CURRICULUM VITAE
Bernard J. Baars, Ph.D.
The Neurosciences Institute
10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive
San Diego, Calif. 92121
(858) 626-2077/ -2000
(925) 283-2601 (home)
mailto:baars@cogsci.berkeley.edu
Research and Professional Experience
2002- Founding Editor, Science and Consciousness Review. (Web newsletter)
1999 Visiting Fellow, The Neurosciences Institute.
1998- Board member, Society for Philosophy and Psychology
1994-6 Founding President, Association for Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC). (International scientific society.)
1989- Founding Co-Editor, Consciousness & Cognition: An International Journal. (Academic Press, Inc.)
1986- Institute Faculty Professor, The Wright Institute, Berkeley, California.
1985-6 Visiting Scientist, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Program on Conscious and Unconscious Mental Processes, Langley Porter Institute, UCSF.
1977 Assistant Professor of Psychology, SUNY Stony Brook.
1979-80 Alfred P. Sloan Cognitive Science Scholar, UCSD.
1977 Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, UCLA.
Invited Presentations:
British Psychological Society, 1992.
CIBA Foundation Symposium on Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Consciousness, 1992, London, UK.
Human Learning Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1992.
Plenary Lecture, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, (Claremont, Calif.) 1994.
External Doctoral Examiner, University of Turku (Finland), 1997.
European Society for Neuroscience, Strasbourg, France, 1998.
Marcus Orr Distinguished Speaker, University of Memphis, 1998.
Pavlov Society, University of Maryland, 1998.
United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, 1999.
Irish Cognitive Science Society, Dublin, Ireland, 1999.
Saybrook Graduate Program, Santa Rosa, Calif. 1999.
University Foundation for Animal Welfare, London, 2000.
Darwin Club, University of California, Berkeley, 2000.
Southern Conference on Animal Welfare, San Antonio, TX, 2000.
Neurosciences Research Program meeting, San Diego, March 2001
Cold Spring Harbor conference on consciousness, May, 2001.
University of Memphis Workshop on Consciousness, April, 2001.
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, November 2001
Agora for Biosystems, Sigtuna, Sweden, November 2001
Aarhus University, Denmark, November, 2001
University College London, UK, November 2001
Salk Institute for Biological Science, February, 2002
Congres de Biologie et Conscience, Paris, April, 2002
Editorial Board Member:
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.
Psyche: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Consciousness Research.
Journal of Consciousness Studies. (United Kingdom)
Brain and Consciousness (Kluwer)
Scientific Memberships:
American Psychological Association
Association for Psychological Science
Society for Psychonomic Science
Cognitive Science Society
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Board member, 1998-
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (Founding President,1994-6)
Interests:
The psychology and brain basis of conscious experience; its ethical implications for human and animal welfare; consciousness in animals; consciousness in the history of psychology; the scientific problem of volition; psychodynamics; conscious aspects of emotion; bioethics.
In preparation:
(with William P. Banks, and James Newman, Eds.) Essential Readings in the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/ Bradford Books.
Consciousness creates access: Global Workspace theory and brain dynamics
. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/ Bradford Books.We are surrounded by consciousness: The biological roots of human experience.
Science rediscovers consciousness. Invited chapter, Thomas Dalton (ed.) Psychology in the 21st Century.
The double life of B.F. Skinner: Inner conflict, dissociation, and the culture of behaviorism.
Brain imaging supports the central role of conscious experience. Invited paper for Special Issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies.
Books:
Baars, B.J. (1997) In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind. NY: Oxford University Press.
Baars, B.J. (Ed.) (1992) The experimental psychology of human error: Implications for the architecture of voluntary control. NY: Plenum Press, Series on Cognition and Language.
Baars, B.J. (1988) A cognitive theory of consciousness NY: Cambridge University Press.
Baars, B.J. (1986) The cognitive revolution in psychology. NY: Guilford Press.
Articles and Chapters:
Baars, B.J. (2002) The conscious access hypothesis: Origins and recent evidence. Trends in Cognitive Science. January, 2002. See http://www.nsi.edu/users/baars/BaarsTICS2002.pdf
Baars, B.J. (2001) There are no known differences in fundamental brain mechanisms of sensory consciousness between humans and other mammals. Animal Welfare.
