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5th Bial Foundation Symposium
Behind and Beyond the Brain
Casa do Médico, Oporto
31st March to 3rd April 2004
Program
March 31 – Wednesday
20h30 - Registration
21h30 - Opening Session
22h00 - Opening Conference
Chairman – Nuno Grande
What is Next for Philosophy?
Patricia Churchland
22h45 - Discussion
23h00 - Close of day
April 1 – Thursday
1st session
Mind-Brain Methodology: problems and innovations
Chairman – Robert Morris
08h45 - Opening remarks
09h00 - Introspection is alive and well: Current methodologies to study conscious experience
Etzel Cardeña
09h30 - Changes in Conscious Awareness During Spontaneous Self-Paced Movement: a test of the Dynamic Core Hypothesis of Consciousness
Adrian Burgess
10h00 - Understanding Nature out of the Continuity Principle: Relations between Experimental Parapsychology and Psychophysics
Jiri Wackermann
10h30 - Non Conscious Processes Preceding Intuitive Decisions
Dick Bierman
11h00 - Discussion
11h30 - Coffee break
12h00 - General lecture
If Neuroimaging is the Answer, What is the Question?
Stephen Kosslyn
12h45 - Discussion
13h00 - Lunch
14h30 - Oral presentations - Bial Foundation's Fellows
Chairman – Rui Mota Cardoso
16h45 - Coffee, posters session and contacts with faculty
18h00 - Close of day
April 2 – Friday
2nd session
Consciousness and the Brain
Chairman – Fernando Lopes da Silva
08h45 - Opening remarks
09h00 - Imaging the states of consciousness
Pierre Maquet
09h30 - Imaging the contents of consciousness
Geraint Rees
10h00 - The temporal dynamics of conscious vision
Dominic ffytche
10h30 - A Definition of Consciousness from the Neuroscience Perspective
Victor Lamme
11h00 - Discussion
11h30 - Coffee break
12h00 - General lecture
Access to consciousness: Simulations and experimental tests of a neuronal workspace model
Stanislas Dehaene
12h45 - Discussion
13h00 - Lunch Break
14h30 - Oral presentations - Bial Foundation's Fellows
Chairman – Mário Simões
16h45 - Coffee, posters session and contacts with faculty
18h00 - Close of day
April 3 – Saturday
3rd Session
Unusual experiences and brain dysfunctions
Chairman – Alexandre Castro-Caldas
08h45 - Opening remarks
09h00 - The neural basis of sensory illusions, imagination of real objects and hallucinatory experiences
Miguel Castelo-Branco
09h30 - Neurological correlates of out-of-body experience and autoscopy
Olaf Blanke
10h00 - Anarchy in the brain: disowned actions and free won’t
Sergio Della Sala
10h30 - Peduncular Hallucinosis: A Syndrome of Impaired Reality Monitoring
Thomas Benke
11h00 - Discussion
11h30 - Coffee break
12h00 - General lecture
Consciousness and the brain. A new concept about the continuity of our consciousness based on recent scientific research on near-death experience
Pim van Lommel
12h45 - Discussion
13h00 - Lunch break
14h30 - Comprehensive round-table
Chairman – Dietrich Lehmann
Stephen Kosslyn, Stanislas Dehaene and Pim van Lommel
16h30 - Farewell Coffee
GENERAL INFORMATION
Limited Number of Registrations
The Symposium will take place at:
Casa do Médico
Rua Delfim Maia, 405,
Porto, Portugal
Simultaneous translation will be assured from English to Portuguese and vice-versa
SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION FEE
€150
€50 - students
These amounts do not include meals
PAYMENT
By cheque, payable to Fundação Bial, sent to:
À Av. da Siderurgia Nacional,
4745-457, S. Mamede do Coronado
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