Attention Books

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11. Attention

    A Neuropsychological Approach

    By Antony Ward

    Series: Psychology Focus

    Attention: A Neuropsychological Approach provides a fascinating overview of the neuropsychological aspects of attention, revealing how we select our information, divide our attention and control our focus of interest. Through fully integrating cognitive neuropsychological perspectives on attention,...

    Published November 10th 2004 by Psychology Press
12. Attention, Genes and ADHD

    Edited by Florence Levy, David Hay

    Recent advances in genetic methodology are providing important aetiological and developmental information to the growing literature on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and related conditions. Attention, Genes and ADHD is the first book to review and integrate both behaviour-genetic...

    Published November 13th 2002 by Psychology Press
13. Applied Neuropsychology of Attention

    Theory, Diagnosis and Rehabilitation

    Edited by Michel Leclercq, Peter Zimmermann

    The concept of attention in academic psychology has been treated with varying degrees of importance over the years. From playing a key role in the 19th century, it was discarded in the first half of the 20th century, as clinical psychologists claimed it was superfluous to the essential subconscious...

    Published April 3rd 2002 by Psychology Press
14. Attention and Pattern Recognition

    By Nick Lund, Nick Lund

    Series: Routledge Modular Psychology

    Whilst attention is a term commonly used in everyday life, for many years psychologists have struggled in their attempts to explain what it actually means. Attention and Pattern Recognition introduces the main psychological research on attention and the methods that have been used to study it. It...

    Published April 25th 2001 by Routledge
15. Imagery, Language and Visuo-Spatial Thinking

    Edited by Michel Denis, Robert Logie, Cesare Cornoldo, Manuel de Vega, Johannes EngelKamp

    Series: Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning

    Imagery, Language and Visuo-Spatial Thinking discusses the remarkable human ability to use mental imagery in everyday life: from helping plan actions and routes to aiding creative thinking; from making sense of and remembering our immediate environment to generating pictures in our minds from...

    Published December 20th 2000 by Psychology Press
16. Human Performance

    Cognition, Stress and Individual Differences

    By D. Roy Davies, Gerald Matthews, Rob B. Stammers, Steve J. Westerman

    Human Performance provides the student and researcher with a comprehensive and accessible review of performance, in the real world and essential cognitive science theory.Four main sections cover both theoretical and practical issues: Section One outlines the perspectives on performance offered by...

    Published August 23rd 2000 by Psychology Press
17. Spatial Neglect

    A Clinical Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment

    By Ian H. Robertson, Peter W. Halligan

    Series: Brain, Behaviour and Cognition

    Spatial neglect is a profound clinical problem as well as intriguing scientific problem. In the last ten years, there has been an explosion of interest in this disorder, which as a result is no longer viewed as a single entity, but rather as a number of different disorders. This book is an attempt...

    Published July 5th 2000 by Psychology Press
18. Mechanisms Of Visual Attention: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective

    A Special Issue of Visual Cognition

    Edited by Sabine Massen, Werner,X,Schneider

    Series: Special Issues of Visual Cognition

    In order to produce coherent behaviour in a complex world, forms of visual attention are necessary in order for us to select appropriate objects for action. Over the past ten years, there have been considerable advances in research into visual attention, with many of these advances linked to...

    Published May 26th 1998 by Psychology Press
19. Attention

    Edited by Harold Pashler

    Series: Studies in Cognition

    This collection of essays, intended as a text for students, examines the different facets of research into attention. The book is divided into two sections: one deals with psychological research into such areas as visual search, dual-task interference and attentional bottleneck; the other deals...

    Published February 26th 1998 by Psychology Press
20. The Psychology of Attention

    By Elizabeth Styles

    Views on attention have undergone continuous evolution since the early work of the 1950s. Since that time, the questions asked about attention, consciousness and control have changed, and evidence drawn into the debate comes not only from experimental psychology, but also from neurophysiology,...

    Published October 15th 1997 by Psychology Press