Peer-reviewed Publications

 

A Functional Role for Repression in an Autonomous, Resource-constrained Agent1. Michael Fehling, Bernard Baars, Charles Fisher (2022). 12th Annual Conf. C.S.S. Pod (1st ed.) Psychology Press. [link – abstract only]

Evolutionary Advantages of Stimulus-Driven EEG Phase Transitions in the Upper Cortical Layers. Kozma, R., Baars, B. J., & Geld, N. (2021). Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 15. (download PDF)  [link]

Global Workspace Theory (GWT) and Prefrontal Cortex: Recent Developments. Baars, B. J., Geld, N., & Kozma, R. (2021). Frontiers in Psychology, 12. (download PDF)  [link]

Recovering Consciousness: A Timeline. Bernard J. Baars – forthcoming – Science and Consciousness Review.
Philosophy of Cognitive Science Philosophy of Consciousness in Philosophy of Mind. [link]  

“Brains Are Not Computers: Celebrating the Achievements of Robert Kozma”, B. Baars, R. Ilin, M. Ruszinko and E. Tunstel (2019), in IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 21-32 [link – abstract only] 

Cognitive Phase Transitions in the Cerebral Cortex-Enhancing the Neuron Doctrine by Modeling Neural Fields. Aihara, K., Leleu, T., Baars, B., Bressler, S., Brown, R., Hirsch, M., & Wright, J. (2015). [link]

Editorial: What can Neuroscience Learn from Contemplative Practices? Zoran Josipovic and Bernard J. Baars. Frontiers in Psychology, November 2015. Contemplative practices like meditation and mindfulness have recently gained increased acceptance in science and clinical practice, although a number of issues related to their phenomenology and to experimental designs still remain (Dahl et al., 2015). (download PDF)  

Tuning pathological brain oscillations with neurofeedback: a systems neuroscience framework. Ros, T., J Baars, B., Lanius, R. A., & Vuilleumier, P. (2014). Frontiers in human neuroscience, 8, 1008. [link]

A scientific approach to silent consciousness. Baars B. J. (2013). Frontiers in psychology, 4, 678. [link]

Consciousness in humans and non-human animals: Recent advances and future directions. Boly, M., Seth, A. K., Wilke, M., Ingmundson, P., Baars, B., Laureys, S., Edelmans, D. B., and Tsuchiya, N. (2013). Frontiers in Psychology, 4, article 625. Open-access full text here.

Global Workspace Dynamics: cortical “binding and propagation” enables conscious contents. Bernard J. Baars, Stan Franklin, and Thomas Zoega Ramsoy. Frontiers in Psychology, May 2013. A global workspace (GW) is a functional hub of binding and propagation in a population of loosely coupled signaling elements. In computational applications, GW architectures recruit many distributed, specialized agents to cooperate in resolving focal ambiguities. In the brain, conscious experiences may reflect a GW function. [download PDF]

Multiple sources of conscious odor integration and propagation in olfactory cortex. Baars B. J. (2013). Frontiers in psychology, 4, 930. [link]

Not full reductions, but better explanations: Comment on “Neuroontology, neurobiological naturalism, and consciousness: a challenge to scientific reduction and a solution” Baars B. J. (2012). by Todd E. Feinberg. Physics of life reviews, 9(1), 40–42. [link]

The biological cost of consciousness. Baars, B. (2012) Nature Precedings. Full text here.

Consciousness, biology and quantum hypotheses. Baars, B. J., & Edelman, D. B. (2012). Physics of life reviews, 9(3), 285–294. [link]

Quantum explanations of consciousness: A “Just So” story?: A response to commentaries. Baars, B. J. (2012). Physics of Life Reviews, 9(3), 306-307. [link]

Shut up and calculate!. Montandon, H., & Baars, B. (2011). International Journal of Machine Consciousness, 3(02), 367-374. [link]

The competing plans hypothesis: An heuristic viewpoint on the causes of errors in speech. Baars, B. (2011). In H. Dechert & M. Raupach (Ed.), Temporal Variables in Speech (pp. 39-50). [link]

Biology of Consciousness. Edelman, G. M., Gally, J. A., & Baars, B. J. (2011). Frontiers in Consciousness Research, 2. [download PDF]

