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Tables of Contents for The Quest for Consciousness
Chapter/Section Title
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Page Count
Foreword by Francis Crick
xiii
Preface
xv
1 Introduction to the Study of Consciousness
1
20
1.1 What Needs to Be Explained?
1
3
1.2 A Spectrum of Answers
4
7
1.3 My Approach Is a Pragmatic, Empirical One
11
5
1.4 The Neuronal Correlates of Consciousness
16
3
1.5 Recapitulation
19
2
2 Neurons, the Atoms of Perception
21
28
2.1 The Machinery of the Cerebral Cortex
22
3
2.2 Explicit Representation, Columnar Organization, and Essential Nodes
25
10
2.3 Firing Rates, Oscillations, and Neuronal Synchronization
35
12
2.4 Recapitulation
47
2
3 The First Steps in Seeing
49
20
3.1 The Retina Is a Layered Structure
49
3
3.2 Color Vision Uses Three Types of Cones
52
1
3.3 A Hole in the Eye: The Blind Spot
53
2
3.4 Receptive Field: A Key Concept for Vision
55
2
3.5 Multiple Parallel Pathways Exit the Eye
57
6
3.6 The Superior Colliculus: Another Visual Brain
63
1
3.7 Eye Movements: Visual Saccades Are Ubiquitous
63
5
3.8 Recapitulation
68
1
4 The Primary Visual Cortex as a Prototypical Neocortical Area
69
18
4.1 Monkey Vision as a Model for Human Vision
70
1
4.2 The Neocortex Is a Layered, Sheet-Like Structure
71
1
4.3 A Plethora of Cortical Cell Types
72
5
4.4 V1: The Main Entry Point for Vision
77
9
4.5 Recapitulation
86
1
5 What Are the Neuronal Correlates of Consciousness?
87
18
5.1 Enabling Factors Necessary for Consciousness
88
5
5.2 Emotions and the Modulation of Consciousness
93
1
5.3 Anesthesia and Consciousness
94
2
5.4 A General Strategy for Circumscribing the NCC
96
5
5.5 Neuronal Specificity and the NCC
101
3
5.6 Recapitulation
104
1
6 The Neuronal Correlates of Consciousness Are Not in the Primary Visual Cortex
105
12
6.1 You Don't See without V1
106
1
6.2 Even if You Can't See It, V1 Still Adapts to It
106
2
6.3 You Don't Dream with V1
108
1
6.4 Directly Stimulating V1
109
1
6.5 Monkey V1 Neurons Don't Follow Perception
110
6
6.6 Recapitulation
116
1
7 The Architecture of the Cerebral Cortex
117
16
7.1 If You Want to Understand Function, Seek to Understand Structure
117
2
7.2 The Cortex Contains a Hierarchical Structure
119
5
7.3 Thalamus and Cortex: A Tight Embrace
124
2
7.4 Driving and Modulatory Connections
126
1
7.5 Ventral and Dorsal Pathways as a Guiding Principle
127
2
7.6 The Prefrontal Cortex: The Seat of the Executive
129
3
7.7 Recapitulation
132
1
8 Going Beyond the Primary Visual Cortex
133
20
8.1 More Topographic Areas: V2, V3, V3A, and V4
134
3
8.2 Color Perception and the Fusiform Gyrus
137
2
8.3 Cortical Area MT Is Specialized for Motion Processing
139
6
8.4 The Posterior Parietal Cortex, Action, and Spatial Position
145
3
8.5 The Inferior Temporal Cortex and Object Recognition
148
3
8.6 Recapitulation
151
2
9 Attention and Consciousness
153
20
9.1 Change Blindness, or How a Magician Fools You
155
2
9.2 Attending to a Region, Feature, or Object
157
6
9.3 Does Consciousness Require Attention?
163
4
9.4 The Binding Problem
167
3
9.5 Recapitulation
170
3
10 The Neuronal Underpinnings of Attention
173
14
10.1 Mechanistic Accounts of Attention
174
4
10.2 Attentional Influences Occur Throughout the Visual Hierarchy
178
3
10.3 Neglect, or Patients Who Are Not Blind and Yet Can't See
181
3
10.4 Recapitulation
184
3
11 Memories and Consciousness
187
18
11.1 A Fundamental Distinction
188
1
11.2 A Taxonomy of Long-Term Memory
189
7
11.3 Short-Term Memory
196
5
11.4 Fleeting or Iconic Memory
201
3
11.5 Recapitulation
204
1
12 What You Can Do Without Being Conscious: The Zombie Within
205
12
12.1 Zombie Agents in Everyday Life
207
4
12.2 Vision-for-Perception Is Different from Vision-for-Action
211
2
12.3 Your Zombie Acts Faster Than You See
213
1
12.4 Can Zombies Smell?
214
2
12.5 Recapitulation
216
1
13 Agnosia, Blindsight, Epilepsy, and Sleep Walking: Clinical Evidence for Zombies
217
14
13.1 Visual Agnosia
217
3
13.2 Blindsight
220
2
13.3 Complex, Focal Epileptic Seizures
222
2
13.4 Sleepwalking
224
2
13.5 Zombie Agents and the NCC
226
1
13.6 A Turing Test for Consciousness?
227
1
13.7 Recapitulation
228
3
14 Some Speculations on the Functions of Consciousness
231
18
14.1 Consciousness as an Executive Summary
233
2
14.2 Consciousness and the Training of Sensory-Motor Agents
235
2
14.3 Why the Brain Is Not Just a Bundle of Zombie Agents
237
1
14.4 Do Feelings Matter?
237
2
14.5 Meaning and Neurons
239
3
14.6 Qualia Are Symbols
242
2
14.7 What Does This Imply about the Location of the NCC?
244
2
14.8 Recapitulation
246
3
15 On Time and Consciousness
249
20
15.1 How Swift Is Vision?
250
1
15.2 The All-Or-None Character of Perception
251
5
15.3 Masking Wipes a Stimulus from Consciousness
256
6
15.4 Integration and Direct Brain Stimulation
262
2
15.5 Is Perception Discrete or Continuous?
264
4
15.6 Recapitulation
268
1
16 When the Mind Flips: Following the Footprints of Consciousness
269
18
16.1 Binocular Rivalry: When the Two Eyes Disagree
271
2
16.2 Where Does Perceptual Suppression Occur?
273
4
16.3 The Footprints of Consciousness Lead to the Inferior Temporal Cortex
277
4
16.4 Open Questions and Future Experiments
281
4
16.5 Recapitulation
285
2
17 Splitting the Brain Splits Consciousness
287
8
17.1 On the Difficulty of Finding Something if You Don't Know What To Look For
288
2
17.2 The Two Cerebral Hemispheres Do Not Subserve the Same Functions
290
1
17.3 Two Conscious Minds in One Body
291
3
17.4 Recapitulation
294
1
18 Further Speculations on Thoughts and the Nonconscious Homunculus
295
8
18.1 The Intermediate-Level Theory of Consciousness
296
2
18.2 The Nonconscious Homunculus
298
2
18.3 The Nature of Qualia
300
2
18.4 Recapitulation
302
1
19 A Framework for Consciousness
303
12
19.1 Ten Working Assumptions to Understand the Mind-Body Problem
304
6
19.2 Relationship to the Work of Others
310
2
19.3 Where Do We Go From Here?
312
2
19.4 Recapitulation
314
1
20 An Interview
315
14
Glossary
329
20
Bibliography
349
62
Index
411