Conference Agenda

Multimodal Neuroimaging and Data Analysis in Disorders of Consciousness: From Theory to Clinical Practice

Karnig Kazazian¹, Aurore Thibaut², Mario Rosanova³, Marzia De Lucia⁴

1: Western Univeristy, Canada; 2: University of Liège, Belgium; 3: University of Milan, Italy; 4: Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland

How to Pre-Register Consciousness Science Research

Maxine T Sherman^1,2, Zoltan Dienes^1,3

1: Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, U; 2: Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; 3: School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

The Heart Sculpts Our Sense Of Time

Irena Arslanova¹, Magda Jaglinska², Manos Tsakiris¹

1: Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom; 2: University College London, United Kingdom

Intracranial EEG Investigation Of The Heartbeat Evoked Response Across Vigilance States In Human

Florian Perrin^1,2, Marzia De Lucia², Philippe Ryvlin¹

1: NeuroDigital@NeuroTech, Clinical Neuroscience Department, University Hospital (CHUV); 2: Brain-Body and consciousness laboratory, University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne

The Effect of Conscious Control on Automatic Processes and its Relation to Suggestibility and Metacognitive Efficiency

Vlada Aslanov¹, Nicolás Sánchez-Fuenzalida¹, Tomas Knapen¹, Simon van Gaal², Johannes J. Fahrenfort^1,2

1: Department of Applied and Experimental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; 2: Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam

The Role Of Endogenous Inputs For Self-Generated Action. A Multi-Measurement Study Comparing Markers of Volition.

Guillaume Pech^1,2, Paulius Rimkevičius³, Eva Nicolay¹, Uri Maoz², Axel Cleeremans¹

1: Université libre de Bruxelles, Center for Research in Cognition and Neurosciences, Belgium; 2: Chapman University, Brain Institute, United States; 3: Vilnius University, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

Memory Makes Mind: Episodic Memory Formation through Integrated Information Generates Conscious Experience

Zafeirios Fountas¹, Pedro Mediano²

1: Huawei Technologies; 2: Imperial College London

Intention and Foresight in Conscious, Deliberate Actions: An ERP Study

Tomas Dominik¹, Emma Chen¹, Ilai Gavish², Melissa M. Brillhart¹, Gideon Yaffe³, Uri Maoz¹

1: Institute for Interdisciplinary Brain and Behavioral Sciences (Brain Institute), Chapman University, CA, USA; 2: Harvard Law School, Harvard University, MA, USA; 3: Yale Law School, Yale University, CT, USA

Is Motor-cortical Neuronal Activity During Movement Preparation Hard-wired or Under Conscious Control? An Intracranial Study in Humans

Uri Maoz¹, Alejandro de Miguel Gomez², Cecile Verbaarschot³, Aaron Schurger², Robert Gaunt³, Jennifer Collinger³

1: Chapman University / UCLA / Caltech, United States of America; 2: Chapman University; 3: University of Pittsburgh

The Time Course Of Suggestibility: A Novel Approach To Study The Time Course Of Mental Events

Lucas Jeay-Bizot, Ryan Guglielmo, Tomáš Dominik, Aaron Schurger

Chapman University, United States of America

Causal Role Of Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Theta Synchronization On Mind-Wandering States: A Concurrent TMS-EEG Study

Carlo Leto¹, Lucas Poux¹, Xavier Corominas-Teruel^1,2, Martina Bracco¹, Victoria Shevchenko^1,4, Nicolas Bruno¹, Monica Toba^1,3, Antoni Valero-Cabré^1,5,6

1: Cerebral Dynamics, Plasticity and Rehabilitation group, FRONTLAB team, CNRS UMR 7225, INSERM 1127, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France; 2: Department of Psychology and Research Center for Behaviour Assessment (CRAMC), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Neurobehaviour and Health Research Group, NEUROLAB, Tarragona, Spain.; 3: Laboratory of Functional Neuroscience and Pathologies (UR UPJV 4559), University Research Center (CURS), University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France; 4: Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, UMR 8002, Paris, France; 5: Cognitive Neuroscience and Information Tech. Research Program, Open University of Catalonia (UOC), Barcelona, SPAIN.; 6: Dept. Anatomy and Neurobiology, Laboratory of Cerebral Dynamics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA.