The timing of the cognitive cycle. Madl, T., Baars, B. J., & Franklin, S. (2011).  PloS one, 6(4), e14803. [download PDF]

On the current understanding of temporal variables in speech. Baars, B. J. (2011). In Temporal Variables in Speech (pp. 325-340). De Gruyter Mouton. [link]

Spontaneous repetitive thoughts can be adaptive: postscript on “mind wandering”. Baars B. J. (2010).  Psychological bulletin, 136(2), 208–210. [link] 

Two varieties of unconscious processes. Franklin, S., & Baars, B. (2010). New horizons in the neuroscience of consciousness, 91-102. [link]

Spontaneous remembering is the norm: What integrative models tell us about human consciousness and memory. Franklin, S., & Baars, B. J. (2010). The Act of Remembering: Toward an understanding of how we recall the past. [link]

Cognition, brain, and consciousness: Introduction to cognitive neuroscience. Baars, B. J., & Gage, N. M. (2010). Academic Press. [link]

Is Feeling Pain Just Mindreading? Our Mind-Brain Constructs Realistic Knowledge of Ourselves. Bernard J. Baars (2009), Behavioral and Brain Sciences,32 (2):139-140. [link]

Thinking About Consciousness. Baars, B. J. (2009). Psychology and the Real World, 108.

Consciousness is computational: The LIDA model of global workspace theory. Baars, B. J., and Franklin, S. (2009). International Journal of Machine Consciousness, 1, 23–32. Journal record (abstract only) here. Direct PDF download here.

Is Consciousness Computationally Functional? Baars, B. (2009, October). In 2009 AAAI Fall Symposium Series.

William James on the mind and its fringes. Baars, Bernard J. (2009), Academic Press, 459-468. 

Evolutionary pressures for perceptual stability and self as guides to machine consciousness. Franklin, Stan; D’Mello, Sidney; Baars, Bernard J. & Ramamurthy, Uma (2009). International Journal of Machine Consciousness, 1 (1):99-110. [link] 

Conscious contents provide coherent, global information. Baars, Bernard J. (2008); In Hans Liljenström & Peter Århem (eds.), Consciousness Transitions: Phylogenetic, Ontogenetic, and Physiological Aspects. Elsevier. [link]

Velasquez and the postmodern circle of mirrors. Baars, B. (2008). Journal of Consciousness Studies, 15(9), 35-39. [link]

Global workspace theory emerges unscathed. Shanahan, M., & Baars, B. (2007). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30(5-6), 524. [link]

The tools: Imaging the living brain. Baars, B. J., & Ramsøy, T. (2007). Cognition, brain, and consciousness: Introduction to cognitive neuroscience. London: Elsevier. 

The global workspace theory of consciousness. Baars, Bernard J. (2007); In Max Velmans & Susan Schneider (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness. Blackwell. pp. 236–246. [link]

How deliberate, spontaneous, and unwanted memories emerge in a computational model of consciousness. Baars, Bernard J. ; Ramamurthy, Uma & Franklin, Stan (2007). ; In John H. Mace (ed.), Involuntary Memory. New Perspectives in Cognitive Psychology. Blackwell. pp. 177-207. [link]

Cognitive theories of consciousness. McGovern, Katherine & Baars, Bernard J. (2007). ; In Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch & Evan Thompson (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 177–205. [link]

An architectural model of conscious and unconscious brain functions: Global Workspace Theory and IDA. Baars, B. J., & Franklin, S. (2007). Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society, 20(9), 955–961. [download PDF]

Conscious cognition and blackboard architectures. Baars, Bernard J. (2006). Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29 (1):70-71. 

A cognitive science based machine learning architecture. D’Mello, S. K., Franklin, S., Ramamurthy, U., & Baars, B. J. (2006). AAAI [link]

LIDA: A working model of cognition. Ramamurthy, U., Baars, B. J., & Franklin, S. (2006). [link]

Identifying hallmarks of consciousness in non-mammalian species. Edelman, David B. ; Baars, Bernard J. & Seth, Anil K. (2005). Consciousness and Cognition 14 (1):169-87. [link]

Global workspace theory of consciousness: Toward a cognitive neuroscience of human experience. Baars, B. J. (2005a). Progress in Brain Research, 150, 45–53.  Journal record (abstract only) here. Direct PDF download here.

Subjective experience is probably not limited to humans: The evidence from neurobiology and behaviour. Baars, B. J. (2005b). Consciousness and Cognition, 14, 7–21. Journal record (abstract only) here.

Applying global workspace theory to the frame problem. Shanahan, M., & Baars, B. (2005). Cognition, 98(2), 157–176. [link]

Consciousness eclipsed: Jacques Loeb, Ivan P. Pavlov, and the rise of reductionistic biology after 1900. Greenspan, Ralph J. & Baars, Bernard J. (2005). Consciousness and Cognition 14 (1):219-230. [link]

One, Not Two, Neural Correlates of Consciousness. Bernard J. Baars & Steven Laureys (2005) Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9 (6):269. [link]

Neural darwinism and consciousness. Seth, Anil K. & Baars, Bernard J. (2005). Consciousness and Cognition 14 (1):140-168. [link] 

Criteria for consciousness in humans and other mammals. Seth, Anil K. ; Baars, Bernard J. & Edelman, David B. (2005). Consciousness and Cognition 14 (1):119-39. [link]

The Neurobiology of Animal Consciousness. Baars, B. J., & Revonsuo, A. (2005).W. P. Banks (Ed.). Elsevier. 

Consciousness Regained. Dalton, T. C., & Baars, B. J. (2005).In The Life Cycle of Psychological Ideas (pp. 203-247). [link]

The role of consciousness in memory. Franklin, S., Baars, B. J., Ramamurthy, U., & Ventura, M. (2005). [link]

A stew of confusion. Baars, B. J. (2004). Journal of Consciousness Studies, 11(1) 29-31. 

Peer commentary on are there neural correlates of consciousness: A stew of confusion. Baars, Bernard J. (2004).  Journal of Consciousness Studies 11 (1):29-31. [link]

Let’s not forget about sensory consciousness. Seth, Anil K. ; Edelman, David B. & Baars, Bernard J. (2004). Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (4):601-602. [link]

How brain reveals mind: Neural studies support the fundamental role of conscious experience. Baars, Bernard J. (2003). Journal of Consciousness Studies 10 (9-10):100-114. [link]

Current concepts of consciousness with some implications for anesthesia. Baars, B. J. (2003). Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, 50(1), R1-R6. [link]

The mind-body problem is scientifically untestable and irrelevant. Baars, B. J. (2003). In Bulletin fra Forum for Antropologisk Psykologi (Vol. 13, pp. 32-34). [link]

IP Pavlov and the freedom reflex. Baars, B. (2003). Journal of Consciousness Studies, 10(11), 19-40. [download PDF]

The double life of BF Skinner: Inner conflict, dissociation and the scientific taboo against consciousness. Baars, B. (2003). Journal of Consciousness Studies, 10(1), 5-25. [download PDF]

Essential sources in the scientific study of consciousness. Baars, B. J., Banks, W. P., & Newman, J. B. (Eds.). (2003). Mit Press. [download PDF]

The global brainweb: An update on global workspace theory. Baars, Bernard J. (2003). Science and Consciousness Review 2. [download PDF]

Working memory requires conscious processes, not vice versa: A global workspace account. Baars, Bernard J. (2003). In Naoyuki Osaka (ed.), Neural Basis of Consciousness. John Benjamins. pp. 49–11. [link] 

How conscious experience and working memory interact. Baars, Bernard J. & Franklin, Stan (2003). Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7 (4):166-172. [link]

Brain, conscious experience, and the observing self. Baars, Bernard J. ; Ramsoy, Thomas Zoega & Laureys, Steven (2003). Trends in Neurosciences 26 (12):671-5. [download PDF]

Behaviorism redux? Baars, Bernard J. (2002). Trends in Cognitive Sciences 6 (6):268-269. [link]

The mind’s a stage. Baars, B. (2002). NEW SCIENTIST, 175(2355), 27-27. 

The illusion of conscious will. Baars, B. J. (2002) Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6(6) 268-269. 

The conscious access hypothesis: Origins and recent evidence. Baars, Bernard J. (2002). Trends in Cognitive Sciences 6 (1):47-52. [link]

A biocognitive approach to the conscious core of immediate memory. Baars, Bernard J. (2001). Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (1):115-116. [link]

How could brain imaging not tell us about consciousness? Baars, Bernard J. (2001). Journal of Consciousness Studies 8 (3):24-29. [link]

There are no known differences in brain mechanisms of consciousness between humans and other mammals. Baars, Bernard J. (2001). Animal Welfare Supplement 10:31- 40. [link]

The brain basis of a “consciousness monitor”: Scientific and medical significance. Baars, Bernard J. (2001). Consciousness and Cognition 10 (2):159-164. [link] 

Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Baars, Bernard J. & Newman, J. B. (eds.) (2001). MIT Press. [link]

Conscious emotional feelings–beyond the four taboos: An introductory comment. Baars, Bernard J. (2000). Consciousness and Emotion 1 (1):11-14. [link]

Science rediscovers consciousness. Baars, B. J. (2000).  The World & I, 15(2), 281. 

Criteria for consciousness in the brain: Methodological implications of recent developments in cognitive neuroscience. Baars, B. J., Tononi, G., & Bickle, J. (2000). Consciousness and Cognition, 9 (2):S20 – S21.

Consciousness cannot be limited to sensory qualities: Some empirical counterexamples. Baars, Bernard J. & McGovern, Katharine A. (2000). Neuro-Psychoanalysis 2 (1):11-13. [link]

Attention vs consciousness in the visual brain: Differences in conception, phenomenology, behavior, neuroanatomy, and physiology. Baars, Bernard J. (1999).  Journal of General Psychology 126:224-33. [link]

There is already a field of systematic phenomenology, and it’s called ‘psychology’. Baars, B. J. (1999). Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6 (2–3), 216–218. Also in F. J. Varela and J. Shear (Eds) (1999). The view from within (pp. 216–218). Thorverton, Devon: Imprint Academic. Journal record (abstract only) here. Amazon preview here.

Art must move: Emotion and the biology of beauty. Baars, B. J. (1999).  Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6(6-7), 59-61. [link]

Attention, self, and conscious self-monitoring. Baars, Bernard J. (1998). In A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness. Cambridge University Press. [link]

The function of consciousness: Reply. Baars, B. J. (1998). Trends in Neurosciences, 21(5), 201. [link]

The Conscious Mind: In search of a Fundamental Theory. Baars, Bernard J. (1998) The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 111, Iss. 1, 119-131. [link]

Are There Limits to What We Can Know about Conscious Experience? Some Scientific Doubts about the” Hard Problem” of Subjectivity. Baars, Bernard J. (1998) The American Journal of Psychology, 111(1), 119-131. [link]

Once More Into the Quagmire of Consciousness. Baars, B., & Farthing, G. (1998). Psyccritiques, 43(1), 33-34. [link]

Consciousness and attention in the brain: A global workspace approach. Baars, B. J. (1998). In Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science, 33 (1),  86-86.

A non-Cartesian theater in the brain: Recent brain findings are broadly supportive of Global Workspace theory. Baars, B. J. (1998). Ciência e cultura, 50(2-3), 145-148.

Metaphors of consciousness and attention in the brain. Baars, Bernard J. (1998). Trends in Neurosciences 21:58-62. [download PDF]

The Neural Basis of Conscious Experience. Baars, Bernard J. (1998). In A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness. Cambridge University Press. [link]

Neuronal mechanisms of consciousness: A relational global workspace approach. Baars, Bernard J. ; Newman, J. B. & Taylor, John G. (1998). In Stuart R. Hameroff, Alfred W. Kaszniak & A.C. Scott (eds.), Toward a Science of Consciousness II. MIT Press. pp. 269-278. [link]

In the theatre of consciousness: Global workspace theory, a rigorous scientific theory of consciousness. Baars, Bernard J. (1997).  Journal of Consciousness Studies 4 (4):292-309. [link]

In the theatre of consciousness: Global workspace theory, a rigorous scientific theory of consciousness. Baars, B. J. (1997a).  Journal of Consciousness Studies, 4, 292–309. Commentaries and author’s response pp. 310–364. Journal record (abstract only) here. Direct PDF download here.

