Dear Richard,

Some papers:

Developing a Cognitive Training Strategy for First-Episode Schizophrenia: Integrating Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches. Nuechterlein KH, Ventura J, Subotnik KL, Hayata JN, Medalia A, Bell MD. Am J Psychiatr Rehabil. 2014 Jul;17(3):225-253

Theta-gamma coupling reflects the interaction of bottom-up and top-down processes in speech perception in children. Wang J, Gao D, Li D, Desroches AS, Liu L, Li X. Neuroimage. 2014 Nov 15;102 Pt 2:637-45.

Top-down controlled and bottom-up triggered orienting of auditory attention to pitch activate overlapping brain networks. Alho K, Salmi J, Koistinen S, Salonen O, Rinne T. Brain Res. 2014 Dec 31. pii: S0006-8993(14)01757-0.

Disentangling the Role of Corticobasal Ganglia Loops in Top-Down and Bottom-Up Visual Attention: An Investigation of Attention Deficits in Parkinson's Disease.

Tommasi G et al. J Cogn Neurosci. 2014 Dec 16:1-23.

Book Bottom-up and top-down processes in reading : influences of ...

Article Bottom-up or top-down in dream neuroscience? A top-down crit...

Article Comparison between bottom-up and top-down approaches in the ...

Thank you hugely, Beatrice!

This is an absolutely first-class set of differing topical perspectives on which to proceed, each of them  addressing some aspect I have identified as crucially important to the theoretical work I have been developing on the generalization of expertise to different domain-related abilities and contexts  evident in elite-level pianists.and exceptionally gifted students. Inferring from your list, would I be correct in guessing your own research interests revolve around much the same basic theme as mine?

I'm thoroughly grateful to you.

Warm regards, Richard.

Richard, hi.

I have some general "Barsalou suggestions... " They seem mostly a theory  but they deal a lot with evidences, as Barsalou has ever worked based on experimental data.

http://psychology.emory.edu/cognition/barsalou/papers/Barsalou_BBS_1999_perceptual_symbol_systems.pdf

http://psychology.emory.edu/cognition/barsalou/papers/Barsalou_Cortex-2013_mirroring-PCISC.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3551279/

Hi Velina,

Thank you hugely for these - really excellent material, and thoroughly useful to me; and, equally useful, the links to further articles that these pages include. Much here to reinforce my existing understanding, and much that will extend it.

Warm regards and best wishes.

Richard.

Hi Richard,

Glad if that make us moving in the right direction, yes... At least it is very interesting.

Worm regards and best wishes

Velina.

A recent article by Sanchez and Reber (2013) in cognition titled Explicit pre-training instruction does not improve implicit perceptual-motor sequence learning. I think does make an argument related to that. Several theories of expertise can be argued as basically bottom up (emphasis on automatic recognition etc), though they are less connected with learning processes. 

Hi Jerad!

Many thanks indeed for pointing me to this. An invaluable paper all round for my specialization (music pedagogy and its correlatedness to elite-level instrumental expertise and its acquisition), not least for its cited references to other investigations!

Research and literature of this kind contributes obviously to elucidating the concept and content of "deliberate practice". A great pity, I think, that Ericsson doesn't more emphatically point his readership to it.

Kind regards, Richard.

I don't know long-term working memory  has always kind of argued for an interaction of top down and bottom up processes. On implicit learning I think the issue tends to be it seems to  makes fairly strong assumptions about what the subjects are (and are not) doing. And when you come from a process tracing orientation those are not assumptions you like. To bridge from Dr. Reber's important work to the topics Dr. Ericsson writes about requires a lot assumptions that I think Dr. Ericsson has explicitly argued you can not make in various papers (probably most theoretically in long-term working memory but also in the recent chapter in Intelligence).  

Perhaps the classical article by Larkin et al. (1980) could also be of interest?

Larkin, J.H., McDermott, J., Simon, D.P., & Simon, H.A. (1980). Expert and novice performance in solving physics problems. Science, 208, 1335-1342.

You might try the papers below. For your purposes, you might glean from these that experts within their goal domain are better at detecting task-relevant information.

Article Memory for the Functional Characteristics of Climbing Walls:...

Article An Ecological Theory of Expertise Effects in Memory Recall

Hi Stefan,

Good to hear from you again and many thanks for your kind reply - I shall certainly explore your publications page with interest. 

Hope all is going well for you,

Kind regards, R.

Very many thanks for these papers, Brandon - most thoroughly appreciated!

A few more: 

Article Response Plasticity in Primary Visual Cortex and its Role in...

Article Bottom-Up and Top-Down Attention

Article How bottom-up and top-down factors shape representation in w...

Dear Béatrice,

Thank you! You are so kind, and I'm deeply grateful.

Very best wishes,

Richard