Broken Minds/Broken Bodies/ 9-11 Feb 06 Orlando
Broken Minds/Broken Bodies:
What cognitive science can learn from neuro- psycho-pathologies
February 9-11, 2006
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida
Conference sponsored by the UCF Cognitive Sciences Program, Philosophy Department, the Institute for Simulation and Training, and the Clinical Neuroscience Lab/Psychology Department with support from the Office of Provost and the College of Arts and Humanities
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This conference will explore various approaches to understanding both neuropathologies and psychopathologies, with interdisciplinary contributions from philosophy, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and other cognitive sciences. Special emphasis will be given to questions about delusions and pathologies of embodiment, agency, self-consciousness, and practical reasoning.
Plenary speakers:
Jonathan Cole (Clinical Neurosciences, University of Southampton, and Professor of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Bournemouth). Cole is a practicing neurophysiologist, an experimentalist, and a researcher who is currently working on virtual reality applications in clinical neuroscience. His most recent book is Still Lives (MIT Press, 2004).
Anthony J. Marcel (MRC: Cognition and Brain Sciences; Psychology, Cambridge University and University of Hertfordshire). Marcel works on neglect, anosognosia and blindsight as well as with healthy individuals. He has published a number of landmark studies on nonconscious and conscious perception and has recently written on consciousness and emotion experience.
Josef Parnas (Professor of Psychiatry, University of Copenhagen). Parnas has conducted long-term studies of children of schizophrenic parents, and he focuses on the phenomenology of schizophrenia. Co-author of the forthcoming book, General Psychopathology for Clinicians. New York: Wiley and Sons.
More Information: Contact Shaun Gallagher (gallaghr@mail.ucf.edu).
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