[ASSC 15] The 15th annual meeting of the ASSC Kyoto, Japan

Dates: Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th June 2011
The main conference will be preceded by the Social Neuroscience Satellite and Metacognition Satellite and will be followed by the Neurophysiology Satellite

Venue: The Clock Tower at Kyoto University

Keynote speakers:

• Pascal Fries (Ernst Strüngmann Institute, Germany)
• David Eagleman (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
• Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow, UK)
• Takamitsu Yamamoto (Nihon University, Japan)
• Ralph Adolphs (Caltech, USA)
• Nicholas Humphrey (Cambridge University, UK) 

Symposium Speakers:

• Ryota Kanai (University College London, UK)
• Stephen Fleming (University College London, UK)
• Robert Hampton (Emory University, USA)
• Peter Carruthers (University of Maryland, USA)
• Roy Baumeister (Florida State University, USA)
• Hakwan Lau (Columbia University, USA)  
• Al Mele (Florida State University, USA)
• Simon van Gaal (INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging unit, France)          
• Shinsuke Shimojo (California Institute of Technology, USA)
• Yasuo Kuniyoshi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University/ATR, Japan)
• Thomas Metzinger (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität)

Tutorial Presenters:

• Adam Barrett (University of Sussex, UK)
• Anil Seth (University of Sussex, UK)
• Tristan Bekinschtein (Cambridge, UK)
• Melanie Boly (University of Liege Sart-Tilman, Belgium)
• Martin Monti (Cambridge, UK)
• Caroline Schnakers  (University of Liege Sart-Tilman, Belgium)
• Olaf Blanke (Brain Mind Institute, Switzerland)
• Thomas Metzinger (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität)
• Peter Carruthers (University of Maryland, USA)
• Heather Berlin (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA)
• Mauricio Sierra-Siegert (Institute of Psychiatry, KCL, UK)
• Nick Medford  (University of Sussex, UK)
• Naotsugu Tsuchiya (RIKEN, BSI, Japan)
• Ryota Kanai (University College London, UK)
• Tony Ro (The City University of New York, USA)
• Hakwan Lau (Columbia University, USA)
• Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean-Nicod, France)

Organizers:

• Tetsuro Matsuzawa (Kyoto University), president
• Toshio Yanagida （Osaka University), vice president
• Mitsuo Kawato (ATR), vice-president
• Tadashi Isa (Institute of Physiology), vice president
• Shinsuke Shimojo (Caltech, USA), supervisor
• Masaki Tomonaga (Kyoto University), general secretary
• Naotsugu Tsuchiya (JST & RIKEN, Japan), secretary 

Scientific Program Committee:

• Tadashi Isa (NIPS, Japan), Chair
• Masatoshi Yoshida (NIPS, Japan), Secretary
• John-Dylan Haynes (Humboldt-University, Germany)
• Michael Pauen (Humboldt-University, Germany)
• Anil Seth (University of Sussex, UK)
• Nobuhara Yukihiro (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Daniel Stoljar (Australian National University, AUS)
• Gabriel Kreiman (Harvard University, USA)
• Melanie Wilke (California Institute of Technology, USA)
• Olivia Carter (University of Melbourne, AUS)