Michael Hill
Oxford University
PhD Candidate, Pharmacology
http://web.mac.com/michael.hill/iWeb/Hill/ijnbhu.html

Michael Hill is interested in the science of consciousness.  As a PhD student under the tutelage of Susan Greenfield at Oxford University, Mr. Hill's academic thought and research pursuits are focused on revealing how the brain produces the mind.  He is also investigating the effects of anaesthetics, neuromodulators and psychoactive drugs on cortical dynamics with voltage sensitive dyes and electrophysiology. 

He Huang, MA
Southwest University
Psychology

Diego Mendoza
McGill University
Graduate Student, Psychology
http://www.cvl.mcgill.ca/

Aaron Schurger
Princeton University
PhD Candidate, Psychology

Aaron Schurger's research is primarily focused on sensory awareness and its relationship to perception and attention. The brain can process information from the senses to a remarkable level of abstraction, without that information necessarily being accessible to awareness. Schurger is interested in comparing the neural dynamics that accompany perception-with-awareness with those that accompany perception-without-awareness, trying to identify the difference between the two. In the words of Marcel Kinsbourne, the question asked is "What qualifies a representation for a role in consciousness?" Specific areas of research include the role of neural synchrony in attention and awareness, "blindsight" (the ability of some cortically-blind patients to guess remarkably well regarding visual stimuli that they cannot see), neural events and the experience of will, and localized versus distributed correlates of awareness (using fMRI pattern-classification techniques).

Schurger A, Cowey A, Cohen JD, Treisman A, Tallon-Baudry C (submitted). "Distinct and independent correlates of awareness and attention in a hemianopic patient."