Highlights the trends in major sub-disciplines in cognitive science and contains succinct papers covering challenges, with cross-linking of different interfacing disciplines like psychology, neuroscience, computer science, linguistics and philosophy. This book is suitable for scientists/psychologists working in the area.

The recent findings from cognitive science - one of the fastest growing disciplines worldwide - presented in the volume will serve as a useful resource for scientists/psychologists working in the area. The book highlights the current trends in major sub-disciplines in cognitive science and contains high quality succinct papers covering current challenges, with cross-linking of different interfacing disciplines like psychology, neuroscience, computer science, linguistics and philosophy. This volume contains sections on cognitive processes, cognitive neuroscience, computational modeling, cognitive development and intervention, culture and cognition, and consciousness. Often neglected issues in mainstream cognitive science like culture and cognition and consciousness have been discussed in detail.

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 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 COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE A Survey of Molecular Mapping as Applied to Studies of the Visual System - Avi Chaudhuri Neural Substrates of Language Processing in Bilinguals: Imagin(in)g the Possibilities - Jyotsna Vaid How Asymmetrical is Our Behaviour? - Manas K. Mandal 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 Humor Perception - Narayanan Srinivasan and Vani Pariyadath CULTURE AND COGNITION Sources of Evidence and Levels of Interpretation in Culture-and-Cognition Research - Ype H. Poortinga Culture and Cognition: Language and Spatial Concept Development - R.C. Mishra and Pierre R. Dasen Spatial Encoding: A comparison of Sanskrit- and Hindi-medium Schools - A. 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 Ecocultural Perspective on Cognitive Competence - John W. Berry 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 Taxonomy of Consciousness - K. Ramakrishna Rao