This three-hour mini-symposium brings together experts across King's College London, University College London and the universities of Duisburg-Essen and New England, who will cover a range of topics concerning alterations in belief and perception from the perspective of the predictive processing framework.

Agenda

15:00 Devin Terhune (King’s College London): Brief introduction

15:00-15:30 Quinton Deeley (King’s College London): Belief, suggestion, and the brain

15:30-16:00 Livia Asan (King’s College London & University of Duisburg-Essen): Harmful expectations: Mechanisms behind nocebo effects

16:00-16:30 Jianan Bao (King’s College London): Beliefs, expectations and the phenomenology of altered self-experiences in spiritualist mediums

16:30-17:00 Graham Jamieson (University of New England): Interoceptive predictive coding and response to hypnotic suggestion

17:00-17:15 Emily Currell (University College London): Learning from Spiritualist Mediums: Psychological and Neural Mechanisms

17:15 Discussion