20:00 - 21:15 | Registration

21:15 - 21:45 | Opening Session

21:45 - 22:30 | Opening Conference - Enhancing brain and cognition: A theory-driven approach

Chairman | Axel Cleeremans: Research Director, Consciousness, Cognition & Computation Group, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Scientific interests: consciousness and implicit learning, models of conscious and unconscious cognition, neural network of cognitive processes.

Lorenza Colzato: Professor of Cognitive Enhancement, Department of Cognitive Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; Principal Investigator, Cognitive Psychology Unit, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Scientific interests: brain and cognitive enhancement aimed at improving performance in healthy individuals, through nutritional interventions (thyrosine, tryptophan, gaba, choline, probiotics) and transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation.

1st session - Cognitive enhancement

09:00 - 09:15 | Opening remarks

Moderator | Rainer Goebel: Full professor for Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Founding director of the Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre (M-BIC) and team leader of the "Neuromodeling and Neuroimaging" group, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Research interests: neuronal representations in the brain and how they are processed to enable specific perceptual and cognitive functions, neural correlates of visual awareness, clinical applications in brain computer interfaces (BCls) and neurofeedback studies.

09:15 - 09:45 | Enhancing human cognition using noninvasive brain stimulation

Alexander Sack: Vice-Dean and Research Director, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Scientific interests: communication mechanisms for enhancing human cognition, brain rhythms and multisensory perception, use of equipment required for simultaneous fMRI, TMS & EEG measurements, modulation of not correlated networks in early Alzheimer’s disease, prediction of future violent behavior of antisocial offenders and brain recovery after stroke.

09:50 - 10:20 | Cosmetic neurology: Ethical considerations and public attitudes

Anjan Chatterjee: Elliot Professor de Neurologia, Departamento de Neurologia, Escola de Medicina, Universidade de Pensilvânia, Filadélfia, EUA. Interesses científicos: ética da transformação tecnológica da experiência humana, neurologia cosmética e ética da neuropotencialização, neurociência da estética e da arte, abstração de formas e formas de abstração, linguagem figurativa em indivíduos saudáveis e afásicos, inteligência espacial e centro de aprendizagem.

10:25 - 10:55 | Cognitive enhancement and doping in sport

Moderator | Jean-Noël Missa: Research Director at the National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium; Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bioethics. Scientific interests: history, philosophy and ethics of biomedicine - neuroscience and biological psychiatry -, ethics and philosophy of doping.

11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee, posters session and contacts with faculty

11:30 - 12:15 | Keynote Lecture - The neuroscience of working memory capacity and training

Torkel Klingberg: Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Head of CognitionMatters.org. Scientific interests: child brain development and academic abilities, education and cognitive training and working memory training.

12:30 - 13:00 | Morning Discussion

13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch

14:30 - 15:30 | Oral poster presentations - Grant holders

Moderator | Mário Simões: Professor of Psychiatry and Consciousness Sciences and Director of LIMMIT - Laboratory of interaction Mind-Matter with Therapeutic Intention, Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, Portugal. Scientific interests: psychology and psychophysiology of altered states of consciousness, ethnomedicine, human exceptional experiences and psychology and spiritual

15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee, posters session and contacts with faculty

16:00 - 17:00 | Oral poster presentations - Grant holders

2nd session - Amplified states of consciousness

09:00 - 09:15 | Opening remarks

Moderator | Caroline Watt: Holder of the Koestler Chair of Parapsychology, and founder member of the Koestler Parapsychology Unit, Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Scientific interests: replication and methodological issues in parapsychology.

09:15 - 09:45 | Derangement of the senses or alternate epistemological pathways?

Etzel Cardeña: TThorsen Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden. Scientific interests: the psychology of anomalous experiences/non-ordinary mental expressions, parapsychological phenomena, neurophenomenology of hypnosis, dissociation, dissociative disorders and mind wandering, altered states of consciousness and parapsychology.

09:50 - 10:20 | Ayahuasca as a mind enhancer – its knowledge and potential

Moderator | Olga Silva: Associate Professor of Pharmacognosy and Medicinal Plants and Phytotherapy, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Director of the Laboratory of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Scientific interests: pharmacognosy, ethnopharmacology, medicinal plants and phytotherapy, quality, safety and mode of action of plants used in Traditional Medicine of Lusophony countries.

Moderator | Mário Simões: Professor of Psychiatry and Consciousness Sciences and Director of LIMMIT - Laboratory of interaction Mind-Matter with Therapeutic Intention, Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, Portugal. Scientific interests: psychology and psychophysiology of altered states of consciousness, ethnomedicine, human exceptional experiences and psychology and spirituality.

