6th Symposium - 2006
BIAL Foundation Symposium
BEHIND AND BEYOND THE BRAIN
Memory
- March 29th
- March 30th
- March 31th
- April 1st
Chairman | Fernando Lopes da Silva
Emeritus Professor of General Physiology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Head researcher of the Higher Technical Institute (IST) of Lisbon, Portugal. Research interests: electrophysiology of the brain, origin of epileptic phenomena, neuronal networks in relation to memory, attention and consciousness.
John Aggleton
Guillén Fernández
Guillén Fernández
Alcino Silva
Chairman – Rui Mota Cardoso
Menno Witter
Moderator - Fernando Lopes da Silva
Moderator | Fernando Lopes da Silva
Emeritus Professor of General Physiology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Head researcher of the Higher Technical Institute (IST) of Lisbon, Portugal. Research interests: electrophysiology of the brain, origin of epileptic phenomena, neuronal networks in relation to memory, attention and consciousness.
Moderator | Caroline Watt
A founder member of the Koestler Parapsychology Unit, and Senior Lecturer, Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Former Perrott-Warrick Senior Researcher and 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: replication issues in parapsychology, the psychology and parapsychology of precognitive dream experiences.
Richard Broughton
Rex Stanford
Moderators | Alexandre Castro-Caldas
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.