Bernard Baars

Bernard J. Baars (born 1946 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands) is a former Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, US. He is currently an Affiliated Fellow there.^{[citation needed]}

He is best known as the originator of the global workspace theory, a concept of human cognitive architecture and consciousness.^[1][2] He previously served as a professor of psychology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, where he conducted research into the causation of human errors and the Freudian slip,^[3] and as a faculty member at the Wright Institute.^[4]

Baars co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness^[5] and the Academic Press journal Consciousness and Cognition, which he also edited, with William P. Banks, for "more than fifteen years".^[6]

In addition to research on global workspace theory with Professor Stan Franklin and others,^[7] Baars has done work to reintroduce the topic of the conscious brain into the standard college and graduate school curriculum, by writing college textbooks and general-audience books, web teaching, advanced seminars, and course videos.^[8]

Bibliography

• The Cognitive Revolution in Psychology, NY: Guilford Press, 1986, ISBN 0-89862-912-8.
• A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness, NY: Cambridge University Press 1988, ISBN 0-521-30133-5.
• The Experimental Psychology of Human Error: Implications for the Architecture of Voluntary Control, NY: Plenum Press, Series on Cognition and Language, 1992, ISBN 0-306-43866-6
• In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-19-514703-0.
• Cognition, Brain and Consciousness: An Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience. (Second Edition). London: Elsevier/Academic Press, 2010, with Nicole M. Gage, ISBN 978-0-12-375070-9

References

1. "Firing on all neurons: Where consciousness comes from".
2. According to The Information Philosopher (link to website), Baars has restored credibility to the "ancient metaphor of the mind as theater", accessed 6 January 2014.
3. Goleman, Daniel (27 November 1984). "Do 'Freudian Slips' Betray a Darker, Hidden Meaning?". The New York Times.
4. "The grand illusion".
5. "theASSC.org – Association of Scientific Studies of Consciousness".
6. According to Psychology Today (link) 7 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 6 January 2014.
7. "CCRG – Cognitive Computing Research Group – Papers".
8. "Conseminar".

External links

• Official website
• Published articles as pdf downloads, with Stan Franklin and other coauthors
• Consciousness: The WebCourse