num_pages: 360
description: 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 phenomenonthe 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. ContributorsJackie 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 Jolle Proust Antti Revonsuo Gerhard Roth Thomas Schmidt Wolf Singer Giulio Tononi
language: English
title: Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Empirical and Conceptual Questions
publisher: A Bradford Book