08:00-08:55 – Registration and refreshments
Session One Chair: Ewan St John Smith – Pharmacology
08:55-09:00 – Welcome
09:00-09:25 – Henry Shevlin – Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge
Investigating the nature and function of consciousness in humans, animals and AI
09:25-09:50 – Thomas Cope – Clinical Neurosciences
How does the brain make perceptual predictions and update them when they are wrong?
09:50-10:30 – Opening Plenary – Athena Demertzi – University of Liège
Deriving Aspects of Consciousness from Unconscious States
10:30-11:00 Coffee
Session Two Chair: Amy Milton – Psychology
11:00-11:25 – Nina Rzechorzek – MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Brain temperature dynamics and neural circadian clocks
11:25-11:50 – Zanna Voysey – Clinical Neurosciences
The Sleep vs Neurodegeneration interface: Insights from a 12-year Study in Huntington’s Disease
11:50-12:15 – John Duncan and Moataz Assem – MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
A domain-general cognitive core in the human brain
12:15-12:40 – Emmanuel Stamatakis – Clinical Neurosciences/Medicine
The complex relationship between the brain and (un)consciousness
12:40-13:10 – Early Career Data Blitz, moderated by Dervila Glynn
13:10-14:40 – Lunch, Exhibition and Poster Session
Session Three Chair: Alexandra Woolgar, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
14:40-15:05 – Sepiedeh Keshavarzi – Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Integration of head and visual motion for self-motion perception and spatial navigation
15:05-15:30 – Camilla Nord – MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Bodily beliefs: neurocomputational approaches to body-brain disruptions in mental health disorders
15:30-15:55 – Danyal Akarca – MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Spatially embedded recurrent neural networks: understanding how physical constraints shape structural and functional organisation during task solving.
15:55-16:00 – Ailie McWhinnie – Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Bitesize overview of CamBRAIN
16:00-16:25 – Deniz Vatansever – Fudan University
The Unseen Orchestra: Mapping the Default Mode of Human Cognition/em>
16:25-17:00 – Afternoon break
Session Four Chair: Paul Fletcher – Psychiatry
17:00-17:25 – Tom McClelland – History and Philosophy of Science
Agnosticism About Artificial Consciousness
17:25-17:50 – Stephanie Brown – Psychiatry
The role of sleep in Down syndrome Alzheimer’s disease
17:50-18:30 – Closing Plenary – Anil Seth – University of Sussex
Consciousness in humans and in other things
18:30-18:35 – Closing Remarks, Prizes and Acknowledgements
Reception and Dinner
18:40-19:30 – Old Kitchens at Queens’ College
19:30-21:30 – Dinner, The Old Hall, Queens’ College