Conference Agenda

Caveats and Guidelines to Safely Apply Machine Learning in Consciousness Research

Federico Raimondo^1,2, Vera Komeyer^1,2,3, Nicolas Nieto^1,2, Jianxiao Wu^1,2, Kaustubh Raosaheb Patil^1,2

1: Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany; 2: Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; 3: Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

Methods for Analyzing Brain-Body Interactions in Consciousness Research

Ignacio Rebollo¹, Marie Loescher², Leah Banellis³, Daniel Kluger⁴

1: German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke. Germany; 2: Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Computationnelles, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France; 3: Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Denmark; 4: Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignal Analysis, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.

The Computational Psychiatry of Insight: Parameters of Inner and Outer Body Belief Updating in Anorexia Nervosa

Aikaterini Fotopoulou

UCL, United Kingdom

It’s Not You, It’s Us: A 5E Cognition Study on Interpersonal Synchronies and Togetherness During Social Interaction in Autism

Anne Monnier^1,2, Lena Adel^1,3, Gabriela Milanova^1,4, Vincent Chamberland¹, Guillaume Dumas^1,2,5

1: Équipe de Psychiatrie de Précision et de Physiologie Sociale (PPSP), CHU Sainte-Justine Azrieli Research Center, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 2: Department of Psychiatry, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 3: Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 4: Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal; 5: Mila–Quebec AI Institute, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Peripersonal Space-Time (PPST) - a Neural Mechanism Grounding Self-Consciousness

Andrea Serino¹, Ishan-Singh Chauan¹, Tommaso Bertoni^1,2, Anna Custo¹

1: University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland; 2: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Active Causal Inference of One’s Own Causal Power as the Signature of the Sense of Agency: A No-Report Paradigm Approach

Acer Y.-C. Chang, Wen Wen

Rikkyo University, Japan

A Neuro- Computational Approach to Multi-Sensory Integration in the Rubber Hand Illusion

Fred H Hamker, Valentin Forch, Torsten Fietzek, Erik Syniawa

Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

The Influence of Conscious and Unconscious Interoception on Mental Health

Leah Banellis¹, Niia Nikolova¹, Ignacio Rebollo², Ashley Tyrer¹, Melina Vejlø¹, Francesca Fardo¹, Micah Allen¹

1: Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Denmark.; 2: Department of Decision Neuroscience and Nutrition, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Germany.

Foundations of Animal Consciousness: Beyond Apes

Chair(s): Nadine Meertens (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich), Azenet Lopez (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich)

Presentations of the Symposium

Integrated Information Theory for Corvids and Cephalopods

Azenet Lopez
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich

​​Studying Corvid and Cephalopod Mental Time Travel: Implications for the Evolution of Cognition

Nicola Clayton
University of Cambridge

Beyond Consciousness: Mapping Animal Awareness in a Multidimensional Framework

Nadine Meertens
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich

Navigating Minds: Consciousness, Attention, and Socialization in Insects, Mammals, and Humans

Carlos Montemayor
San Francisco State University

The Role of Motor Imagery in Self-recognition from Actions

Akila Kadambi^1,2, Hongjing Lu^1,3, Martin Monti^1,4, Marco Iacoboni²

1: Department of Psychology, UCLA; 2: Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA; 3: Department of Statistics, UCLA; 4: Department of Neurosurgery, UCLA

Reenacting Our Past: On The Role Of Motor Reinstatement In Memory Re-experiencing

Juliette Boscheron^1,2, Mariana Babo-Rebelo¹, Arthur Trivier¹, Bruno Herbelin¹, Dimitri Van de Ville^2,3, Olaf Blanke^1,4

1: Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuro-X institute & Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; 2: Medical Image Processing Laboratory, Neuro-X institute & Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; 3: Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics, University of Geneva, Switzerland; 4: Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland

