[Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences] Characterizing Consciousness: From Cognition to the Clinic? Volume 24 || The Global Neuronal Workspace Model of Conscious Access: From Neuronal Architectures to Clinical Applications
✍ Scribed by Dehaene, Stanislas; Christen, Yves
- Book ID
- 111881811
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- German
- Weight
- 577 KB
- Edition
- 2011
- Category
- Article
- ISBN
- 3642180159
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✦ Synopsis
Characterizing the computational architecture and neurobiological mechanisms underlying consciousness remains a major unsolved problem in cognitive neuroscience, but it has become an area of intense research. Thanks to new advances in stimulation paradigms, brain imaging techniques, and neuronal theorizing, the issue now appears to be empirically addressable. Yet a major challenge still confronts these novel empirical and theoretical proposals: will they be able to help clinicians confronted with patients in coma or vegetative state? Can they help define novel diagnostic or even therapeutic tools? In the present book, thirteen renowned neuroscientists and clinicians examine whether consciousness research is ripe for applications, from cognition to the clinic.