NIPS International Workshop for Scientific Study of Consciousness

今年9月在日本有一個意識的workshop喔！
Ned Block將會應邀演講！！
會議的投稿截止日是今年的7/15，大家努力準備投稿吧！

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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP "SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS"
website: http://www.nips.ac.jp/~myoshi/workshop2009/
Date: September 19th-20th, 2009 (at Okazaki Conference Center, Aichi, Japan http://www.orion.ac.jp/occ-e/)

Organizers: Masatoshi Yoshida, Nao Tsuchiya (naotsu@gmail.com)
Registration opens on Mar 1, Abstract submission for poster
presentation starts on Mar 1 and closes on July 15.

(all the presentations will given be in English)
Tentative themes:
1) Time and consciousness
2) Electrophysiological approach towards consciousness
3) Reliability of subjective reports on phenomenology
4) Consciousness vs. Attention
5) The role of thalamus in consciousness

Confirmed speakers:
Ralph Adolphs (Caltech)
Ned Block (NYU)
Olivia Carter (U of Melbourne)
Ryota Kanai (UCL)
Christof Koch (Caltech)
Petra Stoerig (Heinrich-Heine-University)
Naotsugu Tsuchiya (Caltech)
Melanie Wilke (Caltech, NIMH)
Masatoshi Yoshida (NIPS)