Neural correlates of consciousness
The class was a three-day seminar on visual consciousness and the different methods used to isolate its neural substrate. Colour vision serves as an ideal model system to study the subjective experience of the stimulus environment.
Term: Winter
Time: February 24th–26th, 2021
Course Overview
Students pick from a selection of papers one paper for presentation and second one presented by someone else for which they will prepare questions for discussion. We held this seminar online during Corona lockdown.
- Day 1
- Invited talk by Prof. Hong-Yu Wong about different theories of consciousness.
- Session 1: Neural nodes and colour perception
- Session 2: State consciousness
- Day 2
- Session 1: Paradigms to investigate consciousness and unconsciousness
- Session 2: Multistable perception in fMRI
- Session 3: Brain stimulation with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
- Day 3
- Session 1: Multistable perception: Electrophysiology
- Session 2: Confounding processes
- Final remarks and concluding discussion