Frontiers of consciousness
By: edited by Lawrence Weiskrantz and Martin Davies.
Contributors: Weiskrantz, Lawrence.; Davies, Martin, 1950-
Series: The Chichele lectures -- 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780199233151
Subjects: Consciousness -- Physiological aspects; Neuropsychology; Consciousness -- physiology; Neuropsychology -- methods; Philosophy; Unconscious (Psychology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Consciousness and explanation / Martin Davies; title: Explanatory gaps and dualist intuitions / David Papineau; title: Emotional coloration of consciousness: how feelings come about / Joseph LeDoux; title: Emotion, higher-order syntactic thoughts, and consciousness / Edmund T. Rolls; title: Conscious and unconscious visual processing in the human brain / A.D. Milner; title: Vision, action, and awareness / Manos Tsakiris and Patrick Haggard; title: The social functions of consciousness / Chris D. Frith; title: Are we studying consciousness yet? / Hakwan C. Lau; title: Beast machines? Questions of animal consciousness / Cecilia Heyes; title: Why a rat is not a beast machine / Anthony Dickinson; title: Does consciousness spring from the brain?: Dilemmas of awareness in practice and in theory / Adam Zeman; title: On the ubiquity of conscious/unconscious dissociations in neuropsychology / Lawrence Weiskrantz.