Category Archives: Papers

Grounding responsibility in something (more) solid

(2018) William Hirstein and Katrina Sifferd, The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41 (March): 27-29. pdf

This is a response to a Behavioral and Brain Sciences target article, “Precis of Talking to Ourselves, Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency,” by John Doris.

The Boxer of Quirinal, Hellenistic Greece

Papers

Memories of Art (2013) The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 36(2). pdf

Conscious Brain States: Where are They, and What are Their Necessary Ingredients? (2013) Mens Sana Monographs, 11 (1): 230-238. pdf

On the Criminal Culpability of Successful and Unsuccessful Psychopaths (2013) Katrina Sifferd and William Hirstein, Neuroethics, 6 (1): 129-140. pdf

Confabulation (2013) in The Encyclopedia of the Mind, eds. Hal Pashler, Tim Crane, Marcel Kinsbourne, Fernando Ferreira, and Rich Zemel, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

The Contribution of Prefrontal Executive Processes to Producing a Sense of Self (2011) Mens Sana Monographs, 9(1): 150-158. pdf

The Paradoxical Self (2011) V. S. Ramachandran and William Hirstein. In The Paradoxical Brain, ed. Narinder Kapur, 94-110.

The Legal Self: Executive Processes and Legal Theory (2011) William Hirstein and Katrina Sifferd, Consciousness and Cognition, 20: 156-171. pdf

Loved Ones Near and Far: Feinberg’s Personal Significance Theory (2010) Neuropsychoanalysis, 12: 163-166. pdf

The Misidentification Syndromes as Mindreading Disorders (2010) Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 15 (1-3): 233-260. pdf

Confabulated Autobiographies, Normal and Abnormal (2010) in The Memory Process: Neuroscientific and Humanistic Perspectives, edited by Suzanne Nalbantian, Paul M. Matthews, and James L. McClelland, Cambridge, Mass.: The M. I. T. Press.

Perceiving Others and Their Minds: Response to McGeer (2009) The Modern Schoolman, 86 (3-4): 319-326. pdf

The Aesthetic Response (2009) William Hirstein and Melinda Campbell, in The Elsevier Encyclopedia of Consciousness, ed. William Banks, Amsterdam: Elsevier Publications, 1-7. pdf

 False Memories and Confabulation (2009) The Elsevier Encyclopedia of Consciousness, ed. William Banks, Amsterdam: Elsevier Publications, 234-239.

Introduction: What is Confabulation? (2009) In Confabulation: Views from Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Psychology, and Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-14. pdf

 He is Not My Father, and That is Not My Arm: Accounting for Misidentifications of People and Limbs (2009) William Hirstein and V. S. Ramachandran, In Confabulation: Views from Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Psychology, and Philosophy, ed. William Hirstein, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 111-140.

Confabulation (2009) In The Oxford Companion to Consciousness, eds. Patrick Wilken, Axel Cleermans and Timothy Bayne, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 174-177.

The Name and Nature of Confabulation (2009) In The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Psychology, eds. Paco Calvo and John Symons, New York: Routledge 647-658.

 Confabulations about People and Their Limbs, Present or Absent (2009) In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience, ed. John Bickle, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 474-512.

 Mindmelding: Connected Brains and the Problem of Consciousness (2008) Mens Sana Monographs, 6 (1): 110-130. pdf

Situational Therapy for Wernicke’s Aphasia (2006) Eric Altschuler, Adamarie Multari, William Hirstein, and V. S. Ramachandran, Medical Hypotheses, 67(4), 713-716. pdf

Autonomic Responses of Autistic Children to Objects and People (2001) William Hirstein, Portia Iversen, and V.S. Ramachandran, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 268: 1883-1888. pdf

Self-Deception and Confabulation (2000) Philosophy of Science, 67 (Proceedings): 418-429.

The Science of Art: A Neurological Theory of Aesthetic Experience (1999) V.S. Ramachandran and William Hirstein, The Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6: 15-41. pdf

The Perception of Phantom Limbs: The D. O. Hebb Lecture (1998) V.S. Ramachandran and William Hirstein, Brain, 121 (9): 1603-1630. pdf

Phantom Limbs, Body Image, and Neural Plasticity (1998) V.S. Ramachandran, William Hirstein, and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran, International Brain Research Organization News, 26: 10-21.

Three Laws of Qualia: Clues From Neurology About the Biological Functions of Consciousness and Qualia (1997) V.S. Ramachandran and William Hirstein The Journal of Consciousness Studies,  4: 429-457. pdf

Capgras Syndrome: A Novel Probe for Understanding the Neural Representation of the Identity and Familiarity of Persons (1997) William Hirstein and V.S. Ramachandran Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 264: 437-444. pdf