【現職】

• 中央研究院研究、歐美研究所兼任研究員 (2023.12.01 至今)。

• 國立成功大學、醫學院小兒學科、資深神經科學研究員(2025.9.01至今) 。

• Consciousness & Cognition《意識與認知》，副主編  (2016.10.01至今)。

【學術與研究相關網站】

• ORCID：https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8608-4270
• Web of Science Researcher ID：R-8182-2019
• 中央研究院：https://www.ea.sinica.edu.tw/Content_People_Page.aspx?pid=4&uid=43&peoid=218
• Consciousness and Cognition：https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/consciousness-and-cognition/about/editorial-board
• ResearchGate：https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Timothy-Lane-5
• Google Scholar：https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tWFAqhEAAAAJ&hl=en

正在進行的重點研究計畫、神經哲學

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進行關於腦與意識的概念性與實證研究；特別強調意識障礙，尤其是植物人狀態。

臨床目標：改善昏迷和植物人患者的診斷、預後和治療。

科學目標：研究意識的神經先決條件與意識相關神經區。

哲學目標：釐清昏迷或植物人患者在停止醫療處置、改善生活品質和判定腦死亡的規範標準。

技術轉移：設計可攜式腦電圖裝置，用於在昏迷和植物人患者中檢測隱蔽意識的神經元信號證據。

社會責任：（一）協助照顧昏迷或植物人患者的家庭安排最佳的神經內科、神經外科及復健科照護；（二）推動公眾對於意識障礙的認識與教育；（三）遊說改善公共政策，以幫助意識障礙患者及其家庭。

臨床試驗資料集：植物人狀態患者（n=81）的腦部代謝、腦血流、自發性神經活動及對10毫克使蒂諾斯的反應。

學術專長領域：

• 意識障礙
• 心智哲學
• 意識科學
• 神經科學
• 神經倫理學

學歷：

• 聖路易大學附屬高中 (St. Louis, MO)（1967年至1971年）
• 印第安那大學（Bloomington, IN）學術領域：醫學院預科、學士學位 。（1971年8月至1973年12月）
• 匹茲堡大學 (Pittsburgh, PA)（1974年8月年至1987年8月) 學術領域：哲學及心理人類學、博士學位。（期間因為工作及家庭因素延長修業年限。）
• 聖路易華盛頓大學 (St. Louis, MO)（1991年至1992，1995年至1996年）學術領域：哲學/神經科學/心理學、博士後研究。

經歷：

• 臺北醫學大學心智哲學講座教授 (2012.08.01~ 2023.07.31).
• 衛生福利部雙和醫院大腦與意識研究中心創辦人兼主任(2015.03.01~2023.07.31).
• 臺北醫學大學心智意識與腦科學研究所創辦人兼教授 (2017.08.01~2023.07.31).
• 衛生福利部雙和醫院研究部顧問 (2015.08.01~ 2023.07.31).
• 北醫校級神經醫學研究中心、副主任 (2018.08.01~ 2023.07.31).
• 中央研究院、歐美研究所研究員 (2013.01.01~ 2023.07.31).
• 臺北醫學大學人文暨社會科學院、院長 (2014~2020)
• 國立政治大學心智、大腦與學習研究中心兼任研究員 (2012~2020)
• 國立政治大學神經科學研究所專任教授以及心智, 大腦, 與學習研究中心專任研究員 (講師, 副教授及,教授及特聘教授—1984-2012年)
• 田納西州立大學傑出講座獎, (2014-2015, 婉拒此職)
• 國立政治大學, 理學院, 副院長, (2012, 婉拒此職)
• 國立政治大學研究發展處學術評鑑組組長, 2006-2008年. 
• 國立中正大學哲學系兼任教授, 2008-2012年.
• 華盛頓大學在聖路易兼任教師, 1995-1996年.
• 國立政治大學哲學系兼任教授, 1992-2009年.
• 匹茲堡大學兼任教師, 1986-1987年.
• 中央研究院研究訪問學者, 1981-1984年. 
• 馬里蘭大學兼任教師, 1980年.
• 杜肯大學兼任教師, 1979年.
• 匹茲堡大學教學助理，研究助理及教師, 1974-1978年. 

獲獎紀錄：

• 國家榮譽學會 (National Honor Society), 1967-1971 (Anna F. Backer Chapter).
• Joseph and Frances Morgan-Swain Fellow, 1971-1973.
• National Defense Education Act Fellow, 1976-1978.
• 安德魯·W·梅隆基金會研究員(Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow), 1981-1982.
• 美國心理衛生研究院研究員 (National Institute of Mental Health Fellow), 1982-1984.
• 財團法人太平洋文化基金會研究員, 1984-1985.
• 國立政治大學教學特優獎, 2002-2003.
• 教育部人文社會學科學術強化創新計畫, 2006.
• 國立政治大學學術研究成果國際化優等研究獎, 2007.
• 國立政治大學學術研究獎, 2010-2011.
• 國科會獎勵特殊優秀人才, 2011-2012 (100-3114-C-004-001-ES)
• 國家科學委員會傑出研究獎, 2012.
• 國立政治大學學術研究獎－研究特優獎, 2012.
• 國科會獎勵特殊優秀人才, 2012-2013.
• 特聘教授, 國立政治大學神經科學研究所, 2012-2015. (婉拒此職)
• 臺北醫學大學大型研究計畫獎, 2014.
• 田納西州立大學傑出講座獎(Basler Chair of Excellence for the Integration of the Arts, Rhetoric, and Science, Eastern Tennessee State University), 2014-2015.
• 臺北醫學大學心智哲學講座教授February 1, 2012~2023.
• 臺北醫學大學師鐸獎, (2020)
• 高級專業人才歸化取得中華民國身分證2021.05.12