Neural hypotheses derived from Global Workspace Theory: Elements of a cognitive neuroscience of consciousness. Baars, B. J. (1997). Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 4(3), 3-5. [link]

A neural global workspace model for conscious attention. Newman, J., Baars, B. J., & Cho, S. B. (1997). Neural Networks, 10(7), 1195-1206. [link]

Spatial Brain Coherence during the Establishment of a Conscious Event. Baars, Bernard J. (1997). Consciousness and Cognition 6 (1):1-2. [link]

Some essential differences between consciousness and attention, perception, and working memory. Baars, Bernard J. (1997). Consciousness and Cognition 6 (2-3):363-371. [link]

Why it must be consciousness – for real! Baars, Bernard J., (1997) Neurobiological Theories and Models of Consciousness in Philosophy of Cognitive Science. [link]

In the theater of consciousness: The workspace of the mind. Baars, B. J. (1997).  Oxford University Press, USA. [link]

Treating consciousness as an empirical variable: The contrastive analysis approach. Baars, B. J. (1997). In Owen J. Flanagan, Ned Block & Guven Guzeldere (eds.), The Nature of Consciousness. MIT Press [link]

Contrastive phenomenology: A thoroughly empirical approach to consciousness. Baars, B. J. (1997). The nature of consciousness: Phiolosophical controversies, 187-202. [link]

Consciousness creates access: Conscious goal images recruit unconscious action routines, but goal competition serves to “liberate” such routines, causing predictable slips. Baars, Bernard J. ; Fehling, M. R. ; LaPolla, M. & McGovern, Katharine A. (1997). In Jonathan D. Cohen & Jonathan W. Schooler (eds.), Scientific Approaches to Consciousness. Lawrence Erlbaum. [link]

A neural global workspace model for conscious attention. Newman, J. B. ; Baars, Bernard J. & Cho, S. (1997). Neural Networks 10:1195-1206. [link]

Understanding subjectivity: Global workspace theory and the resurrection of the observing self. Baars, Bernard J. (1996).  Journal of Consciousness Studies 3 (3):211-17. [link]

What we really know about consciousness. Baars, B. (1996). Psyche, 2, 30. [link]

Competition for a conscious global workspace leads to coherent flexible action. Baars, B. J. (1996). In Scientific approaches to consciousness: The 25th Carnegie Symposium in Cognition Hillsdale. [link]

Cognitive views of consciousness. Baars, B. J., & McGovern, K. (1996). The science of consciousness, 63-95. [link]

When are images conscious? The curious disconnection between imagery and consciousness in the scientific literature. Baars B. J. (1996). Consciousness and cognition, 5(3), 261–264. [link]

Can physics provide a theory of consciousness? Baars, Bernard J. (1995). PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 2. [link]

But where’s the beef? Baars, B., & McGovern, K. (1995). Psyccritiques, 40(5), 489-490. [link]

Against mechanism—or against any viable psychology? Baars, B., & McGovern, K. (1995). PsycCRITIQUES, 40(5). [link]

Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge: An Essay on the Cognitive Unconscious. Baars, B. J. (1995). American Scientist, 83(1), 92-94. [link]

A Welcome Dialogue on Empirical Issues: Reply to commentaries on Baars on contrastive analysis. Baars, B. J. (1995). PSYCHE, 1, 17. [link]

Evidence that phenomenal consciousness is the same as access consciousness. Baars, Bernard J. (1995). Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (2):249-249. [link]

Steps toward healing: false memories and traumagenic amnesia may coexist in vulnerable populations. Baars, B. J., & McGovern, K. (1995). Consciousness and cognition, 4(1), 68–74. [link]

A thoroughly empirical approach to consciousness. Baars, B. J. (1994). Psyche, 1(6), 1-18. [link]

How not to start a scientific revolution. Baars, B., & McGovern, K. (1994). PsycCRITIQUES, 39(4), 370-371. [link]

Roger Penrose and the quest for the quantum soul. Baars, B. J. (1994).  Journal of Consciousness Studies, 1(2), 261-263. [link]

Dream Consciousness: A Neurocognitive Approach. Baars, B. J. (Ed.). (1994). Academic Press.

