Principles of Visual Attention - Linking Mind and Brain

Informationen zum Autor Claus Bundesen is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Copenhagen, Director of the Center for Visual Cognition at the University of Copenhagen, and Director of the Danish Research School of Psychology. He is the President of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance. He has been Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology and a member of the editorial board of Visual Cognition. Currently he is a member of the editorial boards of Psychological Review and Psychological Research. His achievements include measurement of effects of visual size in pattern recognition and apparent movement and development of mathematical models of selective attention in vision.Thomas Habekost received his Ph.D. in 2005 (University of Copenhagen) for a thesis on attention disturbances after right hemisphere stroke, in which he developed and applied a new testing method based on TVA theory. He has since extended the TVA based testing method to study other patient groups as well as the normal aging process. He has also contributed to the development of the NTVA theory, especially its applications to the single-cell literature on attention. Klappentext The nature of attention is one of the oldest and most central problems in psychology. Principles of Visual Attention contains a detailed review of the most important research done on attention in vision, spanning cognitive psychology, brain imaging, patient studies, and recordings from single cells in the visual cortex. Zusammenfassung The nature of attention is one of the oldest and most central problems in psychology. Principles of Visual Attention contains a detailed review of the most important research done on attention in vision, spanning cognitive psychology, brain imaging, patient studies, and recordings from single cells in the visual cortex....

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• Authors: Claus Bundesen, Claus (Professor of Cognitive Psychology Bundesen, Claus/ Habekost Bundesen, Bundesen Claus, Thomas Habekost, Thomas (Assistant Professor Habekost, Habekost Thomas
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2008
• EAN: 9780198570707
• ISBN: 978-0-19-857070-7
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Oxford Psychology Series; Oxford Psychology; Oxford Psychology Series; Oxford Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Perception, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / Experimental Psychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Neurosciences, Cognition and cognitive psychology