SubjectsConsciousness Research
Book series
ISSN 1381-589X
Journal
Consciousness: New perspectives, artificial consciousness, and the scientific progress of psychology
Sam S. Rakover
The book discusses consciousness and several theories that attempt to explain the phenomenon. So far, no one has been able to explain how the brain creates consciousness, mainly because no way has been discovered to measure it. The book’s main innovations are as follows:(1) A coherent treatment of… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 96] 2026. xviii, 182 pp. + index
Follow the Signs: Archetypes of consciousness embodied in the signs of language
Rodney B. Sangster
In this his latest book, Sangster presents a comprehensive theory that takes the cognitive view of language in a promising new direction, based upon how linguistic signs relate to one another at different levels of consciousness. At the rational level, where signs are necessarily experienced in… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 79] 2020. xiii, 175 pp.
The Internal Context of Bilingual Processing
John Truscott and Michael Sharwood Smith
This book offers a broad-based account of bilingual processing, drawing on research findings and current thinking from various domains across cognitive science. The theoretical approach adopted is the Modular Cognition Framework in which language processing is characterized as an interaction… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 8] 2019. xv, 327 pp.
Surprise at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Linguistics
Edited by Natalie Depraz and Agnès Celle
Surprise is treated as an affect in Aristotelian philosophy as well as in Cartesian philosophy. In experimental psychology, surprise is considered to be an emotion. In phenomenology, it is only addressed indirectly (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas), with the important exception of Ricœur and Maldiney;… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 11] 2019. vi, 185 pp.
The Abstraction Engine: Extracting patterns in language, mind and brain
Michael Fortescue
The main thesis of this book is that abstraction, far from being confined to higher forms of cognition, language and logical reasoning, has actually been a major driving force throughout the evolution of creatures with brains. It is manifest in emotive as well as rational thought. Wending its way… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 94] 2017. vi, 192 pp.
Consciousness and Object: A mind-object identity physicalist theory
Riccardo Manzotti
What is the conscious mind? What is experience? In 1968, David Armstrong asked “What is a man?” and replied that a man is “a certain sort of material object”. This book starts from his question but proceeds along a different path. The traditional mind-brain identity theory is set aside, and a… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 95] 2017. xv, 254 pp.
Free Indirect Style in Modernism: Representations of consciousness
Eric Rundquist
Free Indirect Style (FIS) is a linguistic technique that defies the logic of human subjectivity by enabling readers to directly observe the subjective experiences of third-person characters. This book consolidates the existing literary-linguistic scholarship on FIS into a theory that is based… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 29] 2017. xvii, 197 pp.
Visually Situated Language Comprehension
Edited by Pia Knoeferle, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck and Matthew W. Crocker
Visually Situated Language Comprehension has been compiled as a state-of the-art introduction to real-time language processing in visually-situated contexts. It covers the history of this emergent field, explains key methodological developments and discusses the insights these methods have enabled… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 93] 2016. x, 358 pp.
The Constitution of Phenomenal Consciousness: Toward a science and theory
Edited by Steven M. Miller
Philosophers of mind have been arguing for decades about the nature of phenomenal consciousness and the relation between brain and mind. More recently, neuroscientists and philosophers of science have entered the discussion. Which neural activities in the brain constitute phenomenal consciousness,… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 92] 2015. viii, 473 pp.
Creative Confluence
Johan F. Hoorn
Creative Confluence is a highly original work, building bridges between physics, biology, technology, economy, organizations, neuropsychology, literature, arts, and cultural history. It is an attempt to explain the process of creativity as a universal principle of nature, cutting through the… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 16] 2014. xv, 320 pp.
Future Robots: Towards a robotic science of human beings
Domenico Parisi
This book is for both robot builders and scientists who study human behaviour and human societies. Scientists do not only collect empirical data but they also formulate theories to explain the data. Theories of human behaviour and human societies are traditionally expressed in words but, today,… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 7] 2014. xii, 489 pp.
True Emotions
Mikko Salmela
True Emotions discusses several key problems in emotion research. The question about the true nature of emotions focuses on the role of cognition in human emotions at different levels of analysis: functional role, types of processes and representations, and neural implementation. Truth to the self,… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 9] 2014. ix, 191 pp.
The Constitution of Visual Consciousness: Lessons from Binocular Rivalry
Edited by Steven M. Miller
This volume examines the neuroscience of visual consciousness, drawing on the phenomenon of binocular rivalry. It provides overviews of brain structure and function, the visual system, and neuroscientific methodologies, and then focuses on binocular rivalry from multiple perspectives: historical,… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 90] 2013. ix, 339 pp.
The Expressiveness of Perceptual Experience: Physiognomy reconsidered
Martin S. Lindauer
A face strikes us immediately as sad, and so, too, do a mourner, a willow tree, a house on a prairie, and a group of onlookers. The spontaneous emergence of affective and other qualities of people, things, places, and events falls under the heading of physiognomy, a phenomenon discussed since at… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 8] 2013. xi, 174 pp.
Moving Imagination: Explorations of gesture and inner movement
Edited by Helena De Preester
This volume brings together contributions by philosophers, art historians and artists who discuss, interpret and analyse the moving and gesturing body in the arts. Broadly inspired by phenomenology, and taking into account insights from cognitive science, the contribution of the motor body in… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 89] 2013. vi, 320 pp.
