Research Catalog

Title

Converging operations in the study of visual selective attention / edited by Arthur F. Kramer, Michael G.H. Coles, and Gordon D. Logan.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

• Kramer, Arthur F.
• Coles, Michael G. H.
• Logan, Gordon D.

Description

xxv, 545 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• This volume represents the state of the art in research on visual selective attention, with a focus on the broad theme of converging operations. In 19 chapters, prominent scholars in the study of visual attention bring readers up to date on findings made possible over the past 15 years by new research methods and brain-imaging technologies.
• The first 5 chapters present a review and tutorial on the current issues of relevance to the study of visual selective attention, including specific research techniques and various theories, paradigms, and models. The remaining chapters provide cutting-edge research from multiple perspectives: behavioral studies, computational modeling, human research, and neural-imaging techniques.
• An examination of how disparate approaches from a variety of disciplines can be combined to provide an integrated view of visual selective attention is also presented.
• Converging Operations in the Study of Visual Selective Attention covers a broad scope of topics - inhibition, top-down and bottom-up control of attention, locus of selection, and representation - in reporting the range of research available from leaders in the field. In documenting these accomplishments, it sets the agenda for future studies.

Subjects

• Visual perception
• Selectivity (Psychology)
• Visual discrimination

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction / Gordon D. Logan, Michael G. H. Coles and Arthur F. Kramer -- 1. Formal Models of Visual Attention: A Tutorial Review / Claus Bundesen -- 2. Attentional Capture in Vision / Steven Yantis -- 3. Facilitatory and Inhibitory Aspects of Attention / W. Trammell Neill and Leslie A. Valdes -- 4. Neuroimaging Approaches to the Study of Visual Attention: A Tutorial / Steven A. Hillyard, Lourdes Anllo-Vento, Vincent P. Clark, Hans-Jochen Heinze, Steven J. Luck and G. Ron Mangun -- 5. Visual Attention: Converging Operations From Neurology and Psychology / Robert Rafal -- 6. What Can Visual Neglect and Extinction Reveal About the Extent of "Preattentive" Processing? / Jon Driver -- 7. Processing Visual Information in an Unattended Location / Richard M. Shiffrin, David Diller and Asher Cohen -- 8. Extending Guided Search: Why Guided Search Needs a Preattentive "Item Map" / Jeremy M. Wolfe --
• 9. When Knowledge Does Not Help: Limitations on the Flexibility of Attentional Control / Charles L. Folk and Roger W. Remington -- 10. Perceptual Selectivity for Color and Form: On the Nature of the Interference Effect / Jan Theeuwes -- 11. Novel Pop-Out, Perceptual Inhibition, and the Stability-Plasticity Dilemma / William A. Johnston, Irene S. Schwarting and Kevin J. Hawley -- 12. Distinguishing Between Inhibition-Based and Episodic Retrieval-Based Accounts of Negative Priming / Steven P. Tipper and Bruce Milliken -- 13. Competitive Mechanisms of Selection by Space and Object: A Neuropsychological Approach / Glyn W. Humphreys, Andrew Olson, Cristina Romani and M. Jane Riddoch -- 14. Object-Based Visual Selection and the Principle of Uniform Connectedness / Arthur F. Kramer and Stephen E. Watson -- 15. Top-Down Control of Reference Frame Alignment in Directing Attention From Cue to Target / Gordon D. Logan --
• 16. Selective Attention Operates at Two Processing Loci / James C. Johnston, Robert S. McCann and Roger W. Remington -- 17. Selective Attention as a Computational Function / A. H. C. van der Heijden -- 18. Selective Attention and Internal Constraints: There Is More to the Flanker Effect Than Biased Contingencies / J. Toby Mordkoff -- 19. Decision Competition and Response Competition: Two Main Pactors in the Flanker Compatibility Effect / Juan Botella.

ISBN

1557983291 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95032418

OCLC

• 32820367
• ocm32820367

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries