Conference Agenda

Timely Discussions On The Nature of Conscious Content

Ishan Singhal¹, Ramya Mudumba², Anil K. Seth^1,3

1: Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, UK; 2: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India; 3: Program for Brain, and Consciousness, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Toronto, Canada

Structuralism and Consciousness: Exploring the Metaphysical Implications of a Relational View of Qualia

Lucie Cauwet

University of Geneva, Switzerland

On Confusions About The Functions Of Consciousness

Matthias Michel

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

When Is My Red Your Red? On Inter-Personal Qualia Individuation

Sascha Fink

FAU Erlangen, Germany

Misunderstandings, Challenges and Opportunities within Integrated Information Theory

Adam Barrett¹, Borjan Milinkovic², Anil Seth¹

1: University of Sussex, United Kingdom; 2: University of Melbourne, Australia

A New ‘tracking’ Version of Continuous Flash Suppression to Quantify Suppression Strength: Constant CFS Suppression for All Image Types & Two Times the Suppression Strength of Binocular Rivalry

David Alais¹, Jacob Coorey¹, Randolph Blake², Annie Wang¹, Matthew Davidson³

1: The University of Sydney, Australia; 2: Vanderbilt University, USA; 3: University of Technology, Sydney

Impact of Unconscious Processing Onto Perception and Narrative System

Marianne Broeker

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Unconscious Perception or Partial Awareness? Revisiting the Masked Number Priming Task

Michal Remiszewski¹, Axel Cleeremans², Marek Binder¹

1: Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University; 2: Consciousness, Cognition and Computation group, Center for Research in Cognition & Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Preserved Neural Activity but Impaired Category Selectivity in Macaque Temporal Cortex Following V1 Lesion

Matteo Panormita^1,3,4, Alessia Sepe^1,2,3, Xiaolian Li^1,2, Davide Orsenigo^4,11, Qi Zhu^1,3,5, Luca Bonini², David A. Leopold^9,10, Marco Tamietto^4,6, Wim Vanduffel^1,3,7,8

1: Laboratory for Neuro- and Psychophysiology, Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 2: Department of Neuroscience, University of Parma, Parma, Italy; 3: Leuven Brain Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 4: Department of Psychology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy; 5: Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA, INSERM, Universite Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin Center, Gif/Yvette, France; 6: Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands; 7: A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Charlestown, MA, USA; 8: Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; 9: Section on Cognitive Neurophysiology and Imaging, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.; 10: Neurophysiology Imaging Facility, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.; 11: CENTAI Institute, Torino, Italy

Unconscious Processing Of Monetary Rewards – Effects Do Not Replicate

Pietro Amerio, Guillaume Pech, Axel Cleeremans

Consciousness Cognition & Computation group, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Neural Dynamics of Conscious Access and Disappearance of Face Stimuli in Visual Awareness: a Continuous Flash Suppression-Eeg Study

Alessio Borriero¹, Matteo Diano¹, Alan Perotti², Marco Tamietto¹, Lorenzo Pia¹, Tommaso Ciorli¹

1: University of Turin, Italy; 2: CENTAI institute, Turin, Italy

Investigating the Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Temporal Structure of Perceptual Awareness

Giulia Gennari, Biyu He

Neuroscience Institute, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, United States of America

Thresholds and Emergent Processes of Visual Consciousness in Category and Color Discrimination in Young Children and Adults Using a Backward Masking Task

Ryoichi Watanabe, Yusuke Moriguchi

Kyoto University, Japan

Lesion Network Localization of Aphantasia: Is It Like Blindsight?

Julian Kutsche^1,2, Calvin Howard², Matthias Michel³, Michael Fox^2,4, Isaiah Kletenik^2,4

1: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin; 2: Brigham and Women's Hospital; 3: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 4: Harvard Medical School

Data-driven MEG Analysis Identifies Candidate Metrics for Connectivity-based Neural Correlates of Visual Experience

Annie Gilmore Bryant^1,2, Christopher Jack Whyte^2,3

1: School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia; 2: Centre for Complex Systems, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia; 3: Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia

Single-Neuron Correlates of Conscious Perception during Peripheral Vision in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe

Nora Krenn¹, Valerie Borger², Rainer Surges¹, Florian Mormann¹

1: Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn Medical Center, Germany; 2: Department of Neurosurgery, University of Bonn Medical Center, Germany

Beyond Conscious Perception: On The Metaphysical Aspirations Of Predictive Processing

