Frontiers of consciousness
by
 
Weiskrantz, Lawrence.

Title
Frontiers of consciousness

Author
Weiskrantz, Lawrence.

ISBN
9780199233151

Publication Information
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Physical Description
xvii, 340 p., [2] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Series
Chichele lectures ; 2008
 
The Chichele lectures ; 2008

General Note
Formerly CIP.

Contents
Consciousness and explanation / Martin Davies -- Explanatory gaps and dualist intuitions / David Papineau -- Emotional coloration of consciousness: how feelings come about / Joseph LeDoux -- Emotion, higher-order syntactic thoughts, and consciousness / Edmund T. Rolls -- Conscious and unconscious visual processing in the human brain / A.D. Milner -- Vision, action, and awareness / Manos Tsakiris and Patrick Haggard -- The social functions of consciousness / Chris D. Frith -- Are we studying consciousness yet? / Hakwan C. Lau -- Beast machines? Questions of animal consciousness / Cecilia Heyes -- Why a rat is not a beast machine / Anthony Dickinson -- Does consciousness spring from the brain?: Dilemmas of awareness in practice and in theory / Adam Zeman -- On the ubiquity of conscious/unconscious dissociations in neuropsychology / Lawrence Weiskrantz.

Abstract
"The book stems from the Chichcle lectures held at All Souls College in Oxford, and features contributions from a 'who's who' of authorities from both philosophy and psychology. The result is a truly interdisciplinary volume, which tackles some of the biggest and most impenetrable problems in consciousness." "The book includes chapters considering the apparent explanatory gap between science and consciousness, our conscious experience of emotions such as fear, and of willed actions by ourselves and others. It looks at subjective differences between two ways in which visual information guides behaviour, and scientific investigation of consciousness in non-human animals. It explores the challenges that the mind-brain relation presents for clinical practice as well as for theories of consciousness. It draws on leading research from philosophy, experimental psychology, functional imaging of the brain, neuropsychology, neuroscience, and clinical neurology."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term
Consciousness -- Physiological aspects.
 
Neuropsychology.
 
Consciousness -- physiology.
 
Neuropsychology -- methods.
 
Philosophy.
 
Unconscious (Psychology)

Added Author
Weiskrantz, Lawrence.
 
Davies, Martin, 1950-


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