Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: 1. Introduction Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch and Evan Thompson; Part II. The Cognitive Science of Consciousness: 2. A brief history of the philosophical problem of consciousness William Seager; 3. Philosophical theories of consciousness: contemporary Western perspectives Uriah Kriegel; 4. Philosophical theories of consciousness: continental perspectives Evan Thompson and Dan Zahavi; 5. Philosophical theories of consciousness: Asian perspectives George Dreyfus and Evan Thompson; 6. Artificial intelligence and consciousness Drew McDermott; 7. Computational models of consciousness: a taxonomy and some examples Ron Sun and Stan Franklin; 8. Cognitive theories of consciousness Katherine McGovern and Bernard J. Baars; 9. Behavioral, neuroimaging, and neuropsychological approaches to implicit perception Dan Simons, Deborah E. Hannula, David E. Warren and Steven W. Day; 10. Three forms of consciousness in retrieving memories Henry L. Roediger III, Suparna Rajaram and Lisa Geraci; 11. Metacognition and consciousness Asher Koriat; 12. Consciousness and control of action Carlo Umilta; 13. Language and consciousness Wallace Chafe; 14. Narrative modes of consciousness and selfhood Keith Oatley; 15. The development of consciousness Philip David Zelazo, Helena H. Gao and Rebecca Todd; 16. States of consciousness: normal and abnormal variation J. Allan Hobson; 17. Consciousness in hypnosis John F. Kihlstrom; 18. Can we study subjective experiences objectively? First-person perspective approaches and impaired subjective states of awareness in schizophrenia? Jean-Marie Danion and Caroline Huron; 19. Meditation and the neuroscience of consciousness: an introduction Antoine Lutz, John D. Dunne and Richard J. Davidson; 20. Social psychological approaches to consciousness John Bargh; 21. The evolution of consciousness Michael C. Corballis; 22. The serpent's gift: evolutionary psychology and consciousness Jesse Bering and Dave Bjorklund; 23. Anthropology of consciousness C. Jason Throop and Charles Laughlin; 24. Motivation, decision making, and consciousness: from psychodynamics to subliminal priming and emotional constraint satisfaction Drew Westen, Joel Weinberger and Rebekah Bradley; Part III. The Neuroscience of Consciousness: 25. Hunting the ghost: toward a neuroscience of consciousness Petra Stoerig; 26. Neurodynamical approaches to consciousness Diego Cosmelli, Jean-Philippe Lachaux and Evan Thompson; 27. The thalamic intralaminar nuclei and the property of consciousness Joseph E. Bogen; 28. The cognitive neuroscience of memory and consciousness Scott D. Slotnick and Daniel L. Schachter; 29. The affective neuroscience of consciousness: higher order syntactic thoughts, dual routes to emotion and action, and consciousness Edmund Rolls; 30. Consciousness: situated and social Ralph Adolphs; 31. Quantum approaches to consciousness Henry Stapp.