N.B. Session 5 (see below) has remote speakers and will be available to view live via Zoom (
17:30–18:00 Registration (Banquet rooms, Unioninkatu 33)
18:00–19:30 University of Helsinki reception
09:30–10:15 Registration (Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40)
10:15–10:30 Welcome
Professor Kimmo Alho, University of Helsinki
10:30–12:30 Session 1: Minds with Language
Chair: Riikka Möttönen, University of Helsinki
Ruth de Diego Balaguer, ICREA and University of Barcelona
In the right place at the right time: temporal expectations modulate language learning
Eleonore Smalle, Ghent University and Tilburg University
Cognitive development as important piece of the language learning puzzle
Jeremy Skipper, University College London
A voice without a mouth no more: The neurobiology of language and its relationship to consciousness, mental health, and wellbeing
12:30–13:30 Lunch break
13:30–15:30 Session 2: Perception
Chair: Alexander Carruth, University of Helsinki
Robert Kentridge, Durham University
What use is colour experience?
Ziad M. Hafed, University of Tübingen
A vision for orienting in oculomotor control circuitry
Susanna Schellenberg, Rutgers
Self-representation and subjective perspectives
15:30–15:45 Break & transition to poster location
15:45–18:00 Poster session (Banquet rooms, Unioninkatu 33)
Poster presenters will be available for questions in two shifts:
The winners of the poster competition are announced at 17:45.
10:00–12:00 Session 3: Motivation and Cognitive Control
Chair: Benjamin Cowley, University of Helsinki
Markus Ullsperger, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Multiplexed performance monitoring signals in the EEG in health and mental disorders
Gerit Pfuhl, NTNU and The Arctic University of Norway
Is it effortful to be rational?
Jonathan Shock, University of Cape Town
Attention, reward and preference: Ideas of the mind applied to AI
12:00–13:00 Lunch break
13:00–15:00 Session 4: Crossdisciplinary Influences in the Study of Mind
Chair: Valtteri Arstila, University of Turku
Anne Giersch, INSERM - French National Institute for Health and Medical Research
Phenomenology and experimental approaches in psychiatry: Is there any sense there?
John Bickle, Mississippi State University and University of Mississippi Medical Center
Crossdisciplinary neuroscience: Philosophers' contributions as metascientists
Ophelia Deroy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Making sense of active sensing
15:00–15:30 Coffee break
15:30–17:30 Session 5: Dreaming and Consciousness
N.B. This session has both remote and on-site speakers and will be available to view live via Zoom (
Chair: Liisa Kuula, University of Helsinki
Martin Dresler, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University
The cognitive neuroscience of lucid dreaming
Robert Stickgold, Harvard University
Sleep, memory and dreams: The need for consciousness in dreaming
Anu-Katriina Pesonen, University of Helsinki
The role of REM sleep in emotional processing