| Preface
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| 1. | Introduction: Treating Consciousness as a Variable: The Fading Taboo
Bernard J. Baars
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| I. | OVERVIEW | 11 |
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| 2. | Consciousness: Respectable, Useful, and Probably Necessary
George Mandler | 15 |
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| 3. | Consciousness and Neuroscience
Francis C. Crick and Christof Koch | 35 |
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| II. | CONSCIOUSNESS IN VISION | 55 |
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| 4. | Feature Binding, Attention, and Object Perception
Anne Treisman | 63 |
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| 5. | Effects of Sleep and Arousal on the Processing of Visual Information in the Cat
Margaret S. Livingstone and David Hubel | 85 |
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| 6. | The Role of Temporal Cortical Areas in Perceptual Organization
D.L. Sheinberg and Nikos K. Logothetis | 101 |
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| 7. | Investigating Neural Correlates of Conscious Perception by Frequency-Tagged Neuromagnetic Responses
Guilio Tononi, Ramesh Srinivasan, D. Patrick Russell and Gerald M. Edelman | 113 |
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| 8. | Temporal Binding, Binocular Rivalry, and Consciousness
Andreas K. Engel, Pascal Fries, Pieter R. Roelfsema, Peter König, Michael Brecht and Wolf Singer | 125 |
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| 9. | Disconnected Awareness for Detecting, Processing, and Remembering in Neurological Patients
Larry Weiskrantz | 147 |
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| 10. | Blindsight in Monkeys
Alan Cowey and Petra Stoerig | 155 |
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| 11. | Hemisphere Deconnection and Unity in Conscious Awareness
R.W. Sperry | 161 |
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| 12. | Separate Visual Pathways for Perception and Action
Melvyn A. Goodale and A. D. Milner | 175 |
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| 13. | Consciousness and Isomorphism: Can the Color Spectrum Really Be Inverted?
Stephen E. Palmer | 185 |
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| III. | ATTENTION: SELECTING ONE CONSCIOUS STREAM AMONG MANY | 201 |
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| 14. | Strategies and Models of Selective Attention
Anne Treisman | 207 |
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| 15. | Inattentional Blindness versus Inattentional Amnesia for Fixated but Ignored Words
Geraint Rees, Charlotte Russell, Christopher D. Frith and Jon Driver | 227 |
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| 16. | Aspects of a Theory of Comprehension, Memory, and Attention
Donald G. MacKay | 235 |
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| 17. | To See or Not to See: The Need for Attention to Perceive Changes in Scenes
Ronald A. Rensink, J. Kevin O'Regan and James J. Clark | 251 |
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| 18. | Function of the Thalamic Reticular Complex: The Searchlight Hypothesis
Francis C. Crick | 263 |
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| 19. | Selective Attention Gates Visual Processing in the Extrastriate Cortex
Jeffrey Moran and Robert Desimone | 273 |
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| 20. | Attention: The Mechanisms of Consciousness
Michael I. Posner | 279 |
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| 21. | Attention, Awareness, and the Triangular Circuit
David LaBerge | 291 |
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| IV. | IMMEDIATE MEMORY: THE FLEETING CONSCIOUS PRESENT | 319 |
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| 22. | The Information Available in Brief Visual Presentations
George Sperling | 325 |
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| 23. | The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information
George A. Miller | 357 |
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| 24. | The Control of Short-Term Memory
Richard C. Atkinson and Richard M. Shiffrin | 373 |
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| 25. | Verbal and Visual Subsystems of Working Memory
Alan D. Baddeley | 389 |
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| 26. | The Prefrontal Landscape: Implications of Functional Architecture for Understanding Human Mentation and the Central Executive
Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic | 395 |
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| 27. | Storage and Executive Processes in the Frontal Lobes
Edward E. Smith and John Jonides | 409 |
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| 28. | Consciousness and Cognition May Be Mediated by Multiple Independent Coherent Ensembles
E. Roy John, Paul Easton and Robert Isenhart | 419 |
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| V. | INTERNAL SOURCES: VISUAL IMAGES, AND INNER SPEECH | 453 |
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| 29. | Aspects of a Cognitive Neuroscience of Mental Imagery
Stephen M. Kosslyn | 457 |
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| 30. | The Neural Basis of Mental Imagery
Martha J. Farah | 469 |
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| 31. | Experimental Studies of Ongoing Conscious Experience
Jerome L. Singer | 479 |
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| 32. | Verbal Reports on Thinking
K. Anders Ericsson and Herbert A. Simon | 493 |
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| VI. | BELOW THE THRESHOLD OF SENSORY CONSCIOUSNESS | 515 |
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| 33. | Distinguishing Conscious from Unconscious Perceptual Processes
Jim Cheesman and Philip M. Merikle | 519 |
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| 34. | The Psychological Unconscious: A Necessary Assumption for All Psychological Theory?
