The Conscious Brain: How Attention Engenders Experience

by Jesse J. Prinz

Book Overview

The problem of consciousness continues to be a subject of great debate in cognitive science. Synthesizing decades of research, The Conscious Brain advances a new theory of the psychological and neurophysiological correlates of conscious experience.

Prinz's account of consciousness makes two main claims: first consciousness always arises at a particular stage of perceptual processing, the intermediate level, and, second, consciousness depends...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190218959
• ISBN13: 9780190218959
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"