8 June 8:00AM – 8:00PM
Welcome to TSC 2015! Before attending conference sessions, please pick up your badge and conference material at the registration desk!
You will find the conference registration and information desk on the ground floor of the old side (take the stairs down from the main lobby of the old side when entering from the Senate Square).
IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, THAT CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS PICK UP THEIR CONFERENCE MATERIAL ON MONDAY TO AVOID THE TUESDAY MORNING RUSH HOUR AT THE REGISTRATION DESK.
The registration desk accepts ONLY CASH PAYMENTS.
Welcome to TSC 2015! Before attending conference sessions, please pick up your badge and conference material at the registration desk!
You will find the conference registration and information desk on the ground floor of the old side (take the stairs down from the main lobby of the old side when entering from the Senate Square).
The registration desk accepts ONLY CASH PAYMENTS.
Mutual awareness and reciprocity in social interactions as necessary criteria for mental alignment
Merle Fairhurst, Institute of Philosophy, London, London, UNITED KINGDOM
Beyond Synchronisation: Imitation and complementarity in social interaction
Harry Farmer, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UNITED KINGDOM
Jo Hale, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UNITED KINGDOM
Contextual features in the social experience of synchronised human movement
Jacques Launay, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM
Time: Tuesday, June 9, at 6.30 pm -20.00
Place: University Main Building (Fabianinkatu 33), Press Hall Foyer.
The University of Helsinki welcomes the conference participants after the first conference day. The welcome reception will be hosted by dean Hanna Snellman. After dean Snellman's welcoming speech, conference participants are treated to a wine and salad buffet.
How a cyclical structure of interlocking dimensions can connect a discrete neurological event to the universe of conscious experience
Christopher Edwards, Guelph, CANADA
Versions of dual-aspect thinking and mind-matter correlations
Harald Atmanspacher, Physics/Philosophy, Collegium Helveticum Zurich, SWITZERLAND
How exceptional are “meaningful coincidences”? A neuropsychological view
Peter Brugger, Neuropsychology, University Hospital Zurich, SWITZERLAND
Patterns of exceptional experiences and their mental representations
Wolfgang Fach, Psychology, Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology, Freiburg, GERMANY
TMS and the Modulation of Conscious States
Risto Ilmoniemi, Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, FINLAND
Consciousness and brain complexity: a perturbational approach
Marcello Massimini, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Milan, ITALY
TMS and consciousness: a view from the University of Tartu in Tallinn
Talis Bachmann, University of Tartu, Tartu, ESTONIA
Rutiku Renate, University of Tartu, ESTONIA
TMS to occipital cortex in the awake state and NREM sleep
Jaan Aru, Institute of Public Law and Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, ESTONIA
Mihkel Stamm, Institute of Public Law and Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, ESTONIA
Renate Rutiku, Institute of Public Law and Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, ESTONIA
Talis Bachmann, Institute of Public Law and Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, ESTONIA
Assessing the level of consciousness within non-REM sleep using TMS–EEG and
a serial-awakening paradigm
Jaakko O. Nieminen*, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University School of Science, Espoo, FINLAND
Olivia Gosseries*, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Francesca Siclari, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
Melanie Boly, Dept. of Neurology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Postle Bradley, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USADept. of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Giulio Tononi, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
* Contributed equally
CHAIR
Denise Doyle, Faculty of Arts, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UNITED KINGDOM
SPEAKERS AND TITLES
NOT REGISTERED (break for 25 min?) Gravity and its Sisters
Susan Kozel, School of Art and Culture, Malmo University, Malmo, SWEDEN
NOT REGISTERED (break for 25 min?) Space, Design, and the Astronaut
Thais Russomano, MicroG-PUCRS, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, BRAZIL
Aerial Stories (Revised): A return to a consideration of the flying laboratory
Louise Wilson, Fine Art, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM
Intersubjectively shared (un)consciousness enacted on cinema screen
Pia Tikka, Crucible Studio, Department of Media, Aalto University, Espoo, FINLAND
CHAIR
Valtteri Arstila, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Philosophy, University of Turku, Turku, FINLAND
SPEAKERS AND TITLES
Temporal limits of folk psychology
Bruno Mölder, University of Tartu, Tartu, ESTONIA
Temporal experience and the sense of reality
Julian Kiverstein, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Limits of temporal phenomenology
Michal Klincewicz, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Berlin, GERMANY
An Argument Against Illusions of Duration
Sean Power, University College Cork, Cork, IRELAND
Video Game Nightmare Protection Thesis: An Experimental Inquiry
Carson Flockhart, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
An Inquiry into the Lack of the Nightmare Protection Associated with Video Game Play
Arielle Boyes, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
TBA
Jayne Gackenbach, Psychology, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
Emerging Implications of Virtual Reality Game Play on Dreams
Ann Sinyard, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
COMMENTATOR:
Katja Valli, University of Turku, Turku, FINLAND
Consciousness and the Collapse of the Wave Function
David Chalmers
Time: Thursday, June 11, at 6.30 pm - 8 pm
Place: City Hall, Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13 (300 metres from the conference site)
The City of Helsinki hosts a welcome reception for the conference quests in the heart of the historic centre next to the sea-side Market Square. After a welcome speech by a city representative, the guests have a chance enjoy to sparkling wine with snacks and the architecture of the City Hall.
