Bernard Baars

Bernard J. Baars (born 1946, Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a cognitive neuroscientist and former senior fellow in theoretical neurobiology at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, California. He is currently an affiliated fellow at the institute.

He is best known as the originator of global workspace theory, a concept of human cognitive architecture and consciousness. He previously served as a professor of psychology at Stony Brook University, where he conducted research into the causation of human errors and the Freudian slip, and as a faculty member at the Wright Institute.

Baars co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and the Academic Press journal Consciousness and Cognition, which he also edited, with William P. Banks, for "more than fifteen years".

In addition to research on global workspace theory with Stan Franklin and others, Baars has done work to reintroduce the topic of the conscious brain into the standard college and graduate school curriculum, by writing college textbooks and general-audience books, web teaching, advanced seminars, and course videos.

Bibliography

• A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness, NY: Cambridge University Press 1988, .
• Cognition, Brain and Consciousness: An Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience. (Second edition). London: Elsevier/Academic Press, 2010, with Nicole M. Gage,
• The Cognitive Revolution in Psychology, NY: Guilford Press, 1986, .
• The Experimental Psychology of Human Error: Implications for the Architecture of Voluntary Control, NY: Plenum Press, Series on Cognition and Language, 1992,
• In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997, .

External links

• Official website
• Published articles as PDF downloads, with Stan Franklin and other co-authors