Howard Shevrin and Scott Dickman | 541 |
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| 35. | Brain Stimulation in the Study of Neuronal Functions for Conscious Sensory Experiences
B. Libet | 559 |
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| VII. | CONSCIOUSNESS AND MEMORY | 573 |
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| 36. | Memory and Consciousness
Endel Tulving | 579 |
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| 37. | Conscious Recollection and the Human Hippocampal Formation: Evidence from Positron Emission Tomography
Daniel L. Schachter, Nathaniel M. Alpert, Cary R. Savage, Scott L. Rauch and Marilyn S. Albert | 593 |
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| 38. | Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge
Arthur S. Reber | 603 |
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| 39. | Attention, Automatism, and Consciousness
Richard M. Shiffrin | 631 |
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| 40. | When Practice Makes Imperfect: Debilitating Effects of Overlearning
Ellen J. Langer and Lois G. Imber | 643 |
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| 41. | The Neural Correlates of Consciousness: An Analysis of Cognitive Skill Learning
Marcus E. Raichle | 655 |
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| 42. | Availability: A Heuristic for Judging Frequency and Probability
Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman | 677 |
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| 43. | Experiences of Remembering, Knowing, and Guessing
John M. Gardiner, Cristina Ramponi and Alan Richardson-Klavehn | 697 |
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| 44. | Measuring Recollection: Strategic versus Automatic Influences of Associative Context
Larry L. Jacoby | 721 |
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| VIII. | UNCONSCIOUS AND "FRINGE" PROCESSES | 737 |
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| 45. | The Conscious "Fringe": Bringing William James Up to Date
Bruce Mangan | 741 |
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| 46. | The Fundamental Role of Context: Unconscious Shaping of Conscious Information
Bernard J. Baars | 761 |
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| 47. | The Cognitive Unconscious
Richard Kihlstrom | 777 |
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| 48. | Pain and Dissociation in the Cold Pressor Test: A Study of Hypnotic Analgesia with "Hidden Reports" through Automatic Key Pressing and Automatic Talking
Ernest Hilgard, Arlene H. Morgan and Hugh Macdonald | 793 |
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| 49. | Anosognosia in Parietal Lobe Syndrome
V.S. Ramachandran | 805 |
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| 50. | Implications for Psychiatry of Left and Right Cerebral Specialization: A Neurophysiological Context for Unconscious Processes
David Galin | 831 |
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| IX. | CONSCIOUSNESS AS A STATE: WAKING, DEEP SLEEP, COMA, ANESTHESIA, AND DREAMING | 851 |
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| 51. | Brain Stem Reticular Formation and Activation of the EEG
G. Moruzzi and H.W. Magoun | 859 |
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| 52. | Anatomical and Physiological Substrates of Arousal
Arnold B. Scheibel | 881 |
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| 53. | On the Neurophysiology of Consciousness: An Overview
Joseph E. Bogen | 891 |
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| 54. | An Information Processing Theory of Anaesthesia
H. Flohr | 901 |
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| 55. | Toward a Unified Theory of Narcosis: Brain Imaging Evidence for a Thalamocortical Switch as the Neurophysiologic Basis of Anesthetic-Induced Unconsciousness
M.T. Alkire, R.J. Haier and J.H. Fallon | 913 |
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| 56. | The Relation of Eye Movements during Sleep to Dream Activity: An Objective Method for the Study of Dreaming
William C. Dement and Nathaniel Kleitman | 929 |
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| 57. | The Brain as a Dream State Generator: An Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis of the Dream Process
J. Allan Hobson and Robert W. McCarley | 937 |
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| 58. | Lucid Dreaming Verified by Volitional Communication during REM Sleep
Stephen P. LaBerge, Lynn E. Nagel, William C. Dement and Vincent P. Zarcone, Jr. | 959 |
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| 59. | Commentary: Of Dreaming and Wakefulness
Rodolfo R. Llinás and D. Paré | 965 |
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| X. | THEORY | 987 |
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| 60. | Consciousness and Complexity
Guilio Tononi and Gerald M. Edelman | 993 |
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| 61. | Brain Learning, Attention, and Consciousness
Stephen Grossberg | 1007 |
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| 62. | A Global Competitive Network for Attention
John G. Taylor and F.N. Alavi | 1035 |
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| 63. | Time-Locked Multiregional Retroactivation: A Systems-Level Proposal for the Neural Substrates of Recall and Recognition
Antonio R. Damasio | 1059 |
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| 64. | Visual Feature Integration and the Temporal Correlation Hypothesis
Wolf Singer and Charles M. Gray | 1087 |
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| 65. | Metaphors of Consciousness and Attention in the Brain
Bernard J. Baars | 1113 |
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| 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?
Bernard J. Baars | 1123 |
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| 67. | A Neural Global Workspace Model for Conscious Attention
James B. Newman, Bernard J. Baars and Sung-Bae Cho | 1131 |
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| 68. | A Software Agent Model of Consciousness
Stan Franklin and Art Graesser | 1149 |
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| Index
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