Research Catalog

Title

Questioning consciousness : the interplay of imagery, cognition, and emotion in the human brain / Ralph D. Ellis.

Author

Ellis, Ralph D.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, [1995], ©1995.

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Description

vi, 260 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

• Questioning Consciousness brings together neuroscientific, psychological and phenomenological research, combining in a readable format recent developments in image research and neurology. It reassesses the mind-body relation and research on 'mental models', abstract concept formation, and acquisition of logical and apparently 'imageless' inference skills.
• It is argued that to be conscious of an object is essentially to imagine in a habituated way what would happen if we were to perform certain actions in relation to the object; and that mental images fit together to build up abstract concepts.
• This analysis shows why conscious information processing is so structurally different from - yet interrelated with - non-conscious processing, and how mind and body interrelate as a process to its substratum like a sound wave relates to the medium through which it passes.

Series Statement

Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 2

Uniform Title

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 2.

Subjects

• Human information processing
• Consciousness
• Apperception

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-256) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Differences between Conscious and Non-Conscious Processing: Why They Make a Difference -- Ch. 1. The Relation between Imaginary and Perceptual Consciousness -- Ch. 2. From Images to Concepts -- Ch. 3. Images, Logic, and Mental Development -- Ch. 4. The Ontological Status of Consciousness -- Ch. 5. The Priority of Process over Substratum: Consciousness as an Organic Phenomenon -- Ch. 6. Memory, Emotion and Symbolization -- Conclusion: The Centrality of Subjunctives.

ISBN

• 9027251223 (Eur. : alk. paper)
• 1556191820 (US : pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

95010923

OCLC

• 32469233
• ocm32469233

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries