@article{469182,
      recid = {469182},
      author = {Price, Donald D. and Barrell, James J.},
      title = {Inner experience and neuroscience : merging both  perspectives /},
      publisher = {MIT Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 345 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of  plates) :},
      year = {2012},
      note = {"A Bradford Book."},
      abstract = {A proposal for merging a science of human consciousness  with neuroscience and psychology. The study of  consciousness has advanced rapidly over the last two  decades. And yet there is no clear path to creating models  for a direct science of human experience or for integrating  its insights with those of neuroscience, psychology, and  philosophy. In Inner Experience and Neuroscience, Donald  Price and James Barrell show how a science of human  experience can be developed through a strategy that  integrates experiential paradigms with methods from the  natural sciences. They argue that the accuracy and results  of both psychology and neuroscience would benefit from an  experiential perspective and methods. Price and Barrell  describe phenomenologically based methods for scientific  research on human experience, as well as their  philosophical underpinnings, and relate these to empirical  results associated with such phenomena as pain and  suffering, emotions, and volition. They argue that the  methods of psychophysics are critical for integrating  experiential and natural sciences, describe how qualitative  and quantitative methods can be merged, and then apply this  approach to the phenomena of pain, placebo responses, and  background states of consciousness. In the course of their  argument, they draw on empirical results that include  qualitative studies, quantitative studies, and neuroimaging  studies. Finally, they propose that the integration of  experiential and natural science can extend efforts to  understand such difficult issues as free will and complex  negative emotions including jealousy and greed.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/469182},
}