Beyond Dissociation (Advances in Consciousness Research) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9027251428 ISBN 13: 9789027251428

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000

Synopsis

Analysis and dissociation have proved to be useful tools to understand the basic functions of the brain and the mind, which therefore have been decomposed to a multitude of ever smaller subsystems and pieces by most scientific approaches. However, the understanding of complex functions such as consciousness will not succeed without a more global consideration of the ways the mind-brain works. This implies that synthesis rather than analysis should be applied to the brain. The present book offers a collection of contributions ranging from sensory and motor cognitive neuroscience to mood management and thought, which all focus on the dissociation between conscious (explicit) and nonconscious (implicit) processing in different cognitive situations. The contributions in this book clearly demonstrate that conscious and nonconscious processes typically interact in complex ways. The central message of this collection of papers is: In order to understand how the brain operates as one integrated whole that generates cognition and behaviour, we need to reassemble the brain and mind and put all the conscious and nonconscious pieces back together again. (Series B)

About this edition

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 9027251428
• ISBN 13: 9789027251428
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Rossetti Yves, Revonsuo Antti