Cognitive science and neuro-psycho-pathologies?
What cognitive science can learn from neuro- psycho-pathologies? This is the theme for a forthcoming conference at the University of Central Florida. This conference will explore various approaches to understanding both neuropathologies and psychopathologies, with interdisciplinary contributions from philosophy, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and other cognitive sciences. Special emphasis will be given to questions about […]
What cognitive science can learn from neuro- psycho-pathologies? This is the theme for a forthcoming conference at the University of Central Florida. This conference will explore various approaches to understanding both neuropathologies and psychopathologies, with interdisciplinary contributions from philosophy, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and other cognitive sciences. Special emphasis will be given to questions about delusions and pathologies of embodiment, agency, self-consciousness, and practical reasoning.
Broken Minds/Broken Bodies
What cognitive science can learn from neuro- psycho-pathologies
Plenary speakers
Jonathan Cole (Clinical Neurosciences, University of Southampton, and Professor of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Bournemouth). Cole is a practicing neurophysiologist, an experimentalist, and a researcher who is currently working on virtual reality applications in clinical neuroscience. His most recent book is Still Lives (MIT Press, 2004).
Anthony J. Marcel (MRC: Cognition and Brain Sciences; Psychology, Cambridge University and University of Hertfordshire). Marcel works on neglect, anosognosia and blindsight as well as with healthy individuals. He has published a number of landmark studies on nonconscious and conscious perception and has recently written on consciousness and emotion experience.
Josef Parnas (Professor of Psychiatry, University of Copenhagen). Parnas has conducted long-term studies of children of schizophrenic parents, and he focuses on the phenomenology of schizophrenia. Co-author of the forthcoming book, General Psychopathology for Clinicians. New York: Wiley and Sons.