Modulation Of Theta Left Prefrontal Activity On Mind Wandering States: A Transcranial Electrical Stimulation Study In The Intact Human Brain

Lucas Poux¹, Carlo Leto¹, Nicolas Bruno¹, Alice Person¹, Xavier Corominas-Teruel^1,2, Diarra Kane¹, Antonio Madrid¹, Monica Toba^1,3, Antoni Valero-Cabré^1,4,5

1: Cerebral Dynamics, Plasticity and Rehabilitation Team, FRONTLAB, Paris Brain Institute, ICM, Sorbonne Université, CNRS UMR 7225, INSERM UMR S-1127, Paris, France.; 2: Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Psychology, Neurobehavior and Health Research Group (NEUROLAB), Tarragona, Spain; 3: Laboratory of Functional Neurosciences (UR UPJV 4559), University Hospital of Amiens and University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France.; 4: Dept. Anatomy and Neurobiology, Lab of Cerebral Dynamics, Boston University School of Medicine, USA; 5: Cognitive Neuroscience and Information Tech. Research Program, Open University of Catalonia (UOC), Barcelona, Spain

Optimized Simultaneous Assessment of Subcortical and Cortical Auditory Responses Through Frequency-tagged Roving Paradigm

Xiaoyu Wang^1,2, Loretta Norton^1,3, Adrian M. Owen^1,2

1: Western Institute of Neuroscience, Western University, Canada; 2: Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, Canada; 3: Department of Psychology, King’s University College at Western University, Canada

Synergistic Encoding of Distributed Prediction Error Information in Human Cortical and Thalamic Networks is Selectively Modulated by Attention

Juho Matinpoika Äijälä¹, Michael Jenssen², Louis Roberts¹, Robin A.A. Ince³, Dora Hermes², Kai Miller², Andres Canales-Johnson^1,4,5

1: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Cambridge, UK; 2: Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.; 3: Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow; Glasgow, UK; 4: Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neurosciences Research Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Cat´olica del Maule, Talca, Chile; 5: Neuroscience center, Helsinki Institute of Life Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

How To Measure Sense Of Control Using Self-reports

Mateusz Wozniak^1,2, Janeen Loehr³, Robrecht Van Der Wel⁴, Agnieszka Wykowska¹

1: Italian Institute of Technology, Italy; 2: Central European University, Austria; 3: University of Saskatchewan, Canada; 4: Rutgers University, USA

Tracking Sleep-like Slow Wave Activity With EEG/fMRI During Periods Of Inattention

Anikó Kusztor¹, Elaine Pinggal^1,2, Paradeisios Alexandros Boulakis^3,4,5, Athena Demertzi^3,4,5, Naotsugu Tsuchiya^1,2,6,7, Thomas Andrillon^8,9

1: School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia; 2: Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health & School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 3: Physiology of Cognition Lab, GIGA-Human Imaging Center, Allée du 6 Août 8 (B30), 4000, University of Liège, Belgium; 4: Fund for Scientific Research FNRS, Rue d’Egmont 5, B –1000, Brussels, Belgium; 5: Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit, Place des Orateurs 3 (B33), 4000, University of Liège, Belgium; 6: Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; 7: Advanced Telecommunications Research Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, 2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan; 8: School of Philosophical, Historical, and International Studies, Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3168, Australia; 9: Paris Brain Institute, Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 75013, France

Bridging Electrophysiology and Neuroimaging to Understand the Neuronal Correlates of Spontaneous Thinking and Alertness During Task-engagement

Paradeisios Alexandros Boulakis^1,2,3, Aniko Kusztor⁴, Thomas Andrillon⁵, Athena Demertzi^1,2,3

1: Physiology of Cognition Lab, GIGA-Human Imaging Center, University of Liège, Belgium; 2: Fund for Scientific Research FNRS, Brussels, Belgium; 3: Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit, University of Liège, Belgium; 4: School of Psychological Science, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; 5: Institut du Cerveau—Paris Brain Institute—ICM, Inserm, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

AI Introspection: Language Models Can Accurately Explain Their Internal Processes

Dillon Plunkett¹, Adam Morris³, Jorge Morales^1,2

1: Department of Psychology, Northeastern University; 2: Department of Philosophy, Northeastern University; 3: Department of Psychology, Princeton University

Electrophysiological Correlates of Conscious Perception in the Sound-Induced Flash Illusion

Theresa Rieger^1,2, Josefine Feuerstein¹, Thomas Straube^1,2, Maximilian Bruchmann^1,2

1: Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience, University of Muenster; 2: Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Muenster

Limited Evidence for Expectation Effects on Event-Related Potentials in Predictive Cueing Designs

Daniel Feuerriegel¹, Carla den Ouden¹, Andong Zhou¹, Máire Kashyap¹, Giuliano Ferla¹, Elizabeth Chang¹, Mia Nightingale¹, Vinay Mepani¹, Jasmin Bruna Stariolo¹, Gyula Kovács², Rufin Vogels³, Morgan Kikkawa¹

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

Motivation & Reward Processing Require Perceptual Awareness

Lena Lange, Pietro Amerio, Guillaume Pech, Axel Cleeremans

Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Audiovisual Integration Obeys Different Rules For Detection And Confidence Judgements

Perrine Porte¹, Michael Pereira², Louise Goupil¹, Nathan Faivre¹, Matan Mazor³

1: Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LPNC; 2: Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM, GIN; 3: University of Oxford, All Souls College and Department of Experimental Psychology