獎學金與研究補助：

• Tuition Assistance Scholarship獎學金, 聖路易大學附屬高中 (St. Louis, MO). 1967-1971.
• Joseph and Frances Morgan-Swain Fellowship獎學金, 印第安那大學 (Bloomington, IN), 1971-1973.
• Teaching Assistant and Teaching Fellowships教學助理及研究員獎學金, 匹茲堡大學 (Pittsburgh, PA), 1974-1979.
• National Defense Education Act Fellowship獎學金, 1976-1978.
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship基金會獎學金, 1981-1982.
• 計畫主持人National Institute of Mental Health Fellowship美國國家心理健康學會1982-1984. (1 F31 MH 08417-01). 經費總額：80,000 (USD).
• 財團法人太平洋文化基金會, 1984-1985.
• 聖路易華盛頓大學獎學金, 1991-1992 & 1995-1996.
• 計畫主持人2008-2011年：國家科學委員會三年連續計畫。計畫名稱－「自我與現象意識」(97-2410-H-004-154-MY3).  經費總額：2,179,000 (NTD)
• 計畫主持人2011-2014年：國家科學委員會三年連續計畫。  計畫名稱－「歸屬：心智歸屬論及研究綱領」 (100-2410-H-004-139-MY3). 經費總額：2,586,000 (NTD)
• 計畫主持人2013-2014：國家科學委員會二年連續計畫。計畫名稱－「酬賞發生時的神經元活動能預測自我關聯性嗎？」（102-2420-H-038-002-MY2）經費總額：2,460,000 (NTD)
• 計畫主持人2013-2015：國家科學委員會三年連續計畫。  計畫名稱－ 「自我,意識與神經哲學」（102-2420-H-038-001-MY3）經費總額：2,086,000 (NTD)
• 計畫主持人2014-2016：國家科學委員會三年連續計畫。計畫名稱－ 『培育年輕人才—意識哲學』. （102-2420-H-038-004-MY3）經費總額：10,589,000 (NTD)
• 計畫主持人2013-現在： 臺北醫學大學特色研究團隊—腦神經與意識.  經費總額：2,000,000 (NTD).
• 計畫共同主持人2014-2015年：科技部二年連續計畫。「以磁振造影探討入睡歷程意識轉變之神經生理基礎」 (103-2420-H-004-MY2）經費總額：2,235,000 (NTD).
• 計畫主持人2014-2015年：意識損傷病人唑吡坦 (Zolpidem) 治療作用的預測 — 一項多模式影像研究 (103-2811-H-038 -002 ) 補助延攬客座專家。經費總額：922,000 (NTD).
• 計畫主持人2015-2017：科技部三年連續計畫。  計畫名稱－「情緒與宗教信仰對於道德判斷上的影響-以核磁造影作為研究工具」(104-2420-H-038 -001 -MY3). 經費總額：3,807,000 (NTD).
• 計畫主持人2016-2017年：意識損傷病人唑比坦(Zolpidem)治療作用的預測 — 一項多模式影像研究(105-2410-H-038-004). 經費總額： 1,042,000 (NTD)
• 計畫主持人2016-2019：科技部三年連續計畫。計畫名稱─「以多重模式大腦-意識功能評估探討憂鬱症病人之自我意識」 (105-2632-H-038-001) . 經費總額：6,787,000 (NTD).
• 計畫主持人2017-2020：意識損傷病人唑比坦(Zolpidem)治療作用的預測 — 一項多模式影像研究 (106-2410-H-038-003-MY3). 經費總額： 4,908,000 (NTD)
• 計畫主持人2020-2021：思覺失調症患者雙側頂葉與前額葉的麩氨酸系統：一個腦部功能性核磁共振掃描、靜止狀態磁振造影、核磁共振頻譜的研究 (MOST109-2410-H-038-009) 經費總額：986,000 NTD
• 計畫主持人2022-2025：意識體化之多維測量運用於意識損傷病患(1/3) (NSTC 111-2410-H-038-012) 經費總額：1,427,000 NTD
• 計畫主持人2023-2024：結合哲學與經驗科學限制來發展可檢測的意識假設─特別應用於意識障礙病患.

