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8th Symposium
8th Symposium
BIAL Foundation 8th Symposium
Behind and Beyond the Brain
Intuition and Decision-making
8th Symposium Video
Program
April 7 - Wednesday_________________________________________________________________________
20:00 - Registration
21:15 - Opening Session
21:45 - Opening Conference
Chairman – Fernando Lopes da Silva
Intuition and decision-making
Seymour Epstein
22:30 - Close of day
April 8 - Thursday_________________________________________________________________________
09:00 - Opening remarks
Fernando Lopes da Silva
09:15 - Should you think unconsciously or trust your first impressions?
Reassessing unconscious thought theory
Axel Cleeremans
09:50 - Unconscious determinants of human decisions
John-Dylan Haynes
10:25 - Modulators of human decision-making: genes and social information
Hauke Heekeren
11:00 - Coffee break
11:30 - General Lecture
Beyond free will: towards a cognitive neuroscience of decision- making and
volitional control
Thomas Goschke
12:30 - Discussion
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - Oral presentations - BIAL Foundation's Fellows
Moderator – Dick Bierman
16:00 - Coffee, posters session and contacts with faculty
17:30 - Close of day
April 9 - Friday__________________________________________________________________________
09:00 - Opening remarks
Caroline Watt
09:15 - An evolutionary approach to anomalous intuition
Richard Broughton
09:50 - Somatic components of intuition and Psi
Eva Lobach
10:25 - The reach of mind: bridging science and popular culture
Marilyn Schlitz
11:00 - Coffee break
11:30 - General Lecture
The potential anomalous component of intuition: empirical evidence and an integrated
theoretical approach
Dick Bierman
12:30 - Discussion
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - Oral presentations - BIAL Foundation's Fellows
Moderator – Rui Mota Cardoso
16:00 - Coffee, posters session and contacts with faculty
17:30 - End of session
21:30 - Evening encounter
Questions about and around intuition
Moderator - Mário Simões
23:00 - Close of day
Abril 10 - Saturday__________________________________________________________________________
09:00 - Opening remarks
Alexandre Castro-Caldas
09:15 - The intuitive manager: understanding and applying gut feel in business decisions
Eugene Sadler-Smith
09:50 - Intuition in clinical decision-making
Cilia Witteman
10:25 - Researching and learning mathematics with a big help from intuition
Nuno Crato
11:00 - Coffee break
11:30 - General Lecture
The powers and perils of intuition
David Myers
12:30 - Discussion
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - Round-table on Intuition and Decision-making
Moderator – Fernando Lopes da Silva
Participants: Thomas Goschke, Dick Bierman, David Myers
16:30 - Farewell Coffee
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SYMPOSIUM'S REGISTRATION
FEE
€180
€70 - for university students under the age of 25 - please enclose copy of your student card or
university certificate
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, Portugal
By wire transfer to the BIAL Foundation account:
Bank: BPI
NIB: 002700100153101010005
IBAN: PT50002700100153101010005
Swift: BPI PPTPL
Please enclose copy of the wire transfer
GENERAL INFORMATION
Simultaneous translation will be assured from English to Portuguese and vice-versa
Limited number of registrations
Symposium's venue
Casa do Médico - Rua Delfim Maia, 405 - 4200-256, Porto, Portugal - Tel.: +351 225 070 100
SYMPOSIUM'S OFICIAL HOTELS
Make your reservation directly with the Hotel (do refer Fundação BIAL and the Symposium)
Hotel Beta-Porto
Rua do Amial, 601-607
4200-062 Porto
Portugal
Tel: +351 228 348 660
Fax: +351 228 348 669
Email: betaporto@belverhotels.com
http://www.hotelbetaporto.com
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Single room EUR 57
Double room EUR 75
Location to the venue 10' by foot
Hotel Fénix Porto
Rua Gonçalo Sampaio, 282
4150-365 Porto
Portugal
Tel: +351 226 071 800 +351 226 194 100 (Reservations)
Fax: +351 226 071 810
Email: fenixporto@fenixporto.com
http://www.hfhotels.com
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Single room EUR 70
Double room EUR 70
Location to the venue 15' by taxi
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Emeritus Professor of General Physiology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Professor "IST" of the Higher Technical Institute of Lisbon and Invited Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Research interests: electrophysiology of the brain, origin of epileptic phenomena, neuronal networks in relation to memory, attention and consciousness.
Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. Editor and consultant of numerous journals on personality and psychology. Several scientific awards for exceptional research. Author of the book “Cognitive-experiential self-theory: An integrative theory of personality” (in preparation). Research interests: construction of a unified theory of personality, constructive thinking, methodology in personality research, stress and coping.
Research Director, Research Seminar in Cognitive Science, Free University Brussels, Belgium. Co-principal investigator on the European research project “Measuring Consciousness – Bridging the Mind Brain Gap”. Author of numerous papers on implicit learning and consciousness and of the book “The Unity of Consciousness: Binding, Integration and Dissociation” and co-author of “The Oxford Companion to Consciousness”. Research interests: consciousness and implicit learning, models of conscious and unconscious cognition, neural network of cognitive processes.
