1st Edition

Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuroscience

Edited By Anil Seth, Geraint Rees Copyright 2011
88 Pages
by Psychology Press

88 Pages
by Psychology Press

How do conscious experience, subjectivity, and free will arise from the brain and the body? Even in the late 20th century, consciousness was considered to be beyond the reach of science. Now, understanding the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness is recognized as a key objective for 21st century science. The cognitive neuroscience of consciousness is a fundamentally multidisciplinary... Read more
A. Seth, G. Rees, Towards a Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness. F. Menzer, A. Brooks, P. Halje, C. Faller, M. Vetterli, O. Blanke, Feeling in Control of Your Footsteps: Conscious Gait Monitoring and the Auditory Consequences of Footsteps. M. Massimini, F. Ferrarelli, M. Murphy, B. Riedner, R. Huber, S. Casarotto, G. Tononi, Cortical Reactivity and Effective Connectivity During REM Sleep in Humans. M-A. Bruno, A. Soddu, A. Demertzi, S. Laureys, O. Gosseries, C. Schnakers, M. Boly, Q. Noirhomme, M. Thonnard, C. Chatelle, A. Vanhaudenhuyse, Disorders of Consciousness: Moving from Passive to Resting State and Active Paradigms. E. Rounis, B. Maniscaclo, J. Rothwell, D. Passingham, L. Hakwan, Theta-burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to the Prefrontal Cortex Impairs Metacognitive Visual Awareneness. R. Eramudugolla, J. Mattingley, J. Driver, Biased Figure-ground Assignment Affects Conscious Object Recognition in Unilateral Spatial Neglect. V. Lamme, How Neuroscience Will Change Our View on Consciousness. G. Caplovitz, M. Arcaro, S. Kastner, Stage 3 and What We See. A. Diaz, L. Britto, Consciousness Minus Retrospective Mental Time Travel. A. Ibanez, T. Bekinschtein, Explaining Seeing? Distentangling Qualia from Perceptual Organization. M. Overgaard, How Consciousness Will Change our View on Neuroscience. A. Revonsuo, M. Koivisto, Electrophysiological Evidence for Phenomenal Consciousness. A. Seth, A. Barrett, Neural Theories Need to Account For, Not Discount, Neural Theories. M. Shanahan, Localized Phenomenology: A Recurrent Debate. B. Timmermans, B. Windey, A. Cleeremans, Experiencing More Complexity Than We Can Tell. N. Tsuchiya, J. van Boxtel, Is Recurrent Processing Necessary and/or Sufficient for Consciousness. V. Lamme, Response to Commentaries.

Biography

Anil Seth, University of Sussex, UK Geraint Rees, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UK