Program
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Day 1 - 26/8/2023
Morning Session 10:00–10:30 welcome address 10:30–11:30 Keynote Lecture - Hakwan Lau - The Ubiquity of Perceptual Metacognition Moderator: Shao-Min (Sean) Hung 11:30–12:50 Lunch and poster session Noon Session 12:50–14:10 Talk Session #1A - Imagination, Virtual Reality, and Memory Moderator: Tzu-Yu Hsu 14:10–14:20 Short Break 14:35–16:00 Talk Session #1B - Imagination, Virtual Reality, and Memory Moderator: Tzu-Yu Hsu 16:00–16:15 Coffee break 16:15–17:15 Keynote Lecture - Ann-Shyn Chiang - Cracking the Brain Code Moderator: Po-Jang (Brown) Hsieh 17:15–17:30 Break Evening Session 17:30–18:30 Workshop – How to facilitate CoRN collaboration + Selection of CoRN 2025 organizers Moderator: Yaron Caspi Night Activity 19:30 Reception dinner - Umeko, Taipei Day 2 - 27/8/2023 Morning session 9:30–12:00 Talk Session #2 - Consciousness and its Alterations Moderator: Yaron Caspi 12:00–13:30 Lunch Break and Poster Session Noon Session 13:30–14:30 Keynote Lecture - Ophelia Deroy - Getting real : How the sense of reality is constructed in perception Moderator: Tony Cheng 14:30–14:45 Coffee break 14:45–16:45 Talk Session #3 - Unconscious processes Moderator: Po-Jang (Brown) Hsieh 16:45–17:15 Coffee break Evening Session 17:15–18:15 In Consciousness We Trust - Book symposium Moderator: Shao-Min (Sean) Hung Night Activity 19:00 Night Social Activity – Pub Evening Day 3 - 28/8/2023 Morning session 10:30–12:00 Talk Session #4 - Consciousness: Animal models Moderator: Shao-Min (Sean) Hung 12:00–13:30 Lunch break and career workshop Noon session 13:00–14:50 Talk Session #5 - Consciousness: Body and Action Moderator: Tony Cheng 14:50–15:20 Coffee break 15:20–16:20 Keynote Lecture - Noam Slonim - Project Debater – Past, Present, and Future Moderator: Tzu-Yu Hsu 16:20–16:35 Coffee break Evening session 16:35–18:15 Talk Session #6 - Consciousness: Techniques and Constraints Moderator: Phil Tseng 18:15–18:40 Wrapping up + Award Ceremony |
Sessions
Session 1 - Imagination, Virtual Reality, and Memory
Saturday 26/8 12:50 – 16:00
12:50 – 13:20 Lu Teng (Talk Online) – Does Aphantasia Support Unconscious Imagination?
13:20 – 13:50 Ying-Tung Lin – Dimensions of immersion and episodic simulation
13:50 – 14:10 YenTung Lee – Virtual Veridicalism, Cognitive Orientation, and Fregean Representationalism
14:10 – 14:20 Short Break
14:20 – 14:40 Yuwei Sun (Talk Online) – Sparse Associative Memory-Enabled Artificial Neural Networks Through the Lens of Global Workspace Theory
14:40 – 15:00 Andrew Budson – Consciousness as a Memory System
15:00 – 15:20 Shao-Chi Chiu – Boundary Extension in Observer Perspective Memory and its Comparison with Field Perspective Memory
15:20 – 15:50 Christopher Jude McCarroll (Talk Online) – Experience, Episodic Memory, and the Epistemic Limits of Imagination
Saturday 26/8 12:50 – 16:00
12:50 – 13:20 Lu Teng (Talk Online) – Does Aphantasia Support Unconscious Imagination?
