Cognitive Science and the Study of Consciousness. Review ofScientific Approaches to Consciousness,by J. D. Cohen and J. W. Schooler

Abstract

Jonathan D. Cohen is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. His research interests include the biological mechanisms subsuming attentional and memory processes in normal and schizophrenic individuals. He utilizes PET as well as fMRI measurements and has developed information processing models consistent with a neural network, parallel distributed processing approach. Jonathan W. Schooler has a joint appointment at the University of Pittsburgh as an Associate Professor of Psychology and at the Learning Research and Development Center as a Research Scientist. Schooler's research interests include memory, the relationship between language and thought, problem-solving, decision-making, and consciousness. Sal A. Soraci is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Tufts University, and the Director of the Engineering Psychology/Human Factors Program in Liberal Arts there. He also holds appointments as Lecturer in Neurology at Harvard Medical School and as Research Scientist at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center. His research interests include generative processes in memory, the relationship between perceptual and cognitive processes, and intelligence-related differences in attentional functioning. Kimiyo Murata-Soraci is a Lecturer at Boston University and a Fellow at the Boston University Institute for Philosophy and Religion. Her research interests include continental philosophy, comparative philosophy of religion, and ethics.