Tom Slick Research Awards in Consciousness

The Tom Slick Research Awards in Consciousness represent a comprehensive, long term strategy designed to raise awareness and levels of funding for one of the most enigmatic and exciting unsolved questions in modern science: how does consciousness arise in human beings? (see: "25 Big Questions" - Science - Anniversary Issue - July 2005). Awards and grants are given for innovative research, national and international conferences, workshops and symposia, as well as general interest books and textbooks focused on the mind/brain and human consciousness. Proposals for the Tom Slick Research Awards in Consciousness are accepted by Private Invitation only.

 Previous recipients include:

• V.S. Ramachandran (UCSD)
• Christof Koch (California Institute of Technology)
• Susan Greenfield (Oxford) • Fred Gage (Salk Institute)
• Steven Laureys (Univ. of Liege)
• Bernard Baars (Neurosciences Institute)
• Jon Cohen (Princeton)
• Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard)
• Allan Hobson (Harvard Medical School)
• Allan Reiss (Stanford University Medical Center)
• Jim Blascovich (UCSB, Center for Virtual Environments)
• Jeffrey Schwartz (UCLA)
• Geraint Rees (Oxford) and John-Dylan Haynes (Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin)
• as well as many additional Principal and Co-Investigators (*see full list).

 
MSF-funded research has been published and featured in:

• Science
• Nature Neuroscience
• Nature Reviews Neuroscience
• Lancet Neurology
• Journal of Neuroscience
• Nature News
• The New York Times (Science Times)
• Scientific American
• TIME
• U.S. News and World Report
• NewScientist
• Media Psychology
• Progress in Brain Research
• Wall Street Journal

MSF-funded books, textbooks and special issues:

MSF funded the successful, recently published college textbook by Dr. Bernard Baars: "Cognition, Brain and Consciousness" (Elsevier - 2007).

MSF funding for workshops and conferences have resulted in the publication of the following science journal special issues and books:

• "The Boundaries of Consciousness" - Edited by Steven Laureys, MD, PhD (Elsevier - 2006)
• "Children and Television: Fifty Years of Research" - Edited by Drs. John Murray, Ellen Wartella and Norma Pecora (Erlbaum - 2006)
• "Concepts in Consciousness: Integrating an Emerging Science" - Edited by Scott Jordan, PhD (book and special issue - Journal of Consciousness Studies - 2007)