Experimental Phenomena of Consciousness: A Brief Dictionary

The book opens with a statement of selection criteria explaining that included phenomena must have a direct experiential correlate in conscious awareness and must be reproducible under clearly defined experimental conditions. It excludes purely behavioral, physiological, optical, decision-making, or inferential effects that lack an immediate subjective counterpart. The main section is arranged as an alphabetical dictionary of experimental phenomena, with individual entries describing definitions, procedures, theoretical implications, principal investigators, and bibliographical references. The entries address visual, auditory, tactile, attentional, temporal, and cross-modal aspects of consciousness, including perceptual rivalry, masking, filling-in, hallucination-like effects, failures of awareness, and discrepancies between physical stimulation and conscious perception. The volume concludes with a list of additional related terms, a name index, and a subject index.