Organic Creativity and the Physics Within
Mea M.M. Lowcre
A group of international top scientists from a diversity of disciplines sat together for five days with artists, designers, and entrepreneurs to develop a trans-disciplinary theory of creativity. Organic Creativity and the Physics Within assumes that creativity is a quality of nature visible in… read more
Roots and Collapse of Empathy: Human nature at its best and at its worst
Stein Bråten
Spanning from care-giving infants and civilian rescuers risking their life to the collapse of empathy in agents of torture and extinction, this unique book deals with and illustrates the altruistic best and atrocious worst of human nature. It begins with infant roots of empathy, then turns to the… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 91] 2013. xv, 276 pp.
Being in Time: Dynamical models of phenomenal experience
Edited by Shimon Edelman, Tomer Fekete and Neta Zach
Given that a representational system's phenomenal experience must be intrinsic to it and must therefore arise from its own temporal dynamics, consciousness is best understood — indeed, can only be understood — as being in time. Despite that, it is still acceptable for theories of consciousness to… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 88] 2012. xvi, 261 pp.
Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement
Edited by Sabine C. Koch, Thomas Fuchs, Michela Summa and Cornelia Müller
Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement is an interdisciplinary volume with contributions from philosophers, cognitive scientists, and movement therapists. Part one provides the phenomenologically grounded definition of body memory with its different typologies. Part two follows the aim to integrate… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 84] 2012. vii, 468 pp.
Categorical versus Dimensional Models of Affect: A seminar on the theories of Panksepp and Russell
Edited by Peter Zachar and Ralph D. Ellis
One of the most important theoretical and empirical issues in the scholarly study of emotion is whether there is a correct list of “basic” types of affect or whether all affective states are better modeled as a combination of locations on shared underlying dimensions. Many thinkers have written on… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 7] 2012. vi, 350 pp.
Consciousness in Interaction: The role of the natural and social context in shaping consciousness
Edited by Fabio Paglieri
Consciousness in Interaction is an interdisciplinary collection with contributions from philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and historians of philosophy. It revolves around the idea that consciousness emerges from, and impacts on, our skilled interactions with the natural and social… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 86] 2012. xix, 403 pp.
Moving Ourselves, Moving Others: Motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, consciousness and language
Edited by Ad Foolen, Ulrike M. Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine and Jordan Zlatev
The close relationship between motion (bodily movement) and emotion (feelings) is not an etymological coincidence. While moving ourselves, we move others; in observing others move – we are moved ourselves. The fundamentally interpersonal nature of mind and language has recently received due… read more
Olfactory Cognition: From perception and memory to environmental odours and neuroscience
Edited by Gesualdo M. Zucco, Rachel S. Herz and Benoist Schaal
This book was conceived as a tribute to one of the founders of the psychological study of the sense of smell, Professor Trygg Engen. The book is divided into four sections. The first reunites the fields of psychophysics and the perception of environmental odours and discusses the impact of odours… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 85] 2012. xx, 317 pp.
Becoming Human: From pointing gestures to syntax
Teresa Bejarano
What do the pointing gesture, the imitation of new complex motor patterns, the evocation of absent objects and the grasping of others’ false beliefs all have in common? Apart from being (one way or other) involved in the language, they all would share a demanding requirement – a second mental… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 81] 2011. xvii, 402 pp.
Phenomenology and the Physical Reality of Consciousness
Arthur Melnick
The predominant positive view among philosophers and scientists alike is that consciousness is something realized in brain activity. This view, however, largely fails to capture what consciousness is like according to how it shows itself to conscious beings. What this work proposes instead is that… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 83] 2011. vii, 262 pp.
The Primacy of Movement: Expanded second edition
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
This expanded second edition carries forward the initial insights into the biological and existential significances of animation by taking contemporary research findings in cognitive science and philosophy and in neuroscience into critical and constructive account. It first takes affectivity as its… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 82] 2011. xxxii, 574 pp.
Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues
Edited by Yorick Wilks
What will it be like to admit Artificial Companions into our society? How will they change our relations with each other? How important will they be in the emotional and practical lives of their owners – since we know that people became emotionally dependent even on simple devices like the… read more[Natural Language Processing, 8] 2010. xxii, 315 pp.
Controversies and the Metaphysics of Mind
Yaron M. Senderowicz
Since ancient times, metaphysical theories have been shaped by the dialectical relations between metaphysical positions. The present book offers a new account of the role of controversies in the evolution of ideas in current metaphysics of mind. Part One develops a pragmatic theory of metaphysical… read more[Controversies, 8] 2010. xi, 235 pp.
Mind Ascribed: An elaboration and defence of interpretivism
Bruno Mölder
This book provides a thoroughly worked out and systematic presentation of an interpretivist position in the philosophy of mind, of the view that having mental properties is a matter of interpretation. Bruno Mölder elaborates and defends a particular version of interpretivism, the ascription theory,… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 80] 2010. xii, 293 pp.
New Horizons in the Neuroscience of Consciousness
Edited by Elaine K. Perry, Daniel Collerton, Fiona E.N. LeBeau and Heather Ashton
A fascinating cornucopia of new ideas, based on fundamentals of neurobiology, psychology, psychiatry and therapy, this book extends boundaries of current concepts of consciousness. Its eclectic mix will simulate and challenge not only neuroscientists and psychologists but entice others interested… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 79] 2010. xxv, 330 pp.
