Characterizing Consciousness: From Cognition to the Clinic?
- ISBN-10
- 3642180159
- ISBN-13
- 9783642180156
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 202
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-05-27
- Publisher
- Springer Science & Business Media
- Authors
- Stanislas Dehaene, Yves Christen
Description
Fifteen of the foremost scientists in this field presented testable theoretical models of consciousness and discussed how our understanding of the role that consciousness plays in our cognitive processes is being refined with some surprising results.
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