10:25 - 10:55 | Enhancing the mind in Ancient Greece

Yulia Ustinova: Associate Professor, Department of General History, Ben-Gurion University, Neguev, Israel. Scientific interests: alteration of consciousness and insanity in Greek culture, cognitive harmony and biased thinking in ancient Greece; oriental religions in the Greek and Roman world, consciousness alteration practices in the West from Prehistory to Late Antiquity, experiential aspects of ancient Greek mystery rites.

11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee, posters session and contacts with faculty

11:30 - 12:15 | Keynote lecture - Regulation of attention and emotions by meditation: Neurophysiological basis and implications for mental and physical health

Antoine Lutz: Tenured scientist at INSERM, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, team Cerebral Dynamic and Cognition, Bron, France. Scientific interests: behavioral and brain imaging studies of consciousness, neurophenomenology, relation between neuroplasticity and mental training, neurobiological basis of meditation and their impact on peripheral biological processes relevant to physical and mental health, functional brain imaging, study of brain resting states to study individual differences.

12:30 - 13:00 | Morning Discussion

13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch

14:30 - 16:30 | Parallel Workshops (W)

W1 - Wise plants

W1 - Room Braga; without translation

Moderator | Mário Simões: Professor of Psychiatry and Consciousness Sciences and Director of LIMMIT - Laboratory of interaction Mind-Matter with Therapeutic Intention, Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, Portugal. Scientific interests: psychology and psychophysiology of altered states of consciousness, ethnomedicine, human exceptional experiences and psychology and spirituality.

Invited discussant | Tania Re: Assistant Professor of Ethnomedicine and Ethnopsychology. Psychologist, Medical Anthropologist, Founder and Board Member of the UNESCO Chair “Health Anthropology, Biosphere and Healing systems”, University of Genoa, Italy. Researcher and fellow at the Regional Centre for Phytotherapy (CERFIT), Careggi Hospital, Florence, Italy. Scientific interests: medical anthropology, ethnomedicine, phenomenology of altered states of consciousness and traditional medicines.

Invited discussant | Olga Silva: Associate Professor of Pharmacognosy and Medicinal Plants and Phytotherapy, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Director of the Laboratory of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Scientific interests: pharmacognosy, ethnopharmacology, medicinal plants and phytotherapy, quality, safety and mode of action of plants used in Traditional Medicine of Lusophony countries.

W2 - Meditation

W2 - Room Conferências; without translation

Moderator | Etzel Cardeña: Thorsen Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden. Scientific interests: the psychology of anomalous experiences/non-ordinary mental expressions, parapsychological phenomena, neurophenomenology of hypnosis, dissociation, dissociative disorders and mind wandering, altered states of consciousness and parapsychology.

Invited discussant | Antoine Lutz: Tenured scientist at INSERM, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, team Cerebral Dynamic and Cognition, Bron, France. Scientific interests: behavioral and brain imaging studies of consciousness, neurophenomenology, relation between neuroplasticity and mental training, neurobiological basis of meditation and their impact on peripheral biological processes relevant to physical and mental health, functional brain imaging, study of brain resting states to study individual differences.

Invited discussant | Yulia Ustinova: Associate Professor, Department of General History, Ben-Gurion University, Neguev, Israel. Scientific interests: alteration of consciousness and insanity in Greek culture, cognitive harmony and biased thinking in ancient Greece; oriental religions in the Greek and Roman world, consciousness alteration practices in the West from Prehistory to Late Antiquity, experiential aspects of ancient Greek mystery rites.

W3 - Impact of AI in science, organization and the arts

W3 - Room Auditorium; simultaneous translation will be assured

Moderator | Nuno Sousa: Professor and President at the School of Health Science, University of Minho. Director of the Clinical Academic Center (2CA) - Braga and Researcher at ICVS, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. Scientific interests: neurobiology of stress and brain network plasticity.

Invited discussant | Gonzalo de Polavieja: Principal Investigator of Collective Behavior Lab, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Neuroscience Programme. Lisbon, Portugal. Scientific interests: quantitative behavior, neurobiology of decision-making and learning, collective behavior, social interactions and mathematical biology.

Invited discussant | Mattia Bergomi: Researcher at Collective Behavior Lab, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Neuroscience Programme, Lisbon, Portugal. Scientific interests: algebraic topology - topological data analysis, topology of high-dimensional varieties, persistent homology and multi-dimensional persistence, topology of dynamical systems; machine learning - deep belief networks, memory and creativity in artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, optimal granularity for multivariate time series analysis.

W4 - Neurostimulation - a new tool for neuroenhancement?

