CFP: Sense of Reality: Reality Monitoring in Perception and Cognition

Workshop:

"Sense of Reality: Reality Monitoring in Perception and Cognition"

26-27 September 2024

Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, France (and online)

Website: hhttps://sites.google.com/view/sense-reality-workshop-2024

There is more to perception than mere sensory contents: we typically have the feeling that what we perceive is real and not, for example, merely imagined. We have a sense of reality. This sense is often taken for granted, but what makes an experience feel real? How do we distinguish between reality, imagination, and hallucination?

This workshop aims to bring together early-career and senior researchers from across disciplines whose work contributes in any way to the understanding of the sense of reality in perception, memory, imagination and, more broadly, cognition.

Keynote speakers (in person):

• Ophelia Deroy (LMU Munich)
• Nadine Dijkstra (University College London)
• Jérôme Dokic (Institut Jean-Nicod, EHESS, ENS-PSL)
• Christoph Hoerl (University of Warwick)
• Denis Perrin (Université Grenoble Alpes)

Submissions:

You are cordially invited to submit your contribution until 1st August 2024.

We welcome research from cognitive (neuro)sciences, philosophy (including phenomenology), and related fields. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• Reality monitoring in perception and memory
• Sense of reality and its subjective markers
• The feeling of perceptual presence
• Differences between perception, imagination, episodic remembering, and hallucinations
• Mental imagery, especially as it relates to differentiating between perception and imagination
• Hallucinations, delusions, and derealization in psychiatric disorders
• Sense of reality in virtual and augmented reality
• Consciousness science as it relates to reality monitoring
• Epistemology of perception and imagination

If you would like to present your work at the workshop (30 minutes, including Q&A), please submit your abstract of 300 words (excluding references) by 1st August using this form:

• https://forms.gle/i1Rkkqmw3d5qUXJv5

We will reach out to let you know if your application was successful by 15th August.

Unfortunately, due to limited funding, we will not be able to cover travel or accommodation costs for the submitted contributions. Please keep that in mind when you decide whether you would like to present your paper remotely or in person. The preferred way of participating will not be a factor in evaluating the abstracts.

Attendance is free, but we highly recommend registration if you aren't submitting an abstract (especially for in-person participation) as seats are limited. To register, please send an email indicating your name, career stage, preferred manner of participation (online or in person), and institutional affiliation to the workshop email address by September 1st: [email protected]

You can use the same address for any other inquiries regarding the event.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Paris!

Organisers:
Lucas Battich (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
Francesca Righetti (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Sofiia Rappe (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)