New Horizons in the Neuroscience of Consciousness
1st Edition
Published on 28. October 2010
XXV, 330 pages
978-90-272-8804-2 (ISBN)
Description
A fascinating cornucopia of new ideas, based on fundamentals of neurobiology, psychology, psychiatry and therapy, this book extends boundaries of current concepts of consciousness. Its eclectic mix will simulate and challenge not only neuroscientists and psychologists but entice others interested in exploring consciousness. Contributions from top researchers in consciousness and related fields project diverse ideas, focused mainly on conscious nonconscious interactions:
1. Paving the way for new research on basic scientific - physiological, pharmacological or neurochemical - mechanisms underpinning conscious experience ('bottom up' approach);
2. Providing directions on how psychological processes are involved in consciousness ('top down' approach);
3. Indicating how including consciousness could lead to new understanding of mental disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, dementia, and addiction;
4. More provocatively, but still based on scientific evidence, exploring consciousness beyond conventional boundaries, indicating the potential for radical new thinking or 'quantum leaps' in neuroscientific theories of consciousness. (Series B)
1. Paving the way for new research on basic scientific - physiological, pharmacological or neurochemical - mechanisms underpinning conscious experience ('bottom up' approach);
2. Providing directions on how psychological processes are involved in consciousness ('top down' approach);
3. Indicating how including consciousness could lead to new understanding of mental disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, dementia, and addiction;
4. More provocatively, but still based on scientific evidence, exploring consciousness beyond conventional boundaries, indicating the potential for radical new thinking or 'quantum leaps' in neuroscientific theories of consciousness. (Series B)
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Content
- New Horizons in the Neuroscience of Consciousness
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- List of contributors
- Prologue
- Seeing myself think
- I. Neuronal mechanisms
- The slow cortical potential hypothesis on consciousness
- The SCP and the fMRI signal
- The physiological basis of the SCP
- The SCP and consciousness - A neurophysiological hypothesis of consciousness
- Concluding remarks
- References
- Glossary
- Distinct characteristics of conscious experience are met by large neuronal synchronization
- Some basic definitions
- Properties of consciousness constraining neuronal implementations
- Neuronal synchrony as a key correlate of perceptual awareness
- Evidence relating long-range synchronization and consciousness
- Pressing questions in the field of consciousness research
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Gamma oscillations and the cellular components of consciousness?
- Mechanisms underlying the generation of gamma frequency oscillations
- Role of gamma frequency oscillations
- Changes in gamma frequency oscillations in disease
- Optogenetics - A tool to modulate consciousness
- Conclusions
- References
- Dopamine modulation of decision making processes
- Ventral subiculum of the hippocampus
- Prefrontal cortex and behavioral flexibility
- Dopamine system regulation in the control of accumbens afferents
- Prefrontal cortical-hippocampal interactions and goal-directed behavior
- Dopamine, cognitive control and consciousness
- References
- Undercurrents of consciousness: The endocannabinoid system
- The endocannabinoid system
- Endocannabinoid tone
- References
- Disconnecting consciousness: The neuroscience of general anaesthesia
- Introduction
- Molecular targets
- Neuroanatomic targets
- Functional neurophysiologic targets
- Conclusion
- References
- Consciousness and neural time travel
- Perceiving the self in neural time travel
- Potential neural mechanisms of consciousness
- Influences on neural mechanisms
- Distributed consciousness in the neocortex
- Speculations
- Acknowledgements
- References
- II. Psychological processes
- Consciousness and the relation between implicit and explicit memory
- References
- Two varieties of unconscious processes
- Introduction
- Global Workspace Theory
- The LIDA model and its architecture
- The LIDA cognitive cycle
- Preconscious and N-conscious processes
- Summary and conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Operating characteristics and awareness
- Disambiguating perceptual experience from decision criterion
- Dissociating explicit measures of perception from implicit measures of processing
- Operating characteristics and measures of confidence in a decision
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Noise in the brain, decision-making, determinism, free will, and consciousness
