Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? In their famous 1998 paper" The
Extended Mind," philosophers Andy Clark and David J. Chalmers posed this question and …

Consciousness remains a mystery—“a phenomenon that people do not know how to think
about—yet”(Dennett,, p. 21). Here, I consider how the connectionist perspective on …

(1) Let me begin by thanking Doerig et al. for including my work in their survey of empirical
theories of consciousness (although I am a bit spooked by being assigned the number 13!) …

What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware
mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual …

This volume presents a theoretical framework for understanding consciousness and
learning. Drawing on work in cognitive psychology and philosophy, this framework begins …

Within psychology and the brain sciences, the study of consciousness and its relation to
human information processing is once more a focus for productive research. However, some …

Active components of classical working memory are conscious, but traditional theory does
not account for this fact. Global Workspace theory suggests that consciousness is needed to …

There are multiple theories of working memory (WM), many of which are described in the
contributions to this book. A previous, highly influential edited book on WM (Miyake and …

Working memory allows individuals to maintain information in the focus of the mind's eye in
the service of goal-directed behavior. Current psychological theories (for example …