Index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors ix
4. Prologue xiii
5. Poem xxv
6. Section I. Neuronal mechanisms
7. The slow cortical potential hypothesis on consciousness 3
8. Distinct characteristics of conscious experience are met by large-scale neuronal synchronization 17
9. Gamma oscillations and the cellular components of consciousness? 29
10. Dopamine modulation of decision making processes 39
11. Undercurrents of consciousness 53
12. Disconnecting consciousness 65
13. Consciousness and neural time travel 73
14. Section II. Psychological processes
15. Consciousness and the relation between implicit and explicit memory 83
16. Two varieties of unconscious processes 91
17. Operating characteristics and awareness 103
18. Noise in the brain, decision-making, determinism, free will, and consciousness 113
19. Social consciousness 121
20. Consciousness and language 129
21. Cognitive illusions 139
22. Dreaming as a model system for consciousness research 149
23. Lucid dreaming and the bimodality of consciousness 155
24. Section III. Psychopathologies and therapies
25. Why depression feels bad 169
26. Dementia and the boundary between conscious and nonconscious awareness 179
27. Consciousness as the spin-off and schizophrenia as the price of language 187
28. Consciousness and psychosis associated with schizophrenia 201
29. The visual unconscious 215
30. Believing is hearing is believing 227
31. Dreaming as a physiological psychosis 239
32. Conscious awareness versus optimistic beliefs in recreational Ecstasy/MDMA users 249
33. Conscious and unconscious placebo responses 259
34. Section IV. Expanding boundaries
35. The paradoxes of creativity 271
36. Potential contributions of research on meditation to the neuroscience of consciousness 281
37. Self-induced altered states of consciousness 289
38. Beyond the boundaries of the brain 301
39. Plants of the gods and shamanic journeys 309
40. Index 325