Bernard Baars

Bernard J. Baars (born 1946, Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a cognitive neuroscientist and former senior fellow in theoretical neurobiology at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, California. He is currently an affiliated fellow at the institute.^{[ citation needed ]}

He is best known as the originator of global workspace theory, a concept of human cognitive architecture and consciousness. ^{[1] [2]} He previously served as a professor of psychology at Stony Brook University, 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 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] [ dead link ]}

Bibliography

• A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness, NY: Cambridge University Press 1988, ISBN   0-521-30133-5.
• Cognition, Brain and Consciousness: An Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience. (Second edition). London: Elsevier/Academic Press, 2010, with Nicole M. Gage, ISBN   978-0-12-375070-9
• The Cognitive Revolution in Psychology, NY: Guilford Press, 1986, ISBN   0-89862-912-8.
• 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
• In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN   0-19-514703-0.

References

1. "Firing on all neurons: Where consciousness comes from".
2. According to The Information Philosopher (link to website), Baars has restored credibility to the "ancient metaphor of the mind as theater", accessed 6 January 2014.
3. Goleman, Daniel (27 November 1984). "Do 'Freudian Slips' Betray a Darker, Hidden Meaning?". The New York Times.
4. "The grand illusion".
5. "theASSC.org – Association of Scientific Studies of Consciousness".
6. According to Psychology Today (link) Archived 7 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine , accessed 6 January 2014.
7. "CCRG – Cognitive Computing Research Group – Papers".
8. "Conseminar".

External links

• Official website
• Published articles as PDF downloads, with Stan Franklin and other co-authors