Advances in Cognitive Science

Narayanan Srinivasan is currently a professor at the Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (CBCS), University of Allahabad. Since 2006, Dr Srinivasan is also a visiting scientist at the Riken Brain Science Institute, Japan. He has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science and subsequently earned his PhD in Psychology from the University of Georgia, USA in 1996. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Louisville in areas including visual perception and ophthalmology for two years (1996–98). Prior to joining the Centre for Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences in 2003, he worked at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He employs different methodologies to study cognitive processes and is interested in the study of perception, attention, actions, emotions, and language processing. Dr Srinivasan has numerous publications in international journals and has edited books. He has made many presentations at national and international conferences. Dr Srinivasan is theConvenor of the Cognitive Division of the National Academy of Psychology (India). His hobby is reading books. Janak Pandey is Professor, Department of Psychology and Coordinator for the Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad. He has headed various national and international associations of psychology and has received several awards and encomiums in his distinguished career. He has written extensively and has edited several prestigious volumes.

Preface
PART I: COGNITIVE PROCESSES
Hierarchical Organization of Complex Visuo-motor Sequences - V. S. Chandrasekhar Pammi, K. P. Miyapuram, S. Bapi Raju, and Kenji Doya
Orienting Attention and Cued Sustained Attention - Indramani L. Singh, Pamela M. Greenwood, and Raja Parasuraman
Why Foveal Bias Decreases in the Presence of Additional Element? - Muhammad Kamal Uddin, Takahiro Kawabe, and Sachio Nakamizo
New Associative Learning in Amnesia - Suparna Rajaram and H. Branch Coslett
The Coordinated Processing of Scene and Utterance: Evidence from Eye-tracking in Depicted Events - Pia Knoeferle and Matthew W. Crocker
Script Indices - Richard Sproat and Prakash Padakannaya
How do we Parse Compound Words? - Gary Libben
Other Minds: Social Cognition in Wild Bonnet Macaques - Anindya Sinha
PART II: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
A Survey of Molecular Mapping as Applied to Studies of the Visual System - Avi Chaudhuri
Neural Substrates of Language Processing in Bilinguals: Imagi(ni)ng the Possibilities - Jyotsna Vaid
Side Bias in Human Behaviour - Manas K. Mandal, Hari S. Asthana and Ramakrishna Biswal
PART III: COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING
Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis of Point Neuron Models and Signal Propagation along Axon - Deepak Mishra, Abhishek Yadav, Sudipta Ray, and Prem K. Kalra
Smoke without Fire: What do Virtual Experiments in Cognitive Science Really Tell Us? - Peter R. Krebs
Complex Primitives and their Linguistic and Processing Relevance - Aravind K. Joshi
Dissecting the Frog: Computational Approaches to Humour Perception - Narayanan Srinivasan and Vani Pariyadath
PART IV: CULTURE AND COGNITION
Sources of Evidence and Levels of Interpretation in Culture-and-Cognition Research - Ype H. Poortinga
Spatial Language and Concept Development: Theoretical Background and Overview - R.C. Mishra and Pierre R. Dasen
Spatial Encoding: A Comparison of Sanskrit- and Hindi-Medium Schools - Aparna Vajpayee, Pierre R. Dasen, and R.C. Mishra
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Spatial Language and Encoding in Bali and Geneva - Pierre R. Dasen and Jurg Wassmann
Culture, Language, Spatial Frames of Reference and Hemispheric Dominance - R.C.Mishra and Pierre R. Dasen
Cultural Adaptations and Cognitive Processes of Tribal Children in Chotanagpur - R. C. Mishra and John W. Berry
An Eco-cultural Perspective on Cognitive Competence - John W. Berry
PART V: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT AND INTERVENTION
Experimental Approaches to Specific Disabilities in Learning to Read: The Case of Symmetry Generalization in Developmental Dyslexia - Thomas Lachmann
Cognitive Profiles of Children with Dyslexia - Bhoomika R. Kar and Nishi Tripathi
Emergence of Social Play and Numeracy: A Related Development with Young At-Risk Students? - Geerdina M. van der Aalsvoort, Arjette M. Karemaker & Mieke P. Ketelaars
Cognitive Stimulation of Rural School Children: An Evaluative Study - Malavika Kapur
PART VI: Consciousness
Taxonomy of Consciousness - K. Ramakrishna Rao
Subject Index
Name Index