrich Heine Universität, Germany Is Conscious Perception Necessary to Direct Attention? A Replication of Jiang et al. (2006) University of Sussex, United Kingdom A Computational Framework For Improved Goal Pursuit Through Reduced Conscious Control University of Copenhagen, Denmark Addressing Methodological Challenges In Unconscious Process Research: A Hierarchical Modeling Approach 1: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; 2: University of Granada, Spain; 3: Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center, Granada, Spain Cross-Cultural Comparison Between Italy and Japan in Face Awareness Under the Breaking-Continuous Flash Suppression Paradigm 1: Keio university, Japan; 2: Waseda university, Japan; 3: Padova university, Italy Extending The Limits Of Unconscious Semantic Processing Tel Aviv University, Israel In The Hands Of Metacontrast: Investigating The Dual-Task Structure Of An Unconscious Priming Paradigm Psychologische Hochschule Berlin, Germany Searching for the Best Subliminal Threshold Estimation Method: Empirical Validation of the STEP-Calibration Solution Tel Aviv University, Israel Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus 1: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France; 2: Tel Aviv University, Israel; 3: Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Canada Future Science and Artificial Consciousness Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany Dissociating Artificial Intelligence From Artificial Consciousness 1: Brock University, Canada; 2: University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA; 3: Allen Institute, USA The Two-Factor Framework And AI Consciousness OVGU Magdeburg, Germany Valence & Value: Towards an Affect Profile for Dimensional AI Consciousness 1: University of Cambridge; 2: Reminiscence Pvt Ltd PCM-LLMs: Bridging Non-Verbal Consciousness Modeling and Language Processing to Make Intelligent Social Virtual Agents Closer to Human Beings 1: CIAMS, Université Paris-Saclay, France; 2: CIAMS, Université d'Orléans, France; 3: LCQB, Sorbonne Universitén, France; 4: OURAGAN team, Inria Paris Paris, France; 5: Department of Philosophy and Humanities, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, Thinking Machines or Thinking Minds? Neural Responses to Beliefs About Conversational Partners Princeton University, United States of America Emergent Meta-Cognition in Language Models: Unpacking the Origins of Machine 'Aha!' Moments 1: Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany; 2: WAIYS GmbH Easy and Hard Problems in Machine Consciousness and an Approach for the Hard One 1: University of Illinois Chicago, United States of America; 2: Pirouette Software, Inc. Can LLMs Make Trade-Offs Involving Stipulated Pain and Pleasure States? 1: Google, Paradigms of Intelligence Team; 2: London School of Economics, United Kingdom; 3: Google DeepMind Can LLMs Simulate Subjective Human Experience? Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, New Zealand Do We Find AI-Generated Less Emotional? The Impact Of Reality Beliefs On Affective Responses For Negative And Positive Emotions University of Sussex, United Kingdom Consciousness in the Creative Process and the Problem for AI University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Can “AI” Really Be Considered “Conscious” Under Illusionism? Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Implications of Analog/Non-Analog distinction for AI Consciousness Centro Internacional de Neurociencia y Ética (CINET), Madrid 28010, Spain Could AI be Conscious? Insights from a Wittgensteinan Perspective Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic Can the Science of Consciousness Reach a Consensus on the Problem of Artificial Consciousness? Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Resistance to Artificial Consciousness and Its Epistemic Consequences Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Germany What AI Not Being Conscious (Yet) Can Tell Us About Human Consciousness Lund University, Sweden Reality Monitoring in Human Minds and Machines University of Florida, United States of America Mapping the Landscape of Integrated Information Theory: A Bibliometric Analysis Across Dimensions 1: Center for Sleep and Consciousness, University of Wisconsin-Madison; 2: School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University; 3: Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science and Sussex AI, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex; 4: Center for Psychedelic Research and Centre for Complexity Science, Department of Brain Science, Imperial College London; 5: Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford The Relativistic Theory of Consciousness – a New Testable Solution for the Hard Problem Cambridge university, England Assessment vs. Attribution of Consciousness in AI Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany Common-causes and Independent Mechanisms Pose a Problem for the Iterative Natural Kind and the Theory-light Approaches Aarhus University, Denmark Higher-Level Cognition and Life-Mind Continuity: Structuralism, Grounded Cognition, and Predictive