Inner experience and neuroscience : merging both perspectives /
Donald D. Price and James J. Barrell.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012.
- x, 345 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
"A Bradford Book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-340) and index.
Developing a science of human meanings and consciousness -- Lessons learned from psychophysics -- Psychophysical methods and human meanings -- Describing, characterizing, and understanding phenomenal experience -- Merging the qualitative with the quantitative: the roles of desire and expectation in emotions -- Choosing -- Human pain and suffering -- Second pain: a model for explaining a conscious experience? -- Mysterious and not so mysterious mechanisms of placebo responses -- Hypnotic and other background states of consciousness -- Using experiential paradigms to extend science and help solve human problems?.