ABSTRACT

The work of Richard M. Shiffrin has highly impacted the field of cognitive science, and current developments within perception and memory have been influenced by his ideas. In this volume, several key figures in the field will comment on these developments and put them in a wider perspective. Although many theories and models have been presented in recent years for various aspects of human cognition, there have not been many comparative evaluations that focus on how these models have really advanced our understanding of the underlying mechanisms. This volume will be a valuable source of information for both cognitive scientists working in the field, and researchers and students looking for a clear, accessible presentation of the key problems in cognitive science. Highlighted sections include attention and perception, memory functions and processes, knowledge representation and semantics, modelling approaches and applications.

part I|77 pages

Attention and Perception

chapter 2|19 pages

Exogenous Control Processes

Controlled and Automatic

chapter 3|28 pages

Object Attention

Judgment Frames, Perceptual Learning and Mechanisms

chapter 4|15 pages

Hybrid Search

Picking up a Thread from Schneider and Shiffrin (1977)

part III|43 pages

Memory Functions and Processes

chapter 11|13 pages

Memory and Knowledge

Memory and Knowledge in Theories of Episodic Memory