Antti Revonsuo

Antti Revonsuo (born 1963 ) is a Finnish neuroscientist and cognitive scientist , psychologist and philosopher . Revonsuo is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Skövde University in Sweden and Lecturer at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Turku University in Finland. He sits on the board of directors of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and is one of the editors of the journal Consciousness and Cognition . In his specialty, research into human consciousness , he developed the theory of a “virtual dream reality”.

Life

Revonsuo graduated from Turku University in 1990 with a graduate degree . Since 2003 he has been a member of the Academy of Finland .

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Revonsuo's research interests include the theory and philosophy of consciousness, neural mechanisms of consciousness and altered states of consciousness . He led two research projects funded by the Academy of Finland on the “Neurophilosophy of Consciousness” (2006-2010) and the “Neurophysiology of Brainreading” (2008-2011). In these projects, the neural mechanisms of altered states of consciousness, in particular of dreams , were examined using EEG and PET, as well as the possibilities of manipulating the transition between conscious and unconscious states with anesthetics .

Revonsuo has the proper function of dreaming research and the so-called Threat Simulation Theory (dt .: threat simulation theory ) set up, according to the dream from an evolutionary perspective is an ancient defense mechanism of evolution was set up to simulate threat scenarios. Since the causes of our fears have to be played through repeatedly in dreams, since fears have the function of warning us of real threats, we would be enabled in the waking state to be able to deal better with actual threats. Revonsuo assumes in his hypotheses that threatening situations, which one encounters while awake, stimulate the system as a whole to actively answer dangerous situations, which in turn leads to an increase in the frequency and severity of such threatening moments in dreams, which increases the probability of success reproduce.

Revonsuo is the European publisher of Consciousness and Cognition magazine .

literature

Books

• Foundations of Consciousness. Taylor & Francis 2018. ISBN 978-0-415-59466-0
• Inner Presence: Consciousness as a Biological Phenomenon. ( Inner Presence: Consciousness as a Biological Phenomenon. ) The MIT Press 2006. ISBN 978-0262513418
• Consciousness: The Science of Subjectivity. ( Awareness: The Science of Subjectivity. ) Taylor & Francis Ltd 2009. ISBN 978-1841697260
• On the nature of consciousness: Theoretical and empirical explorations. Annales Universitatis Turkuensis. Ser. B, Humaniora Yliopisto 1995. ISBN 978-9512904877

Co-editing

• Antti Revonsuo (Editor), Matti Kamppinen (Editor): Consciousness in philosophy and cognitive neuroscience. ( Consciousness in Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience. ) Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. 1994. ISBN 978-1138876446
• Yves Rossetti (Editor), Antti Revonsuo (Editor): Beyond dissociations: Interaction between dissociated implicit and explicit processing. ( Beyond the dissociations: Interaction between implicit and explicit processing. ) Benjamin 2000. ISBN 978-1556196652

Selected articles and book chapters

• Antti Revonsuo: Consciousness, dreams and virtual realities. Philosophical Psychology 8.1 (1995): 35-58.
• Antti Revonsuo: The reinterpretation of dreams: An evolutionary hypothesis of the function of dreaming. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 06/23 (2000): 877-901.
• Valli K & Revonsuo A: The threat simulation theory in the light of recent empirical evidence — A Review. The American Journal of Psychology 122 (2009): 17-38.
• Koivisto M & Revonsuo A: Event-related brain potential correlates of visual awareness. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 34 (6) (2010): 922-34.
• Antti Revonsuo: Prospects for a scientific research program on consciousness. Neural correlates of consciousness: empirical and conceptual questions. 2000, pp. 57-75. In: Thomas Metzinger : Neural correlates of consciousness: Empirical and conceptual questions. MIT Press, Cambridge (MA), ISBN 0-262-13370-9 .

Movie

• Film about the threat-simulation theory (BBC Horizon: Why Do We Dream?)

Scientific awards

• 1996: The Finnish Academy of Science, Award in recognition of a meritorious doctoral dissertation
• 1996: The University of Turku, Award in recognition of a meritorious doctoral dissertation
• 2008: The Henry Guze Award for Best Research Paper (The Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis)
• 2009: The “2008 Most Influential Bioelectromagnetics Journal Paper by Citation” - Award (The Bioelectromagnetics Society)
• 2010: The “2009 Most Influential Bioelectromagnetics Journal Paper by Citation” Award (The Bioelectromagnetics Society, 2010)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Benjamin Reuter: Sleep Therapy - Happy Ending for Nightmares . Time online . August 4, 2011. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
2. ↑ Brigitte Holzinger : Nightmares: what they tell us and how we can change them. Langen Mueller Herbig 2013. Chap. Threat Simulation Theory dreams viewed through evolutionary glasses
3. ↑ The stuff of nightmares - Horizon: Why Do We Dream? British Broadcasting Corporation