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Consciousness, Memory and Perception: Insights and Hindsights

A Festschrift in Honour of Larry Weiskrantz

Thursday & Friday 14-15th September 2006

Thursday 14th September

13:30 - 14:00 registration / arrival
14:00 - 14:30 Charlie Gross
Investigations of the macaque visual system using functional magnetic resonance imaging
14:30 - 15:00 Carlo Marzi
Interhemispheric transfer of TMS-induced and imagined phosphenes
15:00 - 15:30 Alan Cowey
Using reaction times to explore the guesswork in blindsight
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee
16:00 - 16:30 John Barbur
Conscious visual perception of illuminant changes - dichoptic studies of instantaneous colour constancy in human vision
16:30 - 17:00 Arash Sahraie
Plasticity in Blindsight
17:00 - 17:30 Sir Gabriel Horn
A bird's eye view of attachment

Friday 15th September

09:30 - 10:00 David Milner
Unconscious visual processing in the dorsal stream
10:00 - 10:30 Bea DeGelder
(in)famous direct route for affective blindsight
10:30 - 11:00 Mel Goodale
Seeing one thing, doing another: skilled actions resist pictorial illusions
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:00 David Rosenthal
Consciousness, function and facilitation
12:00 - 12:30 Richard Gregory
Why consciousness is associated with higher level cognitive processes?
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Mortimer Mishkin
Behavioral rules and cognitive principles
14:30 - 15:00 Anthony Dickinson
Episodic Memory in Animals? A Western Scrub-Jay's Perspective
15:00 - 15:30 Endel Tulving
Memory and Consciousness
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee
16:00 - Larry Weiskrantz
That's salt, you know.

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