Conference: Neural Mechanisms of Conscious Awareness in Humans

NSF会议奖：PI -何碧玉博士，纽约大学题目：人类有意识意识的神经机制人类有意识意识的本质和基础是哲学和科学中最古老和最深刻的奥秘之一。我们每天晚上睡觉，进入无意识状态，然后每天早上醒来，恢复意识。意识是如何产生的？意识的起源是一个困扰哲学家数千年的问题。大脑活动如何产生意识？由于新的行为范式、测量大脑活动的神经成像技术以及描述性和定量理论的快速发展，神经科学家对意识的本质和神经基础的最新见解已经出现。意识科学领域，探索神经基础和意识的相关性，在过去的三十年里经历了爆炸性的增长，这个相对年轻的科学学科有望对神经科学，医学，社会和技术产生巨大的潜在影响。意识神经生物学研讨会由美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）共同资助，将于2023年6月在NIH主校区举行。讲座将作为网络研讨会进行直播，面向广大感兴趣的科学家和公众。研讨会将促进在不同领域工作的科学专家之间的深入讨论，这些领域的整合对于理解意识的神经生物学至关重要。研讨会的主要目标是综合关于意识的知识的现状，讨论和设计实验来批判性地测试现有的意识理论，定义最令人兴奋的新方法来推进该领域，并为意识科学的未来发现制定路线图。《认知神经科学杂志》将专门刊登会议报告。除了已确立的科学研究人员外，讲习班还将包括博士后学员和早期研究人员参加这一备受瞩目的讲习班。将优先向妇女和代表性不足的少数群体提供用于支付旅费的受训人员研究金，以加强意识研究领域的多样性。该研讨会还将包括一个教育计划，将提供一个研讨会前介绍意识研究领域的少数民族服务机构的本科生，以进一步扩大包容性和多样性，并鼓励下一代的意识研究人员。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。

NSF Conference Award: PI – Dr. Biyu He, New York University Title: Neural Mechanisms of Conscious Awareness in HumansThe nature and basis of conscious awareness in humans is one of the oldest and deepest mysteries in philosophy and science. We go to sleep every night and enter an unconscious state and then wake up every morning and return to consciousness. How does consciousness arise? The origin of conscious awareness is a question that has puzzled philosophers for thousands of years. How does brain activity give rise to consciousness? Recent insights from neuroscientists into the nature and neural basis of consciousness have arisen thanks to the rapid development of new behavioral paradigms, neuroimaging techniques to measure brain activity, and both descriptive and quantitative theories. The field of consciousness science, exploring the neural basis and correlates of consciousness, has seen explosive growth over the past three decades and this relatively young scientific discipline promises to have an enormous potential impact on neuroscience, medicine, society, and technology. The Workshop on the Neurobiology of Consciousness is jointly funded with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and be held on the main NIH campus in June, 2023. Talks will be live-streamed as a Webinar for a broad audience of interested scientists and the public. The Workshop will facilitate in-depth discussion between scientific experts working in divergent fields whose integration is essential to understanding the neurobiology of consciousness. Key goals of the Workshop are to synthesize the current state of knowledge about consciousness, discuss and design experiments to critically test existing theories of consciousness, define the most exciting new approaches to advance the field, and develop a roadmap for future discoveries in the science of consciousness. A special issue of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience will be devoted to publication of conference presentations. In addition to established scientific investigators, the Workshop will also include postdoctoral trainees and early investigators to participate in this high-profile workshop. Trainee fellowships to cover travel expenses will be preferentially given to women and under-represented minorities in order to enhance diversity in the field of consciousness research. The Workshop will also include an educational program that will provide a pre-Workshop introduction to the field of consciousness research to undergraduates from minority serving institutions to further broaden inclusion and diversity and encourage the next generation of consciousness researchers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.