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Welcome to ’Toward a Science of Consciousness 2015’ the 21st annual international, interdisciplinary conference on the fundamental questions connected with conscious experience.

Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC) is the largest and longest-running interdisciplinary conference emphasizing broad and rigorous approaches to the study of conscious awareness. Topical areas include neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, biology, quantum physics, meditation and altered states, machine consciousness, culture and experiential phenomenology. Cutting edge, controversial issues are emphasized. Held annually since 1994, the TSC conferences alternate yearly between Tucson, Arizona and various locations around the world. The University of Helsinki is proud to host TSC 2015 in the Great Hall of its neoclassical main building located in the downtown area.

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Tuesday, June 9
 

2:30pm EEST

The Embodiment of the Conscious Mind: The relevance of bodily signals for mental processes
9 June 02:30 PM – 04:35 PM

SPEAKERS AND TITLES

Psychophysiological mechanisms of “embodiment”: The relevance of‘interoception’ as a basis of the embodied mind
Beate M. Herbert, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Tuebingen, Ulm, GERMANY 

Differentiating dimensions of interoception as a function of conscious access:Implications for affective processing
Sarah Garfinkel, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, UNITED KINGDOM (with Critchley Hugo D) 

Nonverbal synchrony: Embodiment of mental and communicative processes
Wolfgang Tschacher, Department of Psychotherapy, University Hospital Bern, Bern, SWITZERLAND (with Ramseyer Fabian) 

Time consciousness: how the body and brain create our experience of time
Marc Wittmann, Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology & Mental Health, Freiburg, GERMANY
 

Presenters
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Sarah Garfinkel

Research Scientist, University of Sussex, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
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Beate M. Herbert

University of Tuebingen
....how "mind and body" are 'connected' to shape our thoughts, emotions, feelings and behavior...
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Wolfgang Tschacher

Prof. Dr., University of Bern
as a psychologist with an empirical-research inclination, I've come to realize that philosophy of mind is indispensable...
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Marc Wittmann

Research Fellow, Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health
Subjective time is embodied. The joint modulation of the experience of self and of time provides researchers the opportunity to investigate the unsolved riddle of consciousness through the investigation of time consciousness.



Tuesday June 9, 2015 2:30pm - 4:35pm EEST
Main Building, auditorium II
 


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