Control of cognitive processes : Attention and Performance XVIII /

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One of the most challenging problems facing cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience is to explain how mental processes are voluntarily controlled, allowing the computational resources of the brain to be selected flexibly and deployed to achieve changing goals. The eighteenth of the celebrate...

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Attention and Performance XVIII
Attention and Performance 18
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Hauptverfasser:
Monsell, Stephen., Driver, Jon.
Körperschaften:
Attention and Performance (Symposium) (Corporate Author), Attention and Performance (Symposium) Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead, England)
Weitere Verfasser:
Monsell, Stephen, Driver, Jon
Format:
Tagungsbericht Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
©2000
Zusammenfassung:
One of the most challenging problems facing cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience is to explain how mental processes are voluntarily controlled, allowing the computational resources of the brain to be selected flexibly and deployed to achieve changing goals. The eighteenth of the celebrated international symposia on Attention and Performance focused on this problem, seeking to banish or at least deconstruct the "homunculus": that conveniently intelligent but opaque agent still lurking within many theories, under the guise of a central executive or supervisory attentional system assumed to direct processes that are not "automatic."The thirty-two contributions discuss evidence from psychological experiments with healthy and brain-damaged subjects, functional imaging, electrophysiology, and computational modeling. Four sections focus on specific forms of control: of visual attention, of perception-action coupling, of task-switching and dual-task performance, and of multistep tasks. The other three sections extend the interdisciplinary approach, with chapters on the neural substrate of control, studies of control disorders, and computational simulations. The progress achieved in fractionating, localizing, and modeling control functions, and in understanding the interaction between stimulus-driven and voluntary control, takes research on control in the mind/brain to a new level of sophistication.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xvi, 779 pages) : illustrations
Anmerkungen:
"Based on the papers presented at the Eighteenth International Symposium on Attention and Performance, held at Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor, Berkshire, England, July 12-18, 1998."
"A Bradford book."
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:
0-262-28011-6
1-4237-2869-6
Schlagworte:
Cognition > Congresses.
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