Consciousness: at the frontiers of neurosciences

XIXe Symposium international
XIXth International Symposium

Centre de recherche en sciences neurologiques

Université de Montréal

(Organisateurs/Organizers: H.H. Jasper, L. Descarries, V. Castellucci and S. Rossignol)

Montréal, May 5 & 6 mai 1997


Programme of the Symposium

Summary Monday, May 5 Session I - Consciousness as a study object
Session II - Consciousness as a function
  Tuesday, May 6 Session III - Contents of consciousness
Session IV - Models of conscious experience
Session V - General discussion
Venue Université de Montréal
Main Building (Immeuble principal)
2900, Édouard-Montpetit Blvd
Room E-310
N.B. All lectures will be in english
Final version: February 19, 1997

Monday, May 5

08:00 - 08:45 Registration in front of Room E-310, Main Building (Pavillon principal)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome (Organizers and University officials)

Session I - Consciousness as a study object

09:00 - 09:15 Chairman's Introduction
What? Where? When? How? Why?
Laurent Descarries (Montréal)
09:15 - 10:00 The Problems of Consciousness
David J. Chalmers (Santa Cruz)
10:00 - 10:45 What Should We Expect From a Theory of Consciousness?
Patricia S. Churchland (La Jolla)
10:45 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:15 Sensory Information and Conscious Experience:

i) Electrophysiology
Herbert H. Jasper (Montréal)

ii) Neuroanatomy and Neurochemistry
Edward G. Jones (Irvine)

12:15 - 14:00 Lunch

Retour au debut/Back to the top

Session II - Consciousness as a function

14:00 - 14:05 Chairman's Introduction
Edward G. Jones (Irvine)
14:05 - 14:50 Different Levels and States of Consciousness Across the Sleep-Waking Cycle
Barbara E. Jones (Montréal)
14:50 - 15:35 Thalamocortical Coherence and Consciousness
Rodolfo R. Llinás (New York)
15:35 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:45 Language Contrivance on Consciousness
A. Roch Lecours (Montréal)
16:45 - 17:30 Modeling the Mind: Contributions of Human Brain Mapping
Peter T. Fox (San Antonio)
19:00 Cocktail and Banquet
(Restaurant Hélène de Champlain, 200 Tour de l'Isle, Ile Sainte-Hélène)

Retour au debut

Tuesday, May 6

Session III - Contents of consciousness

09:00 - 09:15 Chaiman's Introduction
Containing the Contents
Alan. J. McComas (Hamilton)
09:15 - 10:00 The Emergence of Consciousness
Philip R. Zelazo (Montréal) and Philip D. Zelazo (Toronto)
10:00 - 10:45 Evolutionary Perspectives on Conscious Experience
Michael S. Gazzaniga (Hanover)
10:45 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:00 Abnormal Contents of Consciousness : The Transition from Automatic to Controlled Processing
Jeffrey A. Gray (London, England)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch

Retour au debut

Session IV - Models of conscious experience

14:00 - 14:30 Chairman's Introduction
Do the Models Offer Testable Proposals of Brain Functions of Conscious Experience?
Benjamin Libet (San Francisco)
14:30 - 15:15 Visual Responses in Awake Freely Viewing Monkeys
David H. Hubel (Boston)
15:15 - 16:00 Consciousness and the Integration of Information in the Brain
Giulio Tononi and Gerald M. Edelman (La Jolla)
16:00 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 17:15 The Neuroanatomy of Visual Consciousness
Christof Koch (Pasadena)

Retour au debut

Session V - General discussion

17:15 - 18:00 The four Chairs of the sessions

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