New Frontiers In Studies Of Nonconscious Processing
April 8-11, 2007
The Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Island, NY (http://www.cshl.edu/banbury/index.html)
Sponsored by the Swartz Foundation (http://www.theswartzfoundation.org)
Organizers
Timothy D. Wilson
Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology
University of Virginia
Email: tdw@virginia.edu
A.J. (Ap) Dijksterhuis
Professor
University of Amsterdam
Web page: http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/a.j.dijksterhuis/
Email: A.J.Dijksterhuis@uva.nl
Conference Description
There has been a renaissance of research on nonconscious mental processing, but much of this research is occurring in separate disciplines at different levels of analysis, from behavioral research to studies of neural processes, from experiment to early-stage theories.
At this conference, we will bring together people from different disciplines (e.g., social psychologists, cognitive psychologists, computational neuroscientists, neural physiologists, philosophers and theoreticians) who are interested in nonconscious processing and its relationship to human consciousness.
PROGRAM
Sunday, 8 April
Afternoon Arrival at Robertson House, Banbury Center, for registration and room assignment
6:00 pm Reception at Robertson House
7:30 pm Dinner at Robertson House
Monday, 9 April
7:15-8:40 am Breakfast at Robertson House
8:45-8:50 am Jan A. Witkowski, Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Introductory remarks.
8:50-12:30 pm SESSION 1
8:50-9:00 am Timothy D. Wilson, University of Virginia, Charlottesville and Ap Dijksterhuis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Introductory remarks.
9:00-9:20 am Timothy D. Wilson, University of Virginia, Charlottesville: The necessity of nonconscious processing.
9:20-9:30 am Discussion
9:30-9:50 am Daniel M. Wegner, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Unconscious wellsprings of conscious will.
9:50-10:00 am Discussion
10:00-10:20 am Ap Dijksterhuis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
10:20-10:30 am Discussion
10:30-11:00 am Break
11:00-11:20 am Jonathan W. Schooler, University of British Columbia, Canada: The challenge of distinguishing between unconscious processes and processes that are experienced but in the absence of meta-awareness.
11:20-11:30 am Discussion
11:30-11:50 am Daniel Gilbert, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The conscious misprediction of unconscious processes.
11:50-12:00 pm Discussion
12:00-12:30 pm General Discussion
12:45 pm Luncheon at Robertson House
2:00-5:30 pm SESSION 2
2:00-2:20 pm Jerome Swartz, The Swartz Foundation, East Setauket, New York
2:20-2:30 pm Discussion
2:30-2:50 pm Terry Sejnowski, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, California: Searching for hidden treasure unconsciously.
2:50-3:00 pm Discussion
3:00-3:20 pm Xiao-Jing Wang, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
3:20-3:30 pm Discussion
3:30-4:00 pm Break
4:00-4:20 pm Anthony G. Greenwald, University of Washington, Seattle: Using knockout strategies to reveal conscious function.
4:20-4:30 pm Discussion
4:30-4:50 pm Michael N. Shadlen, HHMI, University of Washington, Seattle: Decisions, time, probability and indeterminacy: big ideas from small experiments.
4:50-5:00 pm Discussion
5:00-5:30 pm General Discussion
6:00 pm Reception at Robertson House
7:00 pm Dinner at Robertson House
Tuesday, 10 April
7:30-8:45 am Breakfast at Robertson House
9:00-12:30 pm SESSION 3
9:00-9:20 am Ran Hassin, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel: The nonconscious executive.
9:20-9:30 am Discussion
9:30-9:50 am Henk Aarts, Utrecht University, The Netherlands: Implicit motivation and regulation of goals and their pursuit.
9:50-10:00 am Discussion
10:00-10:20 am Stanislas Dehaene, CEA / SAC / DSV / DRM / Neurospin, Yvette, France: Human brain mechanisms of subliminal processing and conscious access.
10:20-10:30 am Discussion
10:30-11:00 am Break
11:00-11:20 am Scott Makeig, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla:
The edge of consciousness: Where do thoughts come from?
11:20-11:30 am Discussion
11:30-11:50 am Patricia S. Churchland, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla: Nonconscious imitation and valenced representations.
11:50-12:00 pm Discussion
12:00-12:30 pm General Discussion
12:45 pm Luncheon at Robertson House
2:00-5:30 pm SESSION 4
2:00-2:20 pm Melissa Ferguson, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York: On implicit evaluation.
2:20-2:30 pm Discussion
2:30-2:50 pm Tanya L. Chartrand, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina: Nonconscious mimicry.
2:50-3:00 pm Discussion
3:00-3:20 pm Anthony Bell, University of California, Berkeley: Emergence into consciousness viewed from the levels framework.
3:20-3:30 pm Discussion
3:30-4:00 pm Break
4:00-4:20 pm Marcia Johnson, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
4:20-4:30 pm Discussion
4:30-4:50 pm Daniel L. Schacter, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Priming, implicit memory, and the brain: A neuroimaging perspective.
4:50-5:00 pm Discussion
5:00-5:30 pm General Discussion
6:00 pm Reception at Robertson House
7:00 pm Dinner at Robertson House
Wednesday, 11 April
7:30-8:45 am Breakfast at Robertson House
9:00-12:00 pm SESSION 5
9:00-9:20 am C. Neil Macrae, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom: Action mirroring and person perception.
9:20-9:30 am Discussion
9:30-9:50 am Kent Berridge, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
9:50-10:00 am Discussion
10:00-10:30 am Break
10:30-10:50 am Piotr Winkielman, University of California, San Diego: Emotion and awareness.
10:50-11:00 am Discussion
11:00-12:00 pm General Discussion
12:15 pm Luncheon at Robertson House
Meeting Conclusion
Preliminary List of Invitees
Henk Aarts, Utrecht University Netherlands
Mahzarin Banaji, Harvard University
John Bargh, Yale University
Tony Bell, Berkeley
Kent Berridge, University of Michigan
Tanya Chartrand, Duke University
Patricia Churchland, UC San Diego
Stanislas Dehaene, Collège de France
Patricia Devine, University of Wisconsin
Ap Dijksterhuis, University of Amsterdam
Dan Gilbert, Harvard University
Tony Greenwald, University of Washington
Ran Hassin, Hebrew University
Larry Jacoby, Washington University St. Louis
Marcia Johnson, Yale University
Christof Koch, Cal Tech
Neil Macrae, University of Aberdeen
Scott Makeig, UC San Diego
Roddy Roediger, Washington University St. Louis
Daniel Schacter, Harvard University
Jonathan Schooler, University of British Columbia
John Searle, Berkeley
Terry Sejnowski, Salk
Mike Shadlen, University of Washington
X.J. Wang, Brandeis University
Dan Wegner, Harvard University
Timothy Wilson, University of Virginia
Piotr WInkielman, UC San Diego
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