Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention
Publisher: The Guilford Press; Guilford Press
Published: July 16, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9781593850487
Subjects: Perception; Neuropsychology; Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Neuropsychology; Cognitive neuroscience; Attention; Physiological aspects
First sentence: Attention is being studied at the cognitive, neurosystem, cellular, synaptic, and genetic levels.
Description: This volume presents the latest advances in understanding attention: its anatomy, circuitry, functions, and deficits. Investigators have written chapters in which they not only summarize key findings but also illuminate their goals and the directions their research is taking. Coverage includes different cognitive models of attention; knowledge emerging from functional imaging and genetic studies; and neurophysiological, developmental, and neuropsychological approaches. Emerging knowledge is presented on processes that impair or alter attention, and clinical implications are discussed. Linking many levels of analysis, and featuring over 100 illustrations, the book moves us closer to a coherent view of the attentional system and the key role it plays in everyday life. --From publisher's description.