Naotsugu Tsuchiya is a Professor of Consciousness Science at Monash University whose research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness, perception, and subjective experience. He is internationally known for his work on visual awareness, unconscious processing, and the relationship between brain activity and conscious states. Professor Tsuchiya combines experimental psychology, neuroscience, and computational approaches to…
Michael C. Wiest, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Wellesley College, where he investigates the neural basis of perception and consciousness. His work has implications for understanding human disorders that disrupt perceptual integration, such as Alzheimer’s disease, dyslexia, and attention deficit disorders. His research aims to uncover how distributed patterns of neural activity…
Jimo Borjigin is an Associate Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology as well as an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institution in Baltimore, MD.
Lucia Melloni leads the Neural Circuits, Consciousness, and Cognition Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, and holds a position as Research Professor in the Department of Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Melloni’s research is pioneering in the field of consciousness, seeking to unravel the complexities of human…
Jean-Pierre Changeux is a French neurobiologist known for his research in several areas of biology, from the structure and function of proteins (particularly allosteric proteins), to the early development of the nervous system, and up to cognitive functions. Famous in the biological sciences for the Monod-Wyman-Changeux model, he is also recognised for the identification and…
Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he is also Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. Seth is also Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness. Seth’s mission is to advance the science of consciousness, and to…
Iain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital, London, a former research Fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical…
Alex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the…
Gabriel A. Radvansky is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. He is interested in a broad range of qualities of memory and comprehension. In particular, how they are involved in understanding and remembering events based on autobiographical, virtual, narrative, and other experiences. He is also strongly interested in how memories change…
Bernardo Kastrup is a philosopher and computer scientist best known for his work in the field of consciousness studies, particularly his development of analytic idealism. His research interests are Philosophy of Mind, Ontology, Neuroscience of Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence. Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has set off the modern renaissance…
Terrence William Deacon is an American neuroanthropologist. He is currently Professor of Anthropology and member of the Cognitive Science Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. Deacon’s research combines human evolutionary biology and neuroscience, with the aim of investigating the evolution of human cognition. His work extends from laboratory-based cellular-molecular neurobiology to the study of…
Bahador Bahrami is a Senior Scientist and Director of Crowd Cognition Lab in Department of Psychology at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany and Professor of Social Neuroscience at Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London. Before coming to Munich, he spent a year in Berlin as a visiting Humboldt Fellow at the…