A neurobiological interpretation of global workspace theory. Baars, B. J., & Newman, J. (1994). Consciousness in philosophy and cognitive neuroscience, 211-226. [link]

Why volition is a foundation problem for psychology. Baars, B. J. (1993). Consciousness and Cognition, 2(4), 281-309. [link]

Putting the focus on the fringe: Three empirical cases. Baars, B. J. (1993). Consciousness and Cognition, 2(2), 126-136. [link]

How does a serial, integrated and very limited stream of consciousness emerge from a nervous system that is mostly unconscious, distributed, parallel and of enormous capacity. Baars, B. J. (1993). Experimental and theoretical studies of consciousness, 98, 282-303. [link]

Does philosophy help or hinder scientific work on consciousness? Baars, B. J., & McGovern, K. (1993). Consciousness and Cognition: An International Journal, 2(1), 18–27. [link]

A neural attentional model for access to consciousness: A global workspace perspective. Newman, J., & Baars, B. J. (1993). Concepts in neuroscience, 4(2), 255-290. [link]

A psychologically implausible architecture that is always conscious, always active. LaPolla, M. V., & Baars, B. J. (1992). The Behavioral and brain sciences, 15(3), 448–449. [link]

A plea for simplicity. Baars, B. J. (1992). The American journal of psychology, 105(4), 591-597. [link]

A psychologically implausible architecture that is always conscious, always active. LaPolla, M. V., & Baars, B. J. (1992). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 15(3), 448-449. [link]

Psychology of the Unconscious: Mesmer, Janet, Freud, Jung, and Current Issues. Baars, B. J. (1992). The Quarterly Review of Biology, 67(7), 195. 

Consciousness is associated with central as well as distributed processes. Baars, B. J., & Fehling, M. (1992). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 15(2), 203-204. [link]

Is consciousness recent? Baars, B. J. (1992). Consciousness and Cognition, 1(2), 139-142. [link]

Introduction: The evidence for anosognosia. Baars, B. J., & Banks, W. P. (1992). Consciousness and Cognition, 1(2), 148-151. [link]

Some caveats on testing the Freudian slip hypothesis. Baars, B. J., Berry, J. W., Cohen, J., & Bower, G. H. (1992). In Experimental slips and human error, pp. 289-313. [link]

Laboratory induction of non-speech action errors. Mattson, M. E., & Baars, B. J. (1992). In Experimental slips and human error, pp. 151-193. [link]

A new ideomotor theory of voluntary control. Baars, B. J. (1992). In Experimental slips and human error, pp. 93-120. [link]

Error-minimizing mechanisms. Mattson, M. E., & Baars, B. J. (1992). In Experimental Slips and Human Error, pp. 263-287. [link]

A dozen competing-plans techniques for inducing predictable slips in speech and action. Baars, B. J. (1992). In Experimental slips and human error, pp. 129-150. [link]

Experimental slips and human error: Exploring the architecture of volition. Baars, B. J. (Ed.). (1992). Cognition and language. [link]

A curious coincidence? Consciousness as an object of scientific scrutiny fits our personal experience remarkably well. Baars, B. J. (1991). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14(4), 669-670. [link]

Consciousness and modularity. Baars, B. J. (1991). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14(3), 440-440. [link]

How scientific usages reflect implicit theories: adaptation, development, instinct, learning, cognition, and intelligence. Parker, S. T., & Baars, B. (1990). Language and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes: Comparative Developmental Perspectives, pp. 65-96. 

An Attempted Philosophy of Information. Baars, B. (1988). PsycCRITIQUES, 33(11), 967-968. [link]

Momentary forgetting as a “resetting” of a conscious global workspace due to competition between incompatible contexts. B. J. Baars (1988). In M. J. Horowitz (ed.), Psychodynamics and Cognition. pp. 269–293

Biological implications of a Global Workspace theory of consciousness: Evidence, theory, and some phylogenetic speculations.
Baars, Bernard J. (1987) In G. Greenberg & E. Tobach (eds.), Cognition, Language, and Consciousness: Integrative Levels. pp. 209–236 

What is a theory of consciousness a theory of?—The search for criterial constraints on theory. Baars, B. J. (1986). Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 6(1), 3-23. [link]

The cognitive revolution in psychology. Baars, B. J. (1986). Guilford Press. 

