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Tristan Bekinschtein
Professor of Consciousness and Cognition, University of Cambridge
Dr Bekinschtein is a biologist, Master in Neurophysiology and PhD in Neuroscience, Buenos Aires University. He has been an EU Marie Curie Fellow and senior researcher at the MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, and a Fyssen fellow at ICM, Paris. He has also been an Invited Researcher at QBI, Australia and INECO, Argentina. In 2011 he founded the Consciousness and Cognition Lab, now at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. He is Wellcome Trust Fellow and now Turing Fellow. His lab is primarily interested in the complexity of thought and what makes us human. He works on the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness, primarily on the fragmentation of cognition as we lose consciousness while falling asleep or getting sedated; on the cognitive and neural differences between conscious states; and on the interaction between attention and consciousness in health and disease.
Tristan Bekinschtein
Professor of Consciousness and Cognition, University of Cambridge
Dr Bekinschtein is a biologist, Master in Neurophysiology and PhD in Neuroscience, Buenos Aires University. He has been an EU Marie Curie Fellow and senior researcher at the MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, and a Fyssen fellow at ICM, Paris. He has also been an Invited Researcher at QBI, Australia and INECO, Argentina. In 2011 he founded the Consciousness and Cognition Lab, now at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. He is Wellcome Trust Fellow and now Turing Fellow. His lab is primarily interested in the complexity of thought and what makes us human. He works on the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness, primarily on the fragmentation of cognition as we lose consciousness while falling asleep or getting sedated; on the cognitive and neural differences between conscious states; and on the interaction between attention and consciousness in health and disease.
Tristan Bekinschtein
Professor of Consciousness and Cognition, University of Cambridge
Dr Bekinschtein is a biologist, Master in Neurophysiology and PhD in Neuroscience, Buenos Aires University. He has been an EU Marie Curie Fellow and senior researcher at the MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, and a Fyssen fellow at ICM, Paris. He has also been an Invited Researcher at QBI, Australia and INECO, Argentina. In 2011 he founded the Consciousness and Cognition Lab, now at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. He is Wellcome Trust Fellow and now Turing Fellow. His lab is primarily interested in the complexity of thought and what makes us human. He works on the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness, primarily on the fragmentation of cognition as we lose consciousness while falling asleep or getting sedated; on the cognitive and neural differences between conscious states; and on the interaction between attention and consciousness in health and disease.
Andrea Luppi
Wellcome Early Career Fellow and St John's College Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
A philosopher turned neuroscientist, Dr Luppi trained in philosophy and cognitive science at the University of Oxford and Harvard University, before obtaining a PhD in neuroscience as a Gates Scholar from the University of Cambridge, and completed postdoctoral training as a Molson Neuro-engineering Fellow and Banting Fellow at the Montreal Neurological Institute. His work investigates how brain function and consciousness arise from the complex interplay of brain structure and dynamics across scales. To this end, he combines approaches from information theory, network science and whole-brain computational modelling to investigate pharmacological and pathological perturbations of brain function and consciousness across species and across modalities – such as disorders of consciousness, anaesthesia and psychedelics. His long-term goal is to understand what makes brains conscious and intelligent, how we can achieve more human-like artificial systems, and how we can promote the recovery of healthy brain function and cognition in brain-injured patients.
Andrea Luppi
Wellcome Early Career Fellow and St John's College Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
A philosopher turned neuroscientist, Dr Luppi trained in philosophy and cognitive science at the University of Oxford and Harvard University, before obtaining a PhD in neuroscience as a Gates Scholar from the University of Cambridge, and completed postdoctoral training as a Molson Neuro-engineering Fellow and Banting Fellow at the Montreal Neurological Institute. His work investigates how brain function and consciousness arise from the complex interplay of brain structure and dynamics across scales. To this end, he combines approaches from information theory, network science and whole-brain computational modelling to investigate pharmacological and pathological perturbations of brain function and consciousness across species and across modalities – such as disorders of consciousness, anaesthesia and psychedelics. His long-term goal is to understand what makes brains conscious and intelligent, how we can achieve more human-like artificial systems, and how we can promote the recovery of healthy brain function and cognition in brain-injured patients.
Andrea Luppi
Wellcome Early Career Fellow and St John's College Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
A philosopher turned neuroscientist, Dr Luppi trained in philosophy and cognitive science at the University of Oxford and Harvard University, before obtaining a PhD in neuroscience as a Gates Scholar from the University of Cambridge, and completed postdoctoral training as a Molson Neuro-engineering Fellow and Banting Fellow at the Montreal Neurological Institute. His work investigates how brain function and consciousness arise from the complex interplay of brain structure and dynamics across scales. To this end, he combines approaches from information theory, network science and whole-brain computational modelling to investigate pharmacological and pathological perturbations of brain function and consciousness across species and across modalities – such as disorders of consciousness, anaesthesia and psychedelics. His long-term goal is to understand what makes brains conscious and intelligent, how we can achieve more human-like artificial systems, and how we can promote the recovery of healthy brain function and cognition in brain-injured patients.
Devin Terhune
Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, King's College London
Dr Terhune completed his PhD on the cognitive neuroscience of dissociation and suggestibility at Lund University and was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research draws on methods and theories from cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychology, and cognitive neuropsychiatry with an aim to characterize different features of awareness, with a focus on dissociative states and hallucinations, and how they can be modulated using verbal suggestion and pharmacological agents.
Devin Terhune
Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, King's College London
Dr Terhune completed his PhD on the cognitive neuroscience of dissociation and suggestibility at Lund University and was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research draws on methods and theories from cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychology, and cognitive neuropsychiatry with an aim to characterize different features of awareness, with a focus on dissociative states and hallucinations, and how they can be modulated using verbal suggestion and pharmacological agents.
Devin Terhune
Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, King's College London
Dr Terhune completed his PhD on the cognitive neuroscience of dissociation and suggestibility at Lund University and was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research draws on methods and theories from cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychology, and cognitive neuropsychiatry with an aim to characterize different features of awareness, with a focus on dissociative states and hallucinations, and how they can be modulated using verbal suggestion and pharmacological agents.
Huan Luo
Professor at the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, PI of the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University
Dr Luo is a full professor at the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and a PI of the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University. She got her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland College Park with Prof. David Poeppel. Her research focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of attention, memory, learning, and decision-making, with recent interests centered on the structured nature of human cognition. She currently serves as Senior Editor at eLife and on the editorial board of PLOS Biology. Her lab is among six worldwide participating in the international COGITATE project on the neural basis of consciousness.
Huan Luo
Professor at the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, PI of the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University
Dr Luo is a full professor at the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and a PI of the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University. She got her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland College Park with Prof. David Poeppel. Her research focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of attention, memory, learning, and decision-making, with recent interests centered on the structured nature of human cognition. She currently serves as Senior Editor at eLife and on the editorial board of PLOS Biology. Her lab is among six worldwide participating in the international COGITATE project on the neural basis of consciousness.
Huan Luo
Professor at the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, PI of the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University
Dr Luo is a full professor at the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and a PI of the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University. She got her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland College Park with Prof. David Poeppel. Her research focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms of attention, memory, learning, and decision-making, with recent interests centered on the structured nature of human cognition. She currently serves as Senior Editor at eLife and on the editorial board of PLOS Biology. Her lab is among six worldwide participating in the international COGITATE project on the neural basis of consciousness.