• Introduction ; Philosophical Approaches ; 1. Introduction to philosophical approaches to consciousness ; 2. Consciousness in human and robot mind ; 3. Consciousness and the mind-body problem ; Approaches from Cognitive Neuroscience ; 4. Why can't I control my brain? Aspects of conscious experience ; 5. Brain mechanisms of vision, memory, and consciousness ; 6. Single neurons, communal goals, and consciousness ; 7. The development of automaticity - from conscious to nonconscious information processing in the human brain ; 8. Neuronal origin of visual imagery ; 9. Awareness of memory deficit ; 10. Body awareness anmd its disorders ; 11. Language, modality, and the brain ; 12. The coherence definition of consciousness ; 13. Neurodynamics and brain mechanisms ; 14. Bi-directional theory approach to consciousness ; 15. The computational role of conscious processing in a model of semantic memory

In pursuing the editors' stated aim of understanding the brain mechanisms of consciousness, this book presents a valuable interdisciplinaryt perspective. An impressive body of research is fathered which, coupled with some insightful speculation offered by several authors, significantly clarifies many of the issues surrounding higher cognitive function ... it conveys effectively the rich diversity of research that informs the science of consciousness.