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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. 

Mr. Hill's publications are in preparation.

He Huang, MA
Southwest University
Psychology

I am interested in uncouscious semantic processing. Recent research focused on using ERPs to investigate uncouscious semantic processing in Chinses. At unconscious level that the target could not be identified but awareness, N400 component was significant larger for repeated target than for unrepeated target. I'd like to communicate with friends for this issue.

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

I am interested in investigating the neural mechanisms that generate consciousness. More specifically, my research relates to understanding visual awareness and its interaction with other brain processes like memory, attention and visual aftereffects. I am using a special version of binocular rivalry in which the visual stimulus shown to one eye is suppressed from awareness for a long time by presenting the other eye with a salient stimulus that is either continuously flashing or in motion. I am interested in determining the sites of this neural suppression. This can give us clues about how and where visual awareness arises in the brain. I am also interested in exploring what types of brain processes can still occur in response to a visual stimulus that we are not aware of. Can we remember something that we never "saw"?

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, Tallon-Baudry C (2006). "Induced gamma-band oscillations correlate with awareness in hemianopic patient GY." Neuropsychologia 44, pp. 1796-1803

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

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