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Competition and Priority Control in Mind and Brain

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Convenors

Prof. Dr. Werner Schneider (Bielefeld University, GER)

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Einhäuser-Treyer (Philipps-Universität Marburg, GER)

Coordinator at ZiF

Gernot Horstmann

Competition and Priority Control in Mind and Brain: New Perspectives from Task-Driven Vision

2012 - 2013

Progress in research on mind and brain in the past has benefited greatly from a conceptual separation into distinct functional domains, such as perception, memory or action. Recent results, however, stress the importance of an integrative view and thus the necessity for common principles that unify these domains into one view of mind and brain. The ZiF research group centers on the working hypothesis that major functional domains share competition and priority control as key features. We were able to win more than 20 internationally leading scientists as fellows, from various disciplines (biology, computer science, linguistics, medicine, and psychology), and countries (USA, UK, Germany, Canada, Israel, etc.). A major goal is integrating the fellows’ expertise in the domains of perception, memory, and action to a joint quest for common principles of competition and priority control – principles at the level of frameworks, theories, and computational models. These principles, which will be approached from four perspectives – vision, task, real-world, and priority maps – shall not exclusively encompass the aforementioned domains, but also be open to other domains (such as “decision-making", etc.), which may also rely on competition and priority control. If successful, the quest for integrative principles of competition and priority control will not only greatly advance our basic-science understanding of mind and brain, but may also foster the development of autonomous intelligent systems for operation in realistic scenarios as well as the assessment and treatment of neurological patients, in which simultaneous disturbances of perception, memory and action are frequent.

Members

Prof. Dr. Werner Schneider

Psychology

Bielefeld University (GER)

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Einhäuser-Treyer

Neurophysics

Philipps-Universität Marburg (GER)

Edward Awh

Psychology

University of Oregon (USA)

Dana Ballard

Computer Science

University of Austin (USA)

 

Stefanie I. Becker

Psychology

University of Queensland (AUS)

 

James W. Bisley

Neurobiology

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (USA)

Claus Bundesen

Psychology

University of Copenhagen (DEN)

Leo Chelazzi

Neurology

University of Verona Medical School (IT)

 

Thomas Dolk

Sociology

Bielefeld University (GER)

Marc Ernst

Neuroscience

Bielefeld University (GER)

Stefan Everling

Physiology and Pharmacology

Western University (UK)

 

Kathrin Finke

Neuro-cognitive Psychology

LMU Munich (GER)

 

Mary Hayhoe

Psychology

University of Texas (USA)

 

Andrew Hollingworth

Psychology

University of Iowa (USA)

Kenneth Holmqvist

Cognitive Science

Lund University (SWE)

Pierre Jolicoeur

Psychology

Université de Montréal (CAN)

 

Pia Knoeferle

Linguistics

Bielefeld University (GER)

Gordon Logan

Psychology

Vanderbilt University (USA)

Antje Nuthmann

Psychology

University of Edinburgh (UK)

Chris Olivers

Cognitive Psychologie

VU University of Amsterdam (NLD)

Laure Pisella

Neuroscience

Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (FRA)

Jochen J. Steil

Cognition and Robotics

Bielefeld University (GER)

 

Katharina Weiss

Psychology

Bielefeld University (GER)

Geoffrey F. Woodman

Psychology

Vanderbilt University (USA)

Yaffa Yeshurun

Psychology

University of Haifa (ISR)

Gregory Zelinsky

Computer Science

Stony Brook University (USA)

Publications

Competition and priority control in mind and brain: new perspectives from task-driven vision

Publications of the Research Group

Theme issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B
Attentional selection in visual perception, memory and action: A quest for common principles
Editors, W. Schneider, W. Einhäuser, & G. Horstmann
October 19, 2013; Vol. 368, No. 1628

Introduction: Attentional selection in visual perception, memory and action: a quest for cross-domain integration

Werner X. Schneider, Wolfgang Einhäuser, and Gernot Horstmann

doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0053

 

Review article: Attending to the possibilities of action

Glyn W. Humphreys, Sanjay Kumar, Eun Young Yoon, Melanie Wulff, Katherine L. Roberts, and M. Jane Riddoch

doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0059

 

Research article: The role of observers' gaze behaviour when watching object manipulation tasks: predicting and evaluating the consequences of action
J. Randall Flanagan, Gerben Rotman, Andreas F. Reichelt, and Roland S. Johansson
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0063

Research article: Reach preparation enhances visual performance and appearance
Martin Rolfs, Bonnie M. Lawrence, and Marisa Carrasco
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0057

Review article: Feature-based attention: it is all bottom-up priming
Jan Theeuwes
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0055

Research article: Temporal expectancy in the context of a theory of visual attention
Signe Vangkilde, Anders Petersen, and Claus Bundesen
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0054

Review article: A biased competition account of attention and memory in Alzheimer's disease
Kathrin Finke, Nicholas Myers, Peter Bublak, and Christian Sorg
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0062

Review article: Selective visual processing across competition episodes: a theory of task-driven visual attention and working memory
Werner X. Schneider
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0060

Research article: The relationship between visual working memory and attention: retention of precise colour information in the absence of effects on perceptual selection
Andrew Hollingworth and Seongmin Hwang
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0061

Research article: Modelling eye movements in a categorical search task
Gregory J. Zelinsky, Hossein Adeli, Yifan Peng, and Dimitris Samaras
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0058

Research article: Attention in natural scenes: contrast affects rapid visual processing and fixations alike
Bernard Marius 't Hart, Hannah Claudia Elfriede Fanny Schmidt, Ingo Klein-Harmeyer, and Wolfgang Einhäuser
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0067

Research article: Priorities for selection and representation in natural tasks
Benjamin W. Tatler, Yoriko Hirose, Sarah K. Finnegan, Riina Pievilainen, Clare Kirtley, and Alan Kennedy
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0066

Research article: Memory and prediction in natural gaze control
Gabriel Diaz, Joseph Cooper, and Mary Hayhoe
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0064

Research article: Selection of visual information for lightness judgements by eye movements
Matteo Toscani, Matteo Valsecchi, and Karl R. Gegenfurtner
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0056

Research article: Evidence for differential top-down and bottom-up suppression in posterior parietal cortex
Koorosh Mirpour and James W. Bisley
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0069

Review article: Control of the superior colliculus by the lateral prefrontal cortex
Stefan Everling and Kevin Johnston
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0068

Review article: Neural chronometry and coherency across speed-accuracy demands reveal lack of homomorphism between computational and neural mechanisms of evidence accumulation
Richard P. Heitz and Jeffrey D. Schall
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0071

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