W4 - Room Medicoteca; without translation

Moderator | Miguel Castelo-Branco: Professor of Biophysics and Mathematics and Visual Sciences and Director of IBILI and ICNAS, University of Coimbra, Portugal. Scientific interests: sensory and cognitive neuroscience in healthy and ill populations.

Invited discussant | Rainer Goebel: Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Founding director of the Maastricht Brain Imaging Centre (M-BIC). Scientific interests: neuronal representations in the brain and how they are processed to enable specific perceptual and cognitive functions, neural correlates of visual awareness, clinical applications in brain computer interfaces (BCls) and neurofeedback studies.

Invited discussant | Alexander Sack: Vice-Dean and Research Director, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Scientific interests: communication mechanisms for enhancing human cognition, brain rhythms and multisensory perception, use of equipment required for simultaneous fMRI, TMS & EEG measurements, modulation of not correlated networks in early Alzheimer’s disease, prediction of future violent behavior of antisocial offenders and brain recovery after stroke.

17:00 - 18:00 | Get-together Cheese & Wine

3rd session - Collective intelligence

09:00 - 09:15 | Opening remarks

Moderator | Rui Costa: Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology, Columbia University and Principal Investigator at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute, New York, USA. Co-director of Champalimaud Research and Principal Investigator of the Neurobiology of Action Lab., Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Neuroscience Programme. Lisbon, Portugal. Scientific interests: molecular, cellular and systems mechanisms of action generation, sequence and skill learning, goal-directed actions versus habits, across-level approach to study cognitive and sensorimotor disorders in mouse models (PD, OCD, NFI and autism).

09:15 - 09:45 | Understanding the world collectively

Gonzalo de Polavieja: Principal Investigator of Collective Behavior Lab, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Neuroscience Programme. Lisbon, Portugal. Scientific interests: quantitative behavior, neurobiology of decision-making and learning, collective behavior, social interactions and mathematical biology.

09:50 - 10:20 | Simple minds living in complex social worlds

Rui Oliveira: Principal Investigator of the Integrative Behavioural Biology Research Group, Gulbenkian Institute of Science; Professor of Psychobiology and Dean of ISPA - University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal. Scientific interests: neurobiology of social behavior, social modulation of brain and behavior, evo-devo of social cognition, genomic and epigenetic mechanisms of social plasticity, cognitive bias and susceptibility/resilience to disease.

10:25 - 10:55 | Brain vs. machine control, which one gets the power?

Jose Carmena: Professor of Electrical Engineering and Neuroscience, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Scientific interests: large-scale neural circuit dynamics during learning, neural mechanisms of action, motor control and neuroplasticity. Brain-machine interface, algorithms for closed circuit decoder adaptation, neuroprosthetic systems and sets of neural networks computation. disorders and mind wandering, altered states of consciousness and parapsychology.

11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee, posters session and contacts with faculty

11:30 - 12:15 | Conferência - Collective intelligence as a central characteristic of small groups

Christopher Chabris: Professor, Geisinger Health System, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA; Associate Professor of Psychology, Union College, Schenectady, New York, USA. Scientific interests: attention, intelligence (individual, collective, and social), behavior genetics, decision-making and video games and cognitive science.

12:30 - 13:00 | Morning Discussion

13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch

14:30 - 16:30 | Round-table - Ethics of enhancement

Chairman | Axel Cleeremans: Research Director, Consciousness, Cognition & Computation Group, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Scientific interests: consciousness and implicit learning, models of conscious and unconscious cognition, neural network of cognitive processes.

Lorenza Colzato: Professor of Cognitive Enhancement, Department of Cognitive Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; Principal Investigator, Cognitive Psychology Unit, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Scientific interests: brain and cognitive enhancement aimed at improving performance in healthy individuals, through nutritional interventions (thyrosine, tryptophan, gaba, choline, probiotics) and transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation.

Etzel Cardeña: Thorsen Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden. Scientific interests: the psychology of anomalous experiences/non-ordinary mental expressions, parapsychological phenomena, neurophenomenology of hypnosis, dissociation, dissociative disorders and mind wandering, altered states of consciousness and parapsychology.

Anjan Chatterjee: Elliot Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA. Scientific interests: ethics of technological transformation of human experience, cosmetic neurology and the ethics of neuroenhancement, the neuroscience of aesthetics and art, abstraction of forms and forms of abstraction, figurative language in aphasic and healthy individuals, spatial intelligence and learning center.

Jean-Noël Missa: Research Director at the National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium; Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bioethics. Scientific interests: history, philosophy and ethics of biomedicine - neuroscience and biological psychiatry -, ethics and philosophy of doping.