Time and the Conscious Brain

 

Program schedule „Time and the conscious brain“

Monday, October 31, 2011

9.00     Welcome and introduction

9.15     Session 1: “Individual differences in time perception”
Christine Falter, Oxford, UK

            Introduction and talks

A. John Wearden ( Keele University, UK)

            Timing processes in the elderly.

B. Christine Falter (University of Oxford, UK) :

            Timing processes in Autism Spectrum Disorders.

C. Katya Rubia (King's College London, UK) :

            Normal development of timing processes and their abnormalities in ADHD.

D. Sylvie Droit-Volet ( Université Blaise Pascal à Clermont- Ferrand , FR) :

     Individual differences in the development of timing processes.

Discussant: Valdas Noreika (University of Turku , FIN)

11.05   Coffee break

11.25   Session 1: “Individual differences in time perception”
Christine Falter, Oxford, UK

            Summary and general discussion
Noreika , Wearden , Falter, Rubia , Droit-Volet & audience

12.15   Lunch break

13.45   Posters of graduate students

15.15   Session 2: “Brain dynamics and conscious time”
Virginie van Wassenhove , Paris, FR

            Introduction and talks

A. Charles E Schroeder  (Nathan Kline Institute, NY, USA) :

            Neural temporal processes and oscillatory hierarchy.

B. Andreas Kleinschmidt ( CEA / NeuroSpin – INSERM , FR) :

            Subjective time estimation and neural peak frequency.

C. Virginie van Wassenhove ( CEA / NeuroSpin – INSERM , FR) :
     From temporal processes to subjective time across sensory modalities.

D. Alan Johnston (University College London, UK) :
                 Visual adaptation and local clocks.

Discussant: Michel Treisman (Prof. em. of University of Oxford, UK)

17.05   Coffee break

17.25   Session 2: “Brain dynamics and conscious time”
Virginie van Wassenhove , Paris, FR

            Summary and general discussion
Treisman , Schroeder, Kleinschmidt , van Wassenhove , Johnston & audience

18.15   Dinner

 

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

9.15     Session 3: “Psychophysical investigations of temporal processing”
Argiro Vatakis , Athens, GR

            Introduction and talks

A. Armin Kohlrausch (Technical University of Eindhoven, NL) :

            The influence of stimulus characteristics on synchrony judgments: A role for visual
     prior information and apparent causality?

B. Martin Lankheet (University of Wageningen, NL) :
     Visual Asynchrony.

C. Argiro Vatakis (CSRI, Athens, GR ) :
     Audiovisual Synchrony Perception: Evidence from simple to complex stimuli.

D. David Burr (University of Florence, I) :
                 Temporal mechanisms of multi-modal binding.

Discussant: Toemme Noesselt (University of Magdeburg, GER)

11.05   Coffee break

11.25   Session 3: “Psychophysical investigations of temporal processing”
Argiro Vatakis , Athens, GR

            Summary and general discussion
Noesselt, Kohlrausch, Lankheet, Vatakis , Burr & audience

12.15   Lunch break

13.45   Keynote Lecture:
            Till Roenneberg (Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, GER)
            Chronobiology: What's the real price of an alarm clock?

 

15.15   Session 4: “The brain and the present now”
Marc Wittmann, Freiburg, GER

            Introduction and talks

A. A.D . (Bud) Craig (Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, USA) :

            Emotional moments across time: a possible neural basis for time perception in the
     anterior insula.

B. Julian Kiverstein (University of Edinburgh, UK) :
     Minimal sense of self, temporality and the brain.

C. Jiří Wackermann (IGPP Freiburg, GER) :
     Inner and outer horizons of time experience.

D. Barry Dainton (University of Liverpool, UK) :
                 Temporal consciousness.

Discussant: Marc Wittmann (IGPP Freiburg, GER)

17.05   Coffee break

17.25   Session 4: “The brain and the present now”
Marc Wittmann, Freiburg, GER

            Summary and general discussion
Wittmann, Craig, Wackermann, Kiverstein, Dainton & audience

18.15   Dinner

 

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

9.15     Session 5: “Functional plasticity of temporal processing”
Dorothe Poggel, Delmenhorst, GER

            Introduction and talks

A. Arash Sahraie (University of Aberdeen, UK) :

            Training of temporal functions in blindsight patients.

B. Lutz Jäncke (University of Zurich, CH) :
     Training of temporal functions and changes in neural networks of consciousness
     in musicians, synesthetes, and normal subjects.

C. John Stein (University of Oxford, UK) :
     Temporal processing and dyslexia, therapies.

D. Dorothe Poggel (HWK, Delmenhorst, GER) :
                 Improvement of temporal processing in patients with vision loss during
                 visual training.

Discussant: Manfred Fahle (University of Bremen, GER)

11.05   Coffee break

11.25   Session 5: “Functional plasticity of temporal processing”
Dorothe Poggel, Delmenhorst, GER

            Summary and general discussion
Fahle, Sahraie, Jäncke, Stein, Poggel & audience

12.15   Lunch break

13.00 End of symposium

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Student Abstracts & Posters

Temporal aspects of sound induced visual fission and fusion in the double-flash illusion paradigm. R. Höchenberger b , F. W. Ohl b, c , D. Alais a , & L. T. Boenke a a University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia b Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN), Magdeburg , Germany c Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg , Germany

An attempt to quantify temporal ventriloquism in audio-visual synchrony perception I. A. Kuling , R. L. J. van Eijk , J. F. Juola , & A. Kohlrausch Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Human-Technology Interaction, NL

Temporal Similarity Modulates the Early Stages of Information Processing T. W. Kononowicz & H. van Rijn University of Groningen , NL

Temporal entrainment from a perceptual and neural standpoint A. Kösem 1,2,3 & V. van Wassenhove 1,2,3 1 INSERM , U992 , Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, F-91191 Gif/Yvette, France 2 CEA , DSV / I2BM , NeuroSpin Center, F-91191 Gif/Yvette, France 3 Univ Paris-Sud , Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, F-91191 Gif/Yvette, France

The effect of motion on relative time discrimination using the episodic temporal generalization task A. Kroger-Costa & A. Machado School of Psychology, University of Minho, Portugal

A magnitude system for the processing of time, space and quantity? A. Lambrechts 1,2,3,4 , V. Walsh 4 , & V. van Wassenhove 1,2,3 1 INSERM , U992 , Cognitive NeuroimagingUnit ,F-91191 Gif/Yvette, France, 2 CEA , DSV / I2BM , NeuroSpin Center, F-91191 Gif/Yvette, France, 3 Univ Paris-Sud , Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, F-91191 Gif/Yvette, France, 4 Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK

The effect of emotional pictures on attention shift in audiotactile temporal order judgment L. Jia , Z. Shi, & H. J. Müller Allgemeine und Experimentelle Psychologie , Lugwig-Maximilians-Universität München , Germany

Electrophysiological correlates of simultaneity detection M. Geiser & A. Wykowska Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München , Germany

Time distortions in schizophrenia S. Landgraf Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Does the brain integrate sensory and motor timing information for accurate actions? S. Ganzenmüller , Z. Shi, & H. J.Müller Allgemeine und Experimentelle Psychologie , Lugwig-Maximilians-Universität München , Germany