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ASSC Conference, June 2008
Location: Gis Convention Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Date: June 19-22, 2008 Contact: assc12@ym.edu.tw Click here for conference website We are glad to announce that the 12th annual meeting of Associ...
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Consciousness, Brain Rhythms, and the Perception-Action Cycle
A Workshop at the University of Memphis May 3-4, 2008 A wave of scientific findings is now emerging on brain rhythms in consciousness, perception, autobiographical memory, action planning and attention. This small, intensive wo...
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From Monkey Brain to Human Brain: A Fyssen Foundation Symposium
Edited by Stanislas Dehaene, Jean-René Duhamel, Marc D. Hauser and Giacomo Rizzolatti The extraordinary overlap between human and chimpanzee genomes does not result in an equal overlap between human and chimpanzee thoughts, se...
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The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science
Authored by Cretien van Campen What does it mean to hear music in colors, to taste voices, to see each letter of the alphabet as a different color? These uncommon sensory experiences are examples of synesthesia, when two or mor...
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The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
Authored by Owen J. Flanagan If consciousness is the “hard problem” in mind science–explaining how the amazing private world of consciousness emerges from neuronal activity–then the “really hard pr...
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Neuronal correlates of “free will” are associated with regional specialization in the human intrinsic/default network
Ilan Goldberg, Shimon Ullman and Rafael Malach In press article in Consciousness & Cognition Abstract: Recently, we proposed a fundamental subdivision of the human cortex into two complementary networks-an ‘‘extrinsic...
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Toward a Science of Consciousness: 2008 Conference
The eighth biennial Tucson conference, hosted by the Center for Consciousness Studies and the University of Arizona, continues an interdisciplinary tradition of intense, far-ranging and rigorous discussions on all approaches to...
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APS 20th Annual Convention
The Association for Psychological Science (APS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology and its representation. From May 22-25, 2008, the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers will host t...
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15th Annual CNS meeting
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS). Founded in 1994, CNS’s mission was to provide its members with a forum to present posters, symposia and to engage in scientific discourse o...