Biography: Hector Rolando Herrera Cabral—“Relearn What Has Already Been Learned”

What has been learned from computational models of attention

There are few fields where neurocomputational modelling 1 is as necessary as in that of attention — a multifaceted and 2 elusive process that is at the very core of cognition and con3 sciousness (James, 1890). While descriptive theories of at4 tentional functions, relying on a plethora of metaphors (spot5 light/zoomlens, increased-gain, biased-competition), abound, 6 computational models that a...

Space and the vestibular system: what has been learned?

MPI in 2002: Has it Been Ten Years Already?

In April of 1992, a group of parallel computing vendors, computer science researchers, and application scientists met at a one-day workshop and agreed to cooperate on the development of a community standard for the message-passing model of parallel computing. The MPI Forum that eventually emerged from that workshop became a model of how a broad community could work together to improve an import...

Memory Training Interventions: What has been forgotten?

Memory training for older adults often produces gains that are limited to the particular memory tasks encountered during training. We suggest that memory training programs may be misguided by an implicit "generalist" assumption-memory training on a couple of memory tasks will have a positive benefit on memory ability in general. One approach to increase memory-training benefits is to target tra...

Family-Focused Substance Abuse Prevention: What Has Been Learned From Other Fields

Families are the primary institution for raising children who are the future of any society. Family socialization processes are the primary predictors of children's behavior. The importance of family risk and protective processes in the development of drug abuse and dependency is acknowledged in most empirically tested, multicausal etiological models of substance use (Ary et al., in press; Broo...