Dear all; The call for papers for our special issue has been extended: New dates: Paper submission deadline - 1 September 2021 Notification to authors - 1 November 2021 Deadline revised papers submission - 15 January 2022 Final version - 15 February 2022 The call can be found in: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9448373 We would like to announce a special issue for the journal IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. The general topic revolves around perceptual optimization processes related to attentional and predictive mechanisms. We are interested in work coming from a wide range of areas including robotics, psychology, philosophy and neuroscience. Themes include: · Attentional and gating mechanisms for action and sensory information processing · Context- and task-dependent perceptual optimization · Sensory attenuation/cancellation and sensory enhancement/facilitation · Interplay of predictive and attentional mechanisms for prediction error minimization · Multimodal integration and/or cross-modal interactions · State representation learning · Constrained innate priors that drive learning · Prediction in language learning and comprehension · Prediction error dynamics monitoring · Dreaming, non-conscious perception, hallucination, altered perceptual phenomena -- -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Bruno Lara Guzman Profesor Investigador Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos Av. Universidad 1001. Col. Chamilpa Cuernavaca, Morelos. C. P. 62209-- M É X I C O +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://roboticacognitiva.mx Tel (52) (777) 3-29-70 40 x 3280 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++