Program

Friday, February 28th (Hemmerdinger Hall, 31 Washington Place, Silver Center, 1st Floor)

9:00-9:30am • Coffee/Check-in

9:30-10:30am • Keynote 1: Lorina Naci – Typical and disrupted brain mechanism for conscious awareness in full-term and preterm infants

10:30-10:50am • Coffee Break

10:50am-12:50pm • Symposium 1: Neural Correlates of Infant Consciousness

– Topun Austin: Investigating the role of sleep and social touch on functional connectivity and socio-emotional development in the newborn infant

– Sid Kouider: Reflective mechanisms of perception and metacognition in infants

– Hamza Kebiri: Developmental thalamic functional connectivity and its potential implications for early neonatal consciousness

– Yusuke Nakashima: Immature recurrent processing in early infancy revealed by visual backward masking

12:50-2:00pm • Lunch Break

2:00-3:00pm • Keynote 2: Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, Assessing consciousness in infants

3:00-4:00pm • Poster Session 1 / Coffee break

– Jessica Babcock: Prenatal intersubjectivity: A phenomenological analysis of fetal development

– Juan Ardia Cifuentes: Functional connectivity and fetal consciousness

– Renee Ye: Minimal self and early consciousness in Infants

– Qiyuan Zeng (and Darinka Trübutschek, Lucia Melloni): Event segmentation and subjective time perception: An inroad to infant consciousness

– Markus Tunte: Developing interoception: On the perception of bodily signals in infants and caregivers

4:00-6:00pm • Symposium 2: Pre-Natal Consciousness

– Anna Ciaunica: The Forgotten Body: The Co-Embodied Origins of the Human Mind

– Joel Frohlich: Do fetuses perceive individual rapid stimuli? Evidence from MEG frequency tagging

– William Graf: The neurobiological requisites of fetal sentience

– Niccolo Negro: An analogical abductive argument against foetal consciousness

6:00-7:00pm • Reception

Saturday, March 1st (Jurow Hall, 31 Washington Place, Silver Center, 1st Floor)

9:00-9:30am • Coffee

9:30-10:30am • Keynote 3: Tim Bayne, Babies, bees and bots: From theories to markers and back again

10:30-10:50am • Coffee Break

11:30am-12:40pm • Symposium 3: Infant Color Perception

– Ned Block: Non-conceptual color perception is more certain for children than adults

– Richard Brown Higher-Order Theories and Infant Color Consciousness

– Kathleen Akins: Color bit-by-bit: The gradualist approach to color vision development

– Yusuke Moriguchi: Comparing color qualia structures in young children versus adults

12:50-2:00pm • Lunch Break

2:00-4:00pm • Symposium 4: Development and Theories

– Cécile Gal: Do infants’ early error-monitoring and metacognition support their emerging self-awareness?

– Alison Gopnik: The phenomenology of exploration: New evidence for the infant lantern

– Thomas Varley: The emergence of a synergistic scaffold in the brains of infants

– Claudia Passos: Infant consciousness: Whether, when, where, what, how?

4:00-5:00pm • Poster Session 2 / Coffee break

1- Marianne Broeker (& Paul Azzopardi): Impact of unconscious processing onto perception and narrative system in infants: Presentation of a research tool

2. Nikolaus Kennelly: A Problem for Cross-Species Comparisons of Ontogenetic Flexibility

3. Jörg Noller (& Florian Heinen): Child Consciousness and Digitalization – A new Point of Cultural Intersection

4. Jack Spinella: A Paradox of Infant Agency?

5. Ayush Srivastava: Infant Dreaming: A Phenomenological Perspective on the First Minds

5:00-6:30 pm • Panel discussion: Susan Carey, David Chalmers, Matthew Liao, Moriah Thomason, Nicholas Turk-Browne