Unconscious Memory Representations in Perception: Processes and mechanisms in the brain
Edited by István Czigler and István Winkler
Perceptual experience emerges from neural computations. Unconscious Memory Representations in Perception focuses on the role of implicit (non-conscious) memories in processing sensory information. Making sense of the wealth of information arriving at our senses requires implicit memories, which… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 78] 2010. x, 274 pp.
Emotions, Ethics, and Authenticity
Edited by Mikko Salmela and Verena Mayer
The relationship of emotions, ethics, and authenticity constitutes a nexus of philosophical and psychological problems with wide interdisciplinary relevance. What is the proper role of emotions in moral behavior and theory; are emotions reliable guides to our authentic personal values; and finally;… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 5] 2009. vi, 237 pp.
The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech
Stein Bråten
The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech illustrates how recent findings about primary intersubjectivity, participant perception and mirror neurons afford a new understanding of children’s nature, dialogue and language. Based on recent infancy research and the mirror… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 76] 2009. xxii, 351 pp.
Mind that Abides: Panpsychism in the new millennium
Edited by David Skrbina
Panpsychism is the view that all things, living and nonliving, possess some mind like quality. It stands in sharp contrast to the traditional notion of mind as the property of humans and (perhaps) a few select ‘higher animals’. Though surprising at first glance, panpsychism has a long and noble… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 75] 2009. xiv, 401 pp.
The Transparent Becoming of World: A crossing between process philosophy and quantum neurophilosophy
Gordon G. Globus †
The Transparent Becoming of World undertakes a penetrating inquiry into the quotidian world we take for granted and the brain that silently hoists our bubbles of world-thrownness. After critiquing the traditional views of direct realism, indirect realism and idealism, the continual becoming of… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 77] 2009. xiii, 169 pp.
Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction
Edited by Lola Cañamero and Ruth Aylett
Animated interactive characters and robots that are able to function in human social environments are being developed by a large number of research groups worldwide. Emotional expression, as a key element of human social interaction and communication, is often added in an attempt to make them… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 74] 2008. xxiii, 296 pp.
Constructing the Self
Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Constructing the Self analyzes the narrative conception of self, filling a serious gap in philosophy and grounding discussion in other disciplines. It answers the questions:What are the connections between our interpretations, selfhood, and conscious phenomenal experience?Why do we believe that… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 73] 2008. xi, 186 pp.
Fact and Value in Emotion
Edited by Louis C. Charland and Peter Zachar
There is a large amount of scientific work on emotion in psychology, neuroscience, biology, physiology, and psychiatry, which assumes that it is possible to study emotions and other affective states, objectively. Emotion science of this sort is concerned primarily with 'facts' and not 'values',… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 4] 2008. vi, 212 pp.
The Reflexive Nature of Consciousness
Greg Janzen
Combining phenomenological insights from Brentano and Sartre, but also drawing on recent work on consciousness by analytic philosophers, this book defends the view that conscious states are reflexive, and necessarily so, i.e., that they have a built-in, “implicit” awareness of their own occurrence,… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 72] 2008. vii, 186 pp.
The Shared Mind: Perspectives on intersubjectivity
Edited by Jordan Zlatev, Timothy P. Racine, Chris Sinha and Esa Itkonen
The cognitive and language sciences are increasingly oriented towards the social dimension of human cognition and communication. The hitherto dominant approach in modern cognitive science has viewed “social cognition” through the prism of the traditional philosophical puzzle of how individuals… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 12] 2008. xiii, 391 pp.
Conceptual Atomism and the Computational Theory of Mind: A defense of content-internalism and semantic externalism
John-Michael Kuczynski
What is it to have a concept? What is it to make an inference? What is it to be rational? On the basis of recent developments in semantics, a number of authors have embraced answers to these questions that have radically counterintuitive consequences, for example:One can rationally accept… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 69] 2007. x, 524 pp.
Embodiment in Cognition and Culture
Edited by John Michael Krois, Mats Rosengren, Angela Steidele and Dirk Westerkamp
This volume shows that the notions of embodied or situated cognition, which have transformed the scientific study of intelligence have the potential to reorient cultural studies as well. The essays adapt and amplify embodied cognition in such different fields as art history, literature, history of… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 71] 2007. xxii, 304 pp.
The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The feeling behind laughter and humor
Wallace Chafe
The thesis of this book is that neither laughter nor humor can be understood apart from the feeling that underlies them. This feeling is a mental state in which people exclude some situation from their knowledge of how the world really is, thereby inhibiting seriousness where seriousness would be… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 3] 2007. xiii, 167 pp.
Making Minds: The shaping of human minds through social context
Edited by Petra Hauf and Friedrich Försterling
Social stimuli are important proximate determinants of human thought, action, and behaviour. But does the social environment also have deeper, profounder, and possibly more distal impact on more lasting psychological structures and forms, generalizing across time and domains, such as traits,… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 4] 2007. ix, 275 pp.
