The Oxford Handbook of Attention
Oxford University Press eBooks · 2014
This handbook summarizes empirical findings and data concerning attention and attentional tasks. It presents a comprehensive view of the current state of theory in the field of attention by investigating a wide range of interrelated topics, including the rules of guidance, the mechanics of visual search, and the relationship of these processes to visual awareness. It also discusses Bayesian models of attention, how normal aging may affect selective attention, the biased competition theory of attention, the effects of attention in visual cortex and thalamus, the theory of visual attention introduced by Bundesen (1990), how covert attention modulates perception, load theory of attention and cognitive control, event-related brain potentials, neurological disorders of attention such as focal brain lesions and Parkinson’s disease, the link between attention and emotion, the neuropsychopharmacology of attention, working memory biases in human vision, and spatial orienting and attentional capture. In addition, the book reviews the neuroimaging literature, as well as related behavioral and single-cell physiology studies, on visual spatial attention.