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03.04 | Wednesday 05.04 | Friday 06.04 | Saturday

17:00-18:00 Registration 2nd session - The expressions of creativity 3rd session - The edges of creativity
18:00-18:30 Opening Session (in Portuguese) Moderator | Rainer Goebel Moderator | Stefan Schmidt
18:30-19:15 Opening Conference 09:00-09:15 Opening remarks 09:00-09:15 Opening remarks
Chairman | Axel Cleeremans Rainer Goebel Stefan Schmidt
What (if any) parts of creativity are "beyond the brain"? 09:15-09:45 Environmental effects on creative output: Studies of the impact of 09:15-09:45 Neurocinema and the invention of reality
Mark Runko Virtual reality Sergio Neuenschwander
Todd Lubart
09:50-10:20 Music and psychedelic drugs as tools to explore creativity
09:50-10:20 Using adversarial collaboration to harness collective intelligence and Frederick Barrett
boost creativity in science
Lucia Melloni 10:25-10:55 The creativity code
04.04 | Thursday Marcus du Sautoy
10:25-10:55 Psi and the creative imagination
Marilyn Schlitz 11:00-11:30 Coffee, posters session and contacts with faculty
1st session - The foundations of creativity
11:00-11:30 Coffee, posters session and contacts with faculty 11:30-12:15 Keynote lecture
Moderator | Caroline Watt
11:30-12:15 Keynote lecture Creativity in context: The big picture
09:00-09:15 Opening remarks The improvising brain: In search of meaning making and thriving Edward Kelly
Caroline Watt Morten Kringelbach 12:30-13:00 Morning Discussion
09:15-09:45 The movement, and musicality of mental time travel 12:30-13:00 Morning Discussion 13:00-14:30 Lunch
Nicola Clayton and Mark Baldwin
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:30 Roundtable
09:50-10:20 Connections, sensitivity and tangible representations:
14:30-16:30 Parallel Workshops (W) The process of creativity
Unpacking some correlates of creativity and
Moderator | Axel Cleeremans
exceptional experiences W 1 - Room Medicoteca; without translation - bring your laptop Participants | Pedro Abrunhosa, Nicola Clayton and Mark Baldwin,
Christine Simmonds-Moore Creativity in art and science AI - artificial creativity and art Marilyn Schlitz, Sergio Neuenschwander
Moderator | Miguel Castelo-Branco
10:25-10:55 Breaking barriers: Emerging topics in creativity and
Invited presenter | Penousal Machado
insight research
Amory Danek W 2 - Room Braga; without translation
Choreography and embodiment: Creating with and without wings Registration Fee
11:00-11:30 Coffee, posters session and contacts with faculty and tentacles to develop movements with and without words
11:30-12:15 Keynote lecture Moderator | Rui Costa The 14th Symposium will be organized only for in-person audience.
Myths and truths of the creative mind Invited presenters | Mark Baldwin and Nicola Clayton
Anna Abraham W 3 - Room Conferências; without translation €200
Synesthetic creativity: A hands-on experience using sound and €80 - for university students under the age of 25 and PhD students (please enclose copy of your
12:30-13:00 Morning Discussion student card and/or university/supervisor declaration).
drawing
Moderator | Etzel Cardeña These amounts include access to all Symposium sessions, coffee breaks and certificate of attendance.
13:00-14:30 Lunch
Invited presenter | Christine Simmonds-Moore It does not include meals. Limited number of registrations.
14:30-16:00 Oral poster presentations - Grant holders
Moderator | Mário Simões W 4 - Auditorium; with simultaneous translation - bring your mobile
The sound of creativity: A sensorial pathway from silence to music Online registration - www.bialfoundation.com
16:00-16:30 Coffee, posters session and contacts with faculty Moderator | Nuno Sousa
Invited presenter | Pedro Abrunhosa
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Anna Abraham | Psychologist and neuroscientist, Nicola Clayton | Professor of Comparative Morten Kringelbach | Professor of Marilyn Schlitz | Professor of
E. Paul Torrance Professor in the Mary Frances Cognition, Department of Psychology, University Neuroscience, Universities of Oxford, UK, Transpersonal Psychology, Sofia
14th SYMPOSIUM OF College of Education, University of Georgia, USA.
Director of the Torrance Center for Creativity and
of Cambridge, UK. Fellow of Clare College and
Fellow of the Royal Society, Director of the
and Aarhus, Denmark. Founding Director
of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human
University, Bulgaria, and CEO/President
Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute of
BIAL FOUNDATION Talent Development. Author of “The Neuroscience of
Creativity” and Editor of “The Cambridge Handbook of the
Cambridge Centre for the Integration of Science,
Technology and Culture. She has worked with Mark
Flourishing, Linacre College. His research uses
advanced analysis methods on precise paradigms
Noetic Sciences, USA. Social scientist,
award-winning author, filmmaker, and dynamic

