Plenary Symposia


Plenary Symposia:


2006 Tom Slick Research Award in Consciousness

Saturday

June 23

8:30AM

10:30 AM

Daniel C. Dennett Tufts University. Massachusetts, USA

Michael Gazzaniga University of California, Santa Barbara. California, USA

Melissa Saenz California Institute of Technology. California, USA

Fumiko Hoeft Stanford University. California, USA

Cortical Networks and Conscious Awareness

Sunday

June 24

2:30 PM

4:00 PM

Alumit Ishai (Chair) University of Zurich. Zurich, Switzerland

Rafi Malach Weizmann Institute of Science. Rehovot, Israel

Giulio Tononi University of Wisconsin. Madison, USA

Special Symposium: The Magic of Consciousness

Sunday

June 24

5:30 PM

7:30 PM

Teller of Penn & Teller

Mac King headliner at Harrah’s on The Strip

James Randi aka The Amaz!ng Randi and Founder of the James Randi Foundation

Johnny Thompson of The Great Tomsoni and Co.

Apollo Robbins Professional Thief and Pickpocket

The Cognitive Basis of Intuitions about Consciousness

Monday

June 25

8:30 AM

10:00 AM

Joshua Knobe (Chair) and Jesse Prinz University of North Carolina. North Carolina, USA

Heather M. Gray, Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner Harvard University. Massachusetts, USA

Philip Robbins and Anthony Jack Washington University. Missouri, USA

Animal Consciousness:

Towards a Scientific Description and Natural History

Monday

June 25

10:30AM

12:00 AM

David Edelman and Anil Seth (Co-Chairs) The Neurosciences Institute. California, USA and University of Sussex. Brighton, UK

Irene Pepperberg Harvard University. Massachussetss, USA

Björn Merker Royal University College of Music. Stockholm, Sweden

Graziano Fiorito Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn. Naples, Italy