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Title

The attentive brain / edited by Raja Parasuraman.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

Parasuraman, R.

Description

xii, 577 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm

Summary

Of the myriad tasks that the brain has to perform, perhaps none is as crucial to the performance of other tasks as attention. A central thesis of this book on the cognitive neuroscience of attention is that attention is not a single entity, but a finite set of brain processes that interact mutually and with other brain processes in the performance of perceptual, cognitive, and motor skills.

Subjects

• Brain
• Neurosciences > methods
• Attention
• Cognitive neuroscience

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• I. Introduction. 1. The Attentive Brain: Issues and Prospects / Raja Parasuraman -- II. Cognitive Neuroscience Methods. 2. Neuroanatomy of Visual Attention / Maree J. Webster and Leslie G. Ungerleider. 3. Neurochemistry of Attention / Richard T. Marrocco and Matthew C. Davidson. 4. Neurophysiology of Visual Attention / Brad C. Motter. 5. Electrophysiological Approaches to the Study of Selective Attention in the Human Brain / Steven J. Luck and Massimo Girelli. 6. Functional Anatomy of Visual Attention in the Human Brain: Studies with Positron Emission Tomography / Maurizio Corbetta. 7. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Study of Attention / James V. Haxby, Susan M. Courtney and Vincent P. Clark. 8. Cortical Lesions and Attention / Diane Swick and Robert T. Knight. 9. Computational Architectures for Attention / Ernst Niebur and Christof Koch -- III. Varieties of Attention.
• 10. Arousal and Attention: Psychopharmacological and Neuropsychological Studies in Experimental Animals / Trevor W. Robbins. 11. Brain Systems of Vigilance / Raja Parasuraman, Joel S. Warm and Judi E. See. 12. Visuospatial Attention and Parietal Function: Their Role in Object Perception / Lynn C. Robertson. 13. Attention, Pattern Recognition, and Pop-Out in Visual Search / Ken Nakayama and Julian S. Joseph. 14. Attention and Visual Object Segmentation / Jon Driver and Gordon C. Baylis. 15. Divided Attention: Narrowing the Gap between Brain and Behavior / Jochen Braun. 16. Spatial Working Memory and Spatial Selective Attention / Edward Awh and John Jonides. 17. Attention and Language / Ira Fischler. 18. Executive Attention: Conflict, Target Detection, and Cognitive Control / Michael I. Posner and Gregory J. DiGirolamo -- IV. Development and Pathologies of Attention. 19. Developing an Attentive Brain / Mark H. Johnson.
• 20. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Symptom Domains, Cognitive Processes, and Neural Networks / James Swanson, Michael I. Posner and Dennis Cantwell [et al.]. 21. Selective Attention in Aging and Dementia / Raja Parasuraman and Pamela M. Greenwood. 22. Neglect / Robert D. Rafal. 23. The Mind Adrift: Attentional Dysregulation in Schizophrenia / Paul G. Nestor and Brian F. O'Donnell.

ISBN

0262161729 (alk. paper)

LCCN

97022985

OCLC

• 37031259
• ocm37031259

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries