Cognition and Neuropsychology

International Perspectives on Psychological Science (Volume 1)

Peter A. Frensch,Ralf Schwarzer

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Year: 2010
• ISBN:
  9781136929984
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This is the first of two volumes which together present the main contributions from the 29th International Congress of Psychology, held in Berlin in 2008, written by international leaders in psychology from around the world. The authors present a variety of approaches and perspectives that reflect cutting-edge advances in psychological science.

Cognition and Neuropsychology is dedicated to summarizing and characterizing the current scientific research in three substantive content areas, (i) Perception, Attention, and Action, (ii) Social Cognition, and (iii) Learning, Memory and Development. While some of the contributions focus on relatively narrow areas of research, others adopt a much broader stance, trying to understand and explain many different facets of behaviour across widely differing situations. Some contributions even try to bridge the fundamental gap between behaviour and genetics. The final part contains two chapters that discuss fundamental general issues in psychology, such as the fate of mentalism and the significance of phenomenal analyses. All chapters offer fascinating insights into current theorizing on the mind, and are written by some of the best-known scholars of our time.

This book will be an invaluable resource for researchers, professionals, teachers and students in the field of psychology.

Contributors to Volume 1

Hisham E. Atallah, Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Brian M. D’Onofrio, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, 1101 E. 10th St., Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

Karl J. Friston, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK

Elena L. Grigorenko, Child Study Center, Department of Psychology, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Yale University, 230 South Frontage Road, New Haven, CT 06519–1124, USA

Karl Christoph Klauer, Institute for Psychology, Social Psychology and Methodology, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 79085 Freiburg, Germany

Ingvar Lundberg, Psykologiska Institutionen, Göteborgs Universitet, Box 500 (besöksadr. Haraldsg. 1), 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden

A. A. J. Marley, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, PO Box 3050 STN CSC, Victoria BC V8W 3P5, Canada; and Centre for the Study of Choice, University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia

Rainer Mausfeld, Department of Psychology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Olshausenstr. 62 (Room 311), 24098 Kiel, Germany

Andrew N. Meltzoff, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Box 357920, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

Randall C. O’Reilly, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado Boulder, 345 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

Feggy Ostrosky, Department of Psychology, Laboratory of Neuropsychology and Psychophysiology, National University of Mexico, Av. Universidad 3003, Mexico City, Mexico

J. Bruce Overmier, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 75 East River Road (Elliott Hall), Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

Wolfgang M. Pauli, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado Boulder, 345 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA

Josef Perner, Department of Psychology and Centre for NeuroCognitive Research, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

Michael I. Posner, Department of Psychology, Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, 1227 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403–1254, USA

Lynne M. Reder, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

Mary K. Rothbart, Department of Psychology, 1227 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403–1254, USA

Amber L. Singh, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, 1101 E. 10th St., Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

Keiichiro Tsuji, Department of Psychology, Nagoya University, Furo-cho 1 Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan

André Vandierendonck, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

Lindsay W. Victoria, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

Editors

Peter A. Frensch, Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 12489 Berlin, Germany

Ralf Schwarzer, Health Psychology Department, Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin, Germany

Committees

Executive Committee

Peter A. Frensch (President), Carola Brücher-Albers (Vice-President), Barbara Schauenburg (Secretary-General), Michel Denis (IUPsyS Liaison), Arthur M. Jacobs, Heinz-Jürgen Rothe, Rainer K. Silbereisen, Marcus Hasselhorn, Ralf Schwarzer

Scientific Committee

Arthur M. Jacobs (Chair), Jens B. Asendorpf, Jürgen Baumert, Niels Birbaumer, Anke Ehlers, Michael Eid, Michael Frese, Joachim Funke, Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Gollwitzer, Kurt Hahlweg, Christoph Klauer, Rainer H. Kluwe, Ulman Lindenberger, Gerd Lüer, Frank Rösler, Wolfgang Schneider, Lael Schooler, Sabine Sonnentag, Ursula M. Staudinger, Elsbeth Stern, Hannelore Weber, Hans Westmeyer

Organizing Committee

Heinz-Jürgen Rothe (Chair), Robert Gaschler, Matthias Jerusalem, Helmut Jungermann, Ulf Kieschke, Dietrich Manzey, Michael Niedeggen, Herbert Scheithauer, Peter Walschburger, Hartmut Wandke, Jochen Ziegelmann

