Consciousness and Cognition - Definition and Overview

Consciousness and Cognition (ISSN: 1053-8100) provides a forum for a natural-science approach to the issues of consciousness, voluntary control, and self. The journal features empirical research (in the form of regular articles and short reports) and theoretical articles. Book reviews, integrative theoretical and critical literature reviews, and tutorial reviews are also published. The journal aims to be both scientifically rigorous and open to novel contributions. The journal is edited by Bernard Baars and William Banks. Along with the electronic journal Psyche, It is one of the two official journals of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Implicit memory
• Selective and directed attention
• Priming, subliminal or otherwise
• Neuroelectric correlates of awareness and decision-making
• Assessment of awareness; protocol analysis
• The properties of automaticity in perception and action
• Relations between awareness and attention
• Models of the thalamocortical complex
• Blindsight
• The neuropathology of consciousness and voluntary control
• Pathology of self and self-awareness
• The development of the self-concept in children

External Links

Consciousness and Cognition  (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=JournalURL&_cdi=6752&_auth=y&_acct=C000052693&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=1908389&md5=bf28d6172d90b8874172794366aa0ecb)

William Banks (http://psych.pomona.edu/DrBanksWebPage/index.html)

Bernard Baars (http://nsi.edu/users/baars/)

ASSC: http://assc.caltech.edu/

The ejournal Psyche: http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au