Invariances in Human Information Processing / Edition 1

by Thomas Lachmann, Tina Weis

Overview

Invariances in Human Information Processing examines and identifies processing universals and how they are implemented in elementary judgemental processes. This edited collection offers evidence that these universals can be extracted and identified from observing law-like principles in perception, cognition, and action. Addressing memory operations, development, and conceptual learning, this book considers basic and complex meso- and makro-stages of information processing. Chapter authors provide theoretical accounts of cognitive processing that may offer tools for identification of functional components in brain activity in cognitive neuroscience

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367432928
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/30/2020
Series:	Scientific Psychology Series
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Thomas Lachmann is Professor of Cognitive and Developmental Psychology at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Tina Weis is Senior Researcher at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Table of Contents

Part I Micro-stages in information processing: Identification of processing universals

1. Deciphering the time code of the brain: From psychophysical invariants to universals of neural organization

Hans-Georg Geissler

2. Dynamical constants and time universals: Relating and resolving two theories of cognitive microstructure

Mark A. Elliott and Naomi du Bois

3. Measuring the processing epoch for decision processes: A paper in honour of Hans-Georg Geissler

Stephen Link

4. The concepts of perceived magnitude and dynamic range: What they reveal about the nature of sensory systems

Robert Teghtsoonian

Part II Meso-stages in information processing: Complex processing architectures

1. Some constraints on reaction-time distributions for sequential processes = Saul Sternberg
2. A theoretical study of process dependence for standard two-process serial models and standard two-process parallel models

Ru Zhang, Yanjun Liu, and James T. Townsend

3. A brief overview of computational models of spatial, temporal, and feature visual attention

George Sperling

4. Perceptual organization and visual target selection

Cees van Leeuwen, Tina Weis, and Thomas Lachmann

5. Functional and structural MRI studies of multisensory integration underlying self-motion perception

Mark W. Greenlee and Sebastian M. Frank

Part III Macro-stages of information processing: Transitions in development and learning

6. Auditory attention in children and adults: A psychophysiological approach

Nicole Wetzel and Erich Schroger¨

7. Reading Haiku: What eye movements reveal about the construction of literary meaning – A pilot study

Thomas Geyer, Franziska Gunther, Jim Kacian, Hermann J. M¨ uller and¨ Stella Pierides

8. Retrieval processes in person memory: Discrete levels of search time

Peter Petzold and Brigitte Edeler

Part IV Epilog

9. Leipzig-Berlin and back: Science put in a life-story

Hans-Georg Geissler