Part 1 Introduction: a multidisciplinary approach; the goals of attention; the manifestations of attention; the expression of attention; plan of the book. Part 2 Selective attention: early theories of selective attention; selection of what, where and which; six properties of the attended area; metaphors of selective attention; selection of an object in a cluttered field; experimental tasks; selective attention to actions; summary. Part 3 Preparatory attention and maintenance attention: preparatory attention; attentional preparation or cognitive expectation?; perceptual preparations for objects and their attributes; perceptual preparation for locations of objects; the "peaked distribution" of attentional activity; shifting visual attention through space; the resource view of preparatory attention; maintenance attention; summary. Part 4 Attentional processing in cortical areas: areas of specialized (modular) processing; attention to object information in ventral cortical streams; attention to spatial information in dorsal cortical streams; attentional control versus attentional expression; summary. Part 5 Attentional processing in two subcortical areas; the superior colliculus; the thalamus; thalamic circuitry. Part 6 A cognitive-neuroscience model of attention processes in shape identification; an experimental trial containing a warning signal and a target; summary - the expression, mechanism and control of attention in shape identification. Part 7 Synopsis: a cognitive-neuroscience theory of attention.
["Attentional Processing"] provides an excellent review of research
on visual attention. Together with his model of neural mechanisms
of visual attention, the author also presents important principles
that might be generalised to research of neural mechanisms of many
other cognitive functions. -- Kimmo Alho "European Journal of
Cognitive Psychology"
A book on visual attention that will be accessible and interesting
to a broad audience, from students doing their first project in
cognitive science, to accomplished researchers in the field. -- Lew
B. Stelmac "Canadian Journal of Pyschology"
LaBerge's lucid study...is highly informative and very readable.
LaBerge does full justice to the neurobiological, behavioural and
subjective complexities of attention. -- Adam Zeman "Journal of
Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry"
This book provides a thoroughgoing treatment of the topic of
attention...The author is widely regarded for his contributions to
research and theory on attention; this book is yet another strong
contribution, providing an account of attentional processes and
findings that brings together psychological and physiological
accounts of attention in a unified theoretical statement. A very
well written and nicely produced work, and a strong contribution to
work in the cognitive sciences, written in a style that will
communicate both to practitioners and a broad audience. -- K.F.
Widaman "Choice"
[ Attentional Processing ] provides an excellent review of research
on visual attention. Together with his model of neural mechanisms
of visual attention, the author also presents important principles
that might be generalised to research of neural mechanisms of many
other cognitive functions.
Ý"Attentional Processing"¨ provides an excellent review of research
on visual attention. Together with his model of neural mechanisms
of visual attention, the author also presents important principles
that might be generalised to research of neural mechanisms of many
other cognitive functions. -- Kimmo Alho "European Journal of
Cognitive Psychology"
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