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The contributions to this volume, the sixteenth in the prestigious
Attention and Performance series, revisit the issue of modularity, the
idea that many functions are independently realized in specialized,
autonomous modules.
Although there is much evidence of modularity in the brain, there is
also reason to believe that the outcome of processing, across domains,
depends on the synthesis of a wide range of constraining
influences. The twenty-four chapters in Attention and
Performance XVI look at how these influences are integrated in
perception, attention, language comprehension, and motor control. They
consider the mechanisms of information integration in the brain;
examine the status of the modularity hypothesis in light of efforts to
understand how information integration can be successfully achieved;
and discuss information integration from the viewpoints of
psychophysics, physiology, and computational theory.
A Bradford Book. Attention and Performance series.
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