Haluk Ogmen and Bruno G. Breitmeyer (eds.):The First Half Second: The Microgenesis and Temporal Dynamics of Unconscious and Conscious Visual Processes

摘要

Consciousness is a neurobiological process, and this is what most neuroscientists believe. William James as well believed in the physiological base of consciousness, though he had other views about this baffling phenomenon. The investigation of consciousness has been pursued with vigor by philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists with different methods. For psychologists who study visual perception with different psychophysical tasks or neuropsychologists who study patient performance, the conscious process always goes from unconsciousness to complete knowledge.