A Grid-like Code Of The Skin

Mariana Babo-Rebelo*^1,4, Hyuk-June Moon*², Nathan Attia³, Bruno Herbelin⁴, Juliette Boscheron⁴, Patrick Haggard⁵, Olaf Blanke⁴

1: Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Spain; 2: Bionics Research Center, Biomedical Research Division, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea; 3: Campus Biotech Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland; 4: Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuro-X Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland; 5: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, United Kingdom

Frequency Tagging Reveals Distinct Patterns for Subjective Visibility and Metacognition

Audrey Mazancieux, Axel Cleeremans, Adélaïde de Heering

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Cardiac and Respiratory Phase and Mode of Respiration Affect Awareness-related Brain Potentials

Viviana Leupin, Juliane Britz

University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Counterfactual actions

Silvia Seghezzi¹, Patrick Haggard²

1: Birkbeck University of London, United Kingdom; 2: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL, United Kingdom

Memory Matters: The Subjective Experience Of Fear May Rely On Different Brain Representations As A Function Of The Type Of Memory It Involves

Marjorie Côté^1,2, Lisa-Marie Davignon^2,3, Marie-France Marin^2,3, Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel^1,2

1: Université de Montréal, Canada; 2: Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal, Canada; 3: Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

Confidence Reporting Decreases Response and Change-of-mind Accuracy Across Multiple Cognitive Domains

Piotr Litwin, Marta Siedlecka, Borysław Paulewicz

Jagiellonian University, Poland

Mid-level Arousal Facilitates Optimal Behavioral State In Humans And Mice

Stijn A. Nuiten¹, Matthijs Oude Lohuis², Anna-Chiara Schaub¹, Simon van Gaal^3,4, Umberto Olcese^4,5, Cyriel M.A. Pennartz^4,5, Philipp Sterzer¹, Jan Willem de Gee^4,5

1: University Psychiatric Clinics (UPK), University of Basel, Switzerland; 2: Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal; 3: Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 4: Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 5: Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Conscious Processing of Task-Irrelevant Targets in a No-Report Attentional Blink Paradigm

Nathan Beraud¹, Jessye Clarke², Yaël Mazin¹, Samuel Noorman¹, Claire Sergent¹

1: Université de Paris, INCC UMR 8002, 75006 Paris, France.; 2: Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, U.K.

Disentangling Neural Correlates of Awareness, Relevance and Decision-Making in the Attentional Blink

Torge Dellert, Paula Temming, Miriam Pritz, Maximilian Bruchmann, Thomas Straube

University of Münster, Germany

“Are They Still With Us?”: Experimental Studies of After Death Experiences (ADEs)

Courtney Applewhite¹, Caroline Rouge¹, Jevita Potheegadoo¹, Olaf Blanke^1,2

1: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland; 2: Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

Jhana Meditation and the Entropic Brain

Jonas Mago, Michael Lifshitz

McGill, Canada

Ketamine’s Impact on Hedonia: Reshaping the Brain’s Integration-Experience Association

Maximilian Kathofer¹, Pedro Mediano², Marie Spies^3,4, Samantha Graf^3,4, Manfred Klöbl^3,4, Peter Stöhrmann^3,4, Gregor Dörl^3,4, Christian Milz^3,4, David Gomola^3,4, Elisa Briem^3,4, Gabriel Schlosser^3,4, Benjamin Eggerstorfer^3,4, Clemens Schmidt^3,4, Helmut Leder^1,5, Rupert Lanzenberger^3,4, Julia Sophia Crone¹

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

Effects Of Psychedelics On Feedforward And Feedback Processing In Primate Visual Cortex

Janis Karan Hesse, Frank Ferraris Lanfranchi, Doris Ying Tsao

UC Berkeley, United States of America

Integrating Cross-species And Cross-modal Approaches To Identify And Modulate States Of Consciousness

Chair(s): Jitka Annen (-Ghent university, department of data analysis (BE) -University of Liège, Coma Science Group (BE))

