The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (commonly referred to as the ASSC) is a professional membership organization that aims to encourage research on consciousness in cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines in the sciences and humanities, directed toward understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness. The organization was created in 1994 in Berkeley immediately after the first Tucson meeting by Patrick Wilken. The original aim of the organization was to act as a framework by which the international academic community could generate meetings devoted to the academic study of consciousness. The original founding members included Bernard Baars, William Banks, David Chalmers, Stanley Klein, George Buckner, David Rosenthal, Thomas Metzinger and Patrick Wilken. Since 1994 the organization has put on eleven meetings and taken on a host of other activities, including an e-print archive and the online journal Psyche.
In 2008 the executive committee of the association was composed as follows: Michael Gazzaniga (Past-President), David Rosenthal (President), Giulio Tononi (President-Elect); and six Members-at-Large, Christof Koch, Alva Noë, Susana Martinez-Conde, Paula Droege, and John-Dylan Haynes. In 2007 Christof Koch took over as Director and Chair of the Board from Patrick Wilken.
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