Consciousness, Altered Brain States and Wellness 意識、大腦科學及身心靈健康

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Neuroscientist gives lecture on altered brain states and their influence on modulating consciousness and wellness

Consciousness Festival 意識節

Summoning and Commoning All Possible Minds  共喚意識萬流

Interdisciplinary exploration into the frontiers of consciousness, covering topics on mind/body wellness, neurodiversity, altered brain states and mortality  以多樣化及跨領域的節目，探索身心健康、神經多樣性、變改意識狀態和生命的奧妙

Consciousness (or awareness) can be a feature of particular sensations (e.g., you might be bitten by a mosquito without being aware of it). However, it can also be a more general feature of brain states (e.g., you typically lose consciousness following deep anaesthesia). How does the brain differentiate between these different brain states? This talk will cover current understanding of consciousness based on recent advances in neuroscience research, topics on altered brain states (e.g., sleep, meditation, and psychedelic experiences), which can modulate the level of conscious processing, and the implications of these altered brain states for “wellness” (e.g., improved mood, increased neural plasticity, and enhanced interactions between the brain and the rest of the body).Panel will be conducted in English 這線上研討將根據神經科學研究的最新進展來描述當前對意識的理解，討論變改的大腦狀態（例如睡眠、冥想和迷幻體驗）這些狀態對意識處理層次調節的可能性，以及這些大腦狀態對「健康」的影響（例如，改善情緒、增加神經可塑性以及增強大腦與身體其他部位之間的相互作用）。 研討將以英語進行 Speaker 講者 Dr. Ryszard Auksztulewicz Ryszard Auksztulewicz conducts empirical and theoretical work at the interface of cognitive, computational, and systems neuroscience, focusing primarily on the neural mechanisms of predictive coding and their modulation by cognitive factors. Ryszard has worked in the world’s leading cognitive and computational neuroscience groups at University College London and Oxford University, spearheading empirical and modelling studies of the neural mechanisms of prediction error signalling. Most of his previous and ongoing work is directly related to predictive coding and auditory mismatch signalling in the brain. Ryszard Auksztulewicz 在認知、計算和系統神經科學領域進行實證和理論工作，主要關注預測編碼的神經機制及其受認知因素的調節。 Ryszard 曾在倫敦大學學院和牛津大學世界領先的認知和計算神經科學小組工作，帶頭進行預測誤差訊號神經機制的實證和建模研究。 他之前和正在進行的大部分工作都與大腦中的預測編碼和聽覺失配訊號直接相關。