Scientific program

The scientific program in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format can be downloaded from here. The presentation schedule can be found below or downloaded from here.

 

Sunday, November 29 – Consciousness today and through time

8h30 – 9h:                Registration

9h – 9h30:                Welcoming by

                                Fofi Constantinidou and Andreas A Ioannides, organizers

                                Axel Cleeremans, chair of Consciousness Action

9h30 – 10h10:           Invited talk (40 minutes)
                                Chair: Risto Naatanen

                        "Sensory Awareness and Perceptual Certainty"
                        Hakwan Lau                        
 

10h10 – 10h40:         Coffee Break

10h40 – 12h20:         Oral presentation Session 1 (5 talks, 20 minutes each)
                                Chair: Mark Elliot

12h20 – 14h:             Lunch

14h – 14h40:             Invited talk (40 minutes)
                                Chair: Alex Cleeremans

                                "Unconscious Determinants of Human Decision"
                                John-Dylan Haynes

14h40 – 16h:            Oral presentation Session 2 (4 talks, 20 minutes each)
                                Chair: Alex Cleeremans

16h – 18h30:            Coffee Break and Poster Session 1 

17h30 – 18h30:         Consciousness MC meeting (while Poster Session 1 continues)

18h30 -:                    Free evening

 

Monday, November 30 – Consciousness and its Measures

8h – 8h30:                Registration

8h30 – 8h45:             Welcoming by

                             Fabio Babiloni, chair of NeuroMath Action

8h45 – 9h25:             Invited talk (40 minutes)
                                Chair: Fofi Constantinidou

                             "The Measurement of Consciousness"
                             
Andrew C. Papanicolaou 

9h25 – 10h05:           Oral presentation Session 3 (2 talks, 20 minutes each)
                                Chair: Fofi Constantinidou

10h05 – 11h:             Coffee Break and Poster Session 1

11h30 – 14h30:         Cultural bus tour and Kourion visit (lunch provided)

14h30 – 15h:             Removal of Session 1 posters and placement of Session 2 posters

15h – 15h40:             Invited talk (40 minutes)
                                Chair: Andreas Ioannides

                             "Paying Attention to Consciousness"
                             
John G. Taylor

15h40 – 16h40:         Oral presentation Session 4 (3 talks, 20 minutes each)
                                Chair: Andreas Ioannides

16h40 – 17h30:         Poster Session 2

18h -:                       Departure for conference dinner

 

Tuesday, December 1 – The ways of measuring Consciousness

8h30 – 9h:                Registration

9h – 9h40:                Invited talk (40 minutes)
                                Chair: Peter B.C. Fenwick

                            "Mechanisms underlying loss of consciousness in sleep and epilepsy"
                            
George Kostopoulos

9h40 – 11h:              Oral presentation Session 5 (4 talks, 20 minutes each)
                                Chair: Peter B.C. Fenwick

11h – 11h30:             Coffee Break

11h30 – 13h:             Poster Session 2 

12h – 13h:                 NeuroMath MC meeting (while Poster Session 2 continues)

13h – 14h30:             Lunch

14h30 – 15h30:         Oral presentation Session 6 (3 talks, 20 minutes each)
                                Chair: Fabio Babiloni

15h30 – 16h10:         Invited talk (40 minutes)
                                Chair: George Kostopoulos

                                     "The New Conscious - What you see is what you feel"
                                    
Beatrice de Gelder

16h10 – 16h40:         Closing remarks by

                                     Fofi Constantinidou and Andreas A Ioannides, organizers

                                     Axel Cleeremans, chair of Consciousness Action

                                     Fabio Babiloni, chair of NeuroMath Action

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Presentation schedule

·         Each oral presentation will be allocated 20 minutes (15 minutes for the presentation plus 5 minutes for questions). A strict time limit will be applied. Please bring your presentation file (preferably in PowerPoint or PDF format) on a USB or CD/DVD disk. If you have special requirements (e.g. need to use a personal laptop or have a presentation file in a different format), please let us know in advance.

·         The preferred poster size is A0 (W841 mm x H1189 mm), in Portrait orientation.

·         The presenters must be with their posters during the formal poster sessions. Please also be aware of poster mounting and removal times.

·         Poster printing service can be provided at a cost of 50 Euro per print. The poster must be received by the organisers in a PDF format by November 19, 2009. For more details, please contact us.

 

Oral presentation Session 1

(10:40-12:20 November 29)

10:40        S. Kouider How rich is consciousness? The Partial Awareness Hypothesis.

11:00        M. I. Stamenov What can the meaning of ambivalent words tell us about the structure of consciousness?