Jakob Hohwy

Monash University, Australia

CAMPEONES: Continuous Annotation and Multimodal Processing of EmOtions in Naturalistic EnvironmentS – Pilot Data and Preliminary Analysis

Tomás Ariel D'Amelio^1,2, Jerónimo Rodriguez Cuello², Julieta Aboitiz², Nicolás Marcelo Bruno^1,3, Federico Cavanna^1,2, Laura Alethia de La Fuente^1,2,4, Stephanie Andrea Müller^1,2, Carla Pallavicini^1,2,5, Denis-Alexander Engemann⁶, Diego Vidaurre^7,8, Enzo Tagliazucchi^1,2,9

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

Assessing the Phenomenology of Robot-Induced Presence Hallucinations with Conversational Agents

Juan Carlos Farah¹, Louis Albert¹, Fosco Bernasconi¹, Lucas Burget¹, Élise Collet¹, Grace Hamilton², Bruno Herbelin¹, Angelina Matthey-Junod¹, Jevita Potheegadoo¹, Olaf Blanke^1,3

1: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; 2: Columbia University, USA; 3: Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG), Switzerland

Signatures of Criticality and Their Relationship to Human Consciousness

Hardik Rajpal¹, George Blackburne², Ruben Herzog³, Andrea Luppi⁴, Alberto Liardi¹, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen¹, Pedro Mediano¹

1: Imperial College London, United Kingdom; 2: University College London, United Kingdom; 3: Paris Brain Institute, France; 4: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Does The Access/Phenomenal Consciousness Distinction Bear Marks Of A Degenerative Research Programme?

Krzysztof Dolega

Université libre Bruxelles, Belgium

Towards an Ecological Approach to Consciousness: Re-framing the Mind–Environment Interface in a Closed-Loop Framework

Nir Ofek^1,2,3, Yehonatan Nachshoni⁴

1: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; 2: Tel-Hai College; 3: Macadamia Living Lab; 4: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Model Pluralism in Consciousness Research: A Data-Driven Map

Moritz Fabian Kriegleder¹, Maximilian Noichl²

1: University of Vienna, Austria; 2: Utrecht University, Netherlands

Cognitive Carrying Capacity: A Dennettian Approach to Self-Representation in Energy-Constrained Agents

Nikolaos Tzagkarakis¹, Keith Frankish²

1: The Open University, UK, United Kingdom; 2: University of Sheffield, Sheffield

How Does “Seeing” Become “Feeling”?

Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel^1,2

1: Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Université de Montréal, Canada; 2: Centre de Recherche de l'institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Montréal

Prolegomena to Phenomenomics: Toward a Future Science of Experiential Observers

Robert Chis-Ciure¹, Ishan Singhal¹, Will Yun-Farmbrough¹, Luis Lips¹, Lionel Barnett¹, Anil K. Seth^1,2

1: Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, United Kingdom; 2: Program for Brain, and Consciousness, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Toronto, Canada

Advancing Task Ontologies For The Scientific Study Of Consciousness

Jolien C. Francken

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

Defending Phenomenal Structuralism: An Error-theoretic Account of Phenomenal Intrinsicalism

Daniel Mario Weger

Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

A Novel Framework Reveals Unconscious Shape Processing via Priming and EEG decoding

Timo Stein¹, Jun Jiang², Johannes J. Fahrenfort³, Simon van Gaal¹

1: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The; 2: Third Military Medical University, China; 3: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

Re-assessing Unconscious Perception And Unconscious Working Memory: A Bias-Free Paradigm With Visual Ensembles

Nirmitee Nitin Mulay^1,2, David Soto^1,3

1: Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Spain; 2: University of the Basque Country, Spain; 3: Ikerbasque - Basque Foundation for Science, Spain

Is Unconscious Priming Real?

Nicolás Sánchez-Fuenzalida¹, Simon van Gaal², Timo Stein², Johannes J. Fahrenfort^1,2

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

Replicating the Unconscious Working Memory Effect: A Multisite Preregistered Study.

Alicia Franco-Martínez¹, Ricardo Rey-Sáez¹, David R. Shanks², David Soto³, Miguel A. Vadillo¹

1: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; 2: Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Spain; 3: University College London, UK

Unconscious Processing of Real-Life Scenes Revealed by Eye Movement Dynamics

Shaked Lublinsky¹, Shlomit Yuval-Greenberg^1,2, Liad Mudrik^1,2

1: Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel; 2: School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel