Bernard Baars
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Bernard J. Baars (born 1946, Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a cognitive neuroscientist and former senior fellow in theoretical neurobiology at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, California. He is currently an affiliated fellow at the institute.Template:Citation needed
He is best known as the originator of global workspace theory, a concept of human cognitive architecture and consciousness.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>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.</ref> He previously served as a professor of psychology at Stony Brook University, where he conducted research into the causation of human errors and the Freudian slip,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and as a faculty member at the Wright Institute.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Baars co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the Academic Press journal Consciousness and Cognition, which he also edited, with William P. Banks, for "more than fifteen years".<ref>According to Psychology Today (link) Template:Webarchive, accessed 6 January 2014.</ref>
In addition to research on global workspace theory with Stan Franklin and others,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Dead link
Bibliography
- A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness, NY: Cambridge University Press 1988, Template:ISBN.
- Cognition, Brain and Consciousness: An Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience. (Second edition). London: Elsevier/Academic Press, 2010, with Nicole M. Gage, Template:ISBN
- The Cognitive Revolution in Psychology, NY: Guilford Press, 1986, Template:ISBN.
- The Experimental Psychology of Human Error: Implications for the Architecture of Voluntary Control, NY: Plenum Press, Series on Cognition and Language, 1992, Template:ISBN
- In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997, Template:ISBN.