Hypnosis and conscious states : the cognitive neuroscience perspective

Anesthesia : the Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness

Essential sources in the scientific study of consciousness

Bradford book.

Preface -- Sources -- Introduction: Treating Consciousness as a Variable: The Fading Taboo / Overview -- Consciousness: Respectable, Useful, and Probably Necessary / Consciousness and Neuroscience / Consciousness in Vision -- Feature Binding, Attention and Object Perception / Effects of Sleep and Arousal on the Processing of Visual Information in the Cat / The Role of Temporal Cortical Areas in Perceptual Organization / Investigating Neural Correlates of Conscious Perception by Frequency-Tagged Neuromagnetic Responses / Temporal Binding, Binocular Rivalry, and Consciousness / Disconnected Awareness for Detecting, Processing, and Remembering in Neurological Patients / Blindsight in Monkeys / Hemisphere Deconnection and Unity in Conscious Awareness / Separate Visual Pathways for Perception and Action / Consciousness and Isomorphism: Can the Color Spectrum Really Be Inverted? / Attention: Selecting One Conscious Stream among Many -- Strategies and Models of Selective Attention / Inattentional Blindess versus Inattentional Amnesia for Fixated but Ignored Words / Aspects of a Theory of Comprehension, Memory, and Attention / To See or Not to See: The Need for Attention to Perceive Changes in Scenes / Function of the Thalamic Recticular Complex: The Searchlight Hypothesis / Selective Attention Gates Visual Processing in the Extrastriate Cortex / Attention: The Mechanisms of Consciousness / Attention, Awareness, and the Triangular Circuit / Immediate Memory: The Fleeting Conscious Present -- The Information Available in Brief Visual Presentations / The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information / The Control of Short-Term Memory / Verbal and Visual Subsystems of Working Memory / The Prefrontal Landscape: Implications of Functional Architecture for Understanding Human Mentation and the Central Excecutive / Storage and Executive Processes in the Frontal Lobes / Consciousness and Cognition May Be Mediated by Multiple Independent Coherent Ensembles / Internal Sources: Visual Images and Inner Speech -- Aspects of a Cognitive Neuroscience of Mental Imagery / The Neural Basis of Mental Imagery / Experimental Studies of Ongoing Conscious Experience / Verbal Reports on Thinking / Below the Threshold of Sensory Consciousness -- Distinguishing Conscious from Unconscious Perceptual Processes / The Psychological Unconscious: A Necessary Assumption for All Psychological Theory? / Brain Stimulation in the Study of Neuronal Functions for Conscious Sensory Experiences / Consciousness and Memory -- Memory and Consciousness / Conscious Recollection and the Human Hippocampal Formation: Evidence from Positron Emission Tomography / Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge / Attention, Automatism, and Consciousness / When Practice Makes Imperfect: Debilitating Effects of Overlearning / The Neural Correlates of Consciousness: An Analysis of Cognitive Skill Learning / Availability: A Heuristic for Judging Frequency and Probability / Experiences of Remembering, Knowing, and Guessing / Measuring Recollection: Strategic versus Automatic Influences of Associative Context / Unconcious and "Fringe" Processes -- The Conscious "Fringe": Bringing William James up to Date / The Fundamental Role of Context: Unconscious Shaping of Conscious Information / The Cognitive Unconscious / Pain and Dissociation in the Cold Pressor Test: A Study of Hypnotic Analgesia with "Hidden Reports" through Automatic Key Pressing and Automatic Talking / Anosognosia in Parietal Lobe Syndrome / Implications for Psychiatry of Left and Right Cerebral Specialization: A Neurophysiological Context for Unconscious Processes / Conciousness as a State: Waking, Deep Sleep, Coma, Anesthesia, and Dreaming -- Brain Stem Reticular Formation and Activation of the EEG / Anatomical and Physiological Substrates of Arousal / On the Neurophysiology of Consciousness: An Overview / An Information Processing Theory of Anaesthesia / Toward a Unified Theory of Narcosis: Brain Imaging Evidence for a Thalamocortical Switch as the Neurophysiologic Basis of Anesthetic-Induced Unconsciousness / The Relation of Eye Movements during Sleep to Dream Activity: An Objective Method for the Study of Dreaming / The Brain as a Dream State Generator: An Activation-Synthesis Hypothesis of the Dream Process / Lucid Dreaming Verified by Volitional Communication during REM Sleep / Commentary: Of Dreaming and Wakefulness / Theory -- Consciousness and Complexity / Brain Learning, Attention, and Consciousness / A Global Competitive Network for Attention / Time-Locked Multiregional Retroactivation: A Systems-Level Proposal for the Neural Substrates of Recall and Recognition / Visual Feature Integration and the Temporal Correlation Hypothesis / Metaphors of Consciousness and Attention in the Brain / How Does a Serial, Integrated, and Very Limited Stream of Consciousness Emerge from a Nervous System That Is Mostly Unconscious, Distributed, Parallel, and of Enormous Capacity? / A Neural Global Workspace Model for Conscious Attention / A Software Agent Model of Consciousness / Index.