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  1. Does consciousness cause behaviour?Susan Pockett - 2004 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 11 (2):23-40.
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    On subjective back-referral and how long it takes to become conscious of a stimulus: A reinterpretation of Libet's data.Susan Pockett - 2002 - Consciousness and Cognition 11 (2):141-61.
    The original data reported by Benjamin Libet and colleagues are reinterpreted, taking into account the facilitation which is experimentally demonstrated in the first of their series of articles. It is shown that the original data equally well or better support a quite different set of conclusions from those drawn by Libet. The new conclusions are that it takes only 80 ms for stimuli to come to consciousness and that “subjective back-referral of sensations in time” to the time of the stimulus (...)
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  3. How long is now? Phenomenology and the specious present.Susan Pockett - 2003 - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 2 (1):55-68.
    The duration of “now” is shown to be important not only for an understanding of how conscious beings sense duration, but also for the validity of the phenomenological enterprise as Husserl conceived it. If “now” is too short, experiences can not be described before they become memories, which can be considered to be transcendent rather than immanent phenomena and therefore inadmissible as phenomenological data. Evidence concerning (a) the objective duration of sensations in various sensory modalities, (b) the time necessary for (...)
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  4. The Electromagnetic Field Theory of Consciousness.Susan Pockett - 2012 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 19 (11-12):191-223.
    The electromagnetic field theory of consciousness proposes that conscious experiences are identical with certain electromagnetic patterns generated by the brain. While the theory has always acknowledged that not all of the electromagnetic patterns generated by brain activity are conscious, until now it has not been able to specify what might distinguish conscious patterns from non-conscious patterns. Here a hypothesis is proposed about the 3D shape of electromagnetic fields that are conscious, as opposed to those that are not conscious. Seven predictions (...)
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  5. Are Voluntary Movements Initiated Proconsciously? The Relationships between Readiness Potentials, Urges, and Decisions.Susan Pockett & Suzanne C. Purdy - 2011 - In Susan Pockett & Suzanne C. Purdy, [no title]. pp. 34--46.
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    The rotating spot method of timing subjective events.Susan Pockett & Arden Miller - 2007 - Consciousness and Cognition 16 (2):241-254.
    The rotating spot method of timing subjective events involves the subject’s watching a rotating spot on a computer and reporting the position of the spot at the instant when the subjective event of interest occurs. We conducted an experiment to investigate factors that may impact on the results produced by this method, using the subject’s perception of when they made a simple finger movement as the subjective event to be timed. Seven aspects of the rotating spot method were investigated, using (...)
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    Anesthesia and the electrophysiology of auditory consciousness.Susan Pockett - 1999 - Consciousness and Cognition 8 (1):45-61.
    Empirical work is reviewed which correlates the presence or absence of various parts of the auditory evoked potential with the disappearance and reemergence of auditory sensation during induction of and recovery from anesthesia. As a result, the hypothesis is generated that the electrophysiological correlate of auditory sensation is whatever neural activity generates the middle latency waves of the auditory evoked potential. This activity occurs from 20 to 80 ms poststimulus in the primary and secondary areas of the auditory cortex. Evidence (...)
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    Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility.Susan Blackmore, Thomas W. Clark, Mark Hallett, John-Dylan Haynes, Ted Honderich, Neil Levy, Thomas Nadelhoffer, Shaun Nichols, Michael Pauen, Derk Pereboom, Susan Pockett, Maureen Sie, Saul Smilansky, Galen Strawson, Daniela Goya Tocchetto, Manuel Vargas, Benjamin Vilhauer & Bruce Waller - 2013 - Lexington Books.
    Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility is an edited collection of new essays by an internationally recognized line-up of contributors. It is aimed at readers who wish to explore the philosophical and scientific arguments for free will skepticism and their implications.
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  9. Benjamin Libet's work on the neuroscience of free will.William P. Banks & Susan Pockett - 2007 - In Max Velmans & Susan Schneider, The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness. New York: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 657--670.
  10. The neuroscience of movement.Susan Pockett - 2004 - In Does consciousness cause behaviour? Mit Press.
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    Difficulties with the electromagnetic field theory of consciousness.Susan Pockett - 2002 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 9 (4):51-56.
    The author's version of the electromagnetic field theory of consciousness is stated briefly and then three difficulties with the theory are discussed. The first is a purely technical problem: how to measure accurately enough the spatial properties of the fields which are proposed to be conscious and then how to generate these artificially, so that the theory can be tested. The second difficulty might also be merely technical, or it might be substantive and fatal to the theory. This is that (...)
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  12. [no title].Susan Pockett & Suzanne C. Purdy - 2011
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  13. Initiation of intentional actions and the electromagnetic field theory of consciousness.Susan Pockett - 2011 - Humana Mente 4 (15):159-175.
