Bernard J. Baars (born 1946 in
Amsterdam
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, the Netherlands) is a former Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at
the Neurosciences Institute in
San Diego
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, 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. 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
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, and as a faculty member at the
Wright Institute.
Baars co-founded the
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and the Academic Press journal ''
Consciousness and Cognition'', which he also edited, with William P. Banks, for "more than fifteen years".
In addition to research on global workspace theory with Professor Stan Franklin and others, 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.
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,
References
External links
*
Published articles as pdf downloads, with Stan Franklin and other coauthors''Consciousness: The WebCourse''
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1946 births
Living people
American neuroscientists
Scientists from Amsterdam
Dutch emigrants to the United States
American consciousness researchers and theorists