Presentations of the Symposium

Causal Evidence About Brain Function and Consciousness From Direct Electrical Stimulation in the Human Brain

Dian Lyu
-Stanford University, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, School of Medicine (USA) -Stanford University, Laboratory of Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience (USA)

Central Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation to Exert Bidirectional Control of Consciousness

Michelle Redinbaugh
-University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Psychology (USA) -Stanford University, Department of of Biology (USA)

Elucidating Mechanisms and Functions of “Default” Brain States: From Torpor to Psychedelics

Vladyslav Vyazovskiy
-University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics -University of Oxford, Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery

Systematic Phenotyping of Mammalian Brain Dynamics Reveals an Evolutionarily Conserved Dynamical Regime of Anaesthesia

Luppi Andrea
-University of Cambridge Department of Engineering (UK) -University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry (UK) -Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University (Canada)

Brain Criticality and Consciousness

Chair(s): Naji LN Alnagger (University of Liège, Belgium)

Presentations of the Symposium

Phase Transitions and the Emergence of Typical and Atypical Consciousness

Jordan O'Byrne
Univerity of Montreal

Critical Dynamics of Network Oscillations

Satu Palva
University of Glasgow

The Critical Behavior of the Mammalian Brain: Inferring Functional Cognitive Capabilities across Species from Anatomy

Gustavo Deco
Pompeu Fabra University

Brain Networks’ Proximity to a First-Order Phase Transition Determines Early or Prolonged Recovery from Unconsciousness.

UnCheol Lee
University of Michigan

DMT Reshapes Spontaneous Brain Activity

Victoria Joris¹, Andrea Luppi², Morten Kringelbach², Christopher Timmermann³

1: University of Geneva, Switzerland; 2: Univeristy of Oxford, United Kingdom; 3: Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Exploring LSD's Impact On Brain Structure-function Relationships Through MEG And Graph Signal Processing

Venkatesh Subramani^1,2, Annalisa Pascarella³, Yann Harel¹, Suresh Muthukumarasamy⁴, Giulia Lioi², Nicolas Farrugia², Karim Jerbi¹

1: Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; 2: IMT Atlantique, Brest, France; 3: Italian National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy; 4: University of Auckland

Setting, Set or Substance? Predictors of Self-alterations and Altered States of Consciousness During Ayahuasca Ceremonies

Rafael S. Rodrigues¹, Marcio Longo², Fernando Beserra¹, Bheatrix Bienemann¹, Lucas Cruz¹, Tiago Sanchez², Daniel C. Mograbi^1,3

1: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil; 2: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil; 3: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK

A Laminar Whole-brain Model of Serotonergic Psychedelics: Restoring Oscillatory Dynamics in Alzheimer’s Disease

Jan C Gendra^1,2,3, Edmundo Lopez-Sola^1,2, Francesca Castaldo¹, Èlia Lleal-Custey¹, Roser Sanchez-Todo¹, Jakub Vohryzek^2,4, Ricardo Salvador¹, Giulio Ruffini¹

1: Neuroelectrics Barcelona SLU, Spain; 2: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain; 3: Technische Universität München, Germany; 4: University of Oxford, UK

Intuitions about Consciousness

Chair(s): Clara Colombatto (University of Waterloo, Canada), Matan Mazor (University of Oxford)

Presentations of the Symposium

The “Hard Problem of Consciousness” Is Psychological

Iris Berent
Northeastern University

Beliefs About Consciousness Are Intertwined With Beliefs About Ethics

Matan Mazor
University of Oxford

Attributions of consciousness to AI: From Mind Perception to Trust

Clara Colombatto
University of Waterloo

Intuitions About Consciousness: From the Hard Problem to the Meta-Problem

David J. Chalmers
New York University

Intrinsic Universal Structures and Extrinsic Local Functions

Francesco Ellia^1,2, Naotsugu Tsuchiya^2,1,3

1: ATR - Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Japan; 2: School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Australia; 3: Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan

