Title: The unity of consciousness : binding, integration, and dissociation /
Authors: Cleeremans, Axel.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Consciousness.; Neuropsychology; Consciounsess physiology.; Cortical Synchronization physiology; Mental Processes physiology; Consciousness Congresses
Abstract: "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 book that attempts to answer some of the big questions."--Jacket.
Contents: What is the unity of consciousness? / Tim Bayne and David J. Chalmers -- Consciousness and co-consciousness / Sidney Shoemaker -- Action, the unity of consciousness, and vehicle externalism / Susan Hurley -- Consciousness and perceptual binding / Anne Treisman -- Conscious visual representations built from multiple binding processes : evidence from neuropsychology / Glyn W. Humphreys -- Temporal binding and the neural correlates of consciousness / Andreas K. Engel -- Oscillatory synchrony as a signature for the unity of visual experience in humans / Catherine Tallon-Baudry -- Three forms of binding and their neural substrates : alternatives to temporal synchrony / Randall C. O'Reilly, Richard S. Busby and Rodolfo Soto -- Linking learning and consciousness : the self-organizing consciousness (SOC) model / Pierre Perruchet and Annie Vinter -- Unifying consciousness with explicit knowledge / Zoltán Dienes and Josef Perner -- Face recognition with and without awareness / Andrew W. Young -- Consciousness differentiated and integrated / Giulio Tononi -- Neural synchrony and the unity of mind : a neurophenomenological perspective / Francisco J. Varela and Evan Thompson -- Conscious unity, emotion, dreaming, and the solution of the hard problem / Rodney M.J. Cotterill.