Lecture references
What Is Consciousness?
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Nagel, T. (1974). What is it like to be a bat?
Citation: The Philosophical Review, 83(4), 435–450.
A foundational paper for understanding consciousness as subjective experience and first-person perspective.
Chalmers, D. J. (1995). Facing up to the problem of consciousness.
Citation: Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2(3), 200–219.
Introduces the distinction between the easy problems of consciousness and the hard problem of subjective experience.
Block, N. (1995). On a confusion about a function of consciousness.
Citation: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 18(2), 227–247.
Clarifies the distinction between phenomenal consciousness and access consciousness.
Crick, F., & Koch, C. (1990). Towards a neurobiological theory of consciousness.
Citation: Seminars in the Neurosciences, 2, 263–275.
A key reference in the modern search for neural correlates of consciousness.
Dehaene, S., & Changeux, J.-P. (2011). Experimental and theoretical approaches to conscious processing.
Citation: Neuron, 70(2), 200–227.
A major review associated with global neuronal workspace approaches to conscious access.
Tononi, G. (2004). An information integration theory of consciousness.
Citation: BMC Neuroscience, 5, 42.
A central paper for integrated-information approaches to consciousness.
Laureys, S. (2005). The neural correlate of (un)awareness: Lessons from the vegetative state.
Citation: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(12), 556–559.
Connects consciousness research to clinical questions of awareness, wakefulness, and disorders of consciousness.