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	Apr 2003
	ISBN 0262024969
	1206 pp.
	243 illus.

Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness

Bernard J. Baars , William P. Banks and James B. Newman

Consciousness is at the very core of the human condition. Yet only in recent decades has it become a major focus in the brain and behavioral sciences. Scientists now know that consciousness involves many levels of brain functioning, from brainstem to cortex. The almost seventy articles in this book reflect the breadth and depth of this burgeoning field. The many topics covered include consciousness in vision and inner speech, immediate memory and attention, waking, dreaming, coma, the effects of brain damage, fringe consciousness, hypnosis, and dissociation.<br /> <br /> Underlying all the selections are the questions, What difference does consciousness make? What are its properties? What role does it play in the nervous system? How do conscious brain functions differ from unconscious ones? The focus of the book is on scientific evidence and theory. The editors have also chosen introductory articles by leading scientists to allow a wide variety of new readers to gain insight into the field.

Table of Contents

		Preface
		Sources
1		Introduction: Treating Conciousness as a Variable: The Fading Taboo by Bernard J. Baars
I		OVERVIEW
2		Consciousness: Tespectable, Usefull, and Probably Necessary by George Mandler
3		Consciousness and Neuroscience by Francis Crick and Christof Koch
II		CONSCIOUSNESS IN VISION
4		Feature Binding, Attention, and Object Perception by Anne Treisman
5		Effects of Sleep and Arousal on the Processing of Visual Information in the Cat by Margaret S. Livingstone and David H. Hubel
6		The Role of Temporal Cortical Areas in Perception Organization by D.L. Sheinberg and N.K. Logothetis
7		Investigating Neural Correlates of Conscious Perception by Frequency-Tagged Neuromagnetic Responses by Guilio Tononi, Ramesh Srinivasan, D. Patrick Russell, and Gerald M. Edelman
8		Temporal Binding, Binocular Rivalry, and Consciousness by Andreas K. Engel, Pascal Fries, Pieter R. Roelfsema, Peter König, Michael Brecht, and Wolf Singer
9		Diconnected Awareness for Detecting, Processing, and Remembering in Neurological Patients by L. Weiskrantz
10		Blindsight in Monkeys by Alan Cowey and Petra Stoerig
11		Hemisphere Deconnection and Unity in Conscious Awareness by R. W. Sperry
12		Separate Visual Pathways for Perception and Action by M. A. Goodale and A. D. Milner
13		Consciousness and Isomorphism: Can the Color Spectrum Really Be Inverted? by Stephen E. Palmer
III		ATTENTION: SELECTING ONE CONSCIOUS STREAM AMONG MANY
14		Strategies and Models of Selective Attention by Anne M. Treisman
15		INattentional Blindness versus Inattentional Amnesia of Fixated but Ignored Words by Geraint Rees, Charlotte Russell, Christopher D. Frith, and Jon Driver
16		Aspects of a Theory of Comprehension, Memory, and Attention by Donald G. MacKay
17		To See or Not to See: The Need for Attention to Perceive Changes in Scenes by Ronald A. Rensink, J. Kevin O'Regan, and James J. Clark
18		Function of Thalamic Reticular Complex: The Searchlight Hypothesis by Francis Crick
19		Selective Attention Gates Visual Processing in the Extrastriate Cortex by Jeffrey Moran and Robert Desimone
20		Attention: The Mechanisms of Consciousness by Michael I. Posner
21		Attention: Awareness, and the Triangular Circuit by David LaBerge
IV		IMMEDIATE MEMORY: THE FLEETING CONSCIOUS PRESENT
22		The Information Available in Brief Visual Presentations by George Sperling
23		The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on OUr Capacity for Processing Information by Feorge A. Miller
24		The Control of Short-Term Memory by Richard C. Atkinson and Richard M. Shiffrin
25		Verbal and Bisual Subsystems of Working Memory by Alan D. Baddeley
26		The Prefrontal Landscape: Implications of Functional Architecture for Understanding Human Mentation and the Central Executive by P. S. Doldman-Rakic
27		Storage and Executive Processes in the Frontal Lobes by Edward E. Smith and John Jonides
28		Consciousness and Cognition May Be Mediated by Multiple Independent Coherent Ensembles
V		INTERNAL SOURCES: VISUAL IMAGES, AND INNER SPEECH
29		Aspects of a Cognitive Neuroscience of Mental Imagery by S. M. Kosslyn
30		The Neural Basis of Mental Imagery by Martha J. Farah
31		Experimental Studies of Ongoing Conscious Experience by Jerome L. Singer
32		Verbal Reports on Thinking by K. Anders Ericsson and Herbert A. Simon
VI		BELOW THE THRESHOLD OF SENSORY CONSCIOUSNESS
33		Distinguishing Conscious from Unsconscious Perceptual Processes by Jim Cheesman and Philip M. Merikle
34		The Psychological Unconscious: A Necessary Assumption for All Psychological Theroy? by Howard Shevrin and Scott Dickman
35		Brain Stimulation in the Study of Neuronal Functions for Conscious Sensory Experiences by B. Libet
VII		CONSCIOIUSNESS AND MEMORY
36		Memory and Consciousness by Endel Tulving
37		Conscious Recollection and the Human Hippocampal Formation: Evidence from Positron Emission Tomography by Daniel L. Schachter, Nathaniel M. Alpert, Cary R. Savage, Scott L. Rauch, and Marilyn S. Albert
38		Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge by Arthur S. Reber
39		Attention, Automatism, and Consciousness by Richard M. Shiffrin
40		When Practice Makes Imperfect: Debilitating Effects of Overlearning by Ellen J. Langer and Lois G. Imber
41		The Neural Correlations of Consciousness: An Analysis of Cognitive Skeill Learning by Marcus E. Raichle
42		Availability: A Heuristic for Judging Frequency and Probabiliry by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman
43		Experiences of Remembering, Knowing, and Guessing by John M. Gardiner, Cristina Pamponi, Alan Richardson-Klavehn
44		Measuring Recollection: Strategic versus Automatic Influences of Associative Context by Larry L. Jacoby
VIII		UNCONSCIOUS AND "FRINGE" PROCESSES
45		The Conscious "Fringe": Bringing William James Up to Date by Bruce Mangan
46		The Fundamental Role of Context: Unconscious Shaping of Conscious Information by Bernard J. Baars
47		The Cognitive Unconscious by John F. Kihlstrom
48		Pain and Dissociation in the Cold Pressor Test: A Study of Hypnotic Analgesia with "Hidden Reports" through Automatic Key Pressing and Automatic Talking by Ernest R. Hilgard, Arlene H. Morgan, and Hugh Macdonald
49		Anosognosia in Parietal Lobe Syndrome by V. S. Ramachandran
50		Implications for Psychiatry of Left and Right Cerebral Specialization: A Neurophysiological Context for Unconscious Processes by David Galin
IX		CONSCIOUSNESS AS A STATE: WAKING, DEEP SLEEP, COMA, ANESTHESIA, AND DREAMING
51		Brain Stem Reticular Formation and Activation of the EEG by G. Moruzzi and H. W. Magoun
52		Anatomical and Physiological Substrates of Arousal by Arnold B. Scheibel
53		On the Neurophysiology of Consciousness: An Overview by Joseph E. Bogen
54		An Informaiton Processing Theory of Anaesthesia by H. Flohr
55		Toward a Unified Theory of Narcosis: Brain Imaging Evidedence for a Thalamocortical Switch as the Neurophysiologic Basis of Anesthetic-Induced Unconsciousness by M. T. Alkire, R. J. Haier, and J. H. Fallon
56		The Relation of Eye Movements during Sleep to Dream Activity: An Objective Method for the Study of Dreaming by William Dement and Nathaniel Kleitman
57		The Brain as a Dream State Generator: An Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis of the Dream Process by J. Allan Hobson and Rober W. McCarley
58		Lucid Dreaming Verified by Volitional Communication during REM Sleep by Stephen P. LaBerge, Lynn E. Nagel, William C. Dement, and Vincent P. Zarcone, Jr.
59		Commentary: Of Dreaming and Wakefulness by R. R. Llinás and D. Paré
X		Theory
60		Consciousness and Complexity by Giulio Tononi and Gerald M. Edelman
61		Brain Learning, Attention, and Consciousness by Stephen Grossberg
62		A Global Competitive Network for Attention by J. G. Taylor and F. N. Alavi
63		Time-Locked Multiregional Retroactivation: A Systems-Level Proposal for the Neural Substrates of Recall and Recognition by Antonio R. Damasio
64		Visual Feature Integration and the Temporal Correlation Hypothesis by Wolg Singer and Charles M. Gray
65		Metaphors of Consciousness and Attention in the Brain by Bernard J. Baars
66		How Does a Serial, Integrated, and Very Limited Stream of Consciousness Emerge from a Nervous System That Is Mostly Unconscious, Distributed, Parallel, and of Enormous Capacity? by Bernard J. Baars
67		A Neural Global Workspace Model for Conscious Attention by James Newman, Bernard J. Baars, and Sung-Bae Cho
68		A Softwar Agent Model of Consciousness by Stan Franklin and Art Graesser
		Index