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Sep 2000
ISBN 0262133709
360 pp.
48 illus.
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Neural Correlates of Consciousness
Thomas Metzinger

This book brings together an international group of neuroscientists and philosophers who are investigating how the content of subjective experience is correlated with events in the brain. The fundamental methodological problem in consciousness research is the subjectivity of the target phenomenon--the fact that conscious experience, under standard conditions, is always tied to an individual, first-person perspective. The core empirical question is whether and how physical states of the human nervous system can be mapped onto the content of conscious experience. The search for the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) has become a highly active field of investigation in recent years. Methods such as single-cell recording in monkeys and brain imaging and electrophysiology in humans, applied to such phenomena as blindsight, implicit/explicit cognition, and binocular rivalry, have generated a wealth of data. The same period has seen the development of a number of theories about NCC location. This volume brings together the leading experimentalists and theoreticians in the field. Topics include foundational and evolutionary issues, global integration, vision, consciousness and the NMDA receptor complex, neuroimaging, implicit processes, intentionality and phenomenal volition, schizophrenia, social cognition, and the phenomenal self.

Table of Contents
 Preface
1 Introduction: Consciousness Research at the End of the Twentieth Century
I Foundational Issues and Conceptual Problems
2 What Is a Neural Correlate of Consciousness?
by David J. Chalmers
3 The Perennial Problem of the Reductive Explainability of Phenomenal Consciousness: C. D. Broad on the Explanatory Gap
by Ansgar Beckermann
4 Prospects for a Scientific Research Program on Consciousness
by Antti Revonsuo
5 The Evolution and Ontogeny of Consciousness
by Gerhard Roth
II Candidates for the NCC I: Representational Dynamics
6 The Unconscious Homunculus
by Francis Crick and Christof Koch
7 A Neurobiology for Consciousness
by Antonio R. Damasio
8 Phenomenal Awareness and Consciousness from a Neurobiological Perspective
by Wolf Singer
9 Reentry and the Dynamic Core: Neural Correlates of Conscious Experience
by Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi
III Candidates for the NCC II: Vision
10 Visual Perception Without Awareness: Priming Responses by Color
by Thomas Schmidt
11 Face Representation Without Conscious Processing
by Beena Khurana
12 Space in the Brain: Different Neural Substrates for Allocentric and Egocentric Frames of Reference
by Melvyn A. Goodale and Kelly J. Murphy
13 Conscious Registration of Continuous and Discrete Visual Events
by Romi Nijhawan and Beena Khurana
14 Imaging Conscious Vision
by Dominic ffytche
15 Binocular Rivalry and Human Visual Awareness
by Erik D. Lumer
IV Candidates for the NCC III: Consciousness, Anesthesia, and the NMDA Receptor Complex
16 NMDA Receptor-Mediated Computational Processes and Phenomenal Consciousness
by Hans Flohr
17 How to Understand the N in NCC
by Valerie Gray Hardcastle
18 The Role of NMDA Receptors in Consciousness: What We Learn from Anesthetic Mechanisms?
by Nicholas P. Franks and William R. Lieb
19 NMDA Receptor-Mediated Consciousness: A Theoretical Framework for Understanding the Effects of Anesthesia on Cognition?
by Jackie Andrade
V Toward the Neural Correlates of Selfhood, Agency, and Social Cognition
20 The Subjectivity of Subjective Experience: A Representationist Analysis of the First-Person Perspective
by Thomas Metzinger
21 Awareness of Agency: Three Levels of Analysis
by Joëlle Proust
22 The Acting Subject: Toward the Neural Basis of Social Cognition
by Vittorio Gallese
 Contributors
 Index
 
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