Attention Books

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1. Attention in Action

   Advances from Cognitive Neuroscience

   Edited by Glyn Humphreys, Jane Riddoch

   Series: Advances in Behavioural Brain Science

   Over the past forty years much work has assessed how attention modulates perception, but relatively little work has evaluated the role of attention in action. This is despite the fact that recent research indicates that the relation between attention and action is a crucial factor in human...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Psychology Press
2. Information Processing, Affect and Psychopathology

   A Special Issue of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology

   Edited by Nazanin Derakshan, Ernst Koster

   Series: Special Issues of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology

   This special issue is a tribute to Michael W. Eysenck, a distinguished pioneer in the field of cognition and emotion, and the founding editor of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology. It consists of a collection of theoretical as well as empirical papers by eminent scholars who have led the field of...

   Published January 23rd 2012 by Psychology Press
3. Attention, Representation, and Human Performance

   Integration of Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation

   Edited by Slim Masmoudi, David Yun Dai, Abdelmajid Naceur

   This volume presents a rare occasion where scholars from Europe, North Africa and North America share their research programs and findings revolving around an important theme: integration. Despite different research foci and methodologies, there is a strong consensus that we need to understand a...

   Published November 15th 2011 by Psychology Press
4. Emotional States, Attention, and Working Memory

   A Special Issue of Cognition & Emotion

   Edited by Nazanin Derakhshan, Michael Eysenck

   Series: Special Issues of Cognition and Emotion

   This Special Issue is concerned with the effects of three emotional states (positive affect; anxiety; and depression) on performance. More specifically, the contributors focus on the potential mediating effects of attention and of executive processes of working memory. The evidence discussed...

   Published March 24th 2010 by Psychology Press
5. Tutorials in Visual Cognition

   Edited by Veronika Coltheart

   Series: Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science

   In the late-1980s, visual cognition was a small subfield of cognitive psychology, and the standard texts mainly discussed just iconic memory in their sections on visual cognition. In the subsequent two decades, and especially very recently, many remarkable new aspects of the processing of...

   Published January 26th 2010 by Psychology Press
6. Attentional Capture

   A Special Issue of Visual Cognition

   Edited by Bradley S. Gibson, Charles Folk, Jan Theeuwes, Alan Kingstone

   Series: Special Issues of Visual Cognition

   The notion that certain mental or physical events can capture attention has been one of the most enduring topics in the study of attention owing to the importance of understanding how goal-directed and stimulus-driven processes interact in perception and cognition. Despite the clear theoretical and...

   Published April 15th 2008 by Psychology Press
7. Inhibitory After-Effects in Spatial Processing: Experimental and Theoretical Issues on Inhibition of Return

   A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

   Edited by Paolo Bartolomeo, Juan Lupiáñez

   Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychology

   When responding to a suddenly appearing stimulus, we are slower and/or less accurate when the stimulus occurs at the same location of a previous event, as compared to when it appears in a new location. This phenomenon, often called Inhibition of Return (IOR), has fostered a huge amount of research...

   Published October 4th 2006 by Psychology Press
8. Integrative Views on Dual-task Costs

   A Special Issue of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

   Edited by Guido P.H Band, Pierre Jolicoeur

   Series: Special Issues of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology

   It is well known that the capacity for both simultaneous and rapid sequential information processing is limited. In the past two decades, at least four different approaches for the investigation and explanation of dual-task interference have developed. Surprisingly, these developments have taken...

   Published July 12th 2006 by Psychology Press
9. The Psychology of Attention

   2nd Edition

   By Elizabeth Styles

   Research on attention has evolved dramatically in recent years. There are now many new ways of studying how we are able to select some aspects for processing, whilst ignoring others, and how we are able to combine tasks, learn skills and make intentional actions. Attention is increasingly seen as a...

   Published May 31st 2006 by Psychology Press
10. Attention, Perception and Memory

    An Integrated Introduction

    By Elizabeth Styles

    Series: Psychology Focus

    Although attention, perception and memory are identifiable components of the human cognitive system, this book argues that for a complete understanding of any of them it is necessary to appreciate the way they interact and depend on one another. Using close examination of experiments, studies of...

    Published February 9th 2005 by Psychology Press