PY3468 - Psychology of Consciousness 2010-2011
Updated 16 / 10 / 2010
This modules will be taught on Term 2 this year.
Announcements:
Updated syllabus now
available on the here
(Intranet page; login required).
U-Link website of this module will be
available in January at: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/intranets/u-link/
·
Blackmore,
S. (2010). Consciousness.
An Introduction (2nd edition). Hodder
Arnold.
·
Revonsuo
A. (2009). Consciousness.
The Science of Subjectivity. Psychology Press.
·
Frith
C.D. (2007). Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World.
Blackwell.
·
Velmans,
M. & Schneider, N. (2006). The
Blackwell Companion to Consciousness. Blackwell.
·
Feinberg
& Keenan (2005) The Lost Self: Pathologies of the Brain and
Identity. Oxford University Press.
·
Laureys
(2005). The Boundaries of Consciousness.
Elsevier.
·
Baars
(2003). Essential Sources in the
Scientific Study of Consciousness. MIT Press.
·
Blackmore
(2006) Conversations on consciousness.
Oxford University Press.
·
Bayne,
T., Cleeremans, A., & Wilken,
P. (2009). The Oxford Companion to
Consciousness. Oxford University Press.
·
Zelazo
P.D., Moscovitch M. and Thomson E. (2007). The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness.
Cambridge University Press.
·
Banks,
W.P. (2009). Encyclopedia of Consciousness. Academic Press.
·
Dennett,
D.C. (1993). Consciousness Explained.
Penguin.
·
Koch
(2004) The Quest for Consciousness
: A Neurobiological Approach. Roberts & Co.
·
Baars
& Gage (2010). Cognition Brain and
Consciousness (2nd edition). Academic Press.
·
Solms,
M., Turnbull, O. (2002) The Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction
to the Neuropsychology of Subjective Experience. Karnac
Books.
·
Farthing
G.W. (1992). The Psychology of
Consciousness. Prentice Hall.
·
Searle,
J.R. (1998). The Mystery of Consciousness.
Granta.
See syllabus
for an extended reading list.
See lecture
notes for recommended journal articles on specific topics.
SELECTED JOURNALS:
Journal of Consciousness
Studies
Consciousness and
Cognition
Psyche
Phenomenology and the
Cognitive Sciences
Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS online)
Trends
in Cognitive Sciences
Links to additional
electronic journals
COLLECTIONS OF PAPERS ON CONSCIOSNESS:
MindPapers
Special
issue of Cognition on Consciousness (Volume 79, no.1-2, April 2001,
edited by S. Dehaene)
ASSC E-Prints
Boundaries
of Consciousness (Progress in Brain Research Vol 150,
edited by S. Laureys)
More books
OTHER
SOURCES:
Association for the Scientific Study of
Consciousness
Consciousness
and Experiential Psychology (BPS Section)
Richard
Dawkins on the mind, universe and science.
Greenfield-Koch Debate
Interview
with Daniel Dennett
Interview
with Steven Pinker
Richard Cytowic talking about synaesthesia, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
The Emerging Mind (Reith
Lectures 2003: V.S. Ramachandran)
Royal Society Video
Library
Olaf Blanke on out of body experience
Rubber hand illusion.
Auditory-visual
synesthesia visualisations.
UPCOMING
EVENTS:
Association
for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (15h meeting in Kyoto, June 2011).
Association
for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (16h meeting in Brighton, June 2012).
USEFUL
LINKS:
PubMed - One of the best places to look for papers.
Search results here contain links to full text papers. Many of them will
be dowlaodable from comupters
on campus. Everything you find here can be considered a trusted source.
Brunel
Electronic Journal Gateway - Once you know which paper/journal you
are looking for, use this site to gain access to full text papers from home.
You will find whether the university has a subscription to the journal and a
link will be provided where available. To start, click on CONNECT, You may have to enter your Campus e-mail
name/password, then you can search for journal title words. E.g., search
'Consciousness' and you will get links to a few journals on the selected list
below. Of if you found a paper in the journal 'Neuropsychologia' or any other journal that doesn't have consciousness
in the title, you can also find it here. Remember, this is a search for
journals, not papers. The best way to find relevant papers is to run a PubMed or PsychInfo search using
relevant keywords. You may be familiar with that concept from Googling things you want to look up. Sophisticated users
will also use operators such as OR, NOT, * (the default in PubMed
is AND between keywords).
Other Links: Brunel Library
WOK PsychInfo(BIDS) PsychInfo(EBSCO) ScienceDirect
ESSAY TIPS:
For you essays, you are advised to rely on psychology/neuroscience
journal articles and NOT on general internet sources such as Wikipedia or
material you found on random websites. Most psychology/neuroscience
publications you will find on PubMed undergo
peer-review, providing quality control by experts. For that reason,
peer-reviewed articles should be trusted more than books (and definitely more
than random people's websites). Be careful not to rely on
pseudo-scientific sources. A large list of books you can trust is
provided (see syllabus for extended reading list).
Remember:
(1) You must rephrase and summarise arguments and
finding in your own words. Copying someone else's words is considered
plagiarism even if it's only one sentence (Note that markers know the
paper/books you are using really well, and will usually spot immediately any
such acts, so don't even think about it). You must also rephrase lecture notes
or lecture transcripts.
(2) If you are quoting a sentence, it must be inside quotation marks; you
should only quote in cases where the sentence illustrates or explains something
really amazingly. Use quotes sparingly. It is not acceptable to quote because
you can't be bothered to rephrase. You cannot submit a collage of quotes.
For more information on plagiarism and appropriate citation/paraphrasing
practice, see:
http://www.plagiarism.org/