Background
Baars, Bernard Joseph was born on March 21, 1946 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Son of Louis Jacques and Engeltje Baars. came to the United States, 1958.
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A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness by Bernard J. Baars (1989-02-24)
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The Cognitive Revolution in Psychology
( In the last quarter ventury, academic psychology has un...)
In the last quarter ventury, academic psychology has undergone a major intellectual shift of power: from the ruling tenets of behaviorism to those of cognitive theory....This book represents one of the first comprehensive attempts to explain this theoretical shift.
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A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness
(Conscious experience is one of the most difficult and tho...)
Conscious experience is one of the most difficult and thorny problems in psychological science. Its study has been neglected for many years, either because it was thought to be too difficult, or because the relevant evidence was thought to be poor. Bernard Baars suggests a way to specify empirical constraints on a theory of consciousness by contrasting well-established conscious phenomena - such as stimulus representations known to be attended, perceptual, and informative - with closely comparable unconscious ones - such as stimulus representations known to be preperceptual, unattended, or habituated. Adducing data to show that consciousness is associated with a kind of global workplace in the nervous system, and that several brain structures are known to behave in accordance with his theory, Baars helps to clarify many difficult problems.
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Bernard Joseph Baars
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Education
Bachelor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1970; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1977; Master of Arts, California State University, Los Angeles, 1973.
Career
Fellow, Center for Research in Human Learning, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1974-1975; assistant professor psychology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1977-1985; cognitive science fellow, Center Human Information Processing, University of California, San Diego, 1979-1980; visiting scientist conscious and unconscious mental development, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California, San Francisco, 1985-1986; associate professor psychology, Wright Institute, Berkeley, California, since 1986. Co-chair Society Cognition and Brain Theory, 1980-1983. Associate Behavioral and Brain Sciences, since 1988.
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Works
book
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The Cognitive Revolution in Psychology
( In the last quarter ventury, academic psychology has un...)
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A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness
(Conscious experience is one of the most difficult and tho...)
- A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness by Bernard J. Baars (1989-02-24)
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The Cognitive Revolution in Psychology
Membership
Member American Psychological Association, Association Psychological Science, Society Psychonomic Science, Cognitive Science Society.