BEHIND AND
Imagination”. Scientific interests: interdisciplinary Baldwin for almost fifteen years. Scientific and artistic in healthy people, as well as in at-risk and public speaker. She has published several books
examination of fundamentally human capacities such as interests: thinking with and without words; choreography diseased populations. Scientific interests: and hundreds of articles in scholarly journals and
creative thinking and other core aspects of the imagination inspired by comparative cognition. reverse-engineer the human brain to elucidate the popular publications, and has lectured in diverse

BEYOND THE BRAIN including the reality-fiction distinction, self and social
cognition, mental time travel, mental state reasoning, and
heuristics that allow us to survive and flourish. venues across the world, including the United
Nations. Scientific interests: clinical, laboratory,

Aquém e Além do Cérebro aesthetic experience. Axel Cleeremans | Research Director with the Todd Lubart | Professor of Psychology, and field-based research into consciousness,
F.R.S-FNRS (Belgium); Director of the Center for University Paris Cité, France. Serves on human transformation, and healing.
Pedro Abrunhosa | At the age of 16 he studied Research in Cognition & Neurosciences, the editorial board of several journals
Creativity Analysis, Composition and History of Music at
Porto School of Music, and, later, at the
Université Libre de Bruxelles; Member of the Royal
Academy of Belgium. Scientific Interests: Consciousness;
concerning creativity and innovation,
received the Berlyne award (American
Conservatory, Porto, Portugal. He got into music unconscious cognition; computational modelling of Psychological Association), the NAGC Torrance Stefan Schmidt | Professor of Systemic
Casa do Médico - Porto through the erudite path; from the most complex to the cognitive processes; agency; affective neuroscience. Award, and was a junior member of the Institut Family Therapy and Head of the
April 3 to 6, 2024 simplest, towards the purification of language. When he got Universitaire de France. President of the Academic Section of Systemic Health
to jazz, he was a jazz scholar and founded the Porto Jazz International Society for the Study of Creativity and Research, Department of Psychosomatic
School. When he arrived at rock music, he had a backpack Rui Costa | President and CEO, Allen Institute, Innovation. Scientific interests: measures of Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical
full of history and rigor. In 1994 he released his first album Washington, and Professor of Neuroscience and creative potential; environmental support for Centre, Freiburg, Germany. Scientific interests:
“Viagens” and he is now finishing his ninth. In his Neurology, Columbia University, New York, USA. creativity using virtual reality; development of systems approaches in health research,
multi-platinum albums, he reveals his powerful writing, Scientific interests: molecular, cellular and systems creativity through game play and the use of psychophysiology, consciousness research,
leaving songs that join so many other hymns, legends, mechanisms of action generation, sequence and skill generative AI for creativity. mindfulness meditation, experimental
adages. With thousands of concerts and sold-out venues, learning, goal-directed actions versus habits, across-level parapsychology, exceptional experiences and
he combines the stage with lectures and discussions in the approach to study cognitive and sensorimotor disorders Penousal Machado | Associate Professor, placebo research.

14th SYMPOSIUM OF BIAL FOUNDATION

business and academic world. (PD, OCD, and autism). Department of Informatics Engineering,
University of Coimbra, and coordinator of
Mark Baldwin | Multi-award-winning the Cognitive and Media Systems group of Christine Simmonds-Moore | Professor of
choreographer, artistic director and visual artist. Amory Danek | Postdoctoral Researcher and CISUC, Portugal. President of SPECIES (Society for Psychology, Psychology program,
Organizing Committee: Academic Visitor, Department of Psychology, Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Heidelberg the Promotion of Evolutionary Computation). Author Department of Anthropology, Psychology
University of Cambridge, UK, where he works with University, Germany. Founder of Insight without of more than 200 refereed journals and conference and Sociology, University of West Georgia,
President Nicola Clayton. Scientific and artistic interests: thinking with Borders (discussion forum for insight researchers papers and recipient of several scientific awards, USA. Director of the Exceptional Experiences
AXEL CLEEREMANS (Brussels) and without words; choreography inspired by comparative across the world). Scientific interests: human problem his work was presented in venues such as the Research Lab [EERL]. Scientific interests:

BEYOND THE BRAIN

cognition. solving; creativity; meta-reasoning; false insights; memory National Museum of Contemporary Art and MoMA, exceptional experiences (ExE); paranormal beliefs

