4. Research problems and perspectives of perception in cognitive psychology Processing of visual information (early processing, coding of information in visual cells, perception of depth, surface, perception of objects). Familiarity with visual patterns (comparison models with benchmarks, detailed analysis, object perception). Understanding of speech (analysis of peculiarities of speech, categorical perception). Context and its understanding (context and speech, context and image, picture recognition, information combination model of context and Massaro stimulus (FLMP), PDP model of letter recognition).
5. Research problems and perspectives of attention in cognitive psychology Problems of automatic and controlled processing of information in the psychology of attention. Computational brain. Intuition and perception. Illusions. Past knowledge. Sensory reception of the brain. The scope of perception. Iconic storage. Stuck in recall. Echoic storage. Sensor saver functions. Attention. Conductivity and selectivity of attention. Selective attention - izbaratelnogo vnimania - filtration model (D.Brodbent), dividers model (A.Treisman). Visual attention – searchlight metaphor, neural mechanisms of visual attention, visual sensory memory, pattern recognition and attention, object-directed attention. Automatism. D.R. Stroop effect.
6. Consciousness as a scientific structure Consciousness as a scientific structure. History of the study of consciousness. Cognitive psychology and consciousness. Research with preparatory stimuli. Psychology and neurophysiology of consciousness. Neurocognitive research. Sleep and amnesia. The metaphor of news, the metaphor of the searchlight, the metaphor of integrations: theater in the society of the mind. Modern theories of consciousness D. Schacter's model of individual interaction and conscious experience, B. Baars' theory of the general workspace.
7. Representation of knowledge based on perception and essence Representation of knowledge, based on perception - theory of double coding, visual spatial imagination, representation of verbal information. Representation of knowledge, based on importance - memory interpretation of the importance of events, propositional networks, semantic networks. Functional equivalence hypothesis. Cognitive map. Synesthesia: the essence of colors.
