----- Begin Included Message ----- Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 14:28:27 -0100 From: Gruppo Neurosistemi <neuros(a)mail.irtemp.na.cnr.it> Subject: Consciousness Program PLEASE CIRCULATE ISTITUTO ITALIANO PER GLI STUDI FILOSOFICI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BIOCYBERNETICS "NEURONAL BASES AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS" Isle of Ischia (Naples), Italy October 13-18, 1997 OPENING CEREMONY AND INTRODUCTORY LECTURE: Naples, morning of October 13, 1997 ADVISORY BOARD: Bisiach (I), Desimone (USA), Gray (UK), Hameroff (USA), Rakover (IL), Revonsuo (FIN), Rose (UK) TOPICS: [1] Neuronal Bases of Consciousness [2] Perceptive, Cognitive, Volitive and Emotional Aspects of Consciousness [3] Consciousness and Theories of Mind SCHOOL DIRECTOR Cloe Taddei-Ferretti Istituto di Cibernetica, CNR CO-DIRECTOR Carlo Musio Istituto di Cibernetica, CNR LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Antonio Cotugno Silvia Santillo Istituto di Cibernetica, CNR ADMINISTRATIVE ADVISOR Nunzia Aprile Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici MAILING ADDRESS Istituto di Cibernetica, CNR Via Toiano, 6 I-80072 Arco Felice (Napoli), Italy Tel: +39-81-8534113/131 Fax: +39-81-5267654 e-mail: neuros(a)mail.irtemp.na.cnr.it WITH THE COLLABORATION OF Istituto di Cibernetica, Italian National Research Council (CNR) National Committee for the Physics, Italian National Research Council (CNR) National Group of Cybernetics and Biophysics, Italian National Research Council (CNR) Promosud, Napoli, Italy INVITED LECTURERS AMONG OTHERS SESSION I - Neuronal Bases of Consciousness Harth (USA) 1. Neuronal mechanisms of cognition Tassinari (I) 1. Parallel pathways in the visual system: Selective effects of pre-geniculate damage SESSION II - Perceptive, Cognitive, Volitive and Emotional Aspects of Consciousness Alexandrov (Russia) 1. Psychophysiological regularities of the dynamics of individual experience and "stream of consciousness" 2. Comparative description of consciousness and emotion in the framework of systemic understanding of behavioral continuum and individual development Calabrese (D) 1. Nonconscious information processing by the brain: Lessons from clinical neuropsychology Davies (UK) 1. Phenomenal consciousness, access consciousness, and information processing psychology 2. Conscious thought Gray (UK) 1. A possible neuropsychology for aberrations of conscious experience in schizophrenia Hameroff (USA) 1. Toward a science of consciousness: An overview of various approaches to the understanding of conscious experience Radil (CZK) 1. Conscious and unconscious perceptual-cognitive phenomena Rakover (IL) 1. A coherent account of human behavior: The multiexplanation-model theory Rose (UK) 1. Can there be a biology of memory Tassinari (I) 2. Attentional and semantic processing in the split-brain Velmans (UK) 1. Perception, attention, and consciousness Wolfe (USA) 1. Guiding visual attention 2. Inattentional amnesia. A theory of post-attentive vision SESSION III - Consciousness and Theories of Mind Erdi (Hungary) 1. Neural and mental development: Selectionism, constructivism and hermeneutics 2. Computational approach to the functional organization of the hippocampus Gray (UK) 2. The hard question of consciousness: Information processing vs hard wiring Hameroff (USA) 2. The Penrose-Hameroff model of consciousness: Orch OR (orchestrated objective reduction) Harth (USA) 2. Selfreference, consciousness, and language Rakover (IL) 2. Simulating John Searle in the Chinese room Rose (UK) 2. What's wrong with reductionist explanations of human behaviour Velmans (UK) 2. Understanding consciousness: Beyond dualism and reductionism Ventriglia (I) 1. Attention in memory and consciousness AIM OF THE SCHOOL The School is foreseen as training for young researchers while bringing up to date the experienced ones, by means of both lectures and discussions. SCHOOL FEE The fee for the School is Lit (Italian Lire) 850,000. The fee includes full board and lodging in Ischia (arranged by the School Organization) from the dinner of Monday 13 to the lunch of Saturday 18 October, the lunch of Monday in Naples after the Introductory lecture, the coffee breaks, a social dinner, a touristic excursion, the programme, the abstract booklet, and the proceedings' volume. The fee must be payed by bank transfer to: "Consciousness", account no. 8059003, Banca Commerciale Italiana, Filiale Fuorigrotta, SWIFT BCIT IT MM 514, ABI 2002, CAB 3412, Piazza San Vitale 13, Napoli, Italy. GRANTS A limited support can be granted at the end of the School to few deserving students who need financial help. Those wishing to apply for a grant should submit a request to the School Directors, together with the Registration Form, and with a letter of the Head of the Department of affiliation confirming the impossibility to provide a total support. LODGING The School is residential; both the invited lecturers and the other participants are grouped in the same location (a few minutes walk distance from the sea), in order to promote discussions also after the lecture time. The single rooms will be reserved for the early registrations. The instructions to reach the hotel will be sent to regularly registered participants. Full board and lodging for extra days and/or for accompanying person(s) at the site of the School is Lit 105,000 per day and per person. For those wishing to stay some more days, one can add that the isle of Ischia is close to Naples, Capri, Sorrento, Vesuvio, Pompei, Paestum, Cuma. ABSTRACT AND PAPER Participants may offer an oral presentation (5-15 min) of the results of their own current researches. Applicants should submit to the Directors of the School a one A4 page abstract, in order to be included among the lecturers' abstracts, which will be distributed at the School. They should submit also a short paper (max four A4 pages, prepared according to the instructions that will be sent to the applicants), in order to be published by World Scientific in the proceedings' volume with the lecturers' papers. The paper will be placed under the judgment of the Advisory Board, which reserves the right to reject papers not suitable for publication. DEADLINES Registration: June 27, 1997. Accommodation: June 27, 1997. Abstract submission: June 27, 1997. Paper submission: July 18, 1997. A copy of the Bank Receipt of the Fee Payment, as well as the Registration and Accommodation Forms must be returned within June 27, 1997, to: Antonio Cotugno or Silvia Santillo Local Organizing Committee Istituto di Cibernetica, CNR Via Toiano 6 I-80072 Arco Felice (Napoli), Italy Tel.: ++39-81-8534113/8534131 Fax: ++39-81-5267654 E-mail: neuros(a)mail.irtemp.na.cnr.it ISTITUTO ITALIANO PER GLI STUDI FILOSOFICI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BIOCYBERNETICS "NEURONAL BASES AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS" October 13-18, 1997 REGISTRATION FORM I wish to attend the Bicybernetics School. 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