Sensory integration and the unity of consciousness / edited by David J. Bennett and Christopher S. Hill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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In this volume, cognitive scientists and philosophers examine two closely related aspects of mind and mental functioning: the relationships among the various senses and the links that connect different conscious experiences to form unified wholes. Contributors address a range of questions concerning how information from one sense influences the processing of information from the other senses and how unified states of consciousness emerge from the bonds that tie conscious experiences together.

Preface -- 1. Bayesian Modeling of Perceiving: A Guide to Basic Principles -- 2. The Multisensory Nature of Perceptual Consciousness -- 3. The Long-Term Potentiation Model for Grapheme-Color Binding in Synesthesia -- 4. Intermodal Binding Awareness -- 5. The Unity Assumption and the Many Unities of Consciousness -- 6. Multimodal Unity and Multimodal Binding -- 7. Can Blue Mean Four? -- 8. Establishing Cross-Modal Mappings: Empirical and Computational Investigations -- 9. Berkeley, Reid, and Sinha on Molyneux's Question -- 10. Modeling Multisensory Integration -- 11. A Unity Pluralist Account of the Unity of Experience -- 12. Unity, Synchrony, and Subjects -- 13 Experiences and Their Parts -- 14 Unity of Consciousness: Advertisement for a Leibnizian View -- 15. Partial Unity of Consciousness: A Preliminary Defense -- 16. E pluribus unum : Rethinking the Unity of Consciousness -- 17. Counting Minds and Mental States -- Contributors -- Index.

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