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2020 CoRN Conference Program​

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Day 1: Friday, April 3th ​​​
8:30 am: Reception desk opens
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9:30 am-9:45 am: Opening remarks
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9:45 am-11:45 am: Talks 1
  1. Masataka Watanabe, “Towards a Scientific Understanding of Consciousness—Law of Nature, Artificial Consciousness and its Subjective Test” (40 mins)
  2. Chen Song, “What Constitutes an Optimal Brain Architecture? The Role of Sensory Processing versus Sleep” (40 mins)
  3. Pengmin Qin, “Sensorimotor Integration Supports Consciousness: Evidence from Sleep, Anesthesia, and Disorders of Consciousness” (40 mins)​

11:45 am-12:45 pm: Lunch
 
12:45 pm-2:45 pm: Talks 2
  1. Acer Chang, “Information Closure Theory of Consciousness” (40 mins)
  2. Malcolm Forster, “Tononi’s Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness” (40 mins)
  3. Colin Klein, “Self-Intervention and the Hard Problem of Consciousness” (40 mins)
 
2:45 pm-3:00 pm: Coffee break
 
3:00 pm-4:00 pm: Poster session 1
 
4:00 pm-4:15 pm: Coffee break
 
4:15 pm-5:30 pm: Keynote speech (open to NYU Shanghai faculty and students)

     Tim Bayne, “The Search for a Unified Theory of Consciousness”
 
 
Day 2: Saturday, April 4th
9:00 am-11:00 am: Talks 3
  1. Sze Chai Kwok, “Domain-Specificity in Metacognition in the Primates and Humans” (Together with the two students’ talks, 80 mins)
  2. Yunxuan Zheng, “White Matter Structural Connectivity and Grey Matter Functional Connectivity Underpinning Human Metacognition,”
  3. Yudian Cai, “Association-Free Introspection by Implicit Confidence Expression in Macaques”
  4. Liang Luo, “Reciprocal Effects between Metacognitive Accuracy and Academic Performance” (40 mins)
 
11:00 am-11:15 am: Coffee break
 
11:15 am-12:15 pm: Poster session 2
 
12:15 pm-1:15 pm: Lunch
 
1:15 pm-3:15 pm: Talks 4
  1. Amit Chaturvedi, “Reconsidering the ‘Memory Argument’ for Reflexive Awareness” (40 mins)
  2. Ying-Tung Lin, “Perspectival Pluralism in Multisensory Integration and the Sense of Self” (40 mins)
  3. Tony Cheng, “Make McDowell Relevant Again” (40 mins)
 
3:15 pm-3:30 pm: Coffee break
 
3:30 pm-5:30 pm: Talks 5
  1. Juan Chen, “The Influence of Crowding on Grip Scaling during Grasping” (40 mins)
  2. Xilin Zhang, “Control of Awareness-Dependent Figure-Ground Degregation by Human Prefrontal Cortex” (40 mins)
  3. Liping Wang, “Statistical Inference of Body Representation in the Macaque Brain” (40 mins)
 
6:00 pm-8:00 pm: Conference dinner
 
 
Day 3: Sunday, April 5th
 
9:00 am-11:00 am: Talks 6
  1. Raja Rosenhagen, “How Not to Worry About Evil Demons” (40 mins)
  2. Chuang Liu, “Perception and Epistemic Entitlement” (40 mins)
  3. Kengo Miyazono, “Husserlian Modal Epistemology of Consciousness” (40 mins)
 
11:00 am-11:15 am: Coffee break
 
11:15 am-12:15 pm: Round table discussion
     (Discuss interdisplinary collaborations, future CoRN conferences, etc.)
 
12:15 pm-1:15 pm: Lunch
 
1:15 pm-3:15 pm: Talks 7
  1. Domenica Bueti, no information yet (40 mins)
  2. Makiko Yamada, “The Dopamine System in Subjective Reality” (40 mins)
  3. Vishal Kapoor, “Decoding the Contents of Conscious Perception from Neural Activity in the Prefrontal Cortex During a No Report Binocular Rivalry Paradigm” (40 mins)
 
3:15 pm-3:30 pm: Closing remarks

The poster list:
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1. Michał Wierzchoń (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
“Bringing Action into the Picture. How Action Influences Visual Awareness”
 
2. Miguel Ángel Sebastián (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)
“A New Take on Unconscious Perception: Individuating ‘Representations by the Individual’ in Terms of Its Content Rather Than Action”
 
3. Qianrong Gong (University of St Andrews, UK)
“Challenging Predictive-Processing Theory of Perception”
 
4. Marco Inchingolo (Institut Jean Nicod, France)
“Empathy Meets Phenomenal Insight”
 
5.Qiantong Wu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
“The Conscious Experience of the Self in Dreams”
 
6. Marcin Koculak (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
“Contributions of Motor Activity on Perceptual Awareness and Confidence”
 
7. Jie Gao (Sorbonne University, France)
 “Visuocentrism in Perception and Multimodality”
 
8. Shiling Cai (Zhejiang University, China)
“A Comparative Study of the Consciousness Theories of Crick and Edelman”
 
9. Christiaan Paffen (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
“Directing Top-Down Attention is not Sufficient for Accelerating Conscious Access”
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