Eminent cognitive scientist Stanislas Dehaene is visiting Oslo on November 6, and will give a public lecture on his research into consciousness. The lecture is hosted by The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Forum for bevissthetsforskning and SERTA CDAB, and is held at the Litteraturhuset on Wednesday, November 6, 2013, at 2 PM. The lecture will be followed by a discussion between 3 and 5 PM.

Dehaene is professor at the Collège de France, Paris, and director of INSERM Unit 562, “Cognitive Neuroimaging”. He is famous for his work on neural correlates of consciousness, numerical cognition, and the neural basis of reading.

Programme:

Signatures of conscious processing in the human brain
Time:  6 November, 2013, kl. 14.00-16.30
Place:  Møterom Nedjma, 3. etasje, Litteraturhuset, Wergelandsveien 29, Oslo.

14.00 – 14.05 Opening/Welcome, by Professor Kirsti Strøm Bull, President of  The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
14.05– 14.15 Introduction of Stanislas Dehaene by Johan F. Storm, Neurophysiogy, University of Oslo
14.15– 15.15 Lecture by Dr. Stanislas Dehaene: Signatures of conscious processing in the human brain  (60 min)
15.15– 15.30 Coffee break (15 min)
15.30– 16.30 Panel discussion and questions from the audience
Chair:   Nils Chr. Stenseth Professor at the University of Oslo (CEES),
and Vice President of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

Panel:
Stanislas Dehaene, Collège de France, Paris
Johan F. Storm, Neurophysiology, Medical Faculty, University of Oslo
Thomas Espeseth, Inst. of Psychology, University of Oslo
Sebastian Watzl, CSMN, Philosophy, University of Oslo