We present a task-independent learning procedure which produces gradual performance improvement through experience on a perceptual-motor ask. It utilizes a data structure that represents a strategy for performing the task. This learning procedure is a direct result of the constraints that occur when realistic perceptual and motor mechanisms (EPIC) are mated to a learning cognitive modeling arch...

Motivated by previously identified user perceptual tolerance to varying multimedia Quality of Service (QoS), this paper shows that the Business to Customer (B2C) user experience with mobile commerce (m-commerce) can be enhanced if the underlying mobile communication is subject to certain thresholds of perceptual QoS (PQoS).

How the brain 'binds' information to create a coherent perceptual experience is an enduring question. Recent research in the psychophysics of perceptual binding and developments in fMRI analysis techniques are bringing us closer to an understanding of how the brain solves the binding problem.

I here present some doubts about whether Mandik's (2010) proposed intermediacy and recurrence constraints are necessary and sufficient for agentive experience. I also argue that in order to vindicate the conclusion that agentive experience is an exclusively perceptual phenomenon (Prinz, 2007), it is not enough to show that the predictions produced by forward models of planned motor actions are ...

WilliamAlston’sTheoryofAppearinghas attracted considerable attention in recent years, both for its elegant interpretation of direct realism in light of the presentational character of perceptual experience and for its central role in his defense of the justificatory force of Christian mystical experiences. There are different ways to account for presentational character, however, and in this ar...

A temporal sampling framework for developmental dyslexia by Goswami, U. (2011). Trends Cogn. Sci. (Regul. Ed.) 15, 3–10. In a recent review, Usha Goswami outlined a central role for disordered processing of the rise times of acoustic signals in developmental dyslexia. This approach was placed within the context of amplitude modulation spectra in sounds and in neural oscillations, with an emphas...

Three reaction time (RT) experiments using a modified Sternberg procedure were conducted to determine the number of memory representations maintained for perceptual (dot-pattern) concepts. The difference in RT to test stimuli from memory sets of different sizes was used to infer whether one, or more than one, memory representation was utilized for the perceptual concepts. It was concluded that ...

This essay surveys the varieties of disjunctivism about perceptual experience. Disjunctivism comes in two main flavours, metaphysical and epistemological. Metaphysical disjunctivism is the view usually associated with the disjunctivist label, and whenever ‘disjunctivism’ occurs here unprefixed, it refers to this view. After some initial discussion of (metaphysical) disjunctivism (sections 1–3),...

A fundamental issue in human development concerns how the young infant's ability to recognize emotional signals is acquired through both biological programming and learning factors. This issue is extremely difficult to investigate because of the variety of sensory experiences to which humans are exposed immediately after birth. We examined the effects of emotional experience on emotion recognit...