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A higher order syntactic theory of consciousness
- 3. Noise in the brain and determinism
- 4. Noise in the brain and free will
- 5. Monitoring and consciousness
- References
- Social consciousness
- Mental phenomena, psychological processes and neural mechanisms
- Self-Other-differentiation as prerequisite for social consciousness
- Intuitive and inferential social consciousness
- True interaction
- Neural mechanisms of social consciousness
- Conclusions
- References
- Consciousness and language: A processing perspective
- The biological approach to language
- How to know a language and at the same time, not know it at all
- MOGUL
- Conscious and unconscious processes in MOGUL
- The footprints of language
- Conclusion
- References
- Cognitive illusions: From magic to science
- Misdirection
- Illusions
- Conclusion
- References
- Dreaming as a model system for consciousness research
- Dreaming as pure phenomenality
- Dreaming as a model for investigating consciousness
- Problems and accomplishments
- Conclusion
- References
- Lucid dreaming and the bimodality of consciousness
- The bimodality of consciousness
- Evidence for bimodality: Consciousness in waking and in dreaming
- Mechanism: The AIM model
- Function
- The state dependency of consciousness
- Lucid dreaming, an experiment of nature
- Laboratory studies
- Comparison of recent results to previous imaging studies
- Lucid dreaming as a bimodal state of consciousness
- Summary and conclusions
- References
- III. Psychopathologies and therapies
- Why depression feels bad
- Behaviourism
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Biological psychiatry
- Depression itself
- Affective neuroscience
- Conclusion
- References
- Dementia and the boundary between conscious and nonconscious awareness
- Introduction
- Mechanisms of consciousness and the relevance of dementia
- Conclusion
- References
- Consciousness as the spin-off and schizophrenia as the price of language
- Schizophrenia as a disorder of consciousness?
- Psychotic symptoms in the split brain: Disorders of consciousness?
- The structure of language and its decomposition in psychosis
- The origin of the nuclear symptoms
- Developmental anomalies of anatomical asymmetry and schizophrenia
- Psychotic symptoms as disorders of consciousness of language?
- References
- Consciousness and psychosis associated with schizophrenia
- Introduction
- Allocentric representations
- Episodic memory
- ? Oscillations
- Dreaming and REM sleep
- Amygdala hyperresponsivity in social phobia and schizophrenia
- GABAergic hypofunction in schizophrenia
- Hallucinations
- Conclusions
- References
- The visual unconscious: Perspectives from the Charles Bonnet Syndrome
- Introduction
- Visual consciousness
- Charles Bonnet and his Syndrome
- CBS hallucinations and the NCUC
- Refining the visual unconscious
- Beyond Charles Bonnet Syndrome
- Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Believing is hearing is believing: The reciprocal nature of consciousness
- Definitions
- The auditory perceptual pathways
- Prerequisites for auditory consciousness
- Implications for the study of consciousness
- Summary
- References
- Dreaming as a physiological psychosis: Connecting states of consciousness
- The dreaming brain/mind
- The psychotic condition
- Connecting states of consciousness
- Concluding remarks
- References
- Conscious awareness versus optimistic beliefs in recreational Ecstasy/MDMA users
- Interviews with Ecstasy/MDMA users
- Awareness of the positive and negative effects of Ecstasy/MDMA
- Conclusions
- References
- Conscious and unconscious placebo responses
- Conscious placebo responses
- Unconscious placebo responses
- When do conscious and unconscious placebo responses occur?
- Re-shaping neuronal activity through verbal suggestions of clinical improvement
- Conclusions
- References
- IV. Expanding boundaries
- The paradoxes of creativity
- References
- Potential contributions of research on meditation to the neuroscience of consciousness
- Meditation as an explanandum
- Transforming the mind and neuroplasticity
- Interaction mind and body
- Neural counterpart of subjectivity
- References
- Self-induced altered states of consciousness
- Altered states of consciousness
- Neural basis of consciousness
- Neural basis of altered states of consciousness
- Functional neuroimaging studies
- Indian and other Eastern thoughts
- Conscious-Nonconscious interface
- Conclusion
- References
- Beyond the boundaries of the brain
- A forgotten episode in the origins of the neurosciences
- Experimental tests
- Cumulative results
- Neuroscience perspective
- Discussion
- References
- Plants of the gods and shamanic journeys
- Inducing altered conscious awareness
- Species, states and neuropharmacology
- Neurotransmitter mechanisms
- Models of altered states
- Beyond the brain?
- References
- Index
- The series Advances in Consciousness Research
