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New Horizons in the Neuroscience of ConsciousnessEdited by Elaine K. Perry, Daniel Collerton, Fiona E.N. LeBeau and Heather Ashton
[Advances in Consciousness Research 79] 2010
► pp. v–viii
Edited by Elaine K. Perry, Daniel Collerton, Fiona E.N. LeBeau and Heather Ashton
[Advances in Consciousness Research 79] 2010
► pp. v–viii
Table of contents
List of contributors
Prologue
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Section I. Neuronal mechanisms
The slow cortical potential hypothesis on consciousness
Distinct characteristics of conscious experience are met by large-scale neuronal synchronization
Gamma oscillations and the cellular components of consciousness?
Dopamine modulation of decision making processes
Undercurrents of consciousness: The endocannabinoid system
Disconnecting consciousness: The neuroscience of general anaesthesia
Consciousness and neural time travel
Section II. Psychological processes
Consciousness and the relation between implicit and explicit memory
Two varieties of unconscious processes
Operating characteristics and awareness
Noise in the brain, decision-making, determinism, free will, and consciousness
Social consciousness
Consciousness and language: A processing perspective
Cognitive illusions: From magic to science
Dreaming as a model system for consciousness research
Lucid dreaming and the bimodality of consciousness
Section III. Psychopathologies and therapies
Why depression feels bad
Dementia and the boundary between conscious and nonconscious awareness
Consciousness as the spin-off and schizophrenia as the price of language
Consciousness and psychosis associated with schizophrenia: The role of Cornu Ammonis Region 3
The visual unconscious: Perspectives from the Charles Bonnet Syndrome
Believing is hearing is believing: The reciprocal nature of consciousness
Dreaming as a physiological psychosis: Connecting states of consciousness
Conscious awareness versus optimistic beliefs in recreational Ecstasy/MDMA users
Conscious and unconscious placebo responses: How the ritual of the therapeutic act changes the patient’s brain
Section IV. Expanding boundaries
The paradoxes of creativity
Potential contributions of research on meditation to the neuroscience of consciousness
Self-induced altered states of consciousness
Beyond the boundaries of the brain
Plants of the gods and shamanic journeys
Index
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