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2012

Neuronal Avalanches and the Microstructure of Consciousness
John Beggs, Ph.D.
Indiana University
An investigation of the hypothesis that consciousness is an emergent property produced when neurons collectively interact in special ways.

Improving Communication in Disorders of Consciousness
Steven Laureys, M.D., Ph.D.
Quentin Noirhomme, Ph.D.
Andrea Soddu, Ph.D.
Universite de Liege, Belgium
(Second-year funding)
How can we communicate with severely brain-injured patients?

2011

Subjective Experience and Offline Cognitive Processing
Robert Stickgold, Ph.D.
Erin Wamsley, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
How might dreaming and thinking about problems of the day during sleep prepare the brain to solve problems the next day?

Modulation of a Possible Neural Correlate of Consciousness
Susan Greenfield, Ph.D.
Antoine-Scott Patrick Badin
Oxford University
How do brain structures modulate patterns of neural activity to trigger the crossing of the threshold from unconsciousness to conscious awareness?

Conscious and Unconscious Olfactory Processing in the Human Brain
Noam Sagiv, Ph.D.
Adrian L. Williams, Ph.D.
Sean Williams
Brunel University
How does the ancient part of the brain underlying the sense of smell create conscious awareness?

Lucid Dreaming and Performance on Prefrontal Cortical Tasks 
Peter T. Morgan, M.D., Ph.D.
Philip Corlett, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
What brain structures are activated when we become aware that we are dreaming?

The Neurobiology and Genetics of Synesthesia: A Gateway to Consciousness
David Eagleman, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
(Second-year funding)
What genes are associated with the "crosswiring" of the senses we observe in synesthesia, where sensations such as color get mapped onto other domains, such as numbers?

2010

Influence of Nondual Awareness on the Functioning of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Networks - An fMRI study of Buddhist, Christian and Jewish Contemplation
Zoran Josipovic, Ph.D.
David Heeger, Ph.D.
New York University
How does meditation alter brain states?
 
Consciousness of Sexual Desire
Stephanie Ortigue, Ph.D.
Jim Pfaus, Ph.D.
Francesco Bianchi-Demicheli, M.D.
Syracuse University
What happens in the brain when we find someone attractive.

Improving Communication in Disorders of Consciousness 
Steven Laureys, M.D., Ph.D.
Quentin Noirhomme, Ph.D.
Andrea Soddu, Ph.D.
Universite de Liege, Belgium
How can we communicate with severely brain-injured patients?

Gating Conscious Memories through Hippocampal Modulation
Michael Anderson, Ph.D.
Justin C. Hulbert, Ph.D. candidate
MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit
University of Cambridge
How do we forget things?

2009

The Neurobiology and Genetics of Synesthesia: A Gateway to Consciousness
David Eagleman, Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine

Cortical Dynamics as Revealed by Voltage Sensitive Dye Imaging
Baroness Susan Greenfield, CBE, Ph.D.
Oxford University

2006

Comparing the Distributed Pattern of Neural Activation in Response to Perceptual Events With and Without Awareness
Jonathan Cohen, M.D., Ph.D.
Anne Treisman, Ph.D.
Aaron Schurger, Ph.D.
Princeton University

Predicting the Contents of Consciousness
Geraint Rees, Ph.D.
John Haynes, Ph.D.
Oxford University
Uta Frith, Ph.D.
University College London

2005

Blindsight: An Investigation of Consciousness 
V.S. Ramachandran, M.D., Ph.D.
Diane Rogers-Ramachandran, Ph.D.
Lindsay Shenk
Shai David Azoulai
Lisa Williams
UCSD – Center for Brain and Cognition

Control Over the Neural Substrates Mediating the Conscious Experience of Pain Using Real Time fMRI
Allan L. Reiss, M.D.
Fumiko Maeda, M.D., Ph.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine

The Effects of Trace Fear Conditioning on the Survival and Responsiveness of Adult Newborn Neurons in the Dentate Gyrus
Fred H. Gage, Ph.D.
Ayumu Tashiro, Ph.D.
Salk Institute

Self-Consciousness in the Vegetative State and the Minimally Conscious State: A Multimodal Functional Neuroimaging Assessment of Patients’ Cerebral
Reactivation When Hearing Their Own Name
Steven Laureys, M.D., Ph.D.
Pierre Maquet, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Liege, Belgium

In Vitro Study of Consciousness and Neuronal Assemblies
Baroness Susan Greenfield, CBE, Ph.D.
Oxford University

Tracking the Footprints of Visual Consciousness Using Functional Brain Imaging of a Bistable Illusion
Christof Koch, Ph. D.
Farshad Moradi, M.D., Ph.D. Candidate
Cal-Tech
Constanze Hofstotter, Ph.D. Candidate
Institute of Neuroinformatics
Zurich, Switzerland

An Investigation of the Conscious and Unconscious Control of Fear
James Blascovich, Ph.D.
Andrew C. Beall, Ph.D.
UC – Santa Barbara, Center for Virtual Environments

The Role of Contemplative Practices in Reducing and Resisting Implicit Bias
Mahzarin R. Banaji, Ph.D.
Scott Akalis, Ph.D. Candidate
Havard University
Jhansi Nannapaneni, Ph.D.
Andhra University

Qualitative Differences and Levels of Consciousness
J. Michael Snodgrass, Ph.D.
Howard Shevrin, Ph.D.
University of Michigan Medical Center

Measuring the effectiveness of mindfulness-based approaches in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Jeffrey Schwartz, M.D.
Susan Lee Smalley, Ph.D.
Lidia Zylowska, M.D.
T. Sigi Hale, Ph.D.
UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience
UCLA Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics

2004

A Study of Empathy in Medical Education
Abraham Verghese, M.D.
Center for Medical Ethics and Humanities
University of Texas Health Science Center

Optical and fMRI of Neuronal Assemblies in Mice: A Model of Consciousness
Baroness Susan Greenfield, CBE, Ph.D.
Toby Collins, Ph.D.
Edward O. Mann, Ph.D.
Oxford University

Does Forced Exercise Enhance Neurogenesis?
Fred H. Gage, Ph.D.
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Capturing Anomalous Experiences
Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Ph.D.
International Consciousness Research Labs, Princeton, NJ
Robert G. Jahn, Ph.D.
Brenda J. Dunne, M.S.
Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab, Princeton, NJ

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