The central topic of this book is the adaptation of cognitive processes to resource limitations, through evolutionary and developmental mechanisms in the case of humans and through artificial constructions in the case of computational systems. The construction and analysis of resource control in cognitive processes and an analysis of resource-adaptivity within the paradigm of concurrent computa...

The overall goal of this book is to specify the kinds of psychological mechanisms that support the comprehension of narrative. In this chapter, we lay the basis for examining these mechanisms in the rest of the book. An initial question for any approach has to be: what is narrative? As we shall see, there are many opinions about this, but it is possible to specify a relatively simple set of bas...

Recent advances in the field of metacognition have shown that human participants are introspectively aware of many different cognitive states, such as confidence in a decision. Here we set out to expand the range of experimental introspection by asking whether participants could access, through pure mental monitoring, the nature of the cognitive processes that underlie two visual search tasks: ...

In a recent study, Cid-Fernandez et al. (2014) tested attentional performance in 3 age groups: young (21–29 years old), middle-aged (51–64 years old), and older adults (65–84 years old). The task used in this study involved presenting both visual and auditory cues to the participants, and they were required to pay attention to the visual cues while ignoring the auditory cues (for task details, ...