Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference: Perceptual Experience

Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference: Perceptual Experience

Saturday 8 October 2005

 

Rationale: The issues of representation, binding problem, hemispatial neglect, blindsight, spatial attention are immediately related to the issues of perceptual experience and consciousness, which are of central interest to both Philosophy and Psychology. Over the last three decades, developing neuroimaging techniques and scientific findings have enabled psychologists and neuroscientists to apply philosophical concepts of perceptual experience, bringing the two disciplines and their respective idioms together, though not always in a consensus. This is a dialogue which we hope this conference will promote.
Keynote Speakers: Professor Jose Luis Bermudez, Washington University in St. Louis
Professor Max Velmans, Psychology, Goldsmith College, University of London
Conference Programme (including abstracts):
9.00 - 9.30 Registration
9.30 - 10.30 Professor Max Velmans, Psychology, Goldsmith College, University of London
"Is the Brain in the World or the World in the Brain?"
Chair: Dimitiris Platchias, Philosophy, University of Glasgow
10.30 - 11.20 Tom Roberts, Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
"Three Sensorimotor Accounts of Perception"
Chair: Gillian Bruce, Psychology, University of Glasgow
11.20 - 11.40  Coffee Break
11.40 - 12.30 Dr. Marie Smith, Psychology, University of Glasgow
"Brain Correlates of Conscious Perceptions"
Chair: Philip Percival, Philosophy, University of Glasgow
12.30 - 13.20 Julian Kiverstein, Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
"Neural Correlates of Consciousness and the Unity of Experience"
Chair: Ina Schmitz-Williams, Psychology, University of Southampton

13.20 - 14.20		  
Lunch Break
14.20 - 15.10 Mary Jane Spiller, Psychology, University of East London
"Mental Imagery and Synaesthesia"
Chair: Matthew Conduct, Philosophy, University of Durham
15.10 - 16.00 Philip Meadows, Philosophy, University of Durham
"The Geometry of Visual Experience"
Chair: Bettina Friedrich Psychology, University of Glasgow

16.00 - 16.20		 Coffee Break
17.10 - 18.10 Lynda Shaw, Centre for Cognition and Neuroimaging, Brunel University
"Attention Effect of High and Low Valence Visual Stimuli: An fMRI Analysis"
Chair: Edoardo Zamuner, Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
17.10 - 18.10 Professor Jose Luis Bermudez, Washington University in St. Louis
"Objects, Properties, and Two Types of Binding"
Chair: Maria Gardani, Psychology, University of Glasgow
18.10 - 19.00 Farewell Drinks
Registration: Attendance is free but if you expect to attend please email the organisers in advance as places at the conferences are limited. In your e-mail please indicate if you wish to apply for an attendance bursary. These bursaries will be provided for postgraduate attendees not in receipt of other subsidies and will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis.
Venue: Seminar Room
Department of Psychology
University of Glasgow
58 Hillhead Street
Glasgow
G12 8QQ 
Conference Organisers: Dimitris Platchias (Philosophy, Glasgow)
Maria Gardani (Psychology, Glasgow)
Contact: Dimitris Platchias platchias@yahoo.com
or Maria Gardani m.gardani@psy.gla.ac.uk
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