Main description:

Invariances in Human Information Processing examines and identifies processing universals and how they are implemented in elementary judgemental processes. This edited collection offers evidence that these universals can be extracted and identified from observing law-like principles in perception, cognition, and action. Addressing memory operations, development, and conceptual learning, this book considers basic and complex meso- and makro-stages of information processing. Chapter authors provide theoretical accounts of cognitive processing that may offer tools for identification of functional components in brain activity in cognitive neuroscience

Contents:

Part I Micro-stages in information processing: Identification of processing universals

Deciphering the time code of the brain: From psychophysical invariants to universals of neural organization
Hans-Georg Geissler

Dynamical constants and time universals: Relating and resolving two theories of cognitive microstructure
Mark A. Elliott and Naomi du Bois

Measuring the processing epoch for decision processes: A paper in honour of Hans-Georg Geissler
Stephen Link

The concepts of perceived magnitude and dynamic range: What they reveal about the nature of sensory systems

Robert Teghtsoonian

Part II Meso-stages in information processing: Complex processing architectures

Some constraints on reaction-time distributions for sequential processes = Saul Sternberg

A theoretical study of process dependence for standard two-process serial models and standard two-process parallel models
Ru Zhang, Yanjun Liu, and James T. Townsend

A brief overview of computational models of spatial, temporal, and feature visual attention
George Sperling

Perceptual organization and visual target selection
Cees van Leeuwen, Tina Weis, and Thomas Lachmann

Functional and structural MRI studies of multisensory integration underlying self-motion perception
Mark W. Greenlee and Sebastian M. Frank

Part III Macro-stages of information processing: Transitions in development and learning

Auditory attention in children and adults: A psychophysiological approach
Nicole Wetzel and Erich Schroger

Reading Haiku: What eye movements reveal about the construction of literary meaning - A pilot study
Thomas Geyer, Franziska Gunther, Jim Kacian, Hermann J. M uller and Stella Pierides

Retrieval processes in person memory: Discrete levels of search time
Peter Petzold and Brigitte Edeler

Part IV Epilog

Leipzig-Berlin and back: Science put in a life-story

Hans-Georg Geissler