From Surprise to Confidence: Computational and Physiological Correlates of Learning and Metacognition in Probabilistic Environments

Ivan Ivanchei¹, Senne Braem², Simon van Gaal¹

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; 2: Ghent University, Belgium

Conscious Intention to Predict Modulates Neural Prediction Error Processing but not Visual Representations

Chen Frenkel, Leon Y. Deouell

the Hebrew Univerisy, Israel

Synergistic Broadband Dynamics Versus Redundant Gamma Oscillations During Visual Perception

Louis Roberts¹, Juho Aijala¹, Florian Burger¹, Cem Uran², Robin A.A. Ince³, Martin Vinck², Dora Hermes⁴, Andres Canales-Johnson^1,5,6

1: Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.; 2: Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroinformatics, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands; 3: Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; 4: Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, USA; 5: Neuroscience Center, Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki, Finland; 6: Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Catolica del Maule, Talca, Chile.

Neurons in the Human Brain Encode Rapidly Learned Visual Information to Reshape Perception

Marcelo Armendariz^1,2, Julie Blumberg³, Jed Singer¹, Franz Aiple³, Jiye Kim¹, Peter Reinacher³, Andreas Schulze-Bonhage³, Gabriel Kreiman^1,2

1: Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA, USA; 2: Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, MA, USA; 3: University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Neural Signatures of Blindsight: The Role of Motion Coherence, Confidence, and Subcortical-Cortical Connectivity

Vanessa Hadid^1,2,3, Annalisa Pascarella³, Dang Khoa Nguyen⁴, Karim Jerbi^2,3, Franco Lepore²

1: McGill University, Canada; 2: Psychology Department, Université de Montréal, Canada; 3: Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (CoCo Lab); 4: Neurology Service, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal

Visual Conscious Awareness and Neural Processing Are Linked to Eye Metrics in Cerebral Blindness

Sharif I. Kronemer¹, Victoria E. Gobo^1,2, Shruti Japee¹, Eli Merriam¹, Benjamin Osborne³, Peter A. Bandettini^1,4, Tina T. Liu^1,5

1: Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; 2: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; 3: Department of Neurology and Ophthalmology, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA; 4: Functional MRI Facility, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; 5: Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

Characterising Pre-activation Of Expected Stimulus Representations In The Visual System

Morgan Kikkawa¹, Carla den Ouden¹, Maire Kashyap¹, Giuliano Ferla¹, Elizabeth Chang¹, Mia Nightingale¹, Jasmin Bruna Stariolo¹, Marta Garrido^1,2, Daniel Feuerriegel¹

1: Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Australia; 2: Graeme Clark Institute for Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia

The Autonomy of Conscious Representation

James David Stazicker

King's College London, United Kingdom

How To Determine If A Human Is Conscious? Towards A Unifying Conceptual Framework For Consciousness Tests

Joaquim Streicher^1,2, Guillaume Dumas^1,3,4, Silvia Casarotto⁵, Tim Bayne^4,6, Adrian Owen^4,7, Marcello Massimini^4,5, Liad Mudrik^4,8, Catherine Duclos^1,2,4

1: University of Montreal, Canada; 2: Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal, Canada; 3: Hôpital Sainte-Justine, Canada; 4: CIFAR Brain, Mind & Consciousness Program, Canada; 5: University of Milan, Italy; 6: Monash University, Australia; 7: Western University, Canada; 8: Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Does It Make Sense to Speak of Introspection in Large Language Models?

Iulia Comsa¹, Murray Shanahan²

1: Google DeepMind; 2: Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Using LLMs to Decode the Structure of Thought in Psychiatry

Sebastian Dohnány, Matthew Nour

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Biologism, Functionalism And Structuralism About Consciousness

Hedda Hassel Mørch

University of Inland Norway

50 Years Since Nagel’s Bat: Physicalism, Subjective Facts And Self-understanding Systems

Robert Van Gulick

Syracuse University, United States of America

On the Logic of Measuring Neural Correlates of Consciousness

Johannes Kleiner^1,2

1: Institute for Psychology, University of Bamberg; 2: Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Metacognition as Modal Cognition

Kevin O'Neill, Stephen Fleming

University College London, United Kingdom

Palatable Conceptions of Disembodied Consciousness: Terra Incognita in the Space of Possible Minds

Murray Shanahan

Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Mortal Computation, Medium Dependence and Functionalism

Holger Lyre

University of Magdeburg, Germany

The Starting Point Problem

Andy Kenneth Mckilliam

National Taiwan University, Australia

Existential Meaning in the Age of Neurocentrism and the Posthuman Future

Mette Leonard Høeg^1,2

1: Aarhus University, Denmark; 2: Oxford Uehiro Institue, University of Oxford