Neural correlates of consciousness : empirical and conceptual questions / edited by Thomas Metzinger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Metzinger, Thomas, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Neuropsychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 350 p. ) ill. (some col.) ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book brings together an international group of neuroscientists and philosophers who are investigating how the content of subjective experience is correlated with events in the brain. The fundamental methodological problem in consciousness research is the subjectivity of the target phenomenon--the fact that conscious experience, under standard conditions, is always tied to an individual, first-person perspective. The core empirical question is whether and how physical states of the human nervous system can be mapped onto the content of conscious experience. The search for the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) has become a highly active field of investigation in recent years. Methods such as single-cell recording in monkeys and brain imaging and electrophysiology in humans, applied to such phenomena as blindsight, implicit/explicit cognition, and binocular rivalry, have generated a wealth of data. The same period has seen the development of a number of theories about NCC location. This volume brings together the leading experimentalists and theoreticians in the field. Topics include foundational and evolutionary issues, global integration, vision, consciousness and the NMDA receptor complex, neuroimaging, implicit processes, intentionality and phenomenal volition, schizophrenia, social cognition, and the phenomenal self. Contributors Jackie Andrade, Ansgar Beckermann, David J. Chalmers, Francis Crick, Antonio R. Damasio, Gerald M. Edelman, Dominic ffytche, Hans Flohr, N.P. Franks, Vittorio Gallese, Melvyn A. Goodale, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Beena Khurana, Christof Koch, W.R. Lieb, Erik D. Lumer, Thomas Metzinger, Kelly J. Murphy, Romi Nijhawan, Joëlle Proust, Antti Revonsuo, Gerhard Roth, Thomas Schmidt, Wolf Singer, Giulio Tononi.

Contents:

Introduction : Consciousness Research at the End of the Twentieth Century

I. Foundational Issues and Conceptual Problems

What Is a Neural Correlate of Consciousness? / David J. Chalmers

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

Prospects for a Scientific Research Program on Consciousness / Antti Revonsuo

The Evolution and Ontogeny of Consciousness / Gerhard Roth

II. Candidates for the NCC I : Representational Dynamics

The Unconscious Homunculus / Francis Crick, Christof Koch

A Neurobiology for Consciousness / Antonio R. Damasio

Phenomenal Awareness and Consciousness from a Neurobiological Perspective / Wolf Singer

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

III. Candidates for the NCC II : Vision

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

Face Representation Without Conscious Processing / Beena Khurana

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

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

Imaging Conscious Vision / Dominic Ffytche

Binocular Rivalry and Human Visual Awareness / Erik D. Lumer

IV. Candidates for the NCC III : Consciousness, Anesthesia, and the NMDA Receptor Complex

NMDA Receptor

Mediated Computational Processes and Phenomenal Consciousness / Hans Flohr

How to Understand the N in NCC / Valerie Gray Hardcastle

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

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

The Subjectivity of Subjective Experience : A Representationalist Analysis of the First-Person Perspective / Thomas Metzinger

Awareness of Agency : Three Levels of Analysis / Joelle Proust

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A Bradford book."

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-27973-8

1-4237-4511-6

OCLC:

62896610