Bernard Baars Explained

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.

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, .
• A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness, NY: Cambridge University Press 1988, .
• The Experimental Psychology of Human Error: Implications for the Architecture of Voluntary Control, NY: Plenum Press, Series on Cognition and Language, 1992,
• In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997, .
• Cognition, Brain and Consciousness: An Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience. (Second Edition). London: Elsevier/Academic Press, 2010, with Nicole M. Gage,

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: 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. News: Do 'Freudian Slips' Betray a Darker, Hidden Meaning?. The New York Times. 27 November 1984. Goleman. Daniel.
4. Web site: The grand illusion.
5. Web site: theASSC.org – Association of Scientific Studies of Consciousness.
6. According to Psychology Today (link), accessed 6 January 2014.
7. Web site: CCRG – Cognitive Computing Research Group – Papers.
8. Web site: Conseminar.