Control of cognitive processes : Attention and Performance XVIII / edited by Stephen Monsell and Jon Driver.

"Based on the papers presented at the Eighteenth International Symposium on Attention and Performance, held at Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor, Berkshire, England, July 12-18, 1998."

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Acknowledgments -- The Attention and Performance Symposia -- Participants -- Group photo -- Introduction -- 1. Banishing the control homunculus / Stephen Monsell and Jon Driver -- Association lecture. 2. Task switching, stimulus-response bindings, and negative priming / Alan Allport and Glenn Wylie -- I. Control of visual attention. 3. Goal-directed and stimulus-driven determinants of attentional control (tutorial) / Steven Yantis -- 4. On the time course of top-down and bottom-up control of visual attention / Jan Theeuwes, Paul Atchley and Arthur F. Kramer -- 5. Electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies of voluntary and reflexive attention / Joseph B. Hopfinger, Amishi P. Jha, Jens-Max Hopf, Massimo Girelli and George R. Mangun -- 6. Looking forward to looking : saccade preparation and control of the visual grasp reflex / Robert Rafal, Liana Machado, Tony Ro and Harris Ingle -- 7. Selective attention and cognitive control : dissociating attentional functions through different types of load / Nilli Lavie -- 8. Relations among modes of visual orienting (commentary) / Raymond M. Klein and David I. Shore -- II. Control of perception-action coupling. 9. The control of visuomotor control (commentary) / A. David Milner -- 10. Behavioral consequences of selection from neural population codes / Steven P. Tipper, Louise A. Howard and George Houghton -- 11. The prepared reflex : automaticity and control in stimulus-response translation (tutorial) / Bernhard Hommel -- III. Task switching and multitask performance. 12. Task switching and multitask performance (tutorial) / Harold Pashler -- 13. Multitasking performance deficits : forging links between the attentional blink and the psychological refractory period / Pierre Jolicoeur, Roberto Dell Acqua and Jacquelyn Crebolder -- 14. Intentional reconfiguration and involuntary persistence in task set switching / Thomas Goschke -- 15. An intention-activation account of residual switch costs / Ritske De Jong -- 16. Reconfiguration of stimulus task sets and response task sets during task switching / Nachshon Meiran -- 17. Task switching in a callosotomy patient and in normal participants : evidence for response-related sources of interference / Richard B. Ivry and Eliot Hazeltine.

IV. Control of multistep tasks. 18. The organization of sequential actions / Glyn W. Humphreys, Emer M.E. Forde and Dawn Francis -- 19. Cognitive control of multistep routines : information processing and conscious intentions / Richard A. Carlson and Myeong-Ho Sohn -- 20. Real-world multitasking from a cognitive neuroscience perspective / Paul W. Burgess -- V. The neural substrate of control. 21. Functioning of frontostriatal anatomical loops in mechanisms of cognitive control (tutorial) / Trevor W. Robbins and Robert D. Rogers -- 22. The neural basis of top-down control of visual attention in prefrontal cortex / Earl K. Miller -- 23. Middorsolateral and midventrolateral prefrontal cortex : two levels of executive control for the processing of mnemonic information / Michael Petrides -- 24. The role of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in the selection of action as revealed by functional imaging / Chris Frith -- 25. Dissociative methods in the study of frontal lobe function (commentary) / John Duncan and Adrian M. Owen -- VI. Disorders of control. 26. Neural correlates of processes contributing to working-memory function : evidence from neuropsychological and pharmacological studies / Mark D Esposito and Bradley R. Postle -- 27. Visual affordances and object selection / M. Jane Riddoch, Glyn W. Humphreys and Martin G. Edwards -- 28. Deficits of task set in patients with left prefrontal cortex lesions / Steven W. Keele and Robert Rafal -- 29. Executive control problems in childhood psychopathology : stop signal studies of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder / Gordon D. Logan, Russell J. Schachar and Rosemary Tannock -- VII. Computational modeling of control. 30. Modern computational perspectives on executive mental processes and cognitive control : where to from here? / David E. Kieras, David E. Meyer, James A. Ballas and Eric J. Lauber -- 31. On the control of control : the role of dopamine in regulating prefrontal function and working memory / Todd S. Braver and Jonathan D. Cohen -- 32. Is there an inhibitory module in the prefrontal cortex? working memory and the mechanisms underlying cognitive control (commentary) / Daniel Y. Kimberg and Martha J. Farah -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

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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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