Attention and Cognition

This volume explores the psychology of attention and discusses the various cognitive processes that determine what we pay attention to.

Autorentext

Ramesh Kumar Mishra is a Professor at the Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India.

Seema Prasad is a postdoctoral fellow in the Cognitive Neurophysiology group, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Germany.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. Thinking about Attention: Successive Approximations to a Productive Taxonomy 3. Fractionating Selection History: Dissociable Components of Experience-Driven Attention 4. Attentional guidance and the priority map 5. Role of Consciousness in Distractor Avoidance 6. The functional role of the oculomotor system in spatial short term memory 7. Why psychology is not (yet) a science. Index