Stephen Monsell, Jon Driver “Control of Cognitive Processes: Attention and Performance XVIII”
The MIT Press | 2000-10-20 | ISBN: 0262133679 | PDF | 698 pages | 4,5 Mb
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.”