Description
A key property of neural processing in higher mammals is the ability to focus resources by selectively directing attention to relevant perceptions, thoughts or actions. Research into attention has grown rapidly over the past two decades, as new techniques have become available to study higher brain function in humans, non-human primates, and other mammals. Neurobiology of Attention is the first encyclopedic volume to summarize the latest developments in attention research.An authoritative collection of over 100 chapters organized into thematic sections provides both broad coverage and access to focused, up-to-date research findings. This book presents a state-of-the-art multidisciplinary perspective on psychological, physiological and computational approaches to understanding the neurobiology of attention. Ideal for students, as a reference handbook or for rapid browsing, the book has a wide appeal to anybody interested in attention research.* Contains numerous quick-reference articles covering the breadth of investigation into the subject of attention* Provides extensive introductory commentary to orient and guide the reader* Includes the most recent research results in this field of study
Table of Contents
I: FOUNDATIONSChapter 1: Computational Foundations for Attentive ProcessesChapter 2: Capacity Limits for Spatial DiscriminationChapter 3: Directed Visual Attention and the Dynamic Control of Information FlowChapter 4: Selective Attention as an Optimal Computational StrategyChapter 5: Surprise: A Shortcut for Attention?Chapter 6: A Heteromodal Large-Scale Network for Spatial AttentionChapter 7: Parietal Mechanisms of Attentional Control: Locations, Features, and ObjectsChapter 8: Visual Cortical Circuits and Spatial AttentionChapter 9: Psychopharmacology of Human AttentionChapter 10: Neuropharmacology of AttentionChapter 11: Identifying the Neural Systems of Top-Down Attentional Control: A Meta-analytic ApproachChapter 12: Attention Capture: The Interplay of Expectations, Attention, and AwarenessChapter 13: Change BlindnessChapter 14: Development of Covert Orienting in Young InfantsChapter 15: Prior EntryChapter 16: Inhibition of ReturnChapter 17: Guidance of Visual Search by Preattentive InformationChapter 18: The Top in Top-Down AttentionChapter 19: Allocation of Attention in Three-Dimensional SpaceChapter 20: Covert Attention and Saccadic Eye MovementsChapter 21: Prefrontal Selection and Control of Covert and Overt OrientingChapter 22: Dissociation of Selection from Saccade ProgrammingChapter 23: Space- and Object-Based AttentionChapter 24: Attention and BindingChapter 25: Top-Down Facilitation of Visual Object RecognitionChapter 26: Spatial Processing of Environmental RepresentationsChapter 27: Decision and AttentionChapter 28: Visual Attention and Emotional PerceptionChapter 29: The Difference between Visual Attention and Awareness: A Cognitive Neuroscience PerspectiveChapter 30: Reaching Affects Saccade TrajectoriesChapter 31: The Premotor Theory of AttentionChapter 32: Cross-Modal Consequences of Human Spatial AttentionChapter 33: Attention and Scene UnderstandingII: FUNCTIONSChapter 34: Visual Search and Popout in InfancyChapter 35: Attention in ConditioningChapter 36: Electrophysiology of Reflexive AttentionChapter 37: Natural Scene Statistics and Salient Visual FeaturesChapter 38: Salience of Feature ContrastChapter 39: Stimulus-Driven Guidance of Visual Attention in Natural ScenesChapter 40: Contextual Guidance of Visual AttentionChapter 41: Gist of the SceneChapter 42: Temporal Orienting of AttentionChapter 43: Visual Search: The Role of Memory for Rejected DistractorsChapter 44: The Neuropsychology of Visual Feature BindingChapter 45: Visual Saliency and Spike Timing in the Ventral Visual PathwayChapter 46: Object Recognition in Cortex: Neural Mechanisms, and Possible Roles for AttentionChapter 47: Binding Contour Segments into Spatially Extended ObjectsChapter 48: Scanpath Theory, Attention, and Image Processing Algorithms for Predicting Human Eye FixationsChapter 49: The Feature Similarity Gain Model of Attention: Unifying Multiplicative Effects of Spatial and Feature-based AttentionChapter 50: Biasing Competition in Human Visual CortexChapter 51: Nonsensory Signals in Early Visual CortexChapter 52: Effects of Attention on Auditory Perceptual OrganizationChapter 53: Attention in LanguageChapter 54: Attention and Spatial LanguageChapter 55: The Sustained Attention to Response Test (SART)Chapter 56: ERP Measures of Multiple Attention Deficits Following Prefrontal DamageChapter 57: Nonspatially Lateralized Mechanisms in Hemispatial NeglectChapter 58: Visual Extinction and Hemispatial Neglect after Brain Damage: Neurophysiological Basis of Residual ProcessingChapter 59: Attention in Split-Brain PatientsChapter 60: Divided Attention in the Normal and the Split Brain: Chronometry and ImagingIII: MECHANISMSChapter 61: Neurophysiological Correlates of the Attentional SpotlightChapter 62: Spatially-Specific Attentional Modulation Revealed by fMRIChapter 63: The Neural Basis of the Attentional BlinkChapter 64: Neurophysiological Correlates of the Reflexive O
