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The William James Prize for Contributions to the Study of Consciousness is an award given by the Association For The Scientific Study Of Consciousness . Each year one prize is awarded for an outstanding published contribution to the empirical or Philosophical study of Consciousness by a graduate student or postdoctoral scholar within five years of receiving a PhD or other advanced degree. The prize consists of: #An award of $1000(USD); #Invitation to present a Plenary address at the next meeting of the ASSC; #Lifetime membership in the ASSC. The 2006 prize committee consists of:
PAST RECIPIENTS 2005 - The second William James Prize was awarded at the 9th Annual Meeting of ASSC in Pasadena, California . Seventeen articles were nominated for consideration by the Prize Committee. From these nominations, the Committee selected "Attention to Intention" by Hakwan Lau and colleagues as the winning nomination. The article describes research showing that attending to the intention to initiate a movement (as contrasted with attending to the movement itself) leads to an enhancement of activity in the pre-supplementary motor area. This finding suggests that activity in the pre-SMA reflects the representation of intention and that attention to intention may be one way in which effective conscious control of action is possible. Hakwan Lau received his D.Phil in Experimental Psychology from the University Of Oxford in 2004, and he is presently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Wellcome Department Of Imaging Neuroscience , University College London . 2004 - The William James Prize for Contributions to the Study of Consciousness was awarded for the first time at the 8th Annual Meeting of ASSC in Antwerp Belgium . Twenty-six articles by young investigators were nominated for consideration. From these nominations, the Prize Committee selected "Brain Function in the Vegetative State" by Steven Laureys and colleagues as the winning nomination. This article deals with the alteration or loss of consciousness caused by metabolic, toxic, traumatic, or anoxic pathology. Although the resultant state is often referred to as ' Coma ', a variety of different states can be distinguished when behavioural assessment is combined with measures of brain activity. Steven Laureys is a research associate at the Belgian National Funds For Scientific Research (FNRS). He is presently working at the University Of Liege where he uses neuroimaging methods to study the activation patterns that can be elicited in patients despite massive overall reductions in cerebral metabolism. EXTERNAL LINKS Papers awarded
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