11:20        K. C. Neokleus, M. N. Avraamides, C. N. Schizas Using computational modelling to investigate the link between consciousness and attention.

11:40        M. Wierzchon Why do subjective measures sometimes fail to assess conscious access and how to use them successfully?

12:00        C. Christodoulou and A. Cleanthous Modelling and Resolving Conscious Conflict through Learned Self-Control Behaviour.

 

 

Oral presentation Session 2

(14:40-16:00 November 29)

14:40        F. Constantinidou Working Memory and Executive Functioning after Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.

15:00        J. Leon-Carrion Severe neurocognitive disorders: the disrupted content of consciousness.

15:20        M. M. Monti, A. M. Owen Disentangling the automatic from the conscious brain: fMRI of the vegetative state.

15:40        N. Konstantinou, B. Bahrami, G. Rees, N. Lavie Visual Short-Term Memory Load Induced Blindness: Neuroimaging and behavioural evidence.

 

 

Oral presentation Session 3

(09:25-10:05 November 30)

09:25        A. Vik, J. Xu, I. A. Rasmussen, A. Holen, S. Davanger, Ø. Ellingsen, A. Håberg, J. Lagopoulos ACEM-meditation, a better way to rest?

09:45        P. B. C. Fenwick, G. K. Kostopoulos, L. Liu, A. A. Ioannides The Relatiosnhip between Violent Arousals and the Distribution of slow Wave Activity in Sleep.

 

 

Oral presentation Session 4

(15:40-16:40 November 30)

15:40        R. Nataanen Brain Mechanisms of conscious perception in audition.

16:00        K. Blinowska, A. Brzezicka, M. Kamiński, J. Kamiński Information transfer during simple and complex working memory tasks.

16:20        D. Shimaoka, K. Kitajo, K. Kaneko,Y. Yamaguchi Transient Cortical Activity during Necker Cube Perception from Local Clusters to Global Synchrony.

  

 

 

Oral presentation Session 5

(09:40-11:00 December 1)

09:40        V. Kokkinos, A. Koupparis, M. L. Stavrinou, G. K. Kostopoulos Interactions between NREM sleep stage II spindles and K-complexes.

10:00        G. Vecchiato, L. Astolfi, F. De Vico Fallani, S. Salinari, F. Cincotti, M. Sorrentino, D. Mattia, L. Bianchi, R. Soranzo, and F. Babiloni The study of brain activity during the observation of Public Service Announcements (PSA’s) by using high resolution EEG techniques.

10:20        G. Plomp, C. M. Michel, M. H. Herzog Electrical source dynamics in functional localizer paradigms.

10:40        D. L. Turner, X. Tang Direction-Dependent Modulation of Early Visuomotor Processing during Robot- Mediated Arm Reaching.

 

 

Oral presentation Session 6

(14:30-15:30 December 1)

14:30        A. A. Ioannides, P. B. C. Fenwick and L. Liu The Relationship of Consciousness to Activity in the Frontal Eye Fields during Planning and Execution of Eye Movements.

14:50        L. Astolfi, F. Cincotti, D. Mattia, F. De Vico Fallani, S. Salinari, C. Wilke, A. Doud, H. Yuan, B. He, F. Babiloni Estimation of the Cortical Activity from Simultaneous Multi- Subject Recordings.

15:10        A. Oliviero, B. Moreno-Burriel, V. Soto-León, E. Chinarro-Martin, E. Villanueva, A. del Campo, J. Ramon Jurado-Egea, G. Foffani EEG-EMG coherence analysis improves using a multiarray electrode device.

 

 

Poster presentation Session 1

(16:10-18:30 November 29 and 10:25-11:00 November 30)

(Posters on board from 8:30 November 29, to 14:30 November 30)

 

P01:          E. Van den Bussche, G. Hughes, B. Reynvoet The relation between consciousness and attention: an empirical study using the priming paradigm

P02:          S. Sekulic, J. Podgorac, G. Stojadinovic, G. Kekovic, Lj. Martac, M. Culic Spectral changes of rat cerebral and cerebellar activity under different anaesthesia regime.

P03:          A. Vermeiren, A. Cleermans Learning to be conscious.

P04:          Y. Urakami, M. Maeno Sleep spindles as an indicator of recovery following diffuse axonal injury.

P05:          D. Levy Forgotten but not gone: Unconscious memory traces yield context effects on recognition.

P06:          M. Arsalidou, J. Pascual-Leone, J. Johnson, D. Morris, M. J. Taylor Neural Competition between Voluntary and Spontaneous Networks.

