Includes bibliographical references and index.

Consciousness research methods : the empirical "hard problem" ; The challenge of measuring consciousness / Morten Overgaard -- How can we measure awareness? An overview of current methods / Bert Timmermans and Axel Cleeremans -- Unmasking the pitfalls of the masking method in consciousness research / Talis Bachmann -- A behavioral method to manipulate metacognitive awareness independent of stimulus awareness / Amanda Song, Ai Koizumi, and Hakwan C. Lau -- Inferences about consciousness using subjective reports of confidence / Maxine T. Sherman, Adam B. Barrett, and Ryota Kanai -- Direct and indirect measures of statistical learning / Arnaud Destrebecqz [and others] -- Binocular rivalry and other forms of visual bistability / Jan Brascamp -- Intentional binding : a measure of agency / Mads Jensen, Steven Di Costa, and Patrick Haggard -- Measuring consciousness with confidence ratings / Elisabeth Norman and Mark C. Price -- Using the perceptual awareness scale (PAS) / Kristian Sandberg and Morten Overgaard -- How Bayesian statistics are needed to determine whether mental states are unconscious / Zoltan Dienes -- Handling the p, and how real evidence goes beyond p-values / Kim Mouridsen -- Variability, convergence, and dimensions of consciousness / Colin Klein and Jakob Hohwy.

'Behavioral Methods in Consciousness Research' is the first book of its kind, providing an overview of methods and approaches for studying consciousness. The chapters are written by leading researchers and experts, who describe the methods they actually use in their own studies, along with their pitfalls, problems, and difficulties.--Back cover. Why are we conscious? How can it be that information processed in the brains of living creatures is accompanied by subjective experience? While such questions have been topics of philosophical debates for centuries, the past decades have seen a surge of scientific interest with the result that the research literature has expanded greatly, particularly in cognitive neuroscience and cognitive science. Interestingly, this scientific work has made use of a wide variety of different methods without much consensus on how one might in fact measure subjective consciousness. This situation makes it potentially impossible to compare and contrast experimental findings, and difficult to show that consciousness research is a discipline going in a particular direction or has a particular focus. This book provides an overview of methods and approaches for studying consciousness. It aims to make progress giving concrete tools for how to investigate consciousness in combination with theoretical discussions of possibilities and limitations of each method.

In Egnlish.