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September 2000
7 x 9, 360 pp., 48 illus., 1 color
$58.00/£42.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-13370-9
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-13370-8

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Bradford Books
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Neural Correlates of Consciousness
Empirical and Conceptual Questions
Edited by Thomas Metzinger

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?
David J. Chalmers


3   The Perennial Problem of the Reductive Explainability of Phenomenal Consciousness: C.D. Broad on the Explanatory Gap
Ansgar Beckermann


4   Prospects for a Scientific Research Program on Consciousness
Antti Revonsuo


5   The Evolution and Ontogeny of Consciousness
Gerhard Roth



II   CANDIDATES FOR THE NCC I: REPRESENTATIONAL DYNAMICS

6   The Unconscious Homunculus
Francis Crick and Christof Koch


7   A Neurobiology for Consciousness
Antonio R. Damasio


8   Phenomenal Awareness and Consciousness from a Neurobiological Perspective
Wolf Singer


9   Reentry and the Dynamic Core: Neural Correlates of Conscious Experience
Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi



III   CANDIDATES FOR THE NCC II: VISION

10   Visual Perception Without Awareness: Priming Responses by Color
Thomas Schmidt


11   Face Representation Without Conscious Processing
Beena Khurana


12   Space in the Brain: Different Neural Substrates for Allocentric and Egocentric Frames of Reference
Melvyn A. Goodale and Kelly J. Murphy


13   Conscious Registration of Continuous and Discrete Visual Events
Romi Nijhawan and Beena Khurana


14   Imaging Conscious Vision
Dominic ffytche


15   Binocular Rivalry and Human Visual Awareness
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
Hans Flohr


17   How to Understand the N in NCC
Valerie Gray Hardcastle


18   The Role of NMDA Receptors in Consciousness: What We Learn from Anesthetic Mechanisms?
Nicholas P. Franks and William R. Lieb


19   NMDA Receptor—Mediated Consciousness: A Theoretical Framework for Understanding the Effects of Anesthesia on Cognition?
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
Thomas Metzinger


21   Awareness of Agency: Three Levels of Analysis
Joëlle Proust


22   The Acting Subject: Toward the Neural Basis of Social Cognition
Vittorio Gallese



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