The logic of unification. Baars, B. (1985). Psyccritiques, 30(4). [link]

View From a Road Not Taken. Baars, B. (1984). Psyccritiques, 29(10), 804-805. [link]

Consciousness Observed. Baars, B. (1983). PsycCRITIQUES, 28(11), 826-827. [link]

Formulation hypotheses revisited: A reply to Stemberger. Motley, M. T., Baars, B. J., & Camden, C. T. (1983). Journal of psycholinguistic research, 12(6), 561-566. [link]

Polysemantic lexical access: Evidence from laboratory‐induced double entenders. Motley, M. T., Camden, C. T., & Baars, B. J. (1983). Communications Monographs, 50(3), 193-205. [link]

Experimental verbal slip studies: A review and an editing model of language encoding. Motley, M. T., Baars, B. J., & Camden, C. T. (1983). Communications Monographs, 50(2), 79-101. [link]

Conscious contents provide the nervous system with coherent, global information. Baars, B. J. (1983). In Consciousness and self-regulation, pp. 41-79. [download PDF]

Covert formulation and editing of anomalies in speech production: Evidence from experimentally elicited slips of the tongue. Motley, M. T., Camden, C. T., & Baars, B. J. (1982). Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 21(5), 578-594. [link]

Cognitive encoding processes: Evidence for a graphemically based short‐term memory. Camden, C. T., Motley, M. T., & Baars, B. J. (1982). Human Communication Research, 8(4), 327-337. [link]

Toward verifying the assumptions of laboratory‐induced slips of the tongue: The output‐error and editing issues. Motley, M. T., Camden, C. T., & Baars, B. J. (1981).  Human Communication Research, 8(1), 3-15. [link]

Syntactic criteria in prearticulatory editing: Evidence from laboratory-induced slips of the tongue. Motley, M. T., Baars, B. J., & Camden, C. T. (1981).  Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 10(5), 503-522. [link]

Cognitive versus inference. Baars, B. (1981). American Psychologist, 36(2), 223-224. [link]

Does Mind Have a Future? Baars, B. J. (1981). PsycCRITIQUES, 26(8). [link]

Consciousness and intention: A framework and some evidence. Baars, B. J., & Mattson, M. E. (1981). Cognition and Brain Theory, 4(3), 247-263. 

Welcome Home, Psychology. Baars, B. J. (1980). PsycCRITIQUES, 25(10). [link]

On eliciting predictable speech errors in the laboratory. Baars, B. J. (1980). Errors in linguistic performance: Slips of the tongue, ear, pen, and hand, 307-318. 

Consciousness Regained. Baars, B. (1979). PsycCRITIQUES, 24(7), 582-584. [link]

Personality and situational influences upon verbal slips: A laboratory test of Freudian and prearticulatory editing hypotheses. Motley, M. T., Camden, C. T., & Baars, B. J. (1979). Human Communication Research, 5(3), 195-202. [link]

Effects of cognitive set upon laboratory induced verbal (Freudian) slips. Motley, M. T., & Baars, B. J. (1979).  Journal of speech and hearing research, 22(3), 421–432. [link]

Laboratory Verification of “Freudian” Slips of the Tongue as Evidence of Prearticulatory Semantic Editing. Michael T. Motley & Bernard J. Baars (1978)  Annals of the International Communication Association, 2:1, 141-152. [link]

Experimentally eliciting phonetic and sentential speech errors: Methods, implications, and work in progress. Baars, B. J., & MacKay, D. G. (1978). Language in Society, 105-109. [link]

Spoonerisms as sequencer conflicts: Evidence from artificially elicited errors. Baars, B. J., & Motley, M. T. (1976). The American Journal of Psychology, 467-484. [link]

Laboratory induction of verbal slips: A new method for psycholinguistic research. Motley, M. T., & Baars, B. J. (1976). Communication Quarterly, 24(2), 28-34. [link]

Semantic bias effects on the outcomes of verbal slips. Motley, M. T., & Baars, B. J. (1976). Cognition, 4(2), 177-187. [link]

Output editing for lexical status in artificially elicited slips of the tongue. Baars, B. J., Motley, M. T., & MacKay, D. G. (1975). Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior, 14(4), 382-391. [link]

Encoding sensitivities to phonological markedness and transitional probability: Evidence from spoonerisms. Motley, M. T., & Baars, B. J. (1975). Human Communication Research, 1(4), 353-361. [link]

Detection of interaural onset and offset disparities. Perrott, D. R., & Baars, B. J. (1974). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 55(6), 1290-1292. [link]