Inner experience and neuroscience : merging both perspectives / Donald D. Price and James J. Barrell.

A proposal for merging a science of human consciousness with neuroscience and psychology. The study of consciousness has advanced rapidly over the last two decades. And yet there is no clear path to creating models for a direct science of human experience or for integrating its insights with those o...

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Main Authors: Price, Donald D. (Author), Barrell, James J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012]
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Table of Contents:
  • Developing a science of human meanings and consciousness
  • Lessons learned from psychophysics
  • Psychophysical methods and human meanings
  • Describing, characterizing, and understanding phenomenal experience
  • Merging the qualitative with the quantitative: the roles of desire and expectation in emotions
  • Choosing
  • Human pain and suffering
  • Second pain: a model for explaining a conscious experience?
  • Mysterious and not so mysterious mechanisms of placebo responses
  • Hypnotic and other background states of consciousness
  • Using experiential paradigms to extend science and help solve human problems?