Professor of Theory and Analysis of Large Scale Brain Signals, Charité (Faculty of Medicine), Head of Bernstein Neuroimaging Center, University of Berlin, Germany. Head of the Research Group “Attention and Awareness”, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany. Author and co-author of numerous scientific papers on neurosciences, especially neuroimaging. Research interests: cognitive neuroscience and neurobiology of motivation.
Professor of Affective Neuroscience and Psychology of Emotion, Free University Berlin, Germany. Head of the Research Group “Neurocognition of Decision-making”, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. Several scientific awards for excellence in research. Consultant for several journals on neuroscience. Research interests: motivation and affect in decision-making, cognitive and affective components in normal and disturbed social cognition and multimodal neuroimaging.
Professor of General Psychology, Faculty of Sciences, Acting Director of the Neuroimaging Center of the Department of Psychology and of the Institute for General Psychology, Biopsychology and Methods in Psychology, Technical University of Dresden, Germany. Consultant for several scientific journals on cognition. Research interests: executive functions, emotional modulation of cognitive processes, intentional actions, implicit learning and intuitive judgments.
Heymans Chair of Exceptional Experiences, University for Humanistics, Utrecht, Netherlands (Emeritus). PhD in Experimental Physics, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Research interests: consciousness studies, artificial intelligence, learning during altered states of consciousness (especially during sleep), non-conscious emotions and their role in (intuitive) decision-making, pre-sentiment (anomalous body arousal preceding emotional events), relation between quantum physics and consciousness.
Senior Lecturer, Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Past President of the Parapsychological Association, co-author of the book” An Introduction to Parapsychology” and author of journal articles on parapsychology and paranormal beliefs. Research interests: experimenter and participant expectancy effects, psychological aspects of ostensible paranormal experiences and beliefs and remote performance enhancement with cognitive and behavioural tasks.
Researcher and Senior Lecturer, Division of Psychology, University of Northampton, UK. Member of the Council of the Society for Psychical Research, UK. Consultant in projects and author of several book and journal papers on parapsychology. Author of the book “Parapsychology: The Controversial Science”. Research interests: intuition and decision-making and skin conductance responses.
Lecturer, researcher and Master’s degree in Psychological Research Methods, Onderwijsinstituut Psychologie, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Teaches Methods of Mathematics Research, Statistic and SPSS applied to Psychology and courses of scientific writing in Psychology. Supervises research projects of Master students in Psychology. Research interests: non-conscious physiological processes of intuition, methodology combining psychology with parapsychology research questions.
President and CEO, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California, EUA. Senior Scientist, Research Institute, California Pacific Medical Center. Adjunct Professor, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, California. Author and co-author of numerous papers on alternative and complementary medicine. Co-author of the books “Living deeply, The art and Science of Transformation” and “Consciousness & Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind Body Medicine”. Research interests: inner mechanisms of the healing response, extended human abilities, alternative and complementary medicines and spirituality and health.
Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, and Psychiatrist, Oporto, Portugal. Founder of the Portuguese Society of Psychosomatics and Portuguese Society of Psychodrama. Research interests: the therapeutic relationship and psychosomatic medicine.
Professor of Psychiatry and Consciousness Sciences, Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, Portugal. Director of the Post-Graduation Course in Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon. Research interests: psychology and psychophysiology of altered states of consciousness, ethnomedicine, human exceptional experiences and psychology and spirituality.
Professor of Neurology, Director of the Health Sciences Institute of the Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal. Past President of the International Neuropsychological Society. Research interests: literacy/illiteracy and orthography and brain neurobiological substrates, aphasia and Parkinson's disease.
Professor of Management Development and Organizational Behaviour, School of Management, University of Surrey, UK. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Management Learning. Author of numerous papers on learning and development and intuition. Author of the books “Inside Intuition” and “The Intuitive mind: profiting from the power of your sixth sense”. Research interests: role of intuitive judgement in management decision-making and management development.
Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, School of Economics and Management (ISEG), Lisbon. Dean of the Lisbon Technical University. President of the Portuguese Mathematical Society. Author and co-author of numerous papers on Economy and Statistics and of the books “A Matemática das Coisas” and “Passeio Aleatório”. Highest Citation Award from the Applied Financial Economics. Research interests: stochastic processes with computer, weather and financial applications, scientific communication in journals and television and reflection on teaching.
Social psychologist, Lecturer communicator of psychological science, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, USA. Author of numerous papers of scientific communication in journals such as Science, American Scientist and Psychological Science. Author of several textbooks of introduction to Psychology and of the recent “Psychology”, “Psychology Study Guide”, “Social Psychology” and the best-seller “Intuition: Its Powers and Perils”. His scientific writings are supported by the National Science Foundation and recognized by the Gordon Allport Prize. Research interests: communication of research in psychology.