Reddit reviews Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd Edition

I think the most important question for you to answer right now is to find your area of interest since neuroscience is an incredibly vast field. For example, are you interested in research with clinical impact like Alzheimer or Epilepsy or normal brain physiology? Are you more interested in behavioral aspect of mind or do you prefer more rigorous disciplines like computational neuroscience? [This] (http://www.amazon.com/Cognition-Brain-Consciousness-Second-Edition/dp/0123750709) book might be quite helpful because it covers various subjects and methodologies in cognitive neuroscience. Best of luck to you !

... or does it?

Searching within the textbook Cognition, Brain and Consciousness, Second Edition for the term "pure consciousness" yields 2 hits on pages 299 and 300.

Unfortunately, the textbook mis-attributes the figure on page 299 to studies on The Relaxation Response by Benson et al, 1976 and Hoffman et alia 1982, rather than to figure 3 of Farrow and Hebert not "Herbert" [benson] and suggests that any mantra meditation will have the same effect even though a search of pubmed ((respiratory OR breath) and suspension) and (relaxation or meditation) and the noetic studies database on meditation only yields relevant hits on Transcendental Meditation, not any other form of meditation or relaxation.

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So, either the authors wanted to make pure consciousness research more mainstream than it really is, or they simply couldn't believe that it only appeared in TM, and misread their own notes on the research to cite....