| Preface
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| 1 | Introduction: Consciousness Research at the End of the Twentieth Century
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| I | FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES AND CONCEPTUAL PROBLEMS | |
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| 2 | What Is a Neural Correlate of Consciousness? | |
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| 3 | The Perennial Problem of the Reductive Explainability of Phenomenal Consciousness: C. D. Broad on the Explanatory Gap | |
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| 4 | Prospects for a Scientific Research Program on Consciousness | |
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| 5 | The Evolution and Ontogeny of Consciousness | |
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| II | CANDIDATES FOR THE NCC I: REPRESENTATIONAL DYNAMICS | |
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| 6 | The Unconscious Homunculus | |
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| 7 | A Neurobiology for Consciousness | |
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| 8 | Phenomenal Awareness and Consciousness from a Neurobiological Perspective | |
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| 9 | Reentry and the Dynamic Core: Neural Correlates of Conscious Experience | |
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| III | CANDIDATES FOR THE NCC II: VISION | |
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| 10 | Visual Perception Without Awareness: Priming Responses by Color | |
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| 11 | Face Representation Without Conscious Processing | |
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| 12 | Space in the Brain: Different Neural Substrates for Allocentric and Egocentric Frames of Reference | |
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| 13 | Conscious Registration of Continuous and Discrete Visual Events | |
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| 14 | Imaging Conscious Vision | |
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| 15 | Binocular Rivalry and Human Visual Awareness | |
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| IV | CANDIDATES FOR THE NCC III: CONSCIOUSNESS, ANESTHESIA, AND THE NMDA RECEPTOR COMPLEX | |
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| 16 | NMDA Receptor--Mediated Computational Processes and Phenomenal Consciousness | |
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| 17 | How to Understand the N in NCC | |
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| 18 | The Role of NMDA Receptors in Consciousness: What We Learn from Anesthetic Mechanisms? | |
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| 19 | NMDA Receptor--Mediated Consciousness: A Theoretical Framework for Understanding the Effects of Anesthesia on Cognition? | |
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| V | TOWARD THE NEURAL CORRELATES OF SELFHOOD, AGENCY, AND SOCIAL COGNITION | |
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| 20 | The Subjectivity of Subjective Experience: A Representationist Analysis of the First-Person Perspective | |
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| 21 | Awareness of Agency: Three Levels of Analysis | |
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| 22 | The Acting Subject: Toward the Neural Basis of Social Cognition | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index
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