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Zusatztext Orienting of Attention is a very good book. It represents an impressive, nearly encyclopedic survey of attention shifts, their relation to the underlying brain anatomy and to the eye movement system. This book also documents the important effort to model attention shifts. Although the field of attention shifts is somewhat narrow, it is also one of the most active in neurobiology and cognitive neuroscience. The authors have developed a book that provides a background that is very important for these areas, and particularly for relating models and neurobiological findings to cognitive research. Reading this volume may also be useful even to many who may only have a slight interest in shifts of attention, but hope that the integration of methods and results obtained may be of use in other areas of attention and indeed in psychology as a whole. Klappentext This book is a well-written overview of attention orienting that is heavily illustrated to make challenging theoretical concepts accessible to the reader. It is an ideal introduction to the topic both for a broad audience and for students and researchers who require a state-of-the-art overview of the field. Zusammenfassung This book is a well-written overview of attention orienting that is heavily illustrated to make challenging theoretical concepts accessible to the reader. It is an ideal introduction to the topic both for a broad audience and for students and researchers who require a state-of-the-art overview of the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction Helmholtz's Study of Attention Shifting Early Ideas about the Attentional Focal Point Overt and Covert Orienting 2: Studying Attention Shifts with Location Cueing Early Location Cueing Experiments Goal-Driven and Stimulus-Driven Control Attentional Capture by Abrupt-Onset Stimuli Methodological Issues 3: Properties of the Attentional Focal Point Analog and Discrete Attention Shifts Variable Spatial Extent of Attentional Focus Can Attention be Divided into Multiple Foci LaBergian Activity Distribution Model 4: Sensory and Attentional Mediation of Covert Orienting Sensory Analyasis and Location Cue Effects A Systematic Investigaiton of Multiple Location Cue Effects Activity Distribution Account of Multiple Location Cue Effects Activity Distribution Account of Other Cue Effects 5: Sequential Attention Shifts Shifting Attention to Multiple Abrupt-Onset Stimuli Inhibition of Return 6: Eye Movements and Attention Shifts Oculomotor System Eye Tracking Methodology Disengaged Attention and Saccades Relationship Between Attention and Eye Movements 7: Physiology of Attention Shifts Subcortical Attention Mechanisms Cortial Attention and Saccades Stimulus-Driven and Goal Driven Attention Shifts Premotor Theory Revisited 5: Crossmodal Attention Shifts Lights, Sounds, and Touches Can Cause Attention Shifts Crossmodal Inhibition of Return Multisensory Integration and Attention Neural Mechanisms of Crossmodal Attention Shifts 9: Epilogue ...
