Control of Cognitive Processes: Attention and Performance XVIII

by Jon Driver and International Symposium on Attention and Performance (7th : 1976 : Abbey of Senanque)

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262133679
• ISBN13: 9780262133678
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 698 Pages
• Weight: 3.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.4" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher