Bernard Baars
Bernard J. Baars (born 1946, in Amsterdam) is a former Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, US. He is currently an Affiliated Fellow there.[citation needed]
He is best known as the originator of the global workspace theory, a concept of human cognitive architecture and consciousness.[1][2] He previously served as a professor of psychology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, where he conducted research into the causation of human errors and the Freudian slip,[3] and as a faculty member at the Wright Institute.[4]
Baars co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness[5] and the Academic Press journal Consciousness and Cognition, which he also edited, with William P. Banks, for "more than fifteen years".[6]
In addition to research on global workspace theory with Professor Stan Franklin and others,[7] Baars has done work to reintroduce the topic of the conscious brain into the standard college and graduate school curriculum, by writing college textbooks and general-audience books, web teaching, advanced seminars, and course videos.[8]
Bibliography[edit]
- Bernard Baars: The cognitive revolution in psychology, NY: Guilford Press, 1986, ISBN 0-89862-912-8.
- Bernard Baars: A cognitive theory of consciousness, NY: Cambridge University Press 1988, ISBN 0-521-30133-5.
- Bernard Baars: The experimental psychology of human error: Implications for the architecture of voluntary control, NY: Plenum Press, Series on Cognition and Language, 1992, ISBN 0-306-43866-6
- Bernard Baars: In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-19-514703-0.
- Bernard Baars and Nicole M. Gage: Cognition, Brain and Consciousness: An Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience. (Second Edition). London: Elsevier/Academic Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-12-375070-9
References[edit]
- ^ "Firing on all neurons: Where consciousness comes from".
- ^ According to The Information Philosopher (link to website), Baars has restored credibility to the "ancient metaphor of the mind as theater", accessed 2014-01-06.
- ^ Goleman, Daniel (27 November 1984). "Do 'Freudian Slips' Betray a Darker, Hidden Meaning?". The New York Times.
- ^ "The grand illusion".
- ^ "theASSC.org – Association of Scientific Studies of Consciousness".
- ^ According to Psychology Today (link) Archived January 7, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2014-01-06.
- ^ "CCRG – Cognitive Computing Research Group – Papers".
- ^ "Conseminar".
External links[edit]
- Published articles as pdf downloads, with Stan Franklin and other coauthors
- Homepage
- Consciousness: The WebCourse
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