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International Journal of Psychopysiology

Thalamo-cortical relations in attention and consciousness. C.H.M. Brunia – Attention, consciousness, and electrical wave activity within the cortical column D. LaBerge The present issue of the International Journal of Psy...
 
 
 
 
 
 

The conscious access hypothesis: origins and recent evidence

Consciousness might help to mobilize and integrate brain functions that are otherwise separate and independent. Evidence for this ‘conscious access hypothesis’ was described almost two decades ago, in a framework ca...
 
 
 
 
 
 

New issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies

Vol. 9, Issue 3, March 2002 Selected articles: Willard Miranker – A Quantum State Model of Consciousness Paul Livingston – Experience and Structure: Philosophical History and the Problem of Consciousness Ullin Place...
 
 
 
 
 
 

Self-awareness and emotional intensity

Does self-awareness amplify or dampen the intensity of emotional experience? Early research argued that self-awareness makes emotional states salient, resulting in greater emotional intensity. But these studies induced a standa...
 
 
 
 
 
 

Attention to local form information can prevent access to semantic information

Humphreys and Boucart (1997) have shown that when processing of local form is required for response, surrounding global information is automatically processed to a semantic level. The generality of this effect was investigated ...
 
 
 
 
 
 

Neural correlates of consciousness in humans

The primate visual system has been extensively investigated in the search for the neural correlates of conscious experience. This article reviews data from functional neuroimaging studies in humans and electrophysiological stud...