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Mind vs. Brain: The Rhetoric of Consciousness

PWR 1GAU - Spring 2014 - Instructor: Ueda, A.
Last Updated: 2-Apr-2014

A guide to resources for PWR 1GAU: Mind vs. Brain: The Rhetoric of Consciousness.

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Subjects

Psychology

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

The Blackwell companion to consciousness / Max Velmans, science editor, Susan Schneider, philosophy editor ; advisory editors, science of consciousness, Jeffrey Gray ... [et al.], philosophy of consciousness, Ned Block ... [et al.].
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Green Library » Stacks » BF311 .B5348 2007
Electronic Searcheable Handbook with chapters on: Consciousness in Infants; Animal Consciousness. Normal and Abnormal States of Consciousness. Altered States of Consciousness: Drug Induced States.  Split-Brain Cases. Coming Together: the Unity of Conscious Experience. Quantum Mechanical Theories of Consciousness. Neurobiological Framework for Consciousness. Neuroscience of Free Will. Eastern Methods for Investigating Mind and Consciousness.
The Cambridge handbook of consciousness / edited by Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch and Evan Thompson.
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Green Library » Stacks » B808.9 .C36 2007
Online searchable reference book on Conciousness with chapters on all aspects of conciousness, including development, states of consciousness, language, memory, neuroscience, meditation, phyliosophy, evolution, anthropology, artificial intelligence
Disorders of consciousness [electronic resource] / edited by Young and Wijdicks.
Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2008.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Online reference source, includes sections on; impaired consciouness. Delirium. Stupor and coma. Herniation syndromes. Vegetative and minimally conscious states. Brain death.  Metabolic encephalopathies. Nutritional encephalopathies. Intoxications and poisoning. Anoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and stroke. Inflammatory disorders and infections. Trauma. Seizures. Neoplasia and coma. Transplantation and coma. Pregnancy and coma. Psychogenic unresponsiveness and pseudoseizures. Management and ethcial issues: Impaired consciousness in the emergency room. Impaired consciousness in medical and surgical ICUs. 
Handbook of psychology / editor-in-chief, Irving B. Weiner.
2nd ed. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2013.
Green Library » Stacks » BF121 .H213 2013 V.1
Also available online. Click on the Online link for the digital edition.  See the Chapter on Consciousness.
Encyclopedia of consciousness / edited by William P. Banks.
London : Academic Press, 2009.
Green Library » Information Center » BF311 .E53 2009 V.1
Encyclopedia of perception / [edited by] E. Bruce Goldstein.
Los Angeles : SAGE, c2010.
Green Library » Information Center » BF311 .E497 2010 V.1
Handbook of adolescent psychology / edited by Richard M. Lerner, Laurence Steinberg.
3rd ed. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2009.
Green Library » Information Center » BF724 .H33 2009 V.1
International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences / editors-in-chief Neil J. Smelser, Paul B. Baltes.
1st ed. Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 2001.
Green Library » Jonsson Social Sciences Reading Room » H41 .I58 2001 V.1
Encyclopedia of behavioral neuroscience / editors-in-chief, George F. Koob, Michel Le Moal, Richard F. Thompson.
London ; Burlington, MA : Academic Press, c2010.
Biology Library (Falconer) » Stacks » QP360 .E52 2010 V.1
The neurology of consciousness : cognitive neuroscience and neuropathology / edited by Steven Laureys and Giulio Tononi.
1st ed. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2009.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » QP411 .N48 2009
also available in print in the Biology Library QP411 .N48 2009.The first major book on the "Neurology of Consciousness", i.e. on the study of brain damages and disease states that lead to varying levels of disturbances in human consciousness (vegetative, coma, minimally conscious states, etc). It features articles from the main researchers in the field, including Christof Koch, Marcus Raichle, Allan Hobson, Nicholas Schiff, Joseph Fins, Michael Gazzaniga, and Lionel Naccache. 
Readings in animal cognition / edited by Marc Bekoff, Dale Jamieson.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1996.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » QL785 .R27 1996
The cognitive animal : empirical and theoretical perspectives on animal cognition / edited by Marc Bekoff, Colin Allen, and Gordon M. Burghardt.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2002.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » QL785 .C485 2002

Here are some "controlled vocabulary" terms for sports-related topics. Use the Limiters on the left column of the results list : Topics, Call Numbers (for Subject Area), Location (which library - another clue for subject/perspective), Publication Date, etc.

CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS
BRAIN EVOLUTION
MIND-BRAIN IDENTITY THEORY
LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
COGNITION IN ANIMALS
DREAMS (PSYCHOLOGY OR PHILOSOPHY)

When you are just starting, it's a good idea to use the ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER database. Besides the selected general and subject-specific databases listed here , try these databases for articles to support your research. 

PsycINFO [electronic resource].
[Bethesda, Md.] : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
PsycARTICLES [electronic resource].
Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association,
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
ATLA religion database with ATLASerials [electronic resource].
[Evanston, Ill.] : American Theological Association, [Ipswich, Mass.] : EBSCO Information Services
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
Sociology [electronic resource] : a SAGE full-text collection.
Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, [200-?]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource

Bibliographic Management

Searchworks and many other databases you will use allow you to get a simple citation by using a "CiteThis" feature or gather more information by using a Send to/Export feature to send records to bibliographic management tools such as Refworks or EndNote.  You can also use resources such as Zotero or Mendeley to gather information including citations.  For more on these, see the guide to Bibliography Management.