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MSF Sponsors Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 12th Annual Meeting in Taipei, Taiwan
The 12th Annual Meeting for the Association for the Scientific Study of Consiousness (ASSC) was held for the first time in Asia during June 19-22, 2008 in Taipei, Taiwan.
The conference took place at the heart of Taipei city, National Taiwan University.
The Mind Science Foundation (MSF) was proud to have been the lead underwriting sponsor for ASSC 12 to continue promoting research within cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines in the sciences and humanities, directed toward understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness.
For more information, visit the ASSC website.
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4th Annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year © Contest
The 4th Annual Best Visual Illusion (C) Contest was held during the Vision Sciences Society conference in Naples, Florida on May 11, 2008.
The Mind Science Foundation (MSF) was proud to sponsor the Neural Correlate Society's contest that celebrates the ingenuity and creativity of the world's premier visual illusion research community.
The contest was organized by Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD and Stephen Macknik, PhD (Barrow Neurological Institute).
As the Platinum Sponsor of the Best Visual Illusion Contest, the Foundation is featuring complimentary visual illusion eCards at www.mindscience.org/visualillusion.
Science Meets Art... Make someone's day by sending an exciting visual illusion eCard
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MSF-sponsored Workshop:
"Consciousness, Brain Rhythms and the Perception-Action Cycle"
Organized by Bernard Baars and Stan Franklin
May 3-4, Memphis, Tennessee
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Dalai Lama visits Atlanta for Mind and Life XV Conference and Emory-Tibet Partnership
The Dalai Lama visited Atlanta to participate in conversations with leading scientists about the treatment of depression during the Mind and Life XV conference organized by the Mind and Life Institute. For further information please visit: www.mindandlife.org
The Dalai Lama also participated in events related to the Emory-Tibet Partnership and Science Initiative organized by Geshe Lobsang Tenzin, PhD, Director of the Drepung Loseling Monastery in Atlanta. For further information, please visit: www.tibet.emory.edu
Mind Science Foundation Executive Director, Joseph Dial, attended both the Mind and Life conference and a private luncheon with His Holiness the Dalai Lama; hosted by the Emory-Tibet Partnership, Emory University President James Wagner and Geshe Lobsang Tenzin, PhD |
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ASSC 11 - June 22-25, 2007, Las Vegas
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ASSC 11 will take place between June 22nd and June 25th, 2007, at the Imperial Palace Hotel, Las Vegas.
For more information, visit the ASSC website.
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Mind Science Foundation is the "Lead Underwriting Sponsor"
of the ASSC 11 Conference. |
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Love and Lust in Attachment:
Neuro-Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Object Relations
The 7th International Neuro-Psychoanalysis Congress will be held in Los Angeles on 21-23 July 2006 on Love and Lust in Attachment: Neuro-Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Object Relations. Speakers include Jorge Canestri, Helen Fisher, Regina Pally, Jaak Panksepp, Allan Schore, Mark Smaller, Mark Solms, and Stephen Suomi.
Please visit the Conference Website for more information
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ASSC 10 - June 23-26, 2006, Oxford
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ASSC 10
ASSC 10 will be held between Friday June 23rd and Monday June 26th 2006 St. Anne's College, Oxford. Check the conference website for more information. |
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Mind Science Foundation is the "Lead Underwriting Sponsor"
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Mind & Life Institute Conference - Nov 8, 9, & 10, 2005
Sponsored by The Mind & Life Institute and Johns Hopkins University.
Co-sponsored by The Mind Science Foundation.
http://www.investigatingthemind.org/
ASSC9 - June 24th-27th
Pasadena, California
The Mind Science Foundation is acting as the "Lead Sponsor" for the 9th annual international conference for the scientific study of consciousness -- ASSC 9 -- organized by the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and Christof Koch, PhD at Cal-Tech in Pasadena, California from June 24th-27th.
Tom Slick Awards Panel: Saturday June 25th from 9AM-12:30PM - featuring recipients of the Mind Science Foundation's 2004 "Tom Slick Research Awards in Consciousness".
The panel will consist of Christof Koch, PhD (Cal-Tech); Baroness Susan Greenfield, CBE, D. Phil. (Oxford); Fred Gage, PhD (Salk Institute): Allan Hobson, MD (Harvard); and Steven Laureys, MD PhD (Univeristy of Liege, Belgium).
Other 2004 Tom Slick Awardees include: Abraham Verghese, MD, MFA (UT Health Science Center San Antonio); and Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, PhD (Berkeley University).
For conference schedule, list of presenters, registration and hotel accomodations, please visit: http://assc.caltech.edu/assc9/ |
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The Concepts of Consciousness: Integrating an Emerging Science
November 15-17, 2004, Illinois State University
The Mind Science Foundation is pleased to act as a key sponsor of "The Concepts of Consciousness: Integerating an Emerging Science" a two-day interdisciplinary workshop designed to investigate and further develop common concepts among those scientists from various disciplines who are studying consciousness.
Website
http://www.ilstu.edu/~jsjorda/CoC_Program_participants.pdf |
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ASSC8 - The Eighth conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
June 25 - 28, Antwerp, Belgium
The Mind Science Foundation sponsored a Symposium at ASSC 8 in Belgium with leading experts on states of consciousness - coma, vegetative, minimally conscious and locked-in syndromes.
Website
http://assc.caltech.edu/assc8/ |
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Investigating the Mind:
Exchanges between Buddhism and the Behavioral Sciences on How The Mind Works
 September 2003
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston, Massachusetts
During two extraordinary days of presentation and dialogue, leading psychologists, neuroscientists and advanced Buddhist scholar-practitioners discussed research results on meditation with the Dalai Lama of Tibet, who was involved in the discussions at every session.
Website
http://www.investigatingthemind.org/ |
 The Mind Science Foundation was a sponsor of this seminal MIT conference.
The conference was featured in New York Times Magazine. Click here for the article.
Audio Tapes and CDs
Audio sets of eight cassettes or CDs are priced at $100.00. These audio tapes and CDs will be complete and unabridged.
Video Tapes and DVDs
Sets of four videotapes are $200.00, while DVDs are $250.00. The video for tapes and DVDs were shot with 3 broadcast quality digital video cameras and are a copy of the video that was on the large screen behind the speakers and panelists on stage during the meeting. It contains the presentation materials, as well as the speakers and panelists during the discussions, and is be almost like being there in person.
To order your copy, call Conference Recording Service, Inc. at 1–800–647–1110.
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MSF Sponsors "The Enculturated Body: Scales of Embodied Meaning in Communication" Workshop in Germany