P07:          M. Binder Neural correlates of simultaneity of audiovisual stimuli.

P08:          H. Hinrikus, J. Lass, A. Rodina Effect of noise in processing of visual information.

P09:          D. M. Psatta From Consiousness to Conscience.Cerebral processes revealed by EEG Spectral Reaction Mapping (SRM).

P10:          I. Stojanovska, B. Prevalla, B. Percinkova Simulation of connecting multi agent model-An application to Information Paradigm.

P11:          K. Sandberg, B. Bahrami, G. R. Barnes, M. Overgaard, G. Rees Localisation of cortical areas involved in conscious processing during binocular rivalry using MEG.

P12:          C. Lithari, C. Frantzidis, P.D. Bamidis, C. Pappas Is P300 configured by the stimulus itself, or the preceding stimuli contribute to it? A Markov chains study of an emotional protocol.

P13:          S. Markovska-Simoska, N. Pop-Jordanova, J. Pop-Jordanov Brain rate parameter as a measure of the level of consciousness in ADHD adults.

P14:          A. Lundervold Consciousness - dynamical systems - resting state fMRI.

P15:          S. Josef Golubic, C. J. Aine, S. Supek Sensitivity of early and late neuromagnetic auditory activity to degenerative processes in MCI and AD.

P16:          V. Kokkinos, M. Symms The fMRI of a digit –span working memory task: a single subject analysis.

P17:          M. M. Hadjimarkou, R. Benham, M. D. Schwartz, J. A.Mong Gonadal hormones affect sleep homeostasis in the female rat.

 

  

Poster presentation Session 2

(16:40-17:30 November 30 and 11:30-13:00 December 1)

(Posters on board from 15:00 November 30 to 13:00 December 1)

P01:          A. Muller, G. Candrian Machine Learning systems as a classification and analysis toll for patient groups using the example of ADHD and controls.

P02:          O. Sveljo, K. Koprivsek, M. Prvulovic, M. Lucic, M. Culic Gender differences in language processing by means of Fmri.

P03:          R. A. Stepien Analysis of Bio-Signals with distinct periodic components by Monotony.

P04:          W. Klonowski, W. Duch, Z. Đorđević, S. Spasić, A. Perović, A. Jovanović Detection of structural feauters in brain signals and causality tests.

P05:          P. Stepien Fast Empirical Mode Decomposition-New Tool for Analyzing EEG Signals.

P06:          S. Spasic, Lj. Nikolic, S. Kesic, V. Vasic, A. Kalauzi, J. Saponjic Complexity of neuronal activity in different experimental models detected by Higuchi fractal dimension.

P07:          Z. Nagy, B. Végső, T. Magos, Cs. Szekrényesi, K. Fülöp, Gy. Kozmann Evaluation of brain network organization from 128 channels EEG signals. New Technologies to study brain plasticity.

P08:          L. Moraru, G. Edlinger, C. Guger, A. Bezerianos Quantitative predictors used in neonatal monitoring ;cortical connectivity may reflect neurological status in newborns.

P09:          K. P. Michmizos, D. E. Sakas, K. S. Nikita An in-silico model of an STN neuron that uses the LFP’s to predict the spikes.

P10:          B. Wahlund, W. Klonowski, H. Liljenström, D. von Rosen, P. Stepien, R. A. Stepien Mathematical tools for describing ictal EEG series in subgroups of depressed patients.

P11:          N. Puthanmadam Subramaniyam, O. Väisänen, K. Wendel, J. Malmivuo Cortical Potential Imaging with Realistic Head Model using L-curve and GCV method.

P12:          Z. Tiganj, M. Mboup, C. Pouzat Eye blink artifacts detection in single channel EEG recordings.

P13:          K. Wendel, D. Stoliar, J. Malmivuo Measuring Tissue Thicknesses of the Human Head using Centralised and Normalized Tranjectories.

P14:          B. Mijovic, K. Vanderperren, M. De Vos, J.R. Ramautar, N. Novitskiy, B. Vanrumste, P. Stiers, B. Van den Bergh, J. Wagemans, L. Lagae, S. Sunaert, S. Van Huffel Influence of the Stimulus Onset Asynchrony in fMRI experiment to the Independent Component Analysis Results.

P15:          M. Ozgoren, U. Erdogan, O. Bayazit, S. Kocaaslan, N. Gokmen, A. Oniz The assessment of Brain Functionign in different conscious states via Brain Biophysics Battery.

P16:          V. Poghosyan, L. Liu and A. A. Ioannides The early attentional effects in visual cortex.