News from Science & Consciousness Review: Morin and Clark

Science & Consciousness Review (NEW MIRROR: www.sci-con.org) has released new articles and reviews: _______________________ GUEST EDITORIAL Inner speech and conscious experience - by Alain Morin "Imagine that scientists have been successful at designing a drug that “freezes” brain areas producing our internal monologue. After taking the drug you can’t talk to yourself anymore. Every other mental activity is fine, but it’s now total silence in your head. Not a word. What would happen? What would it be like?" Full text: http://sci-con.org/editorials/20030403.html _______________________ GUEST EDITORIAL Empirical Constraints on the Concept of Consciousness - by Thomas W. Clark "As other commentators on the target article have pointed out, and as Crick and Koch themselves acknowledge, their hypotheses regarding the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) have much in common with the work of other researchers. There now seems to be a well-established research consensus that the NCC are distributed, integrated, and semi-hierarchical, extending across many brain systems subserving various cognitive functions. Consciousness seems to involve neural coalitions, not central executives." Full text: http://sci-con.org/editorials/20030404.html _______________________ LATEST HEADLINES - BOOK: Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness - Changing the recognition of emotional faces - Robot finger has feeling - Compromise is name of the game in how brain works - Review of the Self-Concept See NEWS IN BRIEF at: http://sci-con.org/more_news.html _______________________ PREVIOUS ARTICLES News: Atoms of thought. The microstate hypothesis of conscious states http://sci-con.org/news/articles/20021202.html News: Free consciousness articles – And how to find them on the Web http://sci-con.org/news/articles/20021001.html Visit our archives at: http://sci-con.org/archive.html _______________________ MIRROR SITE Science & Consciousness Review can now be found at www.sci-con.org. Soon, we will launch new features and forums for the scientific study of consciousness. Please update your links and preferences. _______________________ SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTION For students, teachers, scientists, and all other fans of consciousness... Send your news summaries to us. See more at: http://sci-con.org/author_instructions.html Sincerely, Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy Managing Editor