Aquém e Além do Cérebro

ETZEL CARDEÑA (Lund) and magic tricks. NY, USA. Scientific interests: artificial intelligence; and disbeliefs; individual difference correlates of
Frederick Barrett | Associate Professor of evolutionary computation; computational creativity; ExE (including positive schizotypy, transliminality,
MIGUEL CASTELO-BRANCO (Coimbra)
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns information visualization. synesthesia, ASMR, and interoception); mental
RUI COSTA (Seatle, WA) Hopkins University School of Medicine; Faculty of Marcus du Sautoy | Simonyi Professor for the health correlates of ExE; altered states of
RAINER GOEBEL (Maastricht) Neuroscience, and Psychological and Brian Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Lucia Melloni | Head of the Neural consciousness.
Sciences, Johns Hopkins University; Director of the Johns Mathematics, University of Oxford, UK. Author of Circuits, Consciousness, and Cognition
STEFAN SCHMIDT (Freiburg) Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness eight books and two plays, he has presented Research Group, Max Planck Institute for
CAROLINE WATT (Edinburgh) Research, USA. Scientific interests: the neural basis of numerous radio and TV series including “The Story of Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany,
cognition and affect; the cognitive neuroscience of music, Maths” for BBC. He works extensively with a range of arts and Research Professor, Department of Neurology, Mário Simões | Retired Professor of
and the mechanisms underlying acute and enduring effects organisations bringing science alive for the public. NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA. Scientific Psychiatry and Consciousness Sciences,
Symposium’s Venue of psychedelic drugs. Scientific interests: understanding the world of symmetry interests: understanding the neural underpinnings Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, Portugal.
Casa do Médico • Rua Delfim Maia, 405 • 4200-256 Porto using zeta functions, a classical tool from number theory. of how we see (perception), how and why we Scientific interests: psychology and

BEHIND AND
Tel. +351 22 507 0100 Etzel Cardeña | Thorsen Professor of Psychology experience what we see (consciousness), and how psychophysiology of altered states of
and Director of the Center for Research on those experiences become imprinted in our brain consciousness; ethnomedicine; human exceptional
Secretariat Consciousness and Anomalous Psychology Rainer Goebel | Professor of Cognitive (learning and memory), as well as the interplay experiences and psychology and spirituality.
À Av. da Siderurgia Nacional (CERCAP), Department of Psychology, Lund Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and between these processes.
4745-457 Coronado (S. Romão e S. Mamede) • Portugal University, Sweden. Scientific interests: the psychology of Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The
Tel. +351 22 986 6150 anomalous experiences/non-ordinary mental expressions, Netherlands. Founding director of the Maastricht Sergio Neuenschwander | Full Professor, Nuno Sousa | Professor at the School of
www.bialfoundation.com • [email protected] including parapsychological phenomena; Brain Imaging Centre (M-BIC). Scientific interests: neuronal Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Medicine, University of Minho. Director of
neurophenomenology of hypnosis, meditation and representations in the brain and how they are processed to Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil. Scientific the Clinical Academic Center (2CA) -

Casa do Médico - Porto

dissociation; stream of consciousness. enable specific perceptual and cognitive functions; neural interests: neuronal mechanisms of visual Braga and Researcher at ICVS, University
Program, conference and poster abstracts correlates of visual awareness; clinical applications in brain perception; role of cortical dynamics in perceptual of Minho, Braga, Portugal. Scientific interests:
Download app Miguel Castelo-Branco | Full Professor, University computer interfaces (BCIs) and neurofeedback studies. organization; information transfer in the

Creativity
neurobiology of stress and brain network plasticity.
of Coimbra, Portugal. Affiliate Professor, University retinogeniculate system.

April 3 to 6, 2024
of Maastricht, The Netherlands, where he has held
a Professorship in Psychology in 2000. Before, Edward Kelly | Professor, Division of Perceptual Mark Runco | Director of Creativity
Postdoctoral fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Studies, Department of Psychiatry and Research & Programming, Southern Caroline Watt | Holder of the Koestler
Research. Director of IBILI and Scientific Coordinator of the Neurobehavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Oregon University, USA. Founding Editor Chair of Parapsychology, and founder
National Functional Brain Imaging Network. Director of University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA. (now Editor Emeritus) of the Creativity member of the Koestler Parapsychology
CIBIT and former Director of ICNAS, University of Coimbra. Co-director of Ray Westphal Neuroimaging Laboratory. Research Journal, Chief Editor of the Journal of Unit, Psychology Department, University of
Scientific interests: sensory and perceptual neuroscience, Scientific interests: neuroimaging studies of exceptional psi Creativity. Co-Editor of the Encyclopedia of Edinburgh, Scotland. Scientific interests: testing
and neurobiology of decision-making; social cognition and subjects and psi-conducive states of consciousness, and Creativity. Scientific interests: cognitive bases of the psi hypothesis using the ganzfeld method;
reward in health and disease, with a focus on autism both scientific and philosophical theories of consciousness creativity and divergent thinking; educating to fulfill replication and methodological issues in
research. and mind/brain relations. creative potentials. parapsychology.