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Author Sommerhoff, Gerd (Gerd Walter Christian)

Title Understanding consciousness : its function and brain processes / Gerd Sommerhoff
Published London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 186 pages) : illustrations
Contents Consciousness explained in simple functional terms. A methodical biological approach and its conclusions -- Awareness of the surrounding world -- Awareness of the self as an entity and of one's thoughts and feelings -- A closer look at the four main propositions -- Questions and answers
The fabric of the underlying brain processes. The RWM -- Acquired expectancies -- Imaginative representations -- Where does consciousness reside in the brain?
Summary Gerd Sommerhoff clarifies the main concepts related to consciousness and proposes a new and strikingly simple biological explanation for this mysterious phenomenon
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index
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Subject Consciousness -- Physiological aspects
Neuropsychology.
Consciousness.
Awareness -- physiology
Consciousness -- physiology
Brain -- physiology
Consciousness
SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
Consciousness
Consciousness -- Physiological aspects
Neuropsychology
Bewusstsein
Kognitiver Prozess
Physiologische Psychologie
Bewustzijn.
Hersenfuncties.
Bewusstsein -- Gehirn.
Gehirn -- Bewusstsein.
Bewusstsein -- Neuropsychologie.
Bewusstsein -- Kognition -- Neuropsychologie.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001267952
ISBN 9780857026491
0857026496
0761967745
9780761967743
9781446220177
1446220176
1282623346
9781282623347
9786612623349
6612623349