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Engel, A. K. (2003). Temporal binding and the neural
correlates of consciousness. In A. Cleeremans (Ed.), The
unity of consciousness: Binding, integration and dissocia-
tion (pp. 132–152). New York: Oxford University Press.
Sets out the theory and evidence for the relations
between binding and consciousness.
Sacks, O. The man who mistook his wife for a hat
(1985, London: Duckworth) or An anthropologist on
Mars: Seven paradoxical tales (1995, London: Picador).
Read any chapter from either of these books, which offer
a neurologist’s accounts of unusual psychiatric cases and
states, including: memory loss, body-image disturbance,
phantom limbs, Tourette’s syndrome, autism, colour blind-
ness, and musical prodigies. Students can report on what
they think a chapter’s implications are for consciousness.
Tononi, G. (2015). Integrated information theory.
Scholarpedia, 10 (1), 464. http://www.scholarpedia.org/
article/Integrated_information_theory
An accessible account of the qualities of consciousness
the theory tries to explain, and how it does so.
Ward, J. (2013). Synesthesia. Annual Review of
Psychology, 64 , 49–75.
Outlines current thinking on synaesthesia’s characteris-
tics and mechanisms, and its relevance to other aspects
of mind, including consciousness.
Zeki, S. (2007). A theory of micro-consciousness. In M.
Velmans and S. Schneider (Eds), The Blackwell compan-
ion to consciousness (pp. 580–588). Oxford: Blackwell.
Unfolds Zeki’s theory from the starting point of the
visual brain’s disunity.
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