13:20 – 13:50 Ying-Tung Lin – Dimensions of immersion and episodic simulation
13:50 – 14:10 YenTung Lee – Virtual Veridicalism, Cognitive Orientation, and Fregean Representationalism
14:10 – 14:20 Short Break
14:20 – 14:40 Yuwei Sun (Talk Online) – Sparse Associative Memory-Enabled Artificial Neural Networks Through the Lens of Global Workspace Theory
14:40 – 15:00 Andrew Budson – Consciousness as a Memory System
15:00 – 15:20 Shao-Chi Chiu – Boundary Extension in Observer Perspective Memory and its Comparison with Field Perspective Memory
15:20 – 15:50 Christopher Jude McCarroll (Talk Online) – Experience, Episodic Memory, and the Epistemic Limits of Imagination
Session 2 - Consciousness and its Alterations
Sunday 27/8 9:30 – 11:45
9:30 – 10:00 Chun Siong Soon – Brain Signatures around Transitions between States of Consciousness
10:00 – 10:30 Yoshida Masatoshi – Aberrant processing of visual salience in schizophrenia
10:30 – 11:00 Niall Duncan – Thinking about the role of GABA in disorders of consciousness
11:00 – 11:20 Hyungrae Noh – Minimal Consciousness as a Clinical Explanatory Posit
11:20 – 11:40 Qiantong Wu (Talk Online) – Dreaming experience as an immersive imagination: Response to the problem of dream reports by Schwitzgebel
Sunday 27/8 9:30 – 11:45
9:30 – 10:00 Chun Siong Soon – Brain Signatures around Transitions between States of Consciousness
10:00 – 10:30 Yoshida Masatoshi – Aberrant processing of visual salience in schizophrenia
10:30 – 11:00 Niall Duncan – Thinking about the role of GABA in disorders of consciousness
11:00 – 11:20 Hyungrae Noh – Minimal Consciousness as a Clinical Explanatory Posit
11:20 – 11:40 Qiantong Wu (Talk Online) – Dreaming experience as an immersive imagination: Response to the problem of dream reports by Schwitzgebel
Session 3 - Unconscious processes
Sunday 27/8 14:45 – 16:45
14:45 – 15:15 Yee Joon Kim – The influence of subjective visibility on conscious perception: An EEG study
15:15 – 15:45 Takashi Obana ( Replacing Christopher L. Asplund) – Surprise-induced deafness: awareness failures caused by unexpected auditory stimuli
15:45 – 16:15 Shao-Min (Sean) Hung – Attention gates uncosncious processes: psychophysics, fMRI, and more evidence from aging science
16:15 – 16:35 Yenju Feng – Decoding facial information without consciousness under dis-continuous flash suppression
Sunday 27/8 14:45 – 16:45
14:45 – 15:15 Yee Joon Kim – The influence of subjective visibility on conscious perception: An EEG study
15:15 – 15:45 Takashi Obana ( Replacing Christopher L. Asplund) – Surprise-induced deafness: awareness failures caused by unexpected auditory stimuli
15:45 – 16:15 Shao-Min (Sean) Hung – Attention gates uncosncious processes: psychophysics, fMRI, and more evidence from aging science
16:15 – 16:35 Yenju Feng – Decoding facial information without consciousness under dis-continuous flash suppression
Session 4 - Consciousness: Animal models
Monday 28/8 10:30 – 12:00
10:30 – 11:00 Chuan-Chin Chiao – Predatory behavior and decision making in cuttlefish
11:00 – 11:30 Vishal Kapoor – Conscious perception and the primate prefrontal cortex
11:30 – 11:50 Rong Mao (Talk Online) – Investigating the Role of Cerebral Cortex in Consciousness
Monday 28/8 10:30 – 12:00
10:30 – 11:00 Chuan-Chin Chiao – Predatory behavior and decision making in cuttlefish
11:00 – 11:30 Vishal Kapoor – Conscious perception and the primate prefrontal cortex
11:30 – 11:50 Rong Mao (Talk Online) – Investigating the Role of Cerebral Cortex in Consciousness
Session 5 - Consciousness: Body and Action
Monday 28/8 13:00 – 14:50
13:00 – 13:30 Acer Chang – The sense of agency as active causal inference: How We Comprehend Our Control Over the Environment using Abstract Action Plans
13:30 – 14:00 Hyeong Dong Park (Talk Online) – Brain-body interactions in perception and action
14:00 – 14:20 Patrick Grüneberg – A heterarchical approach to conscious motor control – evidence from phenomenology and behavioral neuroscience
14:20 – 14:40 Anna Ciaunica – Why Consciousness is not a Thing – Implications for Artificial Minds
Monday 28/8 13:00 – 14:50
13:00 – 13:30 Acer Chang – The sense of agency as active causal inference: How We Comprehend Our Control Over the Environment using Abstract Action Plans
13:30 – 14:00 Hyeong Dong Park (Talk Online) – Brain-body interactions in perception and action
14:00 – 14:20 Patrick Grüneberg – A heterarchical approach to conscious motor control – evidence from phenomenology and behavioral neuroscience
14:20 – 14:40 Anna Ciaunica – Why Consciousness is not a Thing – Implications for Artificial Minds
Session 6 - Consciousness: Techniques and Constraints
Monday 28/8 16:35 – 18:15
16:35 – 17:05 Shui'Er Han – About the use of interocular suppression techniques
17:05 – 17:25 Shao-Pu Kang – A Puzzle about Self-Knowledge of Consciousness
17:25 – 17:45 Tzu-Ling Liu – The quality of phosphene percept is dominated by amplitude-modulated frequency of transcranial electric stimulation
17:45 – 18:05 Kanit M. Sirichan – Why is a Weak Representationalist Theory of Consciousness too Weak?
Monday 28/8 16:35 – 18:15
16:35 – 17:05 Shui'Er Han – About the use of interocular suppression techniques
17:05 – 17:25 Shao-Pu Kang – A Puzzle about Self-Knowledge of Consciousness
17:25 – 17:45 Tzu-Ling Liu – The quality of phosphene percept is dominated by amplitude-modulated frequency of transcranial electric stimulation
17:45 – 18:05 Kanit M. Sirichan – Why is a Weak Representationalist Theory of Consciousness too Weak?