New Horizons in the Neuroscience of Consciousness

1. List of contributors; 2. Prologue; 3. Poem; 4. Section I. Neuronal mechanisms; 5. The slow cortical potential hypothesis on consciousness (by He, Biyu J.); 6. Distinct characteristics of conscious experience are met by large-scale neuronal synchronization (by Melloni, Lucia); 7. Gamma oscillations and the cellular components of consciousness? (by LeBeau, Fiona E.N.); 8. Dopamine modulation of decision making processes (by Grace, Anthony A.); 9. Undercurrents of consciousness: The endocannabinoid system (by Ashton, Heather); 10. Disconnecting consciousness: The neuroscience of general anaesthesia (by Campos, Lucas); 11. Consciousness and neural time travel (by Hasselmo, Michael E.); 12. Section II. Psychological processes; 13. Consciousness and the relation between implicit and explicit memory (by Sheldon, Signy); 14. Two varieties of unconscious processes (by Franklin, Stan); 15. Operating characteristics and awareness (by Clifford, Colin W.G.); 16. Noise in the brain, decision-making, determinism, free will, and consciousness (by Rolls, Edmund T.); 17. Social consciousness (by Vogeley, Kai); 18. Consciousness and language: A processing perspective (by Sharwood Smith, Michael); 19. Cognitive illusions: From magic to science (by Kuhn, Gustav); 20. Dreaming as a model system for consciousness research (by Revonsuo, Antti); 21. Lucid dreaming and the bimodality of consciousness (by Hobson, Allan); 22. Section III. Psychopathologies and therapies; 23. Why depression feels bad (by Solms, Mark); 24. Dementia and the boundary between conscious and nonconscious awareness (by Collerton, Daniel); 25. Consciousness as the spin-off and schizophrenia as the price of language (by Crow, Timothy J.); 26. Consciousness and psychosis associated with schizophrenia: The role of Cornu Ammonis Region 3 (by Behrendt, Ralf-Peter); 27. The visual unconscious: Perspectives from the Charles Bonnet Syndrome (by ffytche, Dominic H.); 28. Believing is hearing is believing: The reciprocal nature of consciousness (by Sedley, William); 29. Dreaming as a physiological psychosis: Connecting states of consciousness (by D'Agostino, Armando); 30. Conscious awareness versus optimistic beliefs in recreational Ecstasy/MDMA users (by Parrott, Andrew); 31. Conscious and unconscious placebo responses: How the ritual of the therapeutic act changes the patient's brain (by Benedetti, Fabrizio); 32. Section IV. Expanding boundaries; 33. The paradoxes of creativity (by Ranpura, Ashish); 34. Potential contributions of research on meditation to the neuroscience of consciousness (by Lutz, Antoine); 35. Self-induced altered states of consciousness (by Gangadhar, Bangalore N.); 36. Beyond the boundaries of the brain (by Radin, Dean); 37. Plants of the gods and shamanic journeys (by Perry, Elaine K.); 38. Index