The Centered Mind: What the Science of Working Memory Shows Us about the Nature of Human Thought

by Peter Carruthers

Book Overview

The Centered Mind offers a new view of the nature and causal determinants of both reflective thinking and, more generally, the stream of consciousness. Peter Carruthers argues that conscious thought is always sensory-based, relying on the resources of the working-memory system. This system has been much studied by cognitive scientists. It enables sensory images to be sustained and manipulated through attentional signals directed at midlevel sensory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198801327
• ISBN13: 9780198801320
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"