Real-Time Synthetic Image Evolution for Probing the Neural Correlates of Subjective Fear

Darius Valevicius, Celine Haddad, Michelle Beaudoin, Marjorie Côté, Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel

University of Montreal, Canada

A Dynamic Bifurcation Mechanism Explains Cortex-Wide Neural Correlates of Conscious Access

Ulysse Klatzmann^1,2,3,8, Sean Froudist-Walsh^2,3, Daniel Bliss², Panagiota Theodoni^2,4, Jorge Mejias⁵, Meiqi Niu⁶, Lucija Rapan⁶, Nicola Palomero-Gallagher^6,7, Claire Sergent^1,8, Stanislas Dehaene^9,10, Xiao-Jing Wang²

1: Unviersité Paris Cité, France; 2: Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York; 3: Bristol Computational Neuroscience Unit, School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology, University of Bristol; 4: Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness, Department of Philosophy, New York University; 5: Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam; 6: Research Center Julich, Germany; 7: C. and O. Vogt Institute for Brain Research, Heinrich-Heine-University, Germany; 8: CNRS, France; 9: College de France, France; 10: Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA, France

Ephaptic-Axonal Interactions Explain Radial Biases During Neural Self-Organization

Daniel Leon Rebbin^1,2, Casper Hesp²

1: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Exploring the Role of the Basal Ganglia in Thalamocortical Loops: Gatekeepers or Constituents of the Neural Correlates of Consciousness?

Nicolas Kuske¹, Fred Hamker²

1: Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute, France; 2: Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

Revisiting the Role of the Anterior Insula in Consciousness: Is Predictive Coding the Missing Link?

Leyla Loued-Khenissi

Department of Clincial Neuroscience, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland

Objective and Subjective Empirical Approaches in Consciousness Research

Johannes Jacobus Fahrenfort^1,2, Simon van Gaal², Timo Stein²

1: Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 2: University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Large-scale Integration of Conscious Content: a Nonlinear Dynamics Approach

Andres Canales-Johnson^1,2,3

1: Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2: Neuroscience Center, Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki, Finland; 3: Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile

Thalamic Control of Perceptual Thresholds in a Connectome Based Model of Conscious Access

Christopher J. Whyte, Brandon R. Munn, Annie G. Bryant, Eli J. Muller, James M. Shine

The University of Sydney, Australia

EEG Decoding Reveals Posterior but Not Prefrontal Cortex Involvement in Subjective Awareness Independent of Report

Sabine Gnodde¹, Vlada Aslanov^2,3, Abigail Hogan¹, Jolien Francken¹, Umberto Olcese¹, Timo Stein³

1: Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Group, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam; 2: Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Cognitive Psychology, VU; 3: Brain and Cognition group, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam

A Two-layer Neural Network Framework to Model the Temporal Dynamics of Neural Correlates of Consciousness

Artemio Soto Breceda¹, Stockart François², Msheik Ramla², Nathan Faivre², Dominique Hoffmann³, Lorella Minotti⁴, Philippe Kahane⁴, Alexis Robin⁴, João Barbosa^5,6, Michael Pereira¹

1: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, 38000 Grenoble, France; 2: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LPNC, 38000 Grenoble, France; 3: Neurosurgery Department, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, U121, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, 3800 Grenoble, France; 4: Neurology Department, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, U121, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, 3800 Grenoble, France; 5: Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, Gif/Yvette, France; 6: Institut de Neuromodulation, GHU Paris Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France

Adaptive Arousal Regulation: How Ongoing Fluctuations in Arousal Affect Conscious Perception

Simon van Gaal¹, Lola Beerendonk¹, Jorge Mejias², Stijn A Nuiten³, Jan Willem de Gee², Jasper B Zantvoord⁴, Johannes J. Fahrenfort^1,5

1: Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.; 2: Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.; 3: Department of Psychiatry (UPK), University of Basel, Switzerland.; 4: Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.; 5: Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology - Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.