Attention

Theory and Practice

Addie Johnson, Robert W. Proctor

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2003
• ISBN:
  9781483376813
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
• Index: Psychology

Attention: Theory and Practice provides a balance between a readable overview of attention and an emphasis on how theories and paradigms for the study of attention have developed. The book highlights the important issues and major findings while giving sufficient details of experimental studies, models, and theories so that results and conclusions are easy to follow and evaluate. Rather than brushing over tricky technical details, the authors explain them clearly, giving readers the benefit of understanding the motivation for and techniques of the experiments in order to allow readers to think through results, models, and theories for themselves.

Attention is an accessible text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in psychology, as well as an important resource for researchers and practitioners interested in gaining an overview of the field of attention.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1 - Historical Overview of Research on Attention
• Chapter 2 - Information Processing and the Study of Attention
• Chapter 3 - Selective Visual Attention
• Chapter 4 - Auditory and Crossmodal Attention
• Chapter 5 - Attention and Inhibition
• Chapter 6 - Multiple-Task Performance
• Chapter 7 - Memory and Attention
• Chapter 8 - Attention and Displays
• Chapter 9 - Mental Workload and Situation Awareness
• Chapter 10 - Individual Differences in Attention
• Chapter 11 - The Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention
• Chapter 12 - Disorders of Attention
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• About the Authors
• About the Contributing Authors