On Being Moved: From mirror neurons to empathy
Edited by Stein Bråten
In this collective volume the origins, neurosocial support, and therapeutic implications of (pre)verbal intersubjectivity are examined with a focus on implications of the discovery of mirror neurons. Entailing a paradigmatic revolution in the intersection of developmental, social and neural… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 68] 2007. x, 333 pp.
To Understand a Cat: Methodology and philosophy
Sam S. Rakover
To understand a cat: methodology and philosophy rests on the realization that the everyday behavior of a cat (but other animals too) should be understood through a new approach, namely methodological dualism. It appeals to mechanistic explanation models and to mentalistic explanation models. It… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 70] 2007. xviii, 253 pp.
Exploring Inner Experience: The descriptive experience sampling method
Russell T. Hurlburt and Christopher L. Heavey
Written for the psychologist, philosopher, and layperson interested in consciousness, Exploring Inner Experience provides a comprehensive introduction to the Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES) method for obtaining accurate reports of inner experience. DES uses a beeper to cue participants to pay… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 64] 2006. xii, 276 pp.
Imagery and Spatial Cognition: Methods, models and cognitive assessment
Edited by Tomaso Vecchi and Gabriella Bottini
The relationships between perception and imagery, imagery and spatial processes, memory and action: these are the main themes of this text. The interest in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience on imagery and spatial cognition has remarkably increased in the last decades. Different… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 66] 2006. xiv, 436 pp.
Radical Enactivism: Intentionality, Phenomenology and Narrative. Focus on the philosophy of Daniel D. Hutto
Edited by Richard Menary
"This collection is a much-needed remedy to the confusion about which varieties of enactivism are robust yet viable rejections of traditional representationalism approaches to cognitivism – and which are not. Hutto's paper is the pivot around which the expert commentators, enactivists and… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 2] 2006. x, 256 pp.
Signs, Mind, and Reality: A theory of language as the folk model of the world
Sebastian Shaumyan
The book presents a new science of semiotic linguistics. The goal of semiotic linguistics is to discover what characterizes language as an intermediary between the mind and reality so that language creates the picture of reality we perceive. The cornerstone of semiotic linguistics is the discovery… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 65] 2006. xxvii, 315 pp.
Visual Thought: The depictive space of perception
Edited by Liliana Albertazzi
This volume starts from an interdisciplinary expertise of the contributors, and chooses to work on the very origins of conscious qualitative states in perception. The leading research paradigm can be synthesized in ‘phenomenology to neurons to stimuli, and backwards’, since as a starting point it… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 67] 2006. xii, 380 pp.
Body Image and Body Schema: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the body
Edited by Helena De Preester and Veroniek Knockaert
The body, as the common ground for objectivity and (inter)subjectivity, is a phenomenon with a perplexing plurality of registers. Therefore, this innovative volume offers an interdisciplinary approach from the fields of neuroscience, phenomenology and psychoanalysis. The concepts of body image and… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 62] 2005. ix, 343 pp.
Consciousness & Emotion: Agency, conscious choice, and selective perception
Edited by Ralph D. Ellis and Natika Newton
The papers in this volume of Consciousness & Emotion Book Series are organized around the theme of "enaction." Enactive emotional processes are not merely the recipients of information or the passive victims of input and learning. The organism first is engaged in an ongoing, complex pattern of… read more[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 1] 2005. xii, 330 pp.
Curious Emotions: Roots of consciousness and personality in motivated action
Ralph D. Ellis
Emotion drives all cognitive processes, largely determining their qualitative feel, their structure, and in part even their content. Action-initiating centers deep in the emotional brain ground our understanding of the world by enabling us to imagine how we could act relative to it, based on… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 61] 2005. viii, 238 pp.
Memory and Understanding: Concept formation in Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu
Renate Bartsch
This book treats memory and understanding on two levels, on the phenomenological level of experience, on which a theory of dynamic conceptual semantics is built, and on the neuro-connectionist level, which supports the capacities of concept formation, remembering, and understanding. A… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 63] 2005. x, 158 pp.
Sisyphus’s Boulder: Consciousness and the limits of the knowable
Eric Dietrich and Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Consciousness lies at the core of being human. Therefore, to understand ourselves, we need a theory of consciousness. In Sisyphus's Boulder, Eric Dietrich and Valerie Hardcastle argue that we will never get such a theory because consciousness has an essential property that prevents it from ever… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 60] 2005. xii, 136 pp.
Brain and Being: At the boundary between science, philosophy, language and arts
Edited by Gordon G. Globus †, Karl H. Pribram and Giuseppe Vitiello
This book results from a group meeting held at the Institute for Scientific Exchange in Torino, Italy. The central aim was for scientists to “think together” in new ways with those in the humanities inspired by quantum theory and especially quantum brain theory. These fields of inquiry have… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 58] 2004. xii, 354 pp.
Consciousness, Emotional Self-Regulation and the Brain
Edited by Mario Beauregard
During the last decade, the study of emotional self-regulation has blossomed in a variety of sub-disciplines belonging to either psychology (developmental, clinical) or the neurosciences (cognitive and affective). Consciousness, Emotional Self-Regulation and the Brain gives an overview of the… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 54] 2004. xii, 291 pp.
The Evolution of Human Language: Scenarios, principles, and cultural dynamics
Wolfgang Wildgen
Wolfgang Wildgen presents three perspectives on the evolution of language as a key element in the evolution of mankind in terms of the development of human symbol use. (1) He approaches this question by constructing possible scenarios in which mechanisms necessary for symbolic behavior could have… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 57] 2004. xii, 240 pp.
Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness: An Anthology
Edited by Rocco J. Gennaro
Higher-Order (HO) theories of consciousness have in common the idea that what makes a mental state conscious is that it is the object of some kind of higher-order representation. This volume presents fourteen previously unpublished essays both defending and criticizing this approach to the problem… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 56] 2004. xii, 368 pp.
Mind and Causality
Edited by Alberto Peruzzi
Which causal patterns are involved in mental processes?On what mechanisms does the self-organisation of cognitive structure rest?Can a naturalistic view account for the basic resources of intentionality, while avoiding the objections to reductive materialism?By considering the developmental,… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 55] 2004. xiv, 235 pp.
The Structure and Development of Self-Consciousness: Interdisciplinary perspectives
Edited by Dan Zahavi, Thor Grünbaum and Josef Parnas
Self-consciousness is a topic of considerable importance to a variety of empirical and theoretical disciplines such as developmental and social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, and philosophy. This volume presents essays on self-consciousness by prominent psychologists, cognitive… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 59] 2004. xiv, 160 pp.
Attention and Implicit Learning
Edited by Luis Jiménez
Attention and Implicit Learning provides a comprehensive overview of the research conducted in this area. The book is conceived as a multidisciplinary forum of discussion on the question of whether implicit learning may be depicted as a process that runs independently of attention. The volume also… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 48] 2003. x, 385 pp.
Caging the Beast: A theory of sensory consciousness
Paula Droege
A major obstacle for materialist theories of the mind is the problem of sensory consciousness. How could a physical brain produce conscious sensory states that exhibit the rich and luxurious qualities of red velvet, a Mozart concerto or fresh-brewed coffee? Caging the Beast: A Theory of Sensory… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 51] 2003. x, 181 pp.
Narrative Intelligence
Edited by Michael Mateas and Phoebe Sengers
Narrative Intelligence (NI) — the confluence of narrative, Artificial Intelligence, and media studies — studies, models, and supports the human use of narrative to understand the world. This volume brings together established work and founding documents in Narrative Intelligence to form a common… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 46] 2003. viii, 342 pp.
Neural Basis of Consciousness
Edited by Naoyuki Osaka
Recent advances in cognitive neuroscience make possible an understanding of the neural events that are associated with different forms of consciousness. To fully understand and unveil the mystery of consciousness inside the brain we require examination of the concept of neural basis of conscious… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 49] 2003. viii, 227 pp.
On Becoming Aware: A pragmatics of experiencing
Nathalie Depraz, Francisco J. Varela and Pierre Vermersch
This book searches for the sources and means for a disciplined practical approach to exploring human experience. The spirit of this book is pragmatic and relies on a Husserlian phenomenology primarily understood as a method of exploring our experience. The authors do not aim at a neo-Kantian a… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 43] 2003. viii, 281 pp.
Quantum Closures and Disclosures: Thinking-together postphenomenology and quantum brain dynamics
Gordon G. Globus †
Quantum Closures and Disclosures thinks together two seemingly irreconcilable discourses: An application of quantum field theory to brain functioning, called quantum brain dynamics, and the continental postphenomenological tradition, especially the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida.… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 50] 2003. xxii, 198 pp.
Touching for Knowing: Cognitive psychology of haptic manual perception
Edited by Yvette Hatwell, Arlette Streri and Edouard Gentaz
The dominance of vision is so strong in sighted people that touch is sometimes considered as a minor perceptual modality. However, touch is a powerful tool which contributes significantly to our knowledge of space and objects. Its intensive use by blind persons allows them to reach the same levels… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 53] 2003. x, 322 pp.
Awakening and Sleep–Wake Cycle Across Development
Edited by Piero Salzarulo and Gianluca Ficca
Sleep and wakefulness undergo important changes with age. Awakening, a crucial event in the sleep-wake rhythm, is a transition implying complex physiological mechanisms. Its involvement in sleep disturbances is also well known. This collective volume is the first attempt to systematically approach… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 38] 2002. vi, 283 pp.
Consciousness Emerging: The dynamics of perception, imagination, action, memory, thought, and language
Renate Bartsch
This study of the workings of neural networks in perception and understanding of situations and simple sentences shows that, and how, distributed conceptual constituents are bound together in episodes within an interactive/dynamic architecture of sensorial and pre-motor maps, and maps of conceptual… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 39] 2002. x, 256 pp.
Consciousness Evolving
Edited by James H. Fetzer
A collection of stimulating studies on the past, the present, and the future of consciousness, Consciousness Evolving contributes to understanding some of the most important conceptual problems of our time. The advent of the modern synthesis together with the human genome project affords a platform… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 34] 2002. xx, 253 pp.
Consciousness Recovered: Psychological functions and origins of conscious thought
George Mandler †
This integrated approach to the psychology of consciousness arises out of Mandler’s 1975 paper that was seminal in starting the current flood of interest in consciousness. The book starts with this paper, followed by a novel psychological/evolutionary theoretical discussion of consciousness, and… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 40] 2002. xii, 142 pp.
