CURRICULUM VITAE Bernard J. Baars, Ph.D. The Neurosciences Institute 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive San Diego, Calif. 92121 www.nsi.edu www.nsi.edu/users/baars Please use home telephone and mailing address: 3616 Chestnut St., Apt. 3 Lafayette, Calif. 94549 (925) 283-2601 bbaars@comcast.net For recent activities, publications and teaching: www.bernardbaars.pbwiki.com Personal information: Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1946. Family moved to the United States in 1958. Naturalized US citizen. Married to Prof. Katharine A. McGovern, California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco. Hobbies: choral singing, classical music, extensive reading and writing, travel. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Baars Research and Professional Experience 2003- Affiliate Research Fellow, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California. www.nsi.edu/users/baars 2003- Adjunct Professor, Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis http://ccrg.cs.memphis.edu 2000-2 Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California. 2002- Founding Editor, Science and Consciousness Review. www.sci-con.org 1999 Visiting Fellow, The Neurosciences Institute. 1994-6 Founding President, Association for Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC). www.assc.caltech.edu 1989- Founding Co-Editor, Consciousness & Cognition: An International Journal. (Academic Press, Inc./ Elsevier) http://ees.elsevier.com/concog/ 1986-2000 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. 1970 Bachelor's degree in 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, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, (Claremont, Calif.) 1994. External Doctoral Examiner, University of Turku (Finland), 1997. External Doctoral Examiner, Dublin City University, Ireland, 2003. 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 Congrès de Biologie et Conscience, Paris, April, 2002 Canadian Anesthesiology Society, Ottawa, June 2003 Experimental Philosophy Group, UCSD, May 2003 Exystence Workshop, Turin, Italy, August 2003 DARPA-SRI Workshop on Self, Washington, DC, 2004 Washington University St. Louis, 2004. Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, 2004. Keynote Speaker, Concepts of Consciousness, Workship at Illinois State University, Bloomington, 2004. Workshop on Consciousness, Brain Rhythms, and the Action-Perception Cycle, with Prof. Stan Franklin, University of Memphis, May 2008. Co-organizer and presenter. Aspen Workshop on Consciousness and Science, 2007 and 2008. Organized by the Mind Science Foundation of San Antonio, TX. Appearances in television interviews and documentaries, popular magazines, newspapers and other publications, including PBS (Learning Allowed), TIME magazine, The New York Times Science Section, NPR, Slate online magazine, book interviews and the like. Boards and Editorial Positions: Founding Editor and current Co-Editor: Consciousness & Cognition (Academic Press/ Elsevier) Founding Editors and curent Co-Editor: Science and Consciousness Review Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. Psyche: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Consciousness Research. Journal of Consciousness Studies. (United Kingdom) Brain and Consciousness (Kluwer) Cognitive Semiology Board Member, Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona Board Member, 1998-2000 Society for Philosophy and Psychology Scientific Memberships: Society for Psychonomic Science Cognitive Science Society Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (Founding President,1994-6) www.assc.caltech.edu Society for Neuroethics. Interests: The psychology and brain basis of conscious experience. Theories of human biocognition, especially language and vision. The neurobiology of consciousness in animals. History of psychology. The scientific problem of volition. Emotional self-regulation and psychodynamics. Bioethics. Scientific publications. Books: Baars, B.J. & N.M. Gage (eds.) (2007) Cognition, Brain & Consciousness: An Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience. San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press (Elsevier). Baars, B.J., W. P. Banks & James Newman, Eds. (2003) Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/ Bradford 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. Second Edition in Preparation for MIT Press. Baars, B.J. (1986) The cognitive revolution in psychology. NY: Guilford Press. Journal Articles and Book Chapters: Baars BJ, Franklin S. (2007) An architectural model of conscious and unconscious brain functions: Global Workspace Theory and IDA. Neural Networks, Nov;20(9):955-61. Baars, B.J. (2006) Subjectivity is probably not limited to human beings: The evidence from biology and behavior. Introduction to a Special issue on Animal Consciousness of the journal Consciousness & Cognition. Seth, A. & Baars, B.J. (2006) Neural Darwinism and consciousness. Special Issue on Models and Mechanisms of Consciousness of the journal Consciousness & Cognition Seth, A., Baars, B.J. and Edelman, D. (2006) Brain and behavioral markers for sensory consciousness in humans and other mammals. For Special Issue on Animal Consciousness, Consciousness & Cognition. Seth, A., Edelman, D. & Baars, B.J. (2006) The possibility of consciousness in nonmammalian species. For Special Issue on Animal Consciousness, Consciousness & Cognition. Baars, B.J. & Greenspan, R. (2006) Why consciousness disappeared: Jaques Loeb, Ivan Pavlov and the reductionist program in biology. Consciousness & Cognition. Shanahan, M. & Baars, B.J. (2006) The Frame Problem: A global workspace approach. Cognition. Baars, B.J., Franklin, S., Ramamurthy, U., Ventura, M. The Role of Consciousness in Memory. (2006) Brains, Minds & Media. Baars, B.J., Global workspace theories of consciousness, (2007) for M. Velmans (Ed.) The Blackwell Companion on Consciousness. (with Katharine McGovern): Cognitive theories of consciousness. In P. Zelazo, Jr. & M. Moscovitch (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness. NY: Cambridge University Press. Baars, B.J. (2006) Globalist theories of conscious contents and states. For S.L. Laureys (ed) The neurobiology of coma. Progress in Biological Research. Seth AK, Baars BJ. (2005) Neural Darwinism and consciousness. Conscious Cogn. Mar;14(1):140-68. Baars, B.J. (2005) Subjective experience is probably not limited to humans: the evidence from neurobiology and behavior. Conscious Cogn. Mar;14(1):7-21. Dalton, T. & B.J. Baars (2004) Science rediscovers consciousness. In T. Dalton (ed.) The life cycle of psychological ideas. Baars, B.J., T.Z. Ramsoy & S. Laureys (2003) Brain, consciousness and the observing self. Trends in Neurosciences, 26 (12), 671-675. Baars, B.J. & S. Franklin (2003) How conscious experience and working memory interact. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 7 (4), April, 166-172. Baars, B.J. (2003) How brain reveals mind: Neuroimaging supports the central role of conscious experience. Invited paper for Special Issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies.10 (9-10). 100-114. Baars, B.J. (2003) I.P. Pavlov and the Freedom Reflex. Journal of Consciousness Studies. Baars, B.J. (2003) The double life of B.F. Skinner: Inner conflict, dissociation, and the culture of behaviorism. Journal of Consciousness Studies.10 (1), Special Journal Issue with Peer Commentary. 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. (2000) There are no known differences in fundamental brain mechanisms of consciousness between humans and other mammals. Animal Welfare. 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. Cho S.B., Baars B.J., Newman J. (1997) A Neural Global Workspace Model for Conscious Attention. Neural Networks, Oct 1;10(7):1195-1206. 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 additional encyclopedia entries in the American Psychological Association Dictionary of Psychology, the Oxford Companion to Consciousness, the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Consciousness, etc., and journal articles on the experimental induction of speech and action errors. |