Toward a Science of Consciousness 2012

Loews Ventana Canyon Hotel

Tucson

PLENARY

EVE ISHAM

I stumbled upon the world of consciousness research when I began my graduate work with the late William “Bill” Banks (Pomona College, Founder and Editor-in-Chief for the journal Consciousness and Cognition).  Together, we began asking many questions about consciousness, free will and intentionality, and critically, whether these processes could be studied scientifically.   Currently, I am a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Mind and Brain, UC Davis with Joy Geng.  One main focus of my postdoctoral research is on the validity and reliability of temporal report of action, and how this subjective measure is correlated with the neural signatures of timing and action. The virtue of this research is a step toward identifying the psychological and neurological basis of consciousness.