Emotional Cognition: From brain to behaviour
Edited by Simon C. Moore and Mike Oaksford
Emotional Cognition gives the reader an up to date overview of the current state of emotion and cognition research that is striving for computationally explicit accounts of the relationship between these two domains. Many different areas are covered by some of the leading theorists and researchers… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 44] 2002. vi, 350 pp.
Language, Vision and Music: Selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Galway, 1999
Edited by Paul Mc Kevitt, Seán Ó Nualláin and Conn Mulvihill
Language, vision and music: what common cognitive patterns underlie our competence in these disparate modes of thought? Language (natural & formal), vision and music seem to share at least the following attributes: a hierarchical organisation of constituents, recursivity, metaphor, the possibility… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 35] 2002. xii, 433 pp.
Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Brain and Language
Edited by Maxim I. Stamenov and Vittorio Gallese
The emergence of language, social intelligence, and tool development are what made homo sapiens sapiens differentiate itself from all other biological species in the world. The use of language and the management of social and instrumental skills imply an awareness of intention and the consideration… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 42] 2002. viii, 392 pp.
Neurochemistry of Consciousness: Neurotransmitters in mind
Edited by Elaine K. Perry, Heather Ashton and Allan H. Young
This pioneering book explores in depth the role of neurotransmitters in conscious awareness. The central aim is to identify common neural denominators of conscious awareness, informed by the neurochemistry of natural, drug induced and pathological states of consciousness. Chemicals such as… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 36] 2002. xii, 344 pp.
No Matter, Never Mind: Proceedings of Toward a Science of Consciousness: Fundamental approaches, Tokyo 1999
Edited by Kunio Yasue, Mari Jibu and Tarcisio Della Senta
This international selection of 34 papers from the Tokyo '99 conference held at the United Nations University gives a valuable state of the art overview of consciousness research. Not only the recognized European and American approaches but also the distinguishing approaches from many Japanese… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 33] 2002. xvi, 391 pp.
Simulation and Knowledge of Action
Edited by Jérôme Dokic and Joëlle Proust
The current debate between theory theory and simulation theory on the nature of mentalisation has reached no consensus yet, although many now think that some hybrid theory is needed. This collection of essays represents an effort at re-evaluating the scope of simulation theory, while also… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 45] 2002. xxii, 271 pp.
Tone of Voice and Mind: The connections between intonation, emotion, cognition and consciousness
Norman D. Cook
Tone of Voice and Mind is a synthesis of findings from neurophysiology (how neurons produce subjective feeling), neuropsychology (how the human cerebral hemispheres undertake complementary information-processing), intonation studies (how the emotions are encoded in the tone of voice), and music… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 47] 2002. x, 293 pp.
Unfolding Perceptual Continua
Edited by Liliana Albertazzi
The book analyses the differences between the mathematical interpretation and the phenomenological intuition of the continuum. The basic idea is that the continuity of the experience of space and time originates in phenomenic movement. The problem of consciousness and of the spaces of… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 41] 2002. vi, 296 pp.
Affective Qualia and The Subjective Dimension
Edited by Ralph D. Ellis and Natika Newton
Special issue of Consciousness & Emotion 2:1 (2001) vi, 188 pp.
Consciousness and Intentionality
Grant R. Gillett and John McMillan
Is there an internal relationship between consciousness and intentionality? Can mental content be described in such a way so as to avoid dualism? What is the influence of social context upon consciousness, conceptions of self and mental content?This book considers questions such as these and argues… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 27] 2001. x, 263 pp.
Dimensions of Conscious Experience
Edited by Paavo Pylkkänen and Tere Vadén
It is by now commonly agreed that the proper study of consciousness requires a multidisciplinary approach which focuses on the varieties and dimensions of conscious experience from different angles. This book, which is based on a workshop held at the University of Skövde, Sweden, provides a… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 37] 2001. xiv, 209 pp.
Face Recognition: Cognitive and computational processes
Sam S. Rakover and Baruch Cahlon
Face Recognition: Cognitive and Computational Processes critically discusses current research in face recognition, leading to an original approach with criminological applications. The book covers The methodological and philosophical basis of research in face recognition. Findings and their… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 31] 2001. x, 304 pp.
Finding Consciousness in the Brain: A neurocognitive approach
Edited by Peter G. Grossenbacher
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,… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 8] 2001. xvi, 326 pp.
My Double Unveiled: The dissipative quantum model of brain
Giuseppe Vitiello
This introduction to the dissipative quantum model of brain and to its possible implications for consciousness studies is addressed to a broad interdisciplinary audience. Memory and consciousness are approached from the physicist point of view focusing on the basic observation that the brain is… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 32] 2001. xvi, 163 pp.
Narrative and Identity: Studies in Autobiography, Self and Culture
Edited by Jens Brockmeier and Donal Carbaugh
How does narrative give shape and meaning to human life? And what special role do narratives play in identifying one as a person in the world? This book explores these questions from the vantage points of various human and cultural sciences, with special attention to the importance of narrative as… read more[Studies in Narrative, 1] 2001. vi, 307 pp.
The Physical Nature of Consciousness
Edited by Philip Van Loocke
The Physical Nature of Consciousness contains twelve chapters that discuss recent and new perspectives on the relation between modern physics and consciousness. Stuart Hameroff opens with an extended and updated exposition of the Penrose/Hameroff Orch-OR model, and subsequently addresses recent… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 29] 2001. viii, 319 pp.
