Control of Cognitive Processes: Attention and Performance XVIIIStephen Monsell, Jon Driver MIT Press, 2000 - 779 pages 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. |
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Task Switching StimulusResponse Bindings and Negative | 35 |
GoalDirected and StimulusDriven Determinants | 73 |
On the Time Course of TopDown and BottomUp Control | 105 |
Electrophysiological and Neuroimaging Studies | 125 |
Saccade Preparation | 155 |
Dissociating | 175 |
Relations among Modes of Visual Orienting Commentary | 195 |
The Control of Visuomotor Control Commentary | 211 |
Information | 443 |
RealWorld Multitasking from a Cognitive Neuroscience | 465 |
Functioning of Frontostriatal Anatomical Loops | 475 |
The Neural Basis of TopDown Control of Visual Attention | 511 |
The Role of Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in the Selection | 549 |
Dissociative Methods in the Study of Frontal Lobe | 567 |
Neural Correlates of Processes Contributing to Working | 579 |
Visual Affordances and Object Selection | 603 |
Automaticity and Control | 247 |
Task Switching and Multitask Performance Tutorial | 277 |
Forging Links between | 309 |
Intentional Reconfiguration and Involuntary Persistence | 331 |
An IntentionActivation Account of Residual Switch Costs | 357 |
Reconfiguration of Stimulus Task Sets and Response | 377 |
Task Switching in a Callosotomy Patient and in Normal | 401 |
The Organization of Sequential Actions | 427 |
Deficits of Task Set in Patients with Left Prefrontal Cortex | 627 |
Modern Computational Perspectives on Executive Mental | 681 |
The Role of Dopamine | 713 |
Is There an Inhibitory Module in the Prefrontal Cortex? | 739 |
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