Readership: Researchers and students in social neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive psychology interested in attention.
Michael I. Posner, Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon and Adjunct Professor at the Weill Medical College in New York (Sackler Institute), Weill Medical College in New York, Sackler Institute, USA
Michael Posner is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon and Adjunct Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell, where he served as founding director of the Sackler Institute. Posner is well known for his work with Marcus Raichle on imaging the human brain during cognitive tasks. A volume Images of Mind resulted from that collaboration. He has worked on the anatomy, circuitry, development and genetics of three attentional networks underlying maintaining alertness, orienting to sensory events and voluntary control of thoughts and ideas. His methods for measuring these networks have been applied to a wide range of neurological, psychiatric and developmental disorders.
Introduction 1. The Attention System of the Human Brain 2: The Alerting Network 3. Orienting of Attention 4. Executive Network and Self-Regulation 5. Development of Attention Networks 6. Attention and Society 7. Concluding Remarks Index
