Dr. Baars is renowned for his important work on the psychology and brain basis of conscious experience. He is well known for his Global Workspace theory which proposes a simple cognitive architecture that can explain qualitatively a large set of matched pairs of conscious and unconscious processes. The author of five books, including A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness (1988) and In the Theater of Consciousness: the Workspace of the Mind (1997), Dr. Baars has championed the cause of elevating the study of consciousness as a mainstream scientific discipline.