SYMPOSIUM | Thurs July 14 @ 9:00-11:00 CET | University of Amsterdam, C1.04

Global Neuronal Workspace (GNW) vs. Integrated Information Theory (IIT) - Methods, predictions, and competing interpretations from the COGITATE adversarial collaboration

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Talk 1: War of the Worlds: A dramatic reading of the COGITATE project

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Talk 2: How to integrate and test the theories’ predictions

Presented by Urszula Górska

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Talk 3: From theoretical predictions to empirical tests

Presented by Oscar Ferrante

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Lepauvre A, Hirschhorn R, Bendtz K and Melloni L, in prep

Gorska, Hirschhorn, Kozma, Pitts & Mudrik, in prep

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McLaren, D. G., Ries, M. L., Xu, G., & Johnson, S. C. (2012). A generalized form of context-dependent psychophysiological interactions (gPPI): a comparison to standard approaches. NeuroImage, 61(4), 1277–1286. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.03.068

Talk 4: Decoding of consciously perceived stimuli in the brain

By Ling Liu (presented by Lucia Melloni)

Preregistration : https://osf.io/35ke9/