近期學術著作：

• (In preparation) Cortical Metabolic Changes in Disorders of Consciousness Follow Canonical Functional Gradients.
• (In preparation) Recovery of Conscious Function from Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome After Extensive Bilateral Prefrontal Injury: A Prospective Multimodal MRI Study of Residual Brain Organization Linking. 
• (In preparation) Altered Posterior Cingulate Cortex Metabolism in Disorders of Consciousness.
• (Under Review) Decreased functional connectivity of the orbitofrontal cortex predicts dissociative symptoms among patients with schizophrenia. (Equal Contribution.)
• 2026 (July 27) Arterial Spin Labeling of Cerebral Perfusion in Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome: A Proof-of-Concept Comparison with FDG-PET. Neurocrit Care (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12028-026-02606-z. SharedIt link: https://rdcu.be/fwies (Corresponding and Lead Author)
• (Preprint) Competing democratic and autocratic long-run regimes in a minimal norm-institution model. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6567178 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6567178
   
• 2024 (December) Structural alterations in a rumination-related network in patients with major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. Volume 345. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2024.111911.
• 2024 (December 4) Do not fail unresponsive patients. Opinion Piece, Taipei Times. https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2024/12/04/2003827917(Single Author)
• 2024 (May 2)「Science期刊研究大腦網絡有助未來治療意識障礙的病患」專家意見 。台灣科技媒體中心 https://smctw.tw/17192/ (Single Author)
• 2024 (February) Functional blindsight and its diagnosis. Frontiers in Neurology. Volume 15 - 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2024.1207115 (First Author)
• 2023 (July) DLPFC-PPC-cTBS effects on metacognitive awareness. Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.05.022
• 2023 (January) Eyes-Open and Eyes-Closed Resting State Network Connectivity  Differences. Brain Sciences. 2023; 13(1):122. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13010122
• 2022 (December) Breathing is coupled with voluntary initiation of mental imagery. Neuroimage. 264, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119685.
• 2022 (March) Intrinsic neural activity predisposes susceptibility to a body illusion. Cerebral Cortex Communications 3, 1, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1093/texcom/tgac012 (Corresponding and Lead Author).
• 2021 (September) Depressive rumination is correlated with brain responses during self-related processing. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 46, 5, E518-E527. DOI: 10.1503/jpn.210052 (Corresponding Author)
• 2021 (August) Spontaneous thought-related network connectivity predicts sertraline effect on major depressive disorder. Brain imaging and behavior 15, 4, 1705-1717. DOI: 10.1007/s11682-020-00364-w (1st author, equal contribution)
• 2021 (May) From local to global and back: an exploratory study on cross-scale desynchronization in schizophrenia and its relation to thought disorders. Schizophrenia Research 231, 10-12. DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2021.02.021
• 2021 (February) Occipital gamma—aminobutyric acid and glutamate-glutamine alterations in major depressive disorder: An MRS study and meta-analysis.
• Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2020.111238 (Corresponding author)
• 2020 (December) Reactivity of intrinsic activity temporal structure to a behavioural state change is correlated with depressive symptoms. European Journal of Neuroscience 52, 12, 4840-4850. DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14858 (Corresponding and Lead Author)
• 2020 (October) The minimal self hypothesis. Consciousness & Cognition.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2020.103029 (Single author)
• 2020 (July) Somebody is home. Cognitive Neuropsychology 37, 3-4, 193-196. DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2020.1738364 (Single author).
• 2020 (April) Intrinsic brain activity of subcortical-cortical sensorimotor system and psychomotor alterations in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Schizophrenia Research 218, 157-165. DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2020.01.009 (Corresponding Author)
• 2020 (January) Abnormal functional relationship of sensorimotor network with neurotransmitter-related nuclei via subcortical-cortical loops in manic and depressive phases of bipolar disorder. Schizophrenia Bulletin 46, 1, 163-174. DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbz035
• 2019 (November 22) Temporal preparation, impulsivity and short-term memory in depression. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00258
• 2019 (August 2) Indication of Dynamic Neurovascular Coupling from Inconsistency Between EEG and fMRI Indices Across Sleep–Wake States. Sleep and Biological Rhythms. DOI:10.1007/s41105-019-00232-1 (Corresponding author)
• 2019 (August) Instability of brain connectivity during nonrapid eye movement sleep reflects altered properties of information integration. Human Brain Mapping 40, 11, 3139-3410. DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24590
• 2018 (July) Strong Circadian Rhythms in the Choroid Plexus: Implications for     Sleep-Independent Brain Metabolite Clearance. Journal of experimental neuroscience 12, 1-4. DOI: 10.1177/1179069518783762
• 2018 (June) The neurophysiological basis of the discrepancy between objective and subjective sleep during sleep onset period: an EEG-fMRI study. Sleep 41, 6, zsy056, https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsy056 (Corresponding author)
• 2018 (May) Vascular-metabolic and GABAergic inhibitory correlates of neural variability modulation. A combined fMRI and PET study. Neuroscience 379, 142-151. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.02.041 (Corresponding author)
