M Donald

The neurobiology of human consciousness: an evolutionary approach.

Neuropsychologia September 1, 1995 M Donald

Human brains are basically primate in design, but in addition have representational mechanisms that give human consciousness a special character. The evolution in hominids of new kinds of representational skill--both nonverbal and verbal--produced our capacity for skilled rehearsal and explicit memory retrieval, and allowed the invention of conventional, or public representations, including...