Time: Friday, June 12, at 19.30.
Place: The Old Student House, Restaurant Vanha
(address: Mannerheimintie 3, in the heart of Helsinki, 400 metres from the conference site)
The Old Student House represents neo-renaissance style of architecture. It is owned by the Student Union of the University of Helsinki, which is one the richest student organizations in the world. Since 1870, the building has witnessed all the turmoils of the Finnish society, inluding the 1968 student movement. What will happen when "the Old" houses the TSC 2015 conference dinner?
The dinner requires online preregistration. The price of the dinner is 60 € (incl. three courses, an aperitif, 2 glasses of wine and a coffee/tea with an avec). There might be some extra dinner tickets for sale at the Conference Office during the first conference days (if there are any last minute cancellations)
Panpsychism’s Hard Problem: A Comparative Analysis of Explanatory Gaps
Luke Roelofs, Philosophy, University of Toronto, Toronto, CANADA
Probing Consciousness in the Vegetative State: Challenges and Opportunities
Timothy Bayne, Philosophy, University of Manchester, Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM
Consciousness in Behaviourally non-Responsive Patients: Insights from Neuroimaging
Raechelle Gibson, The University of Western Ontario, Department of Psychology, CANADA
Executive functioning and the neural basis of consciousness Lisa Miracchi
Lisa Miracchi, New York University, New York, USA
fMRI research in the Context of Intensive Care: Ethical Considerations
Charles Weijer, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CANADA
CHAIR:
Katja Valli
Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Turku Brain and Mind Center, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Philosophy, University of Turku, FINLAND
School of Bioscience, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy, University of Skövde, SWEDEN
SPEAKERS AND TITLES
The Social Simulation Theory of dreaming
Katja Valli, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Turku Brain and Mind Center, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Philosophy, University of Turku, FINLAND
School of Bioscience, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy, University of Skövde, SWEDEN (with Jarno Tuominen and Antti Revonsuo)
Social perception and interactions in dreams – Any support for the socialsimulation theory?
Jarno Tuominen, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Turku Brain and Mind Center, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Philosophy, University of Turku, FINLAND (with Katja Valli and Antti Revosuo)
Neurophysiological Correlates of Emotions in REM Sleep Dreams
Pilleriin Sikka, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Turku Brain and Mind Center, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Philosophy, University of Turku, FINLAND, School of Bioscience, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy, University of Skövde, SWEDEN (with Noreika Valdas, Katja Valli and Antti Revonsuo)
Prevalence and risk factors of frequent nightmares among adults
Nils Sandman, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Public Health Genomics Unit and Institute for Molecular Medicine FIMM, Helsinki, FINLAND Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Turku Brain and Mind Center, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Philosophy, University of Turku, FINLAND (with Katja Valli, Erkki Kronholm, Antti Revonsuo, Tiina Laatikainen, Tiina Paunio)
Lessons from Descartes’ Sensory Dualism
Jani Sinokki, University of Turku, Turku, FINLAND
Locke on the Primacy of Self-Consciousness
Vili Lähteenmäki, Department of Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, FINLAND
Hume’s Account of Consciousness
Jani Hakkarainen, University of Tampere, Tampere, FINLAND
On ‘Gilding or Staining’ the World with Temporal Passage
Adrian Bardon, Wake Forest University, USA
Consciousness as a Foundational Attribute of Reality, with Physics Phenomena,
such as Dynamical Space, Quantum Theory, Relativistic Effects, being Emergent
Reginald T. Cahill, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Flinders University, AUSTRALIA
Could the postulation of subjective temporal dimensions enable the flow of time?
Jonathan Schooler, UC Santa Barbara, USA
The physics and metaphysics of time in relation to consciousness
Tam Hunt, J.D., UC Santa Barbara, USA
13 June 11:15 AM - 12:05 PM
SPEAKERS AND TITLES
From Hitchcock to Penrose: How cinema and storytelling connects us at the deepest level of reality
Nick Day, Media Education, Conscious Pictures, Sonoma, USA
Film as consciousness. The body, the soul and the consciousness of film
Antonia Giannoccaro, Film, School of creative arts, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UNITED KINGDOM
SPEAKERS AND TITLES
Towards an Aristotelian Theory of Consciousness
Jesse Mulder, Philosophy, Utrecht University, Utrecht, NETHERLANDS
13 June 1:00PM - 1:45PM
SPEAKERS AND TITLES
The promise of altering consciousness and treating brain disorders with transcranial ultrasound (TUS)
John JB Allen, Joseph L Sanguinetti, Sterling Cooley, Stuart Hameroff
Demo: The ‘NeuroResonator’ - A Transcranial Ultrasound (‘TUS’) Device Modulating Consciousness and Cognition
Sterling Cooley, Jay Sangunetti, John JB Allen, Stuart Hameroff