• 2018 (March) 意識測量儀初登場 。科學人 3月號/2018 第193期 38-42。https://www.scitw.cc/posts/8704 (First Author)
• 2018 (February 15) Abnormal resting state connectivity in a substantia nigra-related striato-thalamo cortical network in a large sample of first-episode drug naïve patients with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin 44(2):419-431. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbx067.
• 2018 (January 13) Too fast or too slow? Time and neuronal variability in bipolar disorder—A combined theoretical and empirical investigation. Schizophrenia Bulletin 44(1):54-64. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbx050 (Lead Author)
• 2017 Rationality: Constraints and Contexts, 1st Edition. London: Academic Press. https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128046005/rationality (Co-edited with T. W. Hung.)
• 2017 Rationality and its contexts. In Hung, T. W. and Lane, T. Eds. Rationality: Constraints and Contexts. London: Academic Press. pp. 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804600-5.00001-5 (Single author)
• 2017 Is depressive rumination rational? In Hung, T. W. and Lane, T. Eds. Rationality: Constraints and Contexts. London: Academic Press. pp. 119-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804600-5.00007-6 (First and corresponding author)
• 2017 (December 12) Switching to the rubber hand. Frontiers in Psychology—Cognitive Science. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02172. (Equal contribution and corresponding author)
• 2017 (October) Cerebral blood flow autoregulation is impaired in schizophrenia: A pilot study.  Schizophrenia Research 188:63-67. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2017.01.015.
• 2017 (April 2) Philosophy and Psychiatry: Problems, intersections, and new perspectives.  Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 16(4). https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/philosophy-and-psychiatry-problems-intersections-and-new-perspectives/ (Single author)
• 2017 (January) Timing disownership experiences in the rubber hand illusion. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 2(1) 1-14. DOI: 10.1186/s41235-016-0041-4 (First and corresponding author)
• 2017 (January 5) Attention and memory-driven effects in action studies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, pp. 48-49. doi:10.1017/S0140525X15000965, e229 (Corresponding author)
• 2016 (July) The trajectory of self. Cell: Trends in cognitive sciences. 20, 7, 481-482. DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2016.03.004 (First and corresponding author).
• 2016 (April) Spontaneous activity in default-mode network predicts ascription of self-relatedness to stimuli. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience 11, 4, 693-702. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw008
• 2016 Resting state glutamate predicts pre-stimulus alpha increase during self-relatedness—A combined EEG-MRS study on rest-self overlap. Social Neuroscience 11, 3, 249-263 DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2015.1072582 (Corresponding author)
• 2015 Self, belonging, and conscious experience: A critique of subjectivity theories of consciousness. In R. Gennaro, Ed. Disturbed Consciousness: New Essays on Psychopathology and Theories of Consciousness.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.pp. 103-140. DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262029346.003.0005 (Single author)
• 2015 (October) GABAA Receptor Deficits Predict Recovery in Patients With Disorders of Consciousness: A Preliminary Multimodal [11C] Flumazenil PET and fMRI Study. Human Brain Mapping 36, 10, 3867-3877 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22883
• 2014 When actions feel alien: An explanatory model.  In Hung, T. W. Ed. Communicative Action.  Springer Science+Business Media. pp. 53-74. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-4585-84-2_4 (Single author)
• 2012 Timing the rubber hand illusion: Owning the rubber hand involves substitution, not addition. Perception (Supplement), 41, 212.
• 2012 (February 19) Toward an Explanatory Framework for Mental Ownership. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 11(2): 251-286. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-012-9252-4 (Single author)
• 2011 (February) Self-Consciousness and Immunity. The Journal of Philosophy 108, 2: 78-99. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23039007 (First and corresponding author)
• 2010 The Threshold of Wakefulness, the Experience of Control, and Theory Development.  Consciousness and Cognition 19: 1095-1096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2010.05.015 (First Author)
• 2010 What Subjective Experiences Determine the Perception of Falling Asleep During the Sleep Onset Period? Consciousness and Cognition 19: 1084-1092.  DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2009.12.017 (Lead Author)
• 2010 The Ethics of False Belief. EurAmerica Vol. 40, 3: 591-633. (Single author)
• 2010 Issues at the Intersection of Ethics, Evolution, and Neuroscience.  EurAmerica Vol. 40, 3: 519-527. (Single author)
• 2010 Mental Ownership and Higher-Order Thought. Analysis (July) 70, 3: 496-501. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40930225. (First and corresponding author)
• 2009 Higher-Order Thought and Pathological Selves: The Case of Somatoparaphrenia Analysis (October) 69: 661-668. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40607785 (Corresponding author, co-1st author, equal contribution)
• 2008 Higher-Order Thought and the Problem of Radical Confabulation. The Southern Journal of Philosophy XLVI (1): 69-98. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40607785. (First and corresponding author)

