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Attention, Space, and Action
Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience
Edited by Glyn Humphreys, John Duncan, and Anne Treisman
344 pages
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4 plates, numerous black and white photographs and line illustrations
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240x168mm
978-0-19-852468-7
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Paperback
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19 August 1999
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- * This book is very timely, being the first to integrate work on attention in perception and action
- * Contributors are among the leading researchers in the field
- * As well as psychologists, book will be of interest to neuropsychologists and those working in neurophysiology and neuroanatomy
To generate coherent behaviour, the brain needs to attend selectively to the many objects that are present in the environment, but this poses several questions. How does the brain know which objects 'belong together'? How does the information from different senses get combined? How does this help to plan and carry out actions? The subject of attentional mechanisms has a long history in cognitive psychology, as it is the key to making sense of the visual world. However, new developments in cognitive neuroscience, and greater understanding of how attention and action are integrated,
have transformed the field. This book is the first to bring together leading researchers to discuss the convergence of experimental findings in the following areas: Visual selective attention Attention and perceptual integration Spatial representation and attention Visual attention and action Control of attention Attention, Space, and Action provides a unique combination of perspectives that will appeal to students and researchers from psychology, neuropsychology, neurophysiology, and neuroanatomy.
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Edited by Glyn Humphreys, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, John Duncan, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, and Anne Treisman, Department of Psychology, Princeton University Contributors:
A Allport, Dept of Experimental Psychology, Oxford, UK
C. Bundesen, Center for Visual Cognition, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
N. Burgess, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
M. Corbetta, Dept. of Neurology, Washington University, USA
R. Desimone, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, NIMH, Bethesda, USA
J. Connett,
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
J. Duncan, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
D.C. Frith, Wellcome Dept of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology, London, UK
S.E. Hillyard, Dept. of Neurosciences, University of California, USA
G. Houghton, Centre for Perception, Attention and Motor Sciences, University of Wales, UK
G.W. Humphreys, Cognitive Science Research Centre, University of Birmingham, UK
M. Kusunoki, School of Medicine, Nihon University, Japan
S.J. Luck, Dept. of Psychology, University of Iowa, USA
E. Maguire, Wellcome Dept of Cognitive Neurology, London, UK
T Manly, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
A.D. Milner, Dept of Psychology, University of St. Andrews, UK
A. Murata, School of Medicine, Nihon University, Japan
J. O'Keefe, Inst. of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College, London, UK
G. Rees, Wellcome Dept of Cognitive Neurology, London, UK
I. Robertson, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
E.K. Miller, Dept of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, UK
H. Sakata, School of Medicine, Nihon University, Japan
G.L. Shulman, Dept of Neurology, Washington University, USA
C. Spence, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, Oxford, UK
M. Taira, School of Medicine, Nihon University, Japan
Y Tanaka, School of Medicine, Nihon University, Japan
S.E. Tipper, Centre for Perception, Attention & Motor Sciences, University of Wales, UK
A. Treisman, Dept of Psychology, Princeton University, USA
K. Tsutsui, School of Medicine, Nihon University, Japan
E.K. Vogel, Dept. of Neursciences, University of California, USA
R. Ward, Centre for Perception, Attention & Motor Sciences, University of Wales, UK
G. Wylie, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, Oxford, UK
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"We warmly recommend this book for experimental psychologists with an interest in attention, action and cognitive neuroscience. It has intrigued us, as it takes a very frugal perspective that leads to profound and very promising new insights: Attention and action are closely interconnected systems, and the links between them can be explored in cognitive neuroscience. It leaves us quite satisfied and curious for further findings and insights that may result from future research in the growing field of cognitive neuroscience." - Fred W Mast and Pascal Wallisch, Cambridge, USA in The Swiss Journal of Psychology 60 (2), 2001, 109-112
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1: Humphreys, Duncan & Treisman: Attention, space and action: Studies in cognitive Neuroscience
Section 1: Visual selective attention
2: R. Desimone: Visual attention mediated by biased competition in extrastriate visual cortex
3: Hillyard, Vogel & Luck: Sensory gain control as a mechanism of selective attention.
4: C. Bundesen: A computational theory of visual attention.
5: Rees & Frith: How do we select perceptions and actions? Human brain imaging studies.
Section 2: Attention and perceptual integration
6: A. Treisman: Feature binding, attention and object perception
7: J. Duncan: Converging levels of analysis in the cognitive neurscience of visual attention.
8: Driver & Spence: Crossmodal links in spatial attention.
Section 3: Spatial representation and attention
9: O'Keefe, Burgess, Donnett, & Maguire: Place cells, navigational accuracy, and the human hippocampus
10: Humphreys: Neural representation of objects in space: A dual coding account.
11: Corbetta & Shulman: Human cortical mechanisms of visual attention during orienting and search.
Section 4: Visual attention and action
12: A.D. Milner: Neuropsychological studies of perception and visuomotor control.
13: A.D. Milner: Neuropsychological studies of perception and visuomotor control
14: Tipper, Howard & Houghton:
Section 5: The control of attention
15: E.K. Miller: Prefrontal cortex and the neural basis of executive functions
16: Allport & Wylie: Task switching: Positive and negative priming of task-set.
17: Robertson & Manley: Sustained attention deficits in time and space.
18: R. Ward: Interactions between perception and action systems: A model for selective action.
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