Mind and Life XVIII

Today began the eighteenth Mind and Life Conference, entitled Attention, Memory and the Mind: A Synergy of Psychological, Neuroscientific, and Contemplative Perspectives. If you know me, you may know how exciting this conference is for me in general, and you may have an inkling that this particular one is just my cup of tea. Here are this year's participants, who gathered this morning at His Holiness' residence in Dharamsala:

• Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness, the XIV Dalai Lama
• David E. Meyer, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
• B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D., President, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies
• Anne Treisman, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
• Rupert Gethin, Ph.D., Director of the Centre for Buddhist Studies, University of Bristol, UK
• Adele Diamond, Ph.D., Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Amishi Jha, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
• Clifford Saron, Ph.D., Assistant Research Scientist, Center for Mind and Brain, UC Davis
• Elizabeth Phelps, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, New York University
• Shaun Gallagher, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, University of Central Florida

Interpreters:

• Geshe Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D., President of the Institute of Tibetan Classics in Montreal
• B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D., President of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies

You can read more about Mind and Life XVIII here.