Symposium on How the Brain Constructs Reality

14 and 15 Dec, 2000

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UPDATE!:

Registration is from 8:30 on Thu, 14 Dec.

Brian Rogers is unable to present his talk, scheduled for 12:00 on Thu. John Perrone will, instead, present a talk.

Venue: St Margaret's College, University of Otago, New Zealand

Aim: To promote the study of sensory systems within the University of Otago's Research Theme, Neural System Structure and Function.

Keynote speaker: Emeritus Professor Richard Gregory from Bristol, who is known to most psychologists and neuroscientists as the editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Mind, and as the author of numerous books and articles on the senses and the mind.

Format: We are encouraging speakers to present their recent findings in ways accessible to a wider audience than those usually addressed at departmental seminars and specialist conferences, and to emphasise their broad goals and philosophies. Most speakers will give long talks (45 minutes with 15 minutes for discussion). Some speakers will give short talks (20 minutes with 10 minutes for discussion).

Draft timetable:

	Thursday 14 December REGISTRATION 8.30-9.00 OPENING 9.00-9.15 Ron Heath, Assistant Vice-Chancellor, Division of Sciences KEYNOTE ADDRESS Chair: Robert O'Shea 9.15-10.15 Richard Gregory, University of Bristol Constructing Reality from Illusions 10.15-10.45 Morning tea SESSION 1 COLOUR Chair: Susan Galvin 10.45-11.45 Karen Dobkins, University of California, San Diego Color Contribution to Motion Processing: Where in the Brain does it Come From? 11.45-12.15 Luke Mahon, University of Auckland Colour appearance: Evidence for a cortical third processing stage beyond opponent cells 12.15-1.15 Lunch SESSION 2 SPATIAL ORIENTATION Chair: Janice Murray 1.15-2.15 Mike Paulin, University of Otago Coding of dynamic information by vestibular neurons 2.15-2.45 David Bilkey, University of Otago Place and movement representation in the hippocampus 2.45-3.45 Graduate student tea SESSION 3 CONSCIOUSNESS Chair: David Bilkey 3.45-4.15 Judy Trevena, University of Otago Cortical activity and conscious decisions 4.15-4.45 Susan Galvin, University of Otago Perception without awareness 4.45-5.15 Tony Lambert, University of Auckland Visual attention and conscious awareness Friday 15 December SESSION 4 HEMISPHERIC (A)SYMMETRIES I Chair: Robert Miller 9.00-10.00 Paul Corballis, Dartmouth College Spatial vision and the right-hemisphere interpreter 10.00-10.30 Robert O'Shea, University of Otago Visual consciousness in split-brain observers 10.30-11.00 Morning tea SESSION 5 MOTION Chair: Rick Van der Zwan 11.00-12.00 David Badcock, University of Western Australia Functional substreams in visual motion perception: Explanatory concept and theoretical blinker 12.00-1.00 John Perrone, University of Waikato The visual self-motion estimation problem: Are we heading in the right direction? 1.00-2.00 Lunch SESSION 6 TIME Chair: Robert O'Shea 2.00-3.00 Bill Friedman, Oberlin College The construction of time 3.00-3.30 Afternoon tea SESSION 7 HEMISPHERIC (A)SYMMETRIES II Chair: Greg Anson 3.30-4.30 Liz Franz, University of Otago How do our hands think? 4.30-5.30 Robert Miller, University of Otago Axonal conduction time, cerebral laterality, and the integration of perception CLOSING 5.30-5.45 Robert O'Shea, University of Otago

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