Mind Wandering and Cognitive Control workshop

This workshop seeks to foster fruitful interactions between philosophers and cognitive scientists around topics and questions of mutual interest. The workshop will explore the interactions (both negative and positive) between mind wandering and cognitive control. This is an area that requires further research, both conceptual and empirical, in order to better understand phenomena like creativity, social cognition, and moral emotions. 

Main Speakers

Sam Murray (Duke U.): "Vigilance and mind wandering"

Paola Agudelo Orjuela (Externado U.): "Interactions between emotional processing and cognitive control: An ERP study"

Santiago Arango-Muñoz (U. Antioquia) & Juan Pablo Bermúdez (Externado U.): "Intentional mind wandering: the Surrealist method"

Zachary C. Irving (U. of Virginia): "Mind wandering makes us free: Cognitive science meets Virginia Woolf"

Hernando Santamaría-García (Javeriana U.): "Interactions between mentalizing and mind wandering"

Discussants at large

Santiago Amaya (Los Andes U.)

Julia W.Y. Kam (UC Berkeley)

For registration and any other enquiry, please contact [email protected] .

Universidad Externado de Colombia, Edificio I, Salón 307

Entrance is free, but seats are limited. If you are interested please register at https://forms.gle/v6Kx8STy4dRkTAwz6.