Dynamic Cognitive Processes
The conference from which this book derives took place in Tsukuba, Japan in March 2004. The fifth in a continuing series of conferences, this one was organized to examine dynamic processes in "lower order" cognition from perception to attention to memory,
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Dynamic Cognitive Processes
Nobuo Ohta, Colin M. MacLeod, Bob Uttl (Eds.)
Dynamic Cognitive Processes
With 85 Figures, Including 3 in Color
Springer
Nobuo Ohta, Ph.D. Professor Institute of Psychology, University of Tsukuba Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan Colin M. MacLeod, Ph.D. Professor Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada Bob Uttl, Ph.D. Professor Institute of Psychology, University of Tsukuba Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
Cover. Design image by Bob Uttl and Amy Siegen thaler. The Mandelbrot fractal's inherently dynamic nature is an apt metaphor for the theme of dynamic cognitive processes.
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4-431-23999-5 Springer-Verlag Tokyo Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-4-431 -23999-4 Springer-Verlag Tokyo Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface The conference from which this book derives took place in Tsukuba, Japan in March 2004. The fifth in a continuing series of conferences, this one was organized to examine dynamic processes in "lower order" cognition from perception to attention to memory, considering both the behavioral and the neural levels. We were fortunate to attract a terrific group of contributors representing five countries, which resulted in an exciting conference and, as the reader will quickly discover, an excellent set of chapters. In Chapter 1, we will provide a sketchy "road map" to these chapters, elucidating some of the themes that emerged at the conference. The conference itself was wonderful. We very much enjoyed the variety of viewpoints and issues that we all had the opportunity to grapple with. There were lively and spirited exchanges, and many chances to talk to each other about exciting new research, precisely what a good conference should promote. We hope that the readers of this book will have the same experience—moving from careful experimental designs in the cognitive laboratory to neural mechanisms measured by new technologies, from the laboratory to the emergency room, from perceptual learning to changes in memory over decades, all the while squarely focusing on how best to explain cognition, not simply to measure it. Ultimately, the goal of science is, of course, explanation. We al
