Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Eddy J. Davelaar -- An ecology-based approach to perceptual modelling / E. L. Byrne, D. P. A Corney and R. B. Lotto -- Early development of visual abilities / Alessio Plebe -- A dynamical neural simulation of feature-based attention and binding in a recurrent model of the ventral stream / D. G. Harrison and M. De Kamps -- Model selection for eye movements : assessing the role of attentional cues in infant learning / Daniel Yurovsky ... [et al.] -- The importance of low spatial frequencies for categorization of emotional facial expressions / L. Lopez ... [et al.] -- Modeling speech perception with restricted Boltzmann machines / Michael Klein, Louis ten Bosch and Lou Boves -- Early language as multimodal learning / Nadja Althaus and Denis Mareschal -- From Motherese to one-word and two-word child language : a multimodal temporal connectionist model / Abel Nyamapfene -- Learning the visual word code / T. Hannagan and J. Grainger -- What are the functional units in reading? Evidence for statistical variation influencing word processing / Alastair C. Smith and Padraic Monaghan -- Testing computational accounts of response congruency in lexical decision / Sebastian Loth and Colin J. Davis -- Sentence comprehension as mental simulation : an information-theoretic analysis and a connectionist model / Stefan L. Frank -- Modelling free recall - a combined activation-buffer and distributed-context model / Anat Elhalal and Marius Usher -- Inference, ontologies and the pump of thought / Andrzej Wichert -- Modelling correlations in "response inhibition" Richard P. Cooper and Eddy J. Davelaar -- A first approach to an artificial networked cognitive control system based on the shared circuits model of sociocognitive capacities / A. Sanchez Boza and R. Haber Guerra -- Digital typology modelling of cognitive abilities / Agnes Garletti -- Using enriched semantic representations in predictions of human brain activity / Joseph P. Levy and John A. Bullinaria -- Variability in the severity of developmental disorders : a neurocomputational account of developmental regression in autism / Michael SC Thomas, Victoria CP Knowland and Annette Karmiloff-Smith -- How do we use computational models of cognitive processes? / T. Stafford -- Some issues in computational modelling; Occam's razor and Hegel' hair gel / Richard Shillcock ... [et al.] -- How is hair gel quantified? / Mark A. Pitt and Jay I. Myung -- What do humanoid robots offer to experimental psychology? / Jochen J. Steil.

This volume collects together most of the papers presented at the Twelfth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW12) held in 2010 at Birkbeck College (England). The conference invited submissions on neurocomputational models of all cognitive and psychological processes. The special theme of this conference was "From Theory to Applications", which allowed submissions of pure theoretical work and of pure applied work. This topic extended the boundaries of the conference and highlighted the extent to which computational models of cognition and models in general are integrated in the cognitive sciences. The chapters in this book cover a wide range of research topics in neural computation and psychology, including cognitive development, language processing, higher-level cognition, but also ecology-based modeling of cognition, philosophy of science, and real-world applications.

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