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The recent findings from cognitive science one of the fastest growing disciplines worldwide presented in the volume will serve as a useful resource for scientists/psychologists working in the area. The book highlights the current trends in major sub-disciplines in cognitive science and contains high quality succinct papers covering current challenges, with cross-linking of different interfacing disciplines like psychology, neuroscience, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy. This volume contains sections on (1) Cognitive Processes (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, (3) Computational Modeling, (4) Cognitive Development and Intervention, (5) Culture and Cognition, and (6) Consciousness. Often neglected issues in mainstream cognitive science like culture and cognition and consciousness are discussed in detail.
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Advances in Cognitive Science Volume 1 Advances in Cognitive Science Volume 1 Edited by Narayanan Srinivasan A.K. Gupta Janak Pandey Copyright © Narayanan Srinivasan, A.K. Gupta, and Janak Pandey, 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. First published in 2008 by SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd B1/I-1 Mohan Cooperative Industrial Area Mathura Road, New Delhi 110 044, India www.sagepub.in SAGE Publications Inc 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320, USA SAGE Publications Ltd 1 Oliver’s Yard, 55 City Road London EC1Y 1SP, United Kindom SAGE Publications Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd 33 Pekin Street #02-01 Far East Square Singapore 048763 Published by Vivek Mehra for SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, typeset in Stone Serif 10/13 pt. by Innovative Processors, New Delhi, and printed at Chaman Enterprises, New Delhi. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Advances in cognitive science / edited by Narayanan Srinivasan, A.K. Gupta, Janak Pandey. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 1. Cognition. 2. Cognitive science. I. Srinivasan, Narayanan. II. Gupta, A.K. III. Pandey, Janak, 1945– BF311.A31 153—dc22 ISBN: 978-0-7619-3649-7 (HB) 2008 2008017471 978-81-7829-814-6 (India-HB) The SAGE Team: Sugata Ghosh, Jasmeet Singh, Anju Saxena and Trinankur Banerjee Contents List of Tables List of Figures List of Abbreviations Preface ix xi xv xvii Section I Cognitive Processes CHAPTER 1 Hierarchical Organization of Complex Visuo-Motor Sequences V.S. Chandrasekhar Pammi, S. Bapi Raju, Ahmed, K.P. Miyapuram and Kenji Doya 7 CHAPTER 2 Orienting Attention and Cued Sustained Attention Indramani L. Singh, Pamela M. Greenwood and Raja Parasuraman 18 CHAPTER 3 Why Does Foveal Bias Decrease in the Presence of Additional Element? Muhammad Kamal Uddin, Takahiro Kawabe and Sachio Nakamizo 31 CHAPTER 4 New Associative Learning in Amnesia Suparna Rajaram and H. Branch Coslett 43 CHAPTER 5 The Coordinated Processing of Scene and Utterance: Evidence from Eye-Tracking in Depicted Events Pia Knoeferle and Matthew W. Crocker 50 CHAPTER 6 Script Indices Richard Sproat and Prakash Padakannaya 62 CHAPTER 7 How Do We Parse Compound Words? Gary Libben 71 vi Advances in Cognitive Science CHAPTER 8 Other Minds: Social Cognition in Wild Bonnet Macaques Anindya Sinha Section II Cognitive Neuroscience CHAPTER 9 A Survey of Molecular Mapping as Applied to Studies of the Visual System Avi Chaudhuri CHAPTER 10 Neural Substrates of Language Processing in Bilinguals: Imagi(ni)ng the Possibilitie