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Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

Index Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) is a professional membership organization that aims to encourage research on consciousness in cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines in the sciences and humanities, directed toward understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness. [1]

17 relations: Axel Cleeremans, Bernard Baars, Christof Koch, Cognitive science, Consciousness, David Chalmers, Giulio Tononi, John-Dylan Haynes, Michael Gazzaniga, Neuroscience, Patrick Wilken, Philosophy, Psyche (consciousness journal), Steven Laureys, Thomas Metzinger, Toward a Science of Consciousness, William James Prize.

Axel Cleeremans

Axel Cleeremans (born 5 March 1962) is a Research Director with the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium) and a professor of cognitive science with the Department of Psychology of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels.

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Bernard Baars

Bernard J. Baars (born 1946, in Amsterdam) is a former Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at The Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, CA., and is currently an Affiliated Fellow there.

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Christof Koch

Christof Koch (born November 13, 1956) is an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the neural bases of consciousness.

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Cognitive science

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes.

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Consciousness

Consciousness is the state or quality of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.

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David Chalmers

David John Chalmers (born 20 April 1966) is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the areas of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language.

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Giulio Tononi

Giulio Tononi is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who holds the David P. White Chair in Sleep Medicine, as well as a Distinguished Chair in Consciousness Science, at the University of Wisconsin.

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John-Dylan Haynes

John-Dylan Haynes (born 1971 in Folkestone, Great Britain) is a British-German brain researcher.

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Michael Gazzaniga

Michael S. Gazzaniga (born December 12, 1939) is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he heads the new SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind.

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Neuroscience

Neuroscience (or neurobiology) is the scientific study of the nervous system.

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Patrick Wilken

Patrick Wilken (born 17 March 1966, Melbourne, Australia) was a scientist, active in the promotion of consciousness studies.

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Philosophy

Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.

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Psyche (consciousness journal)

Psyche was an online peer-reviewed academic journal covering studies on consciousness and its relation to the brain from perspectives provided by the disciplines of cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, physics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and anthropology.

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Steven Laureys

Steven Laureys (born 24 December 1968) is a Belgian neurologist.

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Thomas Metzinger

Thomas Metzinger (born 12 March 1958) is a German philosopher and professor of theoretical philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.

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Toward a Science of Consciousness

The Science of Consciousness (TSC; formerly Toward a Science of Consciousness) is an international academic conference that has been held biennially since 1994.

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William James Prize

The William James Prize for Contributions to the Study of Consciousness is an award given by the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_the_Scientific_Study_of_Consciousness

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