Processing 1: German Sport University Cologne, Germany; 2: Potsdam Embodied Cognition Group, University of Potsdam On the Utility of Toy Models for Theories of Consciousness University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America The Self Organising Mind - Conscious Emergence through Entropy and Homeostatic Principles University of Crete Infants' Perception and the Cognitive Approach to Consciousness Fudan University, China, People's Republic of The Phenomenal Binding Problem: How Neural Networks Can Address this Constraint on Theories of Consciousness 1: University of Derby, United Kingdom; 2: Qualia Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, United States Brain Activity and Synchronization in Conscious Perception: Insights from Cogitate Experiment 2 1: Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University, Oxford OX3 7JX, U.K.; 2: Radboud Universiteit, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Kapittelweg 29, 6525 EN NIJMEGEN; 3: Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA; 4: Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, 6500 HB, the Netherlands; 5: Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1081 BT, the Netherlands; 6: Institute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam (iBBA), Amsterdam, 1081 BT, the Netherlands; 7: Centre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, U.K.; 8: Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, Oxford OX2 6GG, U.K.; 9: School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China; 10: Department of Neurology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, 10016, USA; 11: Neural Circuits, Consciousness and Cognition Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, 60322, Germany; 12: RUHR-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum; 13: Psychology Department, Reed College, Portland, OR, 97202, USA; 14: Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel; 15: School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel; 16: Funder: Templeton World Charity Foundation; 17: School of Communication Science, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, 100083, China The Structural Relevance of Predictions in Testing Theories of Consciousness Tel Aviv University, Israel Neural Decoding of Conscious vs. Unconscious Visual Stimuli: Testing the Global Neuronal Workspace and Integrated Information Theories 1: Cognitive Science and Allied Health School, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, 100083,China,; 2: School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China; 3: School of Psychological Sciences at Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel; 4: Centre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK; 5: Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA; 6: Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, 6500 HB, the Netherlands; 7: Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1081 BT, the Netherlands; 8: Institute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam (iBBA), Amsterdam, 1081 BT, the Netherlands; 9: University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK; 10: Radboud Universiteit, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Kapittelweg 29, 6525 EN NIJMEGEN; 11: Department of Neurology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, 10016, USA; 12: Neural Circuits, Consciousness and Cognition Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, 60322, Germany; 13: RUHR-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum; 14: Psychology Department, Reed College, Portland, OR, 97202, USA; 15: Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel; 16: School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel Spinozan Belief Procedure and the Illusion Meta-Problem Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation Testing the Global Neuronal Workspace and Integrated Information Theory via adversarial collaboration: introducing Cogitate’s Experiment 2 1: Tel Aviv University, Israel; 2: RUHR-Universität Bochum, Germany; 3: New York University, USA; 4: Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Germany; 5: Reed College, USA Testing Integrated Information Theory predictions by assessing representational similarity in brain activity 1: Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; 2: Tel Aviv University, Israel; 3: Yale School of Medicine, USA; 4: Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands; 5: University of Oxford, UK; 6: Peking University, China; 7: New York University, USA; 8: Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Germany; 9: Reed College, USA; 10: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 11: University of Birmingham, UK |
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KEYNOTE_04 - Robin Carhart-Harris Location: KALOKAIRINOU HALL Introduced by: Emmanuel Andreas Stamatakis Illuminating the Nature 0f 'Consciousness' Via Psychedelic Research University of California, San Francisco, United States of America |
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Career Panel Meeting Location: KALOKAIRINOU HALL |
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