近期學術會議發表之口頭報告論文：

• 2026 (June 14~18) “Altered Cortical Metabolism in Disorders of Consciousness.” Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Bordeaux, France.

• 2025 (November 6) “The loneliest patients: Vegetative Patients are not Vegetative—how Public Health can help alleviate their loneliness.” National Cheng Kung University, College of Public Health. Tainan, Taiwa.

• 2025 (August 7) “Linking brain activity to consciousness in a case of severe prefrontal injury: A case study and control group comparison.” Consciousness Research Network 2025. Bangkok, Thailand.
• 2025 (July 9) “Cortical Metabolic Changes in Disorders of Consciousness Follow Canonical Functional Gradients.” Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
• 2025 (July 9) “Linking Brain Activity to Consciousness in a Case of Severe Prefrontal Injury: A Case Study and Control Group Comparison.” Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
• 2025 (June 26) “Cortical Metabolic Changes in Disorders of Consciousness Follow Canonical Functional Gradients.” Organization of Human Brain Mapping. Brisbane, Australia.
• 2025 (April 23) “Systemic ignorance and institutional neglect in the care of patients who suffer from Disorders of Consciousness--a solution through Public Health.” National Cheng Kung University, College of Public Health. Tainan, Taiwan.
• 2024 (August 15).【藍亭 X 莊衿葳分享會：植物患者的大腦意識實驗】與大眾分享植物患者的大腦意識研究。 藍亭教授將講述神經科學與植物患者之大腦結構，以及莊衿葳父親的實驗經驗。 #植物人 #植物患者 https://www.accupass.com/event/2407281423351349636637. Taipei, Taiwan.
• 2023 (December 8, 2023) “In search of consciousness: From Jaynes to Disorders of Consciousness.” China Medical University, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery. Taichung, Taiwan.
• 2022 (November 14) “Pathologies of consciousness and self in neurology and psychiatry.” National Taiwan University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry.
• 2021 (March 15) “The Neuroscience of Self and Consciousness.” Tzu Chi University. Hualien, Taiwan.
• 2021 (March 13) “Inside the Vegetative Brain.” National Taiwan University Hospital. Taipei, Taiwan.
• 2020 (June 12) “The science of self-consciousness.” National Taiwan Normal University. 
• 2019 (December 4) “In search of the minimal self: the Case or Unresponsive Wakefulness”.  National Yang Ming University, Institute of Neuroscience.
• 2019 (April 27) “Can a blind man ‘see’? Judicial Reform and the case of Chen Jingkai.” Judicial Reform Conference on Cortical Visual Impairment. National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
• 2018 (November 20-23) QS Forum: Focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. QS-Apple2018.  Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea. 
• 2018 (November 9-11) Predicting therapeutic effects of zolpidem in patients who suffer from Disorders of Consciousness. Regional Asian Clinical Trial Annual Forum 2018. Taipei, Taiwan.
• 2018 (October 5-7) Self without Consciousness—Unresponsive Wakefulness and NREM Sleep. Selfless Minds: Radical Disruptions of Self-Consciousness Conference. Frankfurt, Germany.
• 2018 (June 1) Measuring Consciousness: GABA Concentrations in the posterio-medial cortex of Disorders of Consciousness Patients.  Ningbo Medical Center Lihuili Eastern Hospital, Ningbo, China.
• 2017 (November) Developing Models of Artificial Intelligence and Empathy. Artificial Intelligence Workshop, co-hosted by National Taiwan University and National Chengkung University, Taipei, Taiwan. November 4.
• 2017 (September) Consciousness and Self: Levels, Limits, and the Spontaneous Brain, Symposium Organizer.  The 11^th International Conference on Cognitive Sciences. September 1-3.
• 2017 (September) Chang L-A, Tseng P, Lane TJ* (2017) Dissociation of intention and personal force in judgments of moral dilemma. The 11th International Conference of Cognitive Science.
• 2017 Chang L-A, Tseng P, Lane TJ* (September) Ill intention is the key to trigger the moral alarm: Cultural variations in moral judgments in harm and purity domains. The 11th International Conference of Cognitive Science.
• 2017 (June) Levels of consciousness and the brain’s intrinsic activity.  21^st Annual Meeting for the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.  Beijing, China. June 13-16. 
• 2017 (April 22-27) Qin, P., Lane, T., et al. Vascular-metabolic and GABAergic inhibitory modulation of neural variability. A combined fMRI and PET study.  26^th Annual Meeting: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. 
• 2017 (February 27) The concept of “self” in neuroscience research. State University of Malang, Indonesia. 
• 2017 (February 13) The brain and ethics: A personal view.  Ministry of Health and Welfare, Chiayi Hospital.  Chiayi City, Taiwan. 
• 2016 (December 12) Self, ketamine, and depression.  National Taiwan University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry.  Taipei, Taiwan.
• 2016 (October 26) Multi-modal investigations of neurological and psychiatric pathology. Neuroscience, pulmonary diseases, and dengue fever. University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
• 2016 (October) One type of Major Depressive Disorder:  Brooding, self-focused rumination and elevated glutamatergic activity in the perigenual anterior cingulate cortex.  Taiwan Psychological Association Annual Conference.  Tainan, Taiwan. 
• 2016 (August) Plenary Lecture: The trajectory of self.  The 3^rd Conference on Contemporary Philosophy in East Asia.  Seoul National University.  Seoul, Korea.
• 2016 (June) Altered rest-stimulus interaction during self-processing in major depressive disorder.  (Co-authored with Niall Duncan et al.) 20^th Annual Meeting for the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Buenos Aires, Argentina. June 15-18.
• 2016 (February) Self in the brain.  International Neuroscience Symposium II.  Taipei, Taiwan.
• 2015 (November) Resting state glutamate predicts elevated pre-stimulus alpha during self-relatedness – A combined EEG-MRS study on rest-self overlap. Symposium for Body, Mind, and Culture—2015 Forum of MOST Research Projects on Brain Imaging for Mind Science.  National Taiwan University, November 14-15. 
• 2015 (November) Self and consciousness doubly dissociate.  Taiwan Philosophical Association Annual Conference.  National Taiwan University. November 7-8, 2015.
• 2015 (August) A dispositional HOT theory of belonging: Assessing the neural plausibility of HOT Theory’s dispositional account of self and belonging. Higher-Order Theories and Mental Qualities: A conference in honor of David Rosenthal.  Taipei, Taiwan.  August 3-5, 2015. 
• 2015 (July) Oral Presentation:  Implications of the “Lazarus Response” for understanding the relationship between for-me-ness and phenomenal characters. 19^th Annual Meeting for the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Paris, France. July 7-10. 
• 2015 (May) Neuroscience and philosophy:  Closing the gap.  Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University.  Chungli, Taiwan.
• 2015 (April) Religion and the Brain. East Tennessee State University—The Wayne G. Basler Lecture.
• 2015 (February) Loss of self and consciousness: Somatoparaphrenia, sleep, vegetative state, and MTBI.  Center for Neural Regenerative Medicine, Taipei Medical University. 
• 2014 (October) Philosophy and the Brain.  Shuang Ho Hospital.  New Taipei City, Taiwan. 
• 2014 (October) In search of the self: From The Exorcist to Vegetative State Patients.  East Tennessee State University—The Wayne G. Basler Lecture.
• 2014 (August) Lane, T. and Northoff, G. “Is depressive rumination rational?”  IEAS Conference on Reason and Rationality.  Academia Sinica.  Taipei, Taiwan. 