     
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    Backward referral, flash-lags, and quantum free will: A response to commentaries on articles by Pockett, Klein, Gomes, and trevena and Miller.Susan Pockett - 2002 - Consciousness and Cognition 11 (2):314-325.
    The first priority of this response is to address Libet's rebuttal of my reinterpretation of his data. Then, because many authors have commented on various aspects of the debate, the rest of the response is organized in terms of subject matter, not as replies to each individual commentator. First, I reply to an objection expressed by two separate commentators to part of my reinterpretation of those of Libet's data supposedly supporting backward referral. This leads to a brief discussion of the (...)
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    Hypnosis and the death of "subjective backwards referral".Susan Pockett - 2004 - Consciousness and Cognition 13 (3):621-25.
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    Intracranial EEG power spectra and phase synchrony during consciousness and unconsciousness.Susan Pockett & Mark D. Holmes - 2009 - Consciousness and Cognition 18 (4):1049-1055.
    Power density spectra and phase synchrony measurements were taken from intracranial electrode grids implanted in epileptic subjects. Comparisons were made between data from the waking state and from the period of unconsciousness immediately following a generalised tonic–clonic seizure. Power spectra in the waking state resembled coloured noise. Power spectra in the unconscious state resembled coloured noise from 1 to about 5 Hz, but at higher frequencies changed in two out of three subjects to resemble white noise. This boosted unconscious gamma (...)
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    Does consciousness cause behavior?Susan Pockett, William P. Banks & Shaun Gallagher (eds.) - 2009 - Cambridge: MIT Press.
    Continuing the debate over whether consciousness causes behaviour or plays no functional role in it, leading scholars discuss the question in terms of neuroscience, philosophy, law, and public policy.
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    The Unreasonable Political Effectiveness of Mathematical Modelling.Susan Pockett - 2023 - Journal of Neurophilosophy 2 (2).
    Ever since Thomas Malthus used simple mathematics to model the evolution of food production vs the increasing human population of planet Earth and declared that we would very soon eat ourselves out of house and home, politicians have been falling hook, line and sinker for mathematical models. This paper examines how and why the mathematical modelling of complex systems has proved unreasonably effective in convincing mathematically illiterate politicians to take practical measures that have turned out to be disastrous. It then (...)
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    Commentary on shevrin, ghannam, and Libet, A Neural Correlate of Consciousness Related to Repression.Susan Pockett - 2002 - Consciousness and Cognition 11 (2):342-344.
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    If Free Will Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent It.Susan Pockett - 2013 - In Gregg D. Caruso, Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. pp. 265.
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    Midwifing a Science of Consciousness: the Role of Kuhnian Paradigms: Kuhnian Paradigms and Neural Correlates of Consciousness.Susan Pockett - 2022 - Journal of Neurophilosophy 1 (1).
    It is argued that in terms of Thomas Kuhn's analysis of how different fields of science develop and progress, consciousness research is still in the pre-paradigm or pre-science phase that precedes the advent of any universally accepted paradigm. A means by which this long-standing situation may be escaped is here suggested. This is to treat each of the three distinct theoretical positions that presently drive experimental research on the nature of consciousness as mini-paradigms and then apply the same logic that (...)
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    The great subjective back-referral debate: Do neural responses increase during a train of stimuli?Susan Pockett - 2006 - Consciousness and Cognition 15 (3):551-559.
    Evidence is summarised for and against the hypothesis that potentiation or facilitation of neural responses during a train of threshold-level stimuli occurred in the experiments reported by Libet et al. . It is concluded that such potentiation probably did occur. Since the main arguments for the existence of subjective backwards referral take it as given that such potentiation did not occur, it is further concluded that the main arguments for the existence of subjective backwards referral fail.
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    What are Conscious Sensations?Susan Pockett - 2023 - Journal of Neurophilosophy 2 (1).
    Existing theories about the nature of conscious sensations are discussed. The oldest classification system contrasts dualist theories (which say consciousness is an abstract entity) with monist theories (which say consciousness is a concrete entity). A more recent system contrasts process theories ("consciousness is a process, not a thing") with vehicle theories (consciousness is a property of one or more of the things associated with brain processes). The present paper first points out that processes are abstracta, which makes process theories dualist. (...)
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  24. Shaun Gallagher, Jesper Brøsted Sørensen. Experimenting with phenomenology.Jonathan Smallwood, Leigh Riby, Derek Heim, John B. Davies, Julia Fisher, Elliot Hirshman, Thomas Henthorn, Jason Arndt, Anthony Passannante & Susan Pockett - 2005 - Consciousness and Cognition 14:645-646.