Baars, Bernard J(oseph)

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BAARS, Bernard J(oseph)

BAARS, Bernard J(oseph). American (born Netherlands), b. 1946. Genres: Psychology. Career: State University of New York at Stony Brook, assistant professor of psychology, 1977; University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Sloan Cognitive Science Scholar at Center for Human Information Processing, 1979-80; University of California, San Francisco, visiting scientist in John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Program on Conscious and Unconscious Mental Processes, at Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, 1985-86; Wright Institute, Berkeley, CA, associate professor, 1986-. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, university fellow, 1975; University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, traveling scholar, Center for Research in Human Learning, 1975. Appeared in the threepart television program Thinking Allowed, broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in 1994. Publications: The Cognitive Revolution in Psychology, 1986; A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness, 1988; (ed.) The Experimental Psychology of Human Error: Implications for the Architecture of Voluntary Control, 1992; In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind, 1996. Contributor to books and scientific journals. Address: 3616 Chestnut St. No. 3, Lafayette, CA 94549, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]