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The Unity of Consciousness
Binding, Integration, and Dissociation
Edited by Axel Cleeremans
Foreword by Chris Frith
328 pages
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numerous figures and tables
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240x168mm
978-0-19-850857-1
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Hardback
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12 June 2003
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- An exciting new interdisciplinary volume on the topic of consciousness
- Includes contributions from the people who have defined this field
- Accessible to students and scientists from undergraduate level upwards
Consciousness has many elements, from sensory experiences such as vision, audition, and bodily sensation, to nonsensory aspects such as volition, emotion, memory, and thought. The apparent unity of these elements is striking; all are presented to us as experiences of a single subject, and all seem to be contained within a unified field of experience. But this apparent unity raises many questions. How do diverse systems in the brain co-operate to produce a unified experience? Are there conditions under which this unity breaks down? Is conscious experience really unified at all?
In recent years, these questions have been
addressed by researchers in many fields, including, neurophysiologists and computational modellers, neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, and philosophy. With chapters from some of the leading thinkers on consciousness, this is a thought-provoking book that attempts to answer some of the big questions.
Contributors include - Chris Frith, David Chalmers, Guilio Tononi, Anne Treisman, Andrew Young, Sydney Shoemaker, Glyn Humphreys, Rodney Cotterill, Zoltan Dienes, Susan Hurley, Randall O'Reilly, Andreas Engel, Pierre Perruchet, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, and Francisco Varela.
Readership: Psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers interested in 'consciousness'
from undergraduate level upwards
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Edited by Axel Cleeremans, Department of Psychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Foreword by Chris FrithContributors:
Timothy Bayne and David J. Chalmers, Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, USA
Sydney Shoemaker, Department of Philosophy, Cornell University, USA
Susan Hurley, Department of Philosophy, Warwick University, UK
Anne Treisman, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, USA
Glyn W. Humphreys, Department of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK
Andreas K.
Engel, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany
Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Institute of Cognitive Science, Lyon, France
Randall C. O'Reilly, Richard Busby, and Rodolfo Soto, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, US
Pierre Perruchet and Annie Vinter, LEAD, University of Bourgogne, France
Zoltan Dienes and Josef Perner, Department of Psychology, University of Sussex
Andrew W. Young, Department of Psychology, York University
Guilio Tononi, The Neurosciences Institute, John Hopkins University, USA
Francisco Varela and Evan Thompson, LENA - Salpetriere Hospital, France
Rodney Cotterill, Physics Department, Technical University of Denmark
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"The book may be most useful for illustrating the breadth of approaches applied to the unity of consciousness and the different levels at which the concept can be considered. It offers few solid conclusions but raises many questions. Overall, there is much that is stimulating and thought provoking, and anyone with an interest in consciousness will find something worth reading." - Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18
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Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: What is unity?
1.1: Timothy Bayne and David J. Chalmers: What is the unity of consciousness?
1.2: Sydney Shoemaker: Consciousness and co-consciousness
1.3: Susan Hurley: Action, the unity of consciousness, and vehicle externalism
Part 2: Binding (The mechanisms of unity)
2.1: Anne Treisman: Consciousness and perceptual binding
2.2: Glyn W. Humphreys: Conscious visual representations built from multiple binding processes: evidence from neuropsychology
2.3: Andreas K. Engel: Temporal binding and the neural correlates of consciousness
2.4: Catherine Tallon-Baudry: Oscillatory synchrony as a signature for the unity of visual experience in humans
2.5: Randall C. O'Reilly, Richard Busby, and Rodolfo Soto: Three forms of binding and their neural substrates: Alternatives to temporal synchrony
Part 3: Dissociations (when unity breaks down)
3.1: Pierre Perruchet and Annie Vinter: Linking learning and consciousness: The self-organizing consciousness (SOC) Model
3.2: Zoltan Dienes and Josef Perner: Unifying consciousness with explicit knowledge
3.3: Andrew W. Young: Face recognition with and without awareness
Part 4: Integration (The emergence of unity)
4.1: Guilio Tononi: Consciousness differentiated and integrated
4.2: Francisco Varela and Evan Thompson: Neural synchrony and the unity of mind: A neurophenomenological perspective
4.3: Rodney Cotterill: Conscious unity, emotion, dreaming, and the solution of the hard problem
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