• 2014 (July) Lane, T., Yeh, S. L., et al. The “lingering alpha effect”:  Baseline alpha-band spectral power differences correlate with susceptibility to the rubber hand illusion.  18^th Annual Meeting for the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Brisbanne, Australia. July 16-19.
• 2014 (May) Yeh, S. L., Lane, T., et al. Difference between eyes-closed and eyes-open resting state alpha power is an indicator of susceptibility to the rubber hand illusion.  Vision Sciences Society 13^th Annual Meeting. St. Pete, Florida, USA. 
• 2013 (September) C. Y. Lin, G. Northoff, T. Lane, and N. S. Yen.  “The neural correlates of hindsight bias in political elections and general knowledge events.”  Society for Neuroeconomics Annual Meeting, Lausanne, Switzerland. September 27-29. 
• 2013 (September) “Actions subjectively experienced are actions that seem not to belong to me.” Academia Sinica, International Conference on Language and Action.  September 17-18.
• 2013 (July). Timothy Lane, Su-Ling Yeh, and An-Yi Chang. “Switching attention to the rubber hand.” 17^th Annual Meeting for the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. San Diego, USA.  July 12-15.
• 2013 (July). Lee-Xieng Yang and Timothy Lane. “A computational model of the rubber hand illusion.” 17^th Annual Meeting for the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. San Diego, USA.  July 12-15.
• 2013 (July 5). “Neuroethics: A personal view”.  National Cheng Kung University, College of Medicine.  Tainan, Taiwan. 
• 2013 (March 26) “Science verifies philosophy, while philosophy enriches science.” Invited Lecture.  National Chengchi University, Office of Research and Development.
• 2013 (February 15-28) “Alienation and self-presentation.” Invited Commenter for Special Session on Self-Consciousness. The 5^th Online Consciousness Conference.  http://consciousnessonline.com/
• 2013 (February 5-6) “Neurophilosophy: neuroscience and consciousness.”  Workshop on neuroscience, the humanities, and the social sciences.  The MRI Center, National Cheng Kung University. 
• 2012 (December 4) “Estrangement Experiences.”  International Workshop on Consciousness—Consciousness: neural predispositions, privacy, and entropy.  Research Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning, National Chengchi University.
• 2012 (November 17-18) “The forensic self: self-, thick-, and exculpatory- experiences.” 2012 Conference on Normative Philosophy.  Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica. 
• 2012 (November 6, 2012) “Self, brain, and the experience of belonging.” Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica. 
• 2012 (October 26, 2012) “‘Culture’ is too coarse-grained to play an explanatory role in science or philosophy.”  International Conference on Mind Sciences, Humanity, and Culture. National Taiwan University College of Medicine. 
• 2012 (October 14, 2012) Invited Talk: “Pathologies and illusions of belonging or estrangement and their implications for the understanding of self.”  The 51^st Annual Conference of the Taiwan Psychological Association. 
• 2012 (September) Invited Talk: “The sub-personal self.”  First Conference on Contemporary Philosophy in East Asia.  Academia Sinica. Taipei, Taiwan. 
• 2012 (September) An-Yi Chang, Timothy Lane, and Su-Ling Yeh. “Timing the rubber hand illusion: Owning the rubber hand involves substitution, not addition.”  European Conference on Visual Perception, Alghero, Italy.  
• 2012 (July) Invited Talk: “Mental Belonging as a Multi-Dimensional Phenomenon.” School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK. 
• 2012 (July) Timothy Lane and Georg Northoff, “Mineness, minimal self, and self-related processing.” 16^th Annual Meeting for the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Brighton, UK.  July 2-6.  (Concurrent Talk)
• 2012 (March) “Self-relatedness and the ‘isomeric’ model of mental belonging.” Workshop on Neuroethics, Neurophilosophy, and Philosophy of Science.  National Ching Hua University, Institute of Philosophy. 
• 2012 (February) What fMRI studies reveal about consciousness.  Workshop on Cognitive Neuroscience.  National Chengchi University, Department of Psychology and the Research Institute for Mind, Brain, and Learning. 
• 2011 (December) “Modeling the relationship between self and conscious mental states.” International Workshop on Self in Humans and Machines: Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Robotics.  National Chung Cheng University, Center for Research in Cognitive Science. 
• 2011 (November) Neuroexistentialism: Platonic and Tertullian Conceptions of Belief.  Conference on Normative Philosophy.  Academia Sinica. 
• 2011 (October) Pao-Chou Cho, Timothy Lane, and Su-Ling Yeh, “Action-Induced Rubber Hand Illusion,” 12^th International Multisensory Research Forum, Tohoku University, Japan. 
• 2011 (September) Kevin Wu and Timothy Lane, “Media Impact on Individual Suicidality: Could such an Experiment be Ethically Acceptable?” 12^th Asian Bioethics Conference.  National Taiwan University. 
• 2011 (June 13-14) ‘Toward an explanatory framework for mental ownership.’ International Workshop on Self-Consciousness, National Yang Ming University. 
• 2011 (June 9-12) ‘Self-Specificity and Mineness’ 15^th Annual Meeting for the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Kyoto, Japan.  Also: Chair for session, “Theories and Models of Consciousness.”
• 2010 (December 10) ‘Self and Consciousness.’ National Yang Ming University. 
• 2010 (November 19) ‘Media Impact on Individual Suicidality: A Proposal for an Ethical Neuroimaging Study’ Conference on Neuroscience, Mind, and Law, sponsored by the Center for Ethics, Law and Society of National Taiwan University. 
• 2010 (October 25-26) ‘Self-Consciousness and the Rubber Hand Illusion.’ International Conference on Perception and Self-Consciousness.  National Taiwan University. 
• 2010 (August 17-20) ‘Self-Consciousness and Immunity.’  The 7^th International Conference on Cognitive Science.  Beijing, China. 
• 2010 (June) ‘Mental Ownership Constrains the Rubber Hand Illusion’ 14^th Annual Meeting for the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Toronto, June 24-27.  (Concurrent Talk)
• 2009 (November 21) ‘Positive Illusions and the Ethics of Belief.’ Neuroscience of Ethics and Decision Making: Philosophy, Ethics, and Policy Issues of “Seeing the Mind.” National Taiwan University. 
• 2009 (November 1) ‘Self-Consciousness and Immunity’ Taiwan Logic and Analytic Philosophy Inaugural Conference.  National Taiwan University. 
• 2009 (June) ‘Somatoparaphrenia and Immunity to Error through Misidentification.’ 13^th Annual Meeting for the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Berlin, June 5-8.  (Concurrent Talk)
• 2009 (May) ‘Self-Consciousness and the Immunity Principle.’  Yang-Ming and Soochow Co-Workshop on Metaphysics.  National Yang Ming University.
• 2009 (April) ‘The Intersection of Ethics and Neuroscience.’ Neuroscience, Ethics and Law II.  National Taiwan University.    
• 2008 (December) ‘A soft self with a hard core: prospects for the soft-assembly view of self.’  Conference: Body, Cognition and Meaning III.  Academia Sinica, Institute of European and American Studies. 
• 2008 (June) ‘Pathological self and the higher-order thought theory of consciousness.’  Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 12. 
• 2006 (May) ‘Tertullian Beliefs.’  International Conference on Naturalized Epistemology and Philosophy of Science.  Soochow University. 

北醫研究團隊重大專案、大腦與意識研究中心：

• 全國性意識障礙臨床試驗、fMRI, MRS (PCC-GABA), ASL, rsMRI, FDG-PET, and repurposed Zolpidem。
• 多模態腦神經影像對重度憂鬱症的研究、fMRI, MRS, rsMRI, EEG。
• 多模態腦神經影像對思覺失調症的研究、fMRI, MRS, rsMRI。
• 多模態腦神經影像對盲視的研究、fMRI, hypercapnia challenge, EEG-P300。

北醫特殊貢獻：

• 建立並執行了一項全國性的意識障礙臨床試驗 (2015~2023)
• 心智意識與腦科學研究所創辦人兼教授 (2019~2023)
• 心智意識與腦科學研究博士學位學程創辦人兼教授 (2019~2023)
• 北醫雙和大腦與意識研究中心創辦人兼主任 (2015~2023)
• 衛生福利部雙和醫院研究部顧問(2015~2023)
• 於北醫雙和醫院成立實驗隔間五間 (EEG, TMS & tDCS), Eye-tracker, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Physiological Signals.)
• 北醫任職期間 (2012~2023) 募款960,000美元
• 延攬人才之傑出表現：獲吳大猷計畫2位、獲科技部哥倫布計畫3位、獲科技部愛因斯坦培植計畫1位、獲腦科技發展及國際躍升計畫1位
• 國際研討會規劃與執行：David Rosenthal, 高階思想與心靈特質理論國際研討會:向David Rosenthal致敬、2015.
• 人社院院教評委員會 (2012~2023)
• 人社院院務會議(2014~2023)
• 校教評委員會(2014~2022)
• 校務會議(2014~2023)
• 管理學院教評會議代表（2016~2021）

政大特殊貢獻：

• 發展國際一流大學及頂尖研究中心計畫考核小組（2005年）
• 學術評鑑組，組長 (2006-2008)
• 首位規劃與執行校內外學術單位之教學與研究評鑑 (2006-2008)
• 首位規劃與執行政大學術倫理審查 (2009~2011)
• 校務會議委員 (1992~2009)
• 校務會議程序與法規委員會委員（2004年-2006年）
• 校級申訴評議委員會委員（2004年-2009年）
• 創造四維演講系列: Reinhard Selten, 1994 諾貝爾經濟學獎得主; John Barrow,  劍橋大學傑出的宇宙論學者與坦普頓獎得主; Allan Hobson, 哈佛大學著名的精神科教授，提出了夢的激發-整合理論， (Activation Synthesis Model)以及意識的AIM(Activation-Information-Modulation)理論; Randall Collins, 賓州大學卓越的社會學家，現為美國社會學會主席; Christopher Achen: 美國普林斯頓大學傑出的政治學者，美國院士。

評審委員：

• 科技部 (哲學，心理學 與 功能性磁振造影)
• 國家科學委員會 (哲學，心理學 與 功能性磁振造影)
• 教育部
• 人體試驗委員會
• 教學單位外部評鑑委員(哲學)
• 國立成功大學人文社會科學中心，心理系
• 國立臺灣大學 (哲學，心理學 與 功能性磁振造影)
• 國立臺灣大學醫院，內科系神經部
• 國立陽明大學
• 國立中央大學，生醫科學與工程學系
• 國立政治大學哲學系
• 中央研究院
• 研究倫理
• 臺灣哲學學會
• 中華心理學刊歐美研究期刊
• 臺灣大學哲學期刊
• 東吳大學哲學期刊
• 政治大學哲學期刊
• 臺灣邏輯與哲學季刊
• Advanced Science
• Current Biology
• Human Brain Mapping
• Journal of Affective Disorders
• The American Journal of Psychiatry
• Neuroscience
• Cognitive Neuropsychology
• Frontiers in Psychology
• Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
• Aging and Mental Health
• Australian Journal of Psychology
• Brain Sciences
• Behavioral Sciences
• Life
• Family Medicine and Community Health Journal
• Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice
• Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
• Philosophical Psychology
• Philosophy and Psychology
• The Journal of Philosophy
• Philosophy of Science
• Australasian Journal of Philosophy
• European Journal of Philosophy
• Minds and Machines
• Mind and Language
• Journal of Medical Ethics
• Philosophical Papers
• Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
• PsyCh Journal
• Palgrave Communications
• East Asian Science Technology and Society an Inter

教學工具：

• 教學工具設計者：英美哲學用詞英漢對照表https://philpeople.org/public_cache/file?content_type=application%2Fpdf&key=rdtepb9zrmuq96747lkskx0i1b8m
• 倫理與腦https://philpeople.org/public_cache/file?content_type=application%2Fpdf&key=1pi0wfnyjyauc5jwnoyokvn07r5b
• 腦與意識https://philpeople.org/public_cache/file?content_type=application%2Fpdf&key=6pz917n4mcd7dzzbdv2edaxubcjj
• 尋找意識：從傑恩斯(Julian Jaynes)到意識障礙https://philpeople.org/public_cache/file?content_type=application%2Fpdf&key=xj2iq88sib6z0pnuoq4v20m160tb

北醫課程名稱：

• 科學的意識理論 (心智意識與腦科學研究所)
• 研究生研討會 (心智意識與腦科學研究所)
• 心智大腦、人工智慧與倫理學 (跨領域學院)
• 哲學與意識科學 (通識教育中心)
• 普通心理學 (醫學院 和 口腔醫學院)

政大課程名稱：

• 意識科學
• 意識哲學
• 心靈哲學
• 神經倫理學
• 心理哲學
• 心靈與道德
• 英美哲學導論
• 邏輯學
• 科學哲學
• 心靈哲學專題
• 哲學基本問討論

台大課程名稱：

• 高等生理心理學 (腦與心智科學研究所)

中正課程名稱：

• 心靈哲學
• 神經倫理學

研究相關媒體報導：

• 2025 (April 5) “部分植物人有意識！意識障礙治療欠缺 學者籲成立研究型醫學中心” 自由時報https://health.ltn.com.tw/article/breakingnews/5002551
• 2024 (December 4) “Do not fail unresponsive patients.” Opinion Piece, Taipei Times. https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2024/12/04/2003827917
• 2020 (July 8) “Taiwan Neuroscience Can Shine.” News Report, Taipei Times. https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2020/07/08/2003739566

語言：

• 英文（母語）
• 中文（流利、在歸化考試中取得滿分）
• 拉丁文（可閱讀）

指導教授：Carl G. Hempel, Julian Jaynes, Herbert Simon