Handbook of Psychology, Volume 4: Experimental Psychology

xviii Contributors Jon B. Holbrook, PhD National Research Council NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, California Addie John ...

Contributors xix Matthew S. Starr, PhD Department of Psychology University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts Robert J. Ste ...

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PART ONE MODULATORY PROCESSES ...

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CHAPTER 1 Consciousness WILLIAM P. BANKS AND ILYA FARBER 3 BRIEF HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF CONSCIOUSNESS 4 WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED FR ...

4 Consciousness functional state that is modulated by drugs, depression, schiz- ophrenia, or REM sleep. It is the higher order s ...

What We Have Learned from Measures of Cognitive Functioning 5 because of the seeming impossibility of reconciling the facts of m ...

6 Consciousness more about unconsciousness than consciousness. Indeed, this is a fair assessment of the research, but it is that ...

What We Have Learned from Measures of Cognitive Functioning 7 Given that mental processes are in fact grounded in neural process ...

8 Consciousness than honesty: It is that awareness is a state that is not directly accessible by the experimenter. A concrete co ...

What We Have Learned from Measures of Cognitive Functioning 9 material was consciously perceived, if only for an instant, and th ...

10 Consciousness constructed. The principles are themselves like “tools” and are not available to awareness. We can only infer t ...

What We Have Learned from Measures of Cognitive Functioning 11 pieces of stored information, general knowledge, opinion, expecta ...

12 Consciousness Terry, 1995; Neill & Westberry, 1987). They showed that if a participant was given, say, the word “red” pri ...

What We Have Learned from Measures of Cognitive Functioning 13 McNamara and Holbrook, Roediger and Marsh, and Johnson in this vo ...

14 Consciousness needed to keep it hidden than if it had not been suppressed in the first place. The intrusion of unconscious id ...

What We Have Learned from Measures of Cognitive Functioning 15 other conditions that affect the quality or the continuity of con ...

16 Consciousness left-hemisphere strokes (see the section titled “Observations from Human Pathology” for more on the neurologica ...

Neuroscientific Approaches to Consciousness 17 could otherwise proceed unconsciously. This leaves us with the difficult question ...