International Advisory Committee

Rainer K. Silbereisen (Chair), Conny H. Antoni, Merry Bullock, Avshalom Caspi, Erik De Corte, Nancy Eisenberg, Rocio Fernandez-Ballesteros, James D. Georgas, Esther R. Greenglass, Buxin Han, Jutta Heckhausen, Michael Knowles, Howard Leventhal, Gerold Mikula, Walter Mischel, Elizabeth Nair, Lars-Göran Nilsson, Arne Öhman, Meinrad Perrez, José M. Prieto, Marc Richelle, Sir Michael Rutter, Juan Jose Sanchez-Sosa, Christiane Spiel, Ingrid Schoon, Wolfgang Stroebe, Richard E. Tremblay, Endel Tulving, Alexander von Eye, Kan Zhang

IUPSyS Executive Committee (2004–2008)

J. Bruce Overmier (President), Saths Cooper (Vice-President), Ingrid Lunt (Vice-President), Michel Denis (Past President), Pierre Ritchie (Secretary-General), Michel Sabourin (Treasurer), Merry Bullock (Deputy Secretary-General), Helio Carpintero, James Georgas, Hassaim Khan, Sunoko Kuwano, Patrick Lemaire, Elizabeth Nair, Juan-Jose Sánchez-Sosa, Rainer K. Silbereisen, Barbara Tversky, Kan Zhang

Preface

The 29th International Congress of Psychology took place in Berlin, Germany, July 20–25, 2008, under the auspices of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS). It has been the largest event in the long series of world congresses, with more than 9,000 scientific contributions from all parts of the globe. Volumes 1 and 2 of International Perspectives on Psychological Science present a selection of invited chapters from the 29th International Congress. These expert contributions include the Presidential address, the Keynote presentations, and State-of-the-Art lectures. They are written by international leaders in psychology from many countries and regions around the world. The chapters reflect a variety of topics and perspectives, creating an invaluable overview of the discipline of psychological science around the world today.

The first volume, Cognition and Neuropsychology, is dedicated to summarizing and characterizing the current scientific state of affairs in three substantive content areas: (I) Perception, Attention, and Action, (II) Social Cognition, and (III) Learning, Memory, and Development. While some of the contributions focus on relatively narrow areas of research, others adopt a much broader stance, trying to understand and explain many different facets of behaviour across widely differing situations. Some contributions even try to bridge the fundamental gap between behavior and genetics. The final part of the volume contains two chapters that discuss Fundamental General Issues in psychology, such as the fate of mentalism and the significance of phenomenal analyses. All chapters offer fascinating insights into modern and current theorizing on the mind and are written by some of the best-known scholars of our time.

The second volume, Personality, Human Development, and Culture, provides an overview of advances in several areas of psychology such as clinical, health, social, developmental, and cross-cultural psychology. The first section, which is dedicated to Emotions and Health, addresses state-of-the-art work on the regulation of self, health, social relations, and emotions such as passion. Other sections deal with developmental and personality issues as well as with cultural, ethnic, and conceptual approaches to modern psychology. The emphasis of this collection of chapters lies on a world perspective illustrating which kind of research is being done in all five continents rather than an in-depth analysis of a narrow subject matter. Thus, cultural diversity is addressed in the majority of the contributions.

The chapters of the two volumes constitute only a small selection of the total congress contributions. Readers might also want to refer to the 9,000+ abstracts that are published in Volume 43, Issue 3/4, of the International Journal of Psychology.

We do hope that these two volumes may spark further interest in psychological research around the world and may stimulate readers to submit their own contributions to the upcoming conferences.

Peter A. Frensch, Ralf Schwarzer (Editors)

Section I
Perception, attention, and action

Introduction

Skill learning and instrumental conditioning have a long association with the behaviorist research program and are often thought of in terms of rote learning of simple stimulus–response (S–R) associations based on external rewards. These forms of learning have also been strongly associated with the striatum of the basal ganglia, with different striatal regions apparently making various different contributions (Atallah, Frank, & O’Reilly, 2004; Featherstone & McDonald, 2004; Graybiel, 1998; Kantak, Green-Jordan, Valencia, Kremin, & Eichenbaum, 2001; O’Doherty, 2004; Packard, Hirsh, & White, 1989; Packard & McGaugh, 1992; Poldrack, Prabhakaran, Seger, & Gabrieli, 1999; Williams & Eskandar, 2006). In the influential multiple memory systems framework of Squire (1992) for example, the basal ganglia are associated with procedural “habit” learning. However, both aspects of this dogma are currently being challenged: in the early phase of learning instrumental conditioning actually requires considerable high-level cognitive function to discover which actions lead to reward delivery in novel situations, and this early-phase high-level cognitive function depends critically on the basal ganglia, whereas the cortex is more likely the site of more rote longer-term habit lear...

Table of contents

• Contents
• Contributors to Volume 1
• Committees
• Preface
• Section I Perception, attention, and action
• Section II Social cognition
• Section III Learning, memory, and development
• Section IV Fundamental general issues
• Author index
• Subject index