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Languages of the Brain: Experimental Paradoxes and Principles in Neuropsychology

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The article was published on 1971-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 467 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Neuropsychology.

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The Theory of Event Coding (TEC): a framework for perception and action planning.

TL;DR: A new framework for a more adequate theoretical treatment of perception and action planning is proposed, in which perceptual contents and action plans are coded in a common representational medium by feature codes with distal reference, showing that the main assumptions are well supported by the data.
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Arousal, activation, and effort in the control of attention

TL;DR: This review attempts to organize a range of neuropsychological and psycho-physiological data on attention by identifying three basic at-tentional control processes: one regulates arousal resulting from input; a second controls the preparatory activation of response mechanisms; and a third operates to coordinate arousal and activation, an operation that demands effort.
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The search for the engram

TL;DR: This chapter focuses on learning and memory and its neural bases and examines the ways in which temporal, logical, and qualitative relationships between stimuli (CS and US) influence learning.