Finding Consciousness in the Brain

A neurocognitive approach

Editor

Peter G. Grossenbacher

| National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda

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ISBN 9789027251282 (Eur) | EUR 72.00

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How does the brain go about the business of being conscious? Though we cannot yet provide a complete answer, this book explains what is now known about the neural basis of human consciousness.

The last decade has witnessed the dawn of an exciting new era of cognitive neuroscience. For example, combination of new imaging technologies and experimental study of attention has linked brain activity to specific psychological functions. The authors are leaders in psychology and neuroscience who have conducted original research on consciousness. They wish to communicate the highlights of this research to both specialists and interested others, and hope that this volume will be read by students concerned with the neuroscientific underpinnings of subjective experience. As a whole, the book progresses from an overview of conscious awareness, through careful explanation of identified neurocognitive systems, and extends to theories which tackle global aspects of consciousness. (Series B)

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 8] 2001. xvi, 326 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.8

Table of Contents

Apology	vii
Foreword Michael I. Posner	ix
Acknowledgments	xii
Preface	xiii
Contributors	xv
1. A phenomenalogical introduction to the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness Peter G. Grossenbacher	1
I. EDGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS	21
2. Now you see it, now you don’t: Preventing consciousness with visual masking Mark Price	25
3. Consciousness of the physical and the mental: Evidence from autism Simon Baron-Cohen	61
II. MENTAL CONTENT AND ACTION	77
Visual consciousness Stephen M. Kosslyn	79
5. Intersensory integration: Underlying neural mechanisms Barry E. Stein and Mark T. Wallace	105
6. Implicit perception in action: Short-lived motor representation of space Yves Rossetti	133
III. FRAME OF MIND	183
7. Arousal: Conscious experience and brain mechanisms Roger Whitehead and Scott D. Schliebner	187
8. Emotion and conscious experience: Perceptual and attentional influences of anxiety Douglas Derryberry	221
IV. BRAIN EVOLUTION	245
9. Consciousness: A preparatory and comparative process Phan Luu, John M. Kelley and Daniel Levitin	247
10. Multisensory coordination and the evolution of consciousness Peter G. Grossenbacher	277
Subject Index	315
Name Index	323

“[...] the enormous benefit any reader interested into the problem of the “how is” and the “what is” of consciousness will have upon the completion of reading this book. [...] the discussed material is definitely something which should not be missed or taken lightly.”

Constantinos Athanasopoulos in Metapsychology Feb 16th 2002

“[...] interfaces between traditional psychological and neuroscience research areas and consciousness studies are definitly established.”

Talis Bachmann, Chair of Psychology, Institute of Law, Tallinn, Estonia

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Subjects

Consciousness Research

Consciousness research

Psychology

Cognitive psychology

Neuropsychology

BIC Subject: JMT – States of consciousness

BISAC Subject: PSY020000 – PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 98051348 | Marc record