Baars, B.J. (2001) Consciousness, cognitive theories of, Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, London: MacMillan Reference, Ltd. (Nature/ Scientific American Publishing Group.)
Baars, B.J. (1999) Attention vs. consciousness in the visual brain: Differences in conception, behavior, neuroanatomy, and physiology. J. Gen. Psychol., 126 (3), 224-33.
Baars, B.J. (1998) Metaphors of consciousness and attention in the brain. Trends in Neurosciences, 21 (2), 58-62.
Baars, B.J. (1997a) Psychology in a world of sentient, self-knowing beings: A modest utopian fantasy. The science of the mind: The 21st century. R.L. Solso (Ed.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Baars, B.J. (1997b) Treating consciousness as an empirical variable: The contrastive analysis approach. N. Block, O. Flanagan, and G. Guzeldere (Eds.) The nature of consciousness: Philosophical controversies. Cambridge, MA.: Bradford/ MIT Press.
Baars, B.J. (1997c) Some essential differences between consciousness and attention, perception and memory. Consciousness & Cognition, 6, (2/3), 363-71.
Baars, B.J. (1997d) Spatial brain coherence during the establishment of a conscious event. Consciousness & Cognition, 6 (1), 1-2. (Tutorial commentary.)
Baars, B.J. (1996) When are images conscious? The curious disconnection between imagery and the scientific literature. Consciousness & Cognition, 5 (3), 261-4.
Baars, B.J. & K. McGovern (1996) Cognitive views of consciousness: What are the facts? How can we think about them? In M. Velmans (Ed.) The science of consciousness: Tutorial reviews. London: Routledge.
Baars, B.J. (1995) Tutorial commentary: Surprisingly small subcortical structures are needed for consciousness, while cortical projection areas seem to provide perceptual contents. Consciousness & Cognition, 4 (2), 159-62.
Baars, B.J. & K.A. McGovern (1995) Steps toward healing: False memories and traumagenic amnesia may coexist in vulnerable populations. Consciousness & Cognition, Special Issue on Recovery of Traumatic Childhood Memory. 3 (3,4).
Baars, B.J. & McGovern, K. A. (1994) Consciousness. In V.S. Ramachandran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Behavior, NY: Academic Press.
Baars, B. J. (1993a). Why volition is a foundation issue for psychology. Consciousness & Cognition, 2(4), 281-309.
Baars, B.J. (1993b) How does a stream of consciousness that is relatively simple, serial, and limited in capacity emerge from a brain that is largely unconscious, complex, and massively parallel? In E. Marsh (ed.) Ciba Symposium on Experimental and Theoretical Foundations of Consciousness. (#174) London, UK: Wiley Interscience.
Baars. B.J. (1993c) Consciousness. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. NY: McGraw-Hill.
Newman, J. and Baars, B.J. (1993) A neural attentional model for access to consciousness: A Global Workspace perspective. Concepts in Neuroscience, 4 (2), 255-290.
Baars, B.J. (1987a) Biological implications of a global workspace theory of conscious experience. In G. Greenberg and E. Tobach (Eds.) Language, cognition, consciousness: Integrative levels. Englewood, N.J.: Erlbaum.
Baars, B.J. (1987b) What is conscious in the control of action? A modern ideomotor theory of voluntary control. In D. Gorfein & R. Hoffmann (Eds.), Learning and Memory: The Ebbinghaus Centennial Conference. NY: L. Erlbaum.
Baars, B.J. (1987c) Momentary forgetting as an erasure of a conscious global workspace due to competition between incompatible contexts. In M.J. Horowitz (Ed.) Conscious and unconscious influences on emotional processes. University of Chicago Press.
Motley, M.T. & Baars, B.J. (1979) Effects of cognitive set upon laboratory induced verbal (Freudian) slips. J. Speech & Hearing Res., 22 (3), 421-32.
Perrott, D.R. & Baars, B.J. (1974) Detection of interaural onset and offset disparities. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 55 (6), 1290-2.
And many journal publications on the experimental induction of speech errors.