If you are attending the APA, consider attending the Session on Grant Opportunities organized by the APA Committee on Lectures, Publications, and Research. All of the agencies we contacted in organizing this session (including a number that were not able to attend the panel) noted that they are very interested in …
Each summer, Penn Neuroscience Boot Camp gives participants a basic foundation in cognitive and affective neuroscience and equips them to be informed consumers of neuroscience research. Neuroscience is increasingly relevant to a number of professions and academic disciplines beyond its traditional medical applications. Lawyers, educators, economists and businesspeople, as well …
“Boston University is hosting its fourth annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on Consciousness (IGCC) on April 13th and 14th 2012. This year’s theme is Consciousness at the Margins. We are particularly interested in papers on issues in implicit bias and subconscious emotions. Psychologist Mahzarin R. Banaji and philosopher Owen Flanagan will …
[cross-posted @ Philosophy Sucks!] In Ned Block’s recent paper, published in Trends In Cognitive Science, he has defended his argument that perceptual consciousness overflows cognitive access from several recent objections (including from me). It is important that Block is defending overflow from cognitive access since he admits that perceptual consciousness does not overflow …
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Recently a talented vision scientist in my lab published a paper in Science showing that one can induce perceptual learning in an experimental participant through neurofeedback alone (i.e. they were able to improve the fit between the participants’ brain activity and an fMRI decoder for a particular orientation by asking …
The deadline is Dec 5th! Note the updated special sessions! I am pleased to announce the call for papers for the fourth online consciousness conference. the Invited Program includes, Bernard Baars, The Neurosciences Institute Special Session on Attention, Awareness, and Expectation organized by the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and …
