1st Edition
Invariances in Human Information Processing
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
Part I Micro-stages in information processing: Identification of processing universals
- Deciphering the time code of the brain: From psychophysical invariants to universals of neural organization
- Dynamical constants and time universals: Relating and resolving two theories of cognitive microstructure
- Measuring the processing epoch for decision processes: A paper in honour of Hans-Georg Geissler
- The concepts of perceived magnitude and dynamic range: What they reveal about the nature of sensory systems
Hans-Georg Geissler
Mark A. Elliott and Naomi du Bois
Stephen Link
Robert Teghtsoonian
Part II Meso-stages in information processing: Complex processing architectures
- Some constraints on reaction-time distributions for sequential processes = Saul Sternberg
- A theoretical study of process dependence for standard two-process serial models and standard two-process parallel models
- A brief overview of computational models of spatial, temporal, and feature visual attention
- Perceptual organization and visual target selection
- Functional and structural MRI studies of multisensory integration underlying self-motion perception
- Auditory attention in children and adults: A psychophysiological approach
- Reading Haiku: What eye movements reveal about the construction of literary meaning – A pilot study
- Retrieval processes in person memory: Discrete levels of search time
- Leipzig-Berlin and back: Science put in a life-story
Ru Zhang, Yanjun Liu, and James T. Townsend
George Sperling
Cees van Leeuwen, Tina Weis, and Thomas Lachmann
Mark W. Greenlee and Sebastian M. Frank
Part III Macro-stages of information processing: Transitions in development and learning
Nicole Wetzel and Erich Schroger¨
Thomas Geyer, Franziska Gunther, Jim Kacian, Hermann J. M¨ uller and¨ Stella Pierides
Peter Petzold and Brigitte Edeler
Part IV Epilog
Hans-Georg Geissler
Biography
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.