Attention

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Narayanan Srinivasan
Elsevier, Sep 3, 2009 - Psychology - 352 pages

This well-established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within neuroscience, as well as emerging and promising subfields.

This volume explores interdisciplinary research on Attention and interaction of Attention with other cognitive processes including perception, learning, and memory. The papers cover major research on attention in Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology. The volume presents recent advances on attention including binding, dynamics of attention, attention and perceptual organization, attention and consciousness, emotion and attention, development of attention, crossmodal attention, computational modeling of attention, control of actions, attention and memory, and meditation.

 

Contents

Chapter 1 Attention and competition in figureground perception
1
Chapter 2 Perceptual organization and visual attention
15
Chapter 3 Longrange neural coupling through synchronization with attention
35
Chapter 4 Visual streams and shifting attention
47
Chapter 5 Covert attention effects on spatial resolution
65
Chapter 6 Focused and distributed attention
87
Chapter 7 The functional architecture of divided visual attention
101
task repetition and the attentional blink effect
123
Chapter 12 Cognitive maps and attention
181
goaldetermined intertrial suppression of selective attention
195
Chapter 14 Attentional limits and freedom in visually guided action
215
Chapter 15 Attention for action during error correction
227
Chapter 16 Explaining the Colavita visual dominance effect
245
Chapter 17 Development of attentional processes in ADHD and normal children
259
evidence from production and comprehension
277
Chapter 19 Interactions of attention emotion and motivation
293

Chapter 9 Using biologically plausible neural models to specify the functional and neural mechanisms of visual search
135
a window into attentional competition
149
insights from neuroscience and meditation studies
161
Chapter 20 Human social attention
309
Subject Index
321
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Narayanan Srinivasan, Ph.D., is currently Professor and Head at the Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (CBCS), University of Allahabad. Dr. Srinivasan was a visiting scientist at the Riken Brain Science Institute from 2006-2012. He has a Master degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science and PhD in Psychology from University of Georgia. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Louisville. He also worked at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore for two years before joining one of the first centres for Cognitive Science in India. He has been working at CBCS for the past fourteen years. He is interested in understanding mental processes, especially attention, emotions, consciousness and meditation using multiple methodologies. Dr. Srinivasan has edited seven books and three special issues. He has more than hundred and forty publications. Dr. Srinivasan is a fellow of Association for Psychological Science. He was the Editor-in-chief of International Journal of Mind, Brain, and Cognition. He is currently an associate editor of Neuroscience of Consciousness, Royal Society Open Science, Frontiers in Cognitive Science, PsyCh journal, and Cognitive Processing and a member of the editorial board of Connection Science and Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science.