Parution:Weiskrantz:Consciousness Lost and Found. A Neuropsychological Exploration

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Consciousness Lost and Found
A Neuropsychological Exploration

Lawrence Weiskrantz, Professor, Department of
Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford

* A new perspective on consciousness - from
one of the world's most distinguished
neuropsychologists
* 302 pages, line figures, 234mm x 156mm

* Publication date: April 1997
Hardback, 0-19-852301-7
UK Price: £19.99
* `His meticulous documentation of
neuropsychological experiment gives the book a
reassuring infrastructure.' - THES

The phenomenon of `consciousness' is
intrinsically related to one's awareness of
one's self, of time, and of the physical
world. What, then, can be learned about
consciousness from people who have suffered
brain damage such as amnesia which affects
their awareness? This is the question explored
by Lawrence Weiskrantz, a distinguished
neuropsychologist who has worked with such
patients over 30 years.

It has been discovered that many of these
patients retain intact capacities of which
they are unaware, in what is known as `covert'
processing. Weiskrantz maps his own research
onto a philosophical arguement which, combined
with the latest brain imaging studies, points
the way to specific brain structures which may
be involved in conscious awareness. The book
also analyses new approaches to the question
of animal consciousness and its evolutionary
value. Written in an engaging and accessible
style, Consciousness Lost and Found provides a
unique perspective on one of the most
challenging issues in science today.

Contents:

* 1. Introduction
* 2. The unseen and the unknown
* 3. Deficits, degradation, and
dissociations
* 4. The "What?" of consciousness
* 5. Animal consciousness - the problem of
"whether?"
* 6. The memory commentary is NOW
* 7. Attributes and possible pathways of
residual visual capacity
* 8. The evolutionary "why"?
* 9. The question of "how?"
* 10. And so. . .
* Appendix - Terminology

More in the same classification:
General Science

More on the same subject:
physiological and neuro-psychology,
clinical neurology, philosophy of mind

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