Toward an empirical basis for understanding consciousness and self-awareness
✍ Scribed by Kathleen R Gibson
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 463 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1053-8100
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✦ Synopsis
Brain-damaged patients often remain blissfully unaware of their cognitive and sensory-motor deficits, but although this phenomenon (termed anosognosia) has long been recognized by neurologists, its etiology remains unclear. The existence of anosognosic syndromes also remains largely unknown among the scientific community at large. Rarely, for instance, do theories of the evolution of consciousness take human deficits of self-awareness into consideration. Awareness of Dejkit after Brain Injury: Clinical and Theoretical Issues, a compendium of neurological and psychological perspectives, attempts to fill these critical clinical and scientific lacunae. In so doing, it performs the landmark task of returning psychology to its original goal-the understanding of consciousness-a goal long abandoned under the influence of the behaviorists.