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Crick, F. The astonishing hypothesis, (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1994)
Koch, C. The quest for Consciousness (Roberts and Company Publishers, Enlglewood, 2004)

Caltech Bi/CNS120 class by Prof. Christof Koch, The Neuronal Basis of Consciousness http://www.klab.caltech.edu/cns120/
Caltech Bi/CNS120 main literature: http://www.klab.caltech.edu/cns120/literature.php

This does not attempt to constitute a comprehensive list of references. Those interested in further reading about the scientific approach to studying consciousness should consult the extensive bibliography in Koch’s book.

Churchland, P.S. Self-representation in nervous systems. Science 296, 308-10. (2002).
Cotterill, R. Enchanted looms. Conscious networks in bains and computers., (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1998).
Crick, F. & Koch, C. A framework for consciousness. Nat Neurosci 6, 119-26. (2003).
Crick, F. & Koch, C. Consciousness and neuroscience. Cerebral Cortex 8, 97-107 (1998).
Crick, F. & Koch, C. Towards a neruobiological theory of conciousness. Seminars in the Neurosciences. 2, 263-275 (1990).
Crick, F. Of Molecules and Men, (Prometheus Books, New York, 1966).
Crick, F., Koch, C., Kreiman, G. & Fried, I. Consciousness and Neurosurgery. Neurosurgery 55, 273-282 (2004).
Editors. In search of consciousness. Nature Neuroscience 3, 743 (2000).
ffytche, D. et al. The anatomy of conscious vision: an fMRI study of visual hallucinations. Nature Neuroscience 1, 738-742 (1998).
Frith, C., Perry, R. & Lumer, E. The neural correlates of conscious experience: an experimental framework. Trends Cogn Sci 3, 105-114. (1999).
Jackendoff, R. Consciousness and the computational mind, (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987).
Koch, C. & Crick, F. The zombie within. Nature 411, 893 (2001).
Leopold, D.A. & Logothetis, N.K. Multistable phenomena: changing views in perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 3, 254-264 (1999).
Libet, B. Brain stimulation in the study of neuronal functions for conscious sensory experiences. Human Neurobiology 1, 235-242 (1982).
Libet, B., Gleason, C., Wright, E. & Pearl, D. Time of conscious intention to act in relation to onset of cerebral activity (readiness-potential). Brain 106, 623-642 (1983).
Logothetis, N.K. Single units and conscious vision. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 353, 1801-1818 (1998).
Metzinger, T. Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Empirical and Conceptual Questions, (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000).
Penfield, W. The cerebral cortex in man. I. The cerebral cortex and consciousness. Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry 40, 417-442 (1937).
Rees, G., Kreiman, G. & Koch, C. Neural correlates of consciousness in humans. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 3, 261-270 (2002).
Searle, J. How to study consciousness scientifically. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 353, 1935-1942 (1998).
Sewards, T. & Sewards, M. On the neural correlates of object recognition awareness: relationship to computational activities and activities mediating perceptual awareness. Consciousness and Cognition 11, 51-77 (2002).
Singer, W. Consciousness and the structure of neuronal representations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 353, 1829-1840 (1998).
Tononi, G. & Edelman, G. Neuroscience - Consciousness and complexity. Science 282, 1846-1851 (1998).
Tononi, G., Srinivasan, R., Russell, D. & Edelman, G. Investigating neural correlates of conscious perception by frequency-tagged neuromagnetic responses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 95, 3198-3203 (1998).

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