| Characterizing Consciousness: From Cognition to the Clinic? Contributor(s): Dehaene, Stanislas (Editor), Christen, Yves (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3642180140 ISBN-13: 9783642180149 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Neuroscience |
| Dewey: 612.8 |
| Series: Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (0.95 lbs) 202 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Characterizing the computational architecture and neurobiological mechanisms underlying consciousness remains a major unsolved problem in cognitive neuroscience, but it has become an area of intense research. Thanks to new advances in stimulation paradigms, brain imaging techniques, and neuronal theorizing, the issue now appears to be empirically addressable. Yet a major challenge still confronts these novel empirical and theoretical proposals: will they be able to help clinicians confronted with patients in coma or vegetative state? Can they help define novel diagnostic or even therapeutic tools? In the present book, thirteen renowned neuroscientists and clinicians examine whether consciousness research is ripe for applications, from cognition to the clinic.
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