Attention and Cognition - Current Issues and Recent Approaches

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Thinking about Attention: Successive Approximations to a Productive Taxonomy 3. Fractionating Selection History: Dissociable Components of Experience-Driven Attention 4. Attentional guidance and the priority map 5. Role of Consciousness in Distractor Avoidance 6. The functional role of the oculomotor system in spatial short term memory 7. Why psychology is not (yet) a science. Index

About the author

Ramesh Kumar Mishra is a Professor at the Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India.
Seema Prasad is a postdoctoral fellow in the Cognitive Neurophysiology group, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Germany.

Summary

This volume explores the psychology of attention and discusses the various cognitive processes that determine what we pay attention to.

Product details

• Authors: Ramesh Prasad Kumar Mishra
• Assisted by: Ramesh Kumar Mishra (Editor), Seema Prasad (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.02.2025
• EAN: 9781032291796
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3229179-6
• No. of pages: 122
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, Medical counselling, MEDICAL / Public Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology, Psychotherapy, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Psychology: emotions, Health psychology, Child & developmental psychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Neurosciences, Regional Studies, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Regional / International studies, Cognition and cognitive psychology