New Horizons in the Neuroscience of Consciousness -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Prologue -- Seeing myself think -- I. Neuronal mechanisms -- The slow cortical potential hypothesis on consciousness -- The SCP and the fMRI signal -- The physiological basis of the SCP -- The SCP and consciousness - A neurophysiological hypothesis of consciousness -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Glossary -- Distinct characteristics of conscious experience are met by large neuronal synchronization -- Some basic definitions -- Properties of consciousness constraining neuronal implementations -- Neuronal synchrony as a key correlate of perceptual awareness -- Evidence relating long-range synchronization and consciousness -- Pressing questions in the field of consciousness research -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Gamma oscillations and the cellular components of consciousness? -- Mechanisms underlying the generation of gamma frequency oscillations -- Role of gamma frequency oscillations -- Changes in gamma frequency oscillations in disease -- Optogenetics - A tool to modulate consciousness -- Conclusions -- References -- Dopamine modulation of decision making processes -- Ventral subiculum of the hippocampus -- Prefrontal cortex and behavioral flexibility -- Dopamine system regulation in the control of accumbens afferents -- Prefrontal cortical-hippocampal interactions and goal-directed behavior -- Dopamine, cognitive control and consciousness -- References -- Undercurrents of consciousness: The endocannabinoid system -- The endocannabinoid system -- Endocannabinoid tone -- References -- Disconnecting consciousness: The neuroscience of general anaesthesia -- Introduction -- Molecular targets -- Neuroanatomic targets -- Functional neurophysiologic targets -- Conclusion -- References.

Consciousness and neural time travel -- Perceiving the self in neural time travel -- Potential neural mechanisms of consciousness -- Influences on neural mechanisms -- Distributed consciousness in the neocortex -- Speculations -- Acknowledgements -- References -- II. Psychological processes -- Consciousness and the relation between implicit and explicit memory -- References -- Two varieties of unconscious processes -- Introduction -- Global Workspace Theory -- The LIDA model and its architecture -- The LIDA cognitive cycle -- Preconscious and N-conscious processes -- Summary and conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Operating characteristics and awareness -- Disambiguating perceptual experience from decision criterion -- Dissociating explicit measures of perception from implicit measures of processing -- Operating characteristics and measures of confidence in a decision -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Noise in the brain, decision-making, determinism, free will, and consciousness -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A higher order syntactic theory of consciousness -- 3. Noise in the brain and determinism -- 4. Noise in the brain and free will -- 5. Monitoring and consciousness -- References -- Social consciousness -- Mental phenomena, psychological processes and neural mechanisms -- Self-Other-differentiation as prerequisite for social consciousness -- Intuitive and inferential social consciousness -- True interaction -- Neural mechanisms of social consciousness -- Conclusions -- References -- Consciousness and language: A processing perspective -- The biological approach to language -- How to know a language and at the same time, not know it at all -- MOGUL -- Conscious and unconscious processes in MOGUL -- The footprints of language -- Conclusion -- References -- Cognitive illusions: From magic to science -- Misdirection -- Illusions.

Conclusion -- References -- Dreaming as a model system for consciousness research -- Dreaming as pure phenomenality -- Dreaming as a model for investigating consciousness -- Problems and accomplishments -- Conclusion -- References -- Lucid dreaming and the bimodality of consciousness -- The bimodality of consciousness -- Evidence for bimodality: Consciousness in waking and in dreaming -- Mechanism: The AIM model -- Function -- The state dependency of consciousness -- Lucid dreaming, an experiment of nature -- Laboratory studies -- Comparison of recent results to previous imaging studies -- Lucid dreaming as a bimodal state of consciousness -- Summary and conclusions -- References -- III. Psychopathologies and therapies -- Why depression feels bad -- Behaviourism -- Cognitive neuroscience -- Biological psychiatry -- Depression itself -- Affective neuroscience -- Conclusion -- References -- Dementia and the boundary between conscious and nonconscious awareness -- Introduction -- Mechanisms of consciousness and the relevance of dementia -- Conclusion -- References -- Consciousness as the spin-off and schizophrenia as the price of language -- Schizophrenia as a disorder of consciousness? -- Psychotic symptoms in the split brain: Disorders of consciousness? -- The structure of language and its decomposition in psychosis -- The origin of the nuclear symptoms -- Developmental anomalies of anatomical asymmetry and schizophrenia -- Psychotic symptoms as disorders of consciousness of language? -- References -- Consciousness and psychosis associated with schizophrenia -- Introduction -- Allocentric representations -- Episodic memory -- θ Oscillations -- Dreaming and REM sleep -- Amygdala hyperresponsivity in social phobia and schizophrenia -- GABAergic hypofunction in schizophrenia -- Hallucinations -- Conclusions -- References.

The visual unconscious: Perspectives from the Charles Bonnet Syndrome -- Introduction -- Visual consciousness -- Charles Bonnet and his Syndrome -- CBS hallucinations and the NCUC -- Refining the visual unconscious -- Beyond Charles Bonnet Syndrome -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Believing is hearing is believing: The reciprocal nature of consciousness -- Definitions -- The auditory perceptual pathways -- Prerequisites for auditory consciousness -- Implications for the study of consciousness -- Summary -- References -- Dreaming as a physiological psychosis: Connecting states of consciousness -- The dreaming brain/mind -- The psychotic condition -- Connecting states of consciousness -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Conscious awareness versus optimistic beliefs in recreational Ecstasy/MDMA users -- Interviews with Ecstasy/MDMA users -- Awareness of the positive and negative effects of Ecstasy/MDMA -- Conclusions -- References -- Conscious and unconscious placebo responses -- Conscious placebo responses -- Unconscious placebo responses -- When do conscious and unconscious placebo responses occur? -- Re-shaping neuronal activity through verbal suggestions of clinical improvement -- Conclusions -- References -- IV. Expanding boundaries -- The paradoxes of creativity -- References -- Potential contributions of research on meditation to the neuroscience of consciousness -- Meditation as an explanandum -- Transforming the mind and neuroplasticity -- Interaction mind and body -- Neural counterpart of subjectivity -- References -- Self-induced altered states of consciousness -- Altered states of consciousness -- Neural basis of consciousness -- Neural basis of altered states of consciousness -- Functional neuroimaging studies -- Indian and other Eastern thoughts -- Conscious-Nonconscious interface -- Conclusion -- References.

Beyond the boundaries of the brain -- A forgotten episode in the origins of the neurosciences -- Experimental tests -- Cumulative results -- Neuroscience perspective -- Discussion -- References -- Plants of the gods and shamanic journeys -- Inducing altered conscious awareness -- Species, states and neuropharmacology -- Neurotransmitter mechanisms -- Models of altered states -- Beyond the brain? -- References -- Index -- The series Advances in Consciousness Research.