Seth A. Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness: a Special Issue of Cognitive Neuroscience

New York: Taylor & Francis, 2013. — 89 p.How do conscious experience, subjectivity, and free will arise from the brain and the body? Even in the late 20th century, consciousness was considered to be beyond the reach of science. Now, understanding the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness is recognized as a key objective for 21st century science. The cognitive neuroscience of consciousness is a fundamentally multidisciplinary enterprise, involving powerful new combinations of functional brain imaging, computational modeling, theoretical innovation, and basic neurobiology.