Multidimensional Models of Perception and Cognition
Multidimensional Models of Perception and Cognition

Author: F. Gregory Ashby

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 1317784030

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The mental representations of perceptual and cognitive stimuli vary on many dimensions. In addition, because of quantal fluctuations in the stimulus, spontaneous neural activity, and fluctuations in arousal and attentiveness, mental events are characterized by an inherent variability. During the last several years, a number of models and theories have been developed that explicitly assume the appropriate mental representation is both multidimensional and probabilistic. This new approach has the potential to revolutionize the study of perception and cognition in the same way that signal detection theory revolutionized the study of psychophysics. This unique volume is the first to critically survey this important new area of research.

Multidimensional Models of Perception and Cognition
Multidimensional Models of Perception and Cognition

Author: F. Gregory Ashby

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 1317784049

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The mental representations of perceptual and cognitive stimuli vary on many dimensions. In addition, because of quantal fluctuations in the stimulus, spontaneous neural activity, and fluctuations in arousal and attentiveness, mental events are characterized by an inherent variability. During the last several years, a number of models and theories have been developed that explicitly assume the appropriate mental representation is both multidimensional and probabilistic. This new approach has the potential to revolutionize the study of perception and cognition in the same way that signal detection theory revolutionized the study of psychophysics. This unique volume is the first to critically survey this important new area of research.

Mathematical Models of Perception and Cognition Volume I
Mathematical Models of Perception and Cognition Volume I

Author: Joseph Houpt

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1317297520

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In this two volume festschrift, contributors explore the theoretical developments (Volume I) and applications (Volume II) in traditional cognitive psychology domains, and model other areas of human performance that benefit from rigorous mathematical approaches. It brings together former classmates, students and colleagues of Dr. James T. Townsend, a pioneering researcher in the field since the early 1960s, to provide a current overview of mathematical modeling in psychology. Townsend’s research critically emphasized a need for rigor in the practice of cognitive modeling, and for providing mathematical definition and structure to ill-defined psychological topics. The research captured demonstrates how the interplay of theory and application, bridged by rigorous mathematics, can move cognitive modeling forward.

Mathematical Models of Perception and Cognition Volume II
Mathematical Models of Perception and Cognition Volume II

Author: Joseph Houpt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1317297490

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In this two volume festschrift, contributors explore the theoretical developments (Volume I) and applications (Volume II) in traditional cognitive psychology domains, and model other areas of human performance that benefit from rigorous mathematical approaches. It brings together former classmates, students and colleagues of Dr. James T. Townsend, a pioneering researcher in the field since the early 1960s, to provide a current overview of mathematical modeling in psychology. Townsend’s research critically emphasized a need for rigor in the practice of cognitive modeling, and for providing mathematical definition and structure to ill-defined psychological topics. The research captured demonstrates how the interplay of theory and application, bridged by rigorous mathematics, can move cognitive modeling forward.

Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Methodology
Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Methodology

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2018-02-12

Total Pages: 1250

ISBN-13: 1119170141

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V. Methodology: E. J. Wagenmakers (Volume Editor) Topics covered include methods and models in categorization; cultural consensus theory; network models for clinical psychology; response time modeling; analyzing neural time series data; models and methods for reinforcement learning; convergent methods of memory research; theories for discriminating signal from noise; bayesian cognitive modeling; mathematical modeling in cognition and cognitive neuroscience; the stop-signal paradigm; hypothesis testing and statistical inference; model comparison in psychology; fmri; neural recordings; open science; neural networks and neurocomputational modeling; serial versus parallel processing; methods in psychophysics.

Measurement, Judgment, and Decision Making
Measurement, Judgment, and Decision Making

Author: Michael H. Birnbaum

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 1997-11-27

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 008053600X

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Measurement, Judgment, and Decision Making provides an excellent introduction to measurement, which is one of the most basic issues of the science of psychology and the key to science. Written by leading researchers, the book covers measurement, psychophysical scaling, multidimensional scaling, stimulus categorization, and behavioral decision making. Each chapter provides a useful handbook summary and unlocks the door for a scholar who desires entry to that field. Any psychologist who manipulates an independent variable that affects a psychological construct or who uses a numerical dependent variable to measure a psychological construct will want to study this book. - Written by leading researchers in fields of measurement, psychophysical scaling, multidimensional scaling, stimulus categorization, and behavioral decision making - Provides basic definitions and summaries of theories - Presents summaries and citations to relevant literature - Contains new developments, current controversies, and open questions - Explains relationships among fields and historical links

Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Language and Thought
Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Language and Thought

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2018-02-01

Total Pages: 675

ISBN-13: 1119170737

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III. Language & Thought: Sharon Thompson-Schill (Volume Editor) (Topics covered include embodied cognition; discourse and dialogue; reading; creativity; speech production; concepts and categorization; culture and cognition; reasoning; sentence processing; bilingualism; speech perception; spatial cognition; word processing; semantic memory; moral reasoning.)

Knowledge Concepts and Categories
Knowledge Concepts and Categories

Author: Koen Lamberts

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 1135064415

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Knowledge, Concepts and Categories brings together an overview of recent research on concepts and knowledge that abstracts across a variety of specific fields of cognitive psychology. Readers will find data from many different areas: developmental psychology, formal modelling, neuropsychology, connectionism, philosophy, and so on. The book can be divided into three parts. Chapters 1 to 5 each contain a thorough and systematic review of a significant aspect of research on concepts and categories. Chapters 6 to 9 are concerned primarily with issues related to the taxonomy of human knowledge. Finally, Chapters 10 to 12 discuss formal models of categorization and function learning. The purpose of these three chapters is to provide a few examples of current formal modelling of conceptual behaviour. Knowledge, Concepts and Categories will be welcomed by students and researchers in cognitive psychology and related areas as an unusually wide-ranging and authoritative review of an important subfield of psychology.

The Oxford Handbook of Human Memory, Two Volume Pack
The Oxford Handbook of Human Memory, Two Volume Pack

Author: Michael J. Kahana

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024-04-26

Total Pages: 2426

ISBN-13: 0197746144

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The Oxford Handbook of Human Memory provides an authoritative overview of the science of human memory, its application to clinical disorders, and its broader implications for learning and memory in real-world contexts. Organized into two volumes and eleven sections, the Handbook integrates behavioral, neural, and computational evidence with current theories of how we learn and remember. Overall, The Oxford Handbook of Human Memory documents the current state of knowledge in the field and provides a roadmap for the next generation of memory scientists, established peers, and practitioners.

Perceptual Expertise
Perceptual Expertise

Author: Isabel Gauthier

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 019530960X

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This book explores visual object recognition and introduces a collaborative model, codified as the "Perceptual Expertise Network" (PEN). It focuses on delineating the principles of high-level visual learning that can account for how different object categories are processed and associated with spatially localized activity in the primate brain. It address questions such as how expertise develops, whether there are different kinds of experts, whether some disorders such as autism or prosopagnosia can be understood as a lack or loss of expertise, and how conceptual and perceptual information interact when experts recognize and categorize objects. The research and results that have been generated by these questions are presented here, along with other questions, background information, and extant issues that have emerged from recent studies.