Finding Consciousness in the Brain

A neurocognitive approach

Editor

Peter G. Grossenbacher | National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda

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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
Published online on 1 January 2003

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

Table of Contents

Apology | p. vii

Foreword

Michael I. Posner | p. ix

Acknowledgments | p. xii

Preface | p. xiii

Contributors | p. xv

1. A phenomenalogical introduction to the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness

Peter G. Grossenbacher | p. 1

I. EDGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

2. Now you see it, now you don’t: Preventing consciousness with visual masking

Mark Price | p. 25

3. Consciousness of the physical and the mental: Evidence from autism

Simon Baron-Cohen | p. 61

II. MENTAL CONTENT AND ACTION

Visual consciousness

Stephen M. Kosslyn | p. 79

5. Intersensory integration: Underlying neural mechanisms

Barry E. Stein and Mark T. Wallace | p. 105

6. Implicit perception in action: Short-lived motor representation of space

Yves Rossetti | p. 133

III. FRAME OF MIND

7. Arousal: Conscious experience and brain mechanisms

Roger Whitehead and Scott D. Schliebner | p. 187

8. Emotion and conscious experience: Perceptual and attentional influences of anxiety

Douglas Derryberry | p. 221

IV. BRAIN EVOLUTION

9. Consciousness: A preparatory and comparative process

Phan Luu, John M. Kelley and Daniel Levitin | p. 247

10. Multisensory coordination and the evolution of consciousness

Peter G. Grossenbacher | p. 277

Subject Index | p. 315

Name Index | p. 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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