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Bernard J. Baars (born 1946, Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a cognitive neuroscientist and former senior fellow in theoretical neurobiology at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, California. He is currently an affiliated fellow at the institute.
He is best known as the originator of global workspace theory, a concept of human cognitive architecture and consciousness.According to The Information Philosopher (link to website), Baars has restored credibility to the "ancient metaphor of the mind as theater", accessed 6 January 2014. He previously served as a professor of psychology at Stony Brook University, where he conducted research into the causation of human errors and the Freudian slip, and as a faculty member at the Wright Institute.
Baars co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and the Academic Press journal Consciousness and Cognition, which he also edited, with William P. Banks, for "more than fifteen years".According to Psychology Today (link) , accessed 6 January 2014.
In addition to research on global workspace theory with Stan Franklin and others, Baars has done work to reintroduce the topic of the conscious brain into the standard college and graduate school curriculum, by writing college textbooks and general-audience books, web teaching, advanced seminars, and course videos.
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