Human Information Processing: Measures, Mechanisms, and Models (Proceedings of the Xxiv Intl Congress of Psychology of the International Union of) (v. 2)

The contributions in this volume report research on various aspects of the processing of information by human beings. The papers reflect orientations ranging from the broadly ecological to the highly abstract and formal. Their substantive concerns encompass questions of perception, action, and the mechanisms which mediate between them, and the papers are characterised generally by a close relationship between empirical findings and theoretical issues. This selection of papers on various aspects of human information processing reflects orientations ranging from the broadly ecological to the highly abstract and formal. The papers encompass questions of perception, action, and the mechanisms which mediate between them, and are characterised generally by a close relationship between empirical findings and theoretical issues. The papers fall into five main groups. The first is concerned with sensory and perceptual mechanisms and with the adaptation and control of physical movement; the second is concerned with the elementary processing of stimulus representation; the third with computational models of the processes involved in memorizing, recognizing, and recalling information; the fourth (small) group is concerned with the modelling of more molar decision behaviour; and finally, the fifth group is predominantly concerned with attempts to derive measures of intellectual performance which have explicit relationships to a theoretical account of elementary cognitive activity.Vickers, D. is the author of 'Human Information Processing: Measures, Mechanisms, and Models (Proceedings of the Xxiv Intl Congress of Psychology of the International Union of) (v. 2)' with ISBN 9780444885203 and ISBN 044488520X.