ARIZONA – As reported on http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/ Dr. Bernard Baars will continue his highly successful online Research Seminar about Brain and Consciousness. Seminar runs for ten weekends, on Sundays at 2 – 4 pm Pacific Time and covers a huge range of topics using brain imaging, behavioral studies, experiential, or reliable reports about conscious experiences. Theories of consciousness will also be discussed.
The Research Seminar will use the text by Baars & Gage (2010) Cognition, Brain & Consciousness: An Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience. (Elsevier, Inc., Academic Press, 2nd edition). Additional materials will be provided. We will use a conferencing platform for the interactive web seminar. Please check with Dr. Baars before enrolling, contact him through the website http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/ Your Registration Form can be sent by email, phone, fax or regular mail.To: The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, The Center for Consciousness Studies, Fax: 520-626-6416 Phone: 520-621-9317 520-621-9317
Bernard J. Baars is a former Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at The Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, CA., and is currently an Affiliated Fellow there. He is best known as the originator of the global workspace theory, a theory of human cognitive architecture and consciousness. 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, and as a faculty member at the Wright Institute. He co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, and the Academic Press journal Consciousness & Cognition: An International Journal, the latter with William P. Banks.
In addition to research on global workspace theory with Professor Stan Franklin and others, Baars is working to re-introduce 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. Baars has also published on animal consciousness, volition, and feelings of knowing, and is currently working on an approach to "higher" states, as defined in the meditation traditions. New brain recording methods continue to reveal unexpected evidence on those topics.