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Dear all, *ASSC18 CALL FOR TALK AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS* General submission for abstracts for ASSC18 is now open and will close March 14th The 18th annual meeting of the *Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC*) will take place in *Brisbane, Australia from July 16-19th, 2014* .The 4 day ASSC meeting (plus 1 day of tutorial sessions) brings together leading researchers in neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, philosophy, psychiatry, neurology, and computer science in a forum dedicated to showcasing and advancing rigorous scientific approaches to understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of conscious experience. The program committee now invites submissions for Talk and Poster presentations on any topic relevant to the scientific study of consciousness. Any person may present only one submission, but may be co-author on more than one. Submissions for both posters and talks will be accepted (please specify preference). However, you should be aware that there are a limited number of talk slots and poster spaces available. Talks and posters will be selected on the basis of the highest overall quality and relevance to the aims of the ASSC. http://www.theassc.org/assc_18_abstract_submission Accommodation details are now available at http://www.theassc.org/assc_18_accommodation. Rooms have been reserved on campus and are available at low cost!! All further details will be provided at http://www.theassc.org/assc_18 as they become available. All keynote, symposia and tutorials have now been finalised as follows. *KEYNOTE PRESENTERS* David Chalmers (Australian National University and New York University) Emery Brown (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Sheng He (University of Minnesota) Melanie Wilke (University Medical Centre Goettingen) Jesse Prinz (City University of New York) *SYMPOSIUM PRESENTERS* David Carmel (University of Edinburgh, UK) Joel Pearson (University of New South Wales, Australia) Zoltan Dienes (University of Sussex, UK) Axel Cleeremans (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Adam Shriver (The University of Pennsylvania, USA) Victorial Braithwaite (The University of Pennsylvania, USA) Dan Weary (The University of British Columbia, Canada) David Edelman (Bennington University, USA) Paula Droege (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Aaron Schurger (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) Marcellow Massimini (The University of Milan, Italy) Jacobo Sitt (L'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière, France) Anil Seth (University of Sussex, UK) Chiara Cirelli (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Francesca Siclari (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Michael Czisch (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany) Thomas Metzinger (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany) Jenniver Windt (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany) *TUTORIAL PRESENTERS* Giulio Tononi (University of Wisconsin, USA) Christof Koch (Allen Institute for Brain Science) Naotsugu Tsuchiya (Monash University, Australia) Masafumi Oizumi (Riken Brain Science Institute, Japan) Larissa Albantakis (University of Wisconsin, USA) Claude Touzet (Aix-Marseille University, France) Colin Hales (The University of Melbourne, Australia) Andreas Keller (The Rockerfeller University, USA) If you are planning to travel to Brisbane for ASSC, you may want to consider staying on to attend the *International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON)* www.icon2014.org which will take place in *Brisbane, Australia* from *July 27th-31st, 2014. *Note that a number of satellite, workshop and travel opportunities will be available in the days between ICON and the ASSC conference. -- Stephen M. Fleming PhD Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow Centre for Neural Science, NYU & Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford http://www.stevefleming.org