Self-Reference and Self-Awareness
Edited by Andrew Brook and Richard C. DeVidi
Rich in precursors (Kant and Frege) and stimulated by Castañeda’s study in the logic of self-consciousness and Shoemaker’s seminal paper ‘Self-reference and self-awareness’, the work of the past thirty-five years on self-reference and self-awareness has generated a wealth of deep, sophisticated… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 30] 2001. viii, 277 pp.
Beyond Dissociation: Interaction between dissociated implicit and explicit processing
Edited by Yves Rossetti and Antti Revonsuo
Analysis and dissociation have proved to be useful tools to understand the basic functions of the brain and the mind, which therefore have been decomposed to a multitude of ever smaller subsystems and pieces by most scientific approaches. However, the understanding of complex functions such as… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 22] 2000. x, 372 pp.
Beyond Physicalism
Daniel D. Hutto
Unlike standard attempts to address the so-called ‘hard problem’ of consciousness, which assume our understanding of consciousness is unproblematic, this book begins by focusing on phenomenology and is devoted to clarifying the relations between intentionality, propositional content and experience.… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 21] 2000. xvi, 306 pp.
The Caldron of Consciousness: Motivation, affect and self-organization — An anthology
Edited by Ralph D. Ellis and Natika Newton
These new studies by prominent neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers work toward a coherent framework for understanding emotion and its contribution to the functioning of consciousness in general, as an aspect of self-organizing, embodied subjects. Distinguishing consciousness from… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 16] 2000. xxii, 276 pp.
The Development of Implicit and Explicit Memory
Carolyn Rovee-Collier, Harlene Hayne and Michael Colombo
This is the only book that examines the theory and data on the development of implicit and explicit memory. It first describes the characteristics of implicit and explicit memory (including conscious recollection) and tasks used with adults to measure them. Next, it reviews the brain mechanisms… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 24] 2000. x, 322 pp.
Exploring the Self: Philosophical and psychopathological perspectives on self-experience
Edited by Dan Zahavi
The aim of this volume is to discuss recent research into self-experience and its disorders,and to contribute to a better integration of the different empirical and conceptual perspectives. Among the topics discussed are questions like ‘What is a self?,’ ‘What is the relation between the… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 23] 2000. viii, 299 pp.
Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology
Edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn
Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology is written for readers who are curious about what human (social) cognition is, and whether and how advanced software programs or robots can become social agents. Topics addressed in 16 peer-reviewed chapters by researchers at the forefront of agent… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 19] 2000. xxiv, 448 pp.
Individual Differences in Conscious Experience
Edited by Robert G. Kunzendorf and Benjamin Wallace
Individual Differences in Conscious Experience is intended for readers with philosophical, psychological, or clinical interests in subjective experience. It addresses some difficult but important issues in the study of consciousness, subconsciousness, and self-consciousness. The book’s fourteen… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 20] 2000. xii, 411 pp.
Investigating Phenomenal Consciousness: New methodologies and maps
Edited by Max Velmans
How can one investigate phenomenal consciousness? As in other areas of science, the investigation of consciousness aims for a more precise knowledge of its phenomena, and the discovery of general truths about their nature. This requires the development of appropriate first-person, second-person and… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 13] 2000. xii, 381 pp.
Microgenetic Approach to the Conscious Mind
Talis Bachmann
Many secrets of nature have been discovered since we have a better understanding of microstructures, for example subatomic spheres in physics and genetic structures in biochemistry. This book is set to convey an overview of the history, methods, findings and theoretical accounts of microgenetic… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 25] 2000. xiv, 298 pp.
The Moral Laboratory: Experiments examining the effects of reading literature on social perception and moral self-concept
Frank Hakemulder
The idea that reading literature changes the reader seems as old as literature itself. Through the ages philosophers, writers, and literary scholars have suggested it affects norms, empathic ability, self-concept, beliefs, etc. This book examines what we actually know about these effects. And it… read more[Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 34] 2000. x, 205 pp.
Psychological Concepts and Biological Psychiatry: A philosophical analysis
Peter Zachar
This interdisciplinary work addresses the question, What role should psychological conceptualization play for thinkers who believe that the brain is the organ of the mind? It offers readers something unique both by systematically comparing the writings of eliminativist philosophers of mind with the… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 28] 2000. xx, 340 pp.
Spatial Cognition: Foundations and applications
Edited by Seán Ó Nualláin
Spatial Cognition brings together psychology, computer science, linguistics and geography, discussing how people think about space (our internal cognitive maps and spatial perception) and how we communicate about space, for instance giving route directions or using spatial metaphors. The… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 26] 2000. xvi, 366 pp.
Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates
Edited by Gary B. Palmer and Debra J. Occhi
Working from Radcliffe-Browns landmark concept of social sentiments, anthropologists and linguists examine pragmatic and cognitive dimensions of emotion-language in several societies. Introductory and concluding chapters devote special attention to emotional consciousness. Chapters cover language… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 18] 1999. vi, 272 pp.
The Presence of Mind
Daniel D. Hutto
Will our everyday account of ourselves be vindicated by a new science? Or, will our self-understanding remain untouched by such developments? This book argues that beliefs and desires have a legitimate place in the explanation of action. Eliminativist arguments mistakenly focus on the vehicles of… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 17] 1999. xiv, 252 pp.
The Primacy of Movement
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
Through diligent and rigorous attention to both natural history and phenomenological accounts of kinetic phenomena, particularly the phenomenon of self-movement, this richly interdisciplinary book brings to the fore the long-neglected topic of animate form and with it, a long-neglected inquiry into… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 14] 1999. xxxiv, 583 pp.
Stratification in Cognition and Consciousness
Edited by Bradford H. Challis and Boris M. Velichkovsky
The notion of stratification has played an important role in linguistics and evolutionary studies for some time, but its role in cognitive science has not yet been well articulated and identified. What is meant by stratification? What is the role and value of stratification in the contemporary… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 15] 1999. viii, 293 pp.
The Aconceptual Mind: Heideggerian themes in holistic naturalism
Pauli Pylkkö
According to Heidegger, naturalistic thinking is naive and unable to deal with its own essence and limitations. It can only serve the veiled interests of modern Western technology in its inherent inclination to attain global dominance. But these eight thematically intertwined essays face… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 11] 1998. xxvi, 298 pp.
Consciousness and Qualia
Leopold Stubenberg
This is a philosophical study of qualitative consciousness, characteristic examples of which are pains, experienced colors, sounds, etc. Consciousness is analyzed as the having of qualia. Phenomenal properties or qualia are problematical because they lack appropriate bearers. The relation of having… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 5] 1998. x, 367 pp.
Language Structure, Discourse and the Access to Consciousness
Edited by Maxim I. Stamenov
The focus of this collective volume is on the mutual determination of language structure, discourse patterns and the accessibility to consciousness of mental contents of different types of organization and complexity. The contributions address the following problems, among others: the history of… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 12] 1997. xii, 364 pp.
Two Sciences of Mind: Readings in cognitive science and consciousness
Edited by Seán Ó Nualláin, Paul Mc Kevitt and Eoghan Mac Aogáin
The Reaching for Mind workshop, held at AISB ’95, explicitly addressed itself to the current crisis in Cognitive Science. In particular, the issue of how this discipline can address consciousness was a leitmotiv in the workshop. The conclusion seems inescapable that there is a need for two sciences… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 9] 1997. xii, 498 pp.
Consciousness and Self-Consciousness: A defense of the higher-order thought theory of consciousness
Rocco J. Gennaro
This interdisciplinary work contains the most sustained attempt at developing and defending one of the few genuine theories of consciousness. Following the lead of David Rosenthal, the author argues for the so-called 'higher-order thought theory of consciousness'. This theory holds that what makes… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 6] 1996. x, 220 pp.
Foundations of Understanding
Natika Newton
How can symbols have meaning for a subject? Foundations of Understanding argues that this is the key question to ask about intentionality, or meaningful thought. It thus offers an alternative to currently popular linguistic models of intentionality, whose inadequacies are examined: the goal should… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 10] 1996. x, 211 pp.
Fractals of Brain, Fractals of Mind: In search of a symmetry bond
Edited by Earl Mac Cormac and Maxim I. Stamenov
This collective volume is the first to discuss systematically what are the possibilities to model different aspects of brain and mind functioning with the formal means of fractal geometry and deterministic chaos. At stake here is not an approximation to the way of actual performance, but the… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 7] 1996. x, 359 pp.
On Language and Consciousness
Ray Jackendoff and Wallace Chafe
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 4:1 (1996) viii, 217 pp.
Locating Consciousness
Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Locating Consciousness argues that our qualitative experiences should be aligned with the activity of a single and distinct memory system in our mind/brain. Spelling out in detail what we do and do not know about phenomenological experience, this book denies the common view of consciousness as a… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 4] 1995. xviii, 266 pp.
The Postmodern Brain
Gordon G. Globus †
This interdisciplinary work discloses an unexpected coherence between recent concepts in brain science and postmodern thought. A nonlinear dynamical model of brain states is viewed as an autopoietic, autorhoetic, self-organizing, self-tuning eruption under multiple constraints and guided by an… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 1] 1995. xii, 188 pp.
Quantum Brain Dynamics and Consciousness: An introduction
Mari Jibu and Kunio Yasue
This introduction to quantum brain dynamics is accessible to a broad interdisciplinary audience. The authors, a brain scientist and a theoretical physicist, present a new quantum framework for investigating advanced functions of the brain such as consciousness and memory. The book is the first to… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 3] 1995. xvi, 244 pp.
Questioning Consciousness: The interplay of imagery, cognition, and emotion in the human brain
Ralph D. Ellis
Questioning Consciousness brings together neuroscientific, psychological and phenomenological research, combining in a readable format recent developments in image research and neurology. It reassesses the mind-body relation and research on 'mental models', abstract concept formation, and… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 2] 1995. viii, 262 pp.
The Metaphysics of Transcendental Subjectivity: Descartes, Kant and W. Sellars
Joseph Claude Evans
The general topic of this book is the metaphysics of the subject in Kantian transcendental philosophy. A critical appreciation of Kant's achievements requires that we be able to view Kant's positions as transformations of pre-Kantian philosophy, and that we understand the ways in which contemporary… read more[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 5] 1984. xii, 138 pp.