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, Jo?lle                  Proust, Antti Revonsuo, Gerhard Roth, Thomas